UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA – SEDE MEDELLÍN SPIE Student Chapter

1. NAMES, EMAIL ADDRESSES, AND MEMBER NUMBERS OF ELECTED OFFICERS.

President Alejandro Restrepo Martinez alejorestrepom@gmail.comVice-president Rafael Andrés Betancur rabetanc@unal.edu.co Treasurer Natalia Múnera Ortíz nmunera@unalmed.edu.co Secretary Andrés Múnera Cano afmunera@unalmed.edu.co

POSITION NAME VOTES WHITE TOTAL VOTES

President Alejandro Restrepo 13 3 16 Vice-president Rafael Betancur

Mario Úsuga 13 3

0 16

Treasurer Natalia Múnera 14 2 16 Secretary Hernán Cardona

Andrés Múnera 5 8

3 16

2. LIST OF CURRENT STUDENT CHAPTER MEMBERS.

NAME 1 JUAN DAVID MENDOZA 2 MARITZA TANGARIFE 3 GABRIEL FELIPE BOTERO 4 VICTOR HUGO ARISTIZABAL 5 SERGIO LOPERA 6 NATALIA MUNERA 7 JESUS DAVID CAUSADO 8 MARIO ANDRES USUGA 9 JEAN PIERRE JIMENEZ 10 HERNAN CARDONA 11 RAFAEL ANDRES BETANCUR12 MARIA ISABEL ALVAREZ 13 DIANA MELISSA DOMINGUEZ14 NELSON ALONSO CORREA 15 JORGE ALEXIS HERRERA 16 ALEJANDRO RESTREPO M. 17 JOHN FREDY RESTREPO A. 18 ERICK REYES 19 AUGUSTO ARIAS GALLEGO

20 ANDRÉS FELIPE MÚNERA 21 MILTON ALVARADO PONCE 22 DIEGO HERRERA RAMIREZ 23 DIEGO HINCAPIE 24 CAROLINA SÁNCHEZ RICO 25 GABRIELA MINGAN

3. DETAILS OF CHAPTER ACTIVITIES SINCE LAST REPORT.

3.1 OVERVIEW

CEO Capítulos Estudiantiles en Óptica, which is recognized like a group by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Medellin, contains our Univ. Nacional de Colombia – Medellin SPIE Chapter. We have four committees in order to deal with the activities schedule and to reach the wished social impact of the chapter. The committees are: • Divulgation Committee: Its objective is to promote the optics the study and the research in the academic and social environment.

• Enterprise Committee: It is related with the possible commercial relation that the CEO can establish with local enterprises involved in the optical branches. This committee also searches for possible employments in the future for the CEO members.

• Academic Committee: Its goal is to grow our academic background research capability to sponsor some specific activities.

• Projects Committee: This committee develops academic projects that involve the CEO members.

Plenary meeting of the Spie chaphter

3.2 THE BEGINNING OUR CHAPTER ( X ENO AND I CANCOA)

Last November the three optics groups of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Medellín (Optics group, Photonic and optoelectronic group and LASE and spectroscopy group) took part of the National Meeting on Optics (X ENO) and the I Andean and Caribbean Conference on Optics and Applications at the Universidad del Valle, in Cali, Colombia. Since then, we have been working for forming our chapter in Medellín.

Chapter members with Prof. W. Rhodes

Pictures of the X ENO and I CANCOA events

3.3 WEB SITE At the present, the Spie chapter has a web page in Spanish hosted in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Medellín which contains a lot of information about the group and its members, the city, the university, the committees, the research of the three groups that are integral part of the chapter: the optics group, the photonics & optoelectronics group and the LASER and spectroscopy group. The site is available in the internet address www.unalmed.edu.co/~ceomedellin

3.4 DIVULGATION AT THE UNIVERSITY Since April a campaign for promoting the group has begun. This promoting operation is basically based in a presentation directed to 20 courses in the campus: Introducción a la ingeniería física, Introducción a la ingeniería de Sistemas, Introducción a la ingeniería biológica, Introducción a la ingeniería civil, introducción a la ingeniería agrícola, introducción a la ciencia, forestal, Física III (five courses), Óptica, Instrumentación, Taller I, Taller II, Taller III, Taller IV, Taller V, Seminario de Investigación posgrado, Seminario permanente del posgrado

3.5 REGULAR MEETINGS Since February until June we have organized one o two chapter meetings for month, where we have worked in the organization our chapter , web page, some ideas for the the poster and logo of chapter and we have elaborated some optic practices with simple experiments.

3.6 EDUCATION SECRETARY CONTACTS The SPIE Chapter is working in a project with SEDUCA, Secretaría de Educación, the education secretary of the Medellín municipality which consists in developing practices related to optics with the Escuela del maestro, teacher’s school, which is an entity that works for strengthening the academic skills of the public and private school teachers. This organization has been working in this field concentrated in basic mathematics and physics. We have wanted to explore with them the possibility of incorporate some experiences of the optics field and they have accepted. So, now we are constructing the specific activities which are principally related to the light’s nature, like wave character, polarization, reflection, refraction, etc. We hope the courses will start in two months approximately.

3.7 PARTICIPATION OF THE PRESIDENT CHAPTER IN MEETING Our president received a SPIE Student Travel Contingency Grant then he traveled San Jose where he showed his poster. Restrepo, A, Roman Castañeda Compression of color images using a hologram of gray tones. Proc of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol 64 93, San Jose 2007, pp. 64931I-1-10 (Student Travel Grant SPIE)

4. Details of planned activities for the future.

4.1 PROJECT WITH SEDUCA We will present our optical experiment to promotion the optic to teachers of secondary of Medellin City.

4.2 WORKSHOP

In this activity optics researcher will be invited for to give courses and conference to participants of the event. This activity will be realized year in November 19 to 23.

4.3 VIDEOCONFERENCE

The objective of the activity is to invite to optics researcher to give a videoconference Furthermore, these activities will be developed every month.

The chronogram of this activity is:

1. July 27 2. August 28 3. September 28 4 October 29 5 November 30

4.4 HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE DAY

In our university every year is celebrated the High school degree day, in this celebration it is reunited student of secondary, the student chapter will make activities this day for to promote the student chapter.

4.5 INTEGRATION MEETING The objectives of this activity are the integration and invite new student for the chapter.

4.6 STUDENT CHAPTER LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP

Our vice president Rafael Andrés Betancur will be our Officer to attend the Student Chapter leadership Workshop at Optics & Photonics, San Diego, 2007. We attached the letters of Rafael.

5. FINANCIAL INFORMATION.

Soon we will send our count banking number

Table the expenses for next months using Spie founding. Materials Poster and brochures of

chapter $50

Prize of promotion 1 membership for each member that invite a new member (quantity 5)

$50

Integration meeting Member and student party $50

( December 2007) Optics experiments Materials for optics

experimental for demonstrations

$150

Workshop Sponsor of conferences and short courses of international optical researcher (November)

$150

Videoconferences Sponsor the Optical Video conferences $ 50

$50

Total $ 500