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2014 – 2015
Annual Report
INTRODUCTION
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Vision and goals
In October 18th 2012, the IPN SPIE Student Chapter was established, after two years the name was
changed to IPN – Azcapotzalco SPIE Student Chapter in order to allow other IPN branches to form
their own chapters.
Most of our members are PhD and Master Students from the Centro de Investigación e Innovación
Tecnológica (CIITEC – Azcapotzalco) in Mexico City. The other members are postgraduates and
undergraduates from Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mécanica y Eléctrica (ESIME – Azcapotzalco
and ESIME - Zacatenco), and Universidad Autónoma del Carmen (UNACAR).
Our objective is to keep together the student community from IPN – Azcapotzalco who are
interested in image processing, optics and photonics research fields. Our activities are categorised
into two groups:
Social and networking activities.
Educational activities.
Student Chapter members
Committee members are elected at the beginning of this year. The current committee members
(January 2014 –December 2014) are:
Position Name Email
President Saúl Mújica-Ascencio [email protected]
Vice-President Jesús Salvador Velázquez-González [email protected]
Secretary Sigifredo Marrujo-García [email protected]
Treasurer Alfredo Aguilar-Morales [email protected]
Our current non-officer student chapter members are:
Mario Dehesa Gonzalez. Jesus Ivan Reyes Sanchez.
Edson Garduno-Nolasco. Rafael Sanchez Lara.
Ernesto Gonzalez Ocaña.
María Guadalupe Pulido-Navarro.
Total number of members: 10.
Our faculty advisor is: Dr. José Alfredo Álvarez-Chávez ([email protected]).
ACTIVITIES
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Over the last year, the student chapter has been organizing few events that involve our members,
students from other universities and researchers from others places inside or outside Mexico.
Social and Networking Activities
List of social and networking activities:
Announced of planned activities (January 2014)
Party Recruitment (January 2014)
Welcome party for members who were studying abroad (May 2014).
Farewell party for members who are studying abroad (May 2014).
Members´ Birthdays (Once a month).
Tea Time (Twice a month).
Mexico City day trip (November 2014).
Teotihuacan day trip (November 2014).
January 2014: Announced of planned activities.
This event was planned to provide information, to all members of our chapter, regarding the
activities, conferences and grants. The main topics were Focus Latin America 2014, Photonics
Europe 2014 and International Year of Light (IYL) 2015.
Figure 1. Members of the IPN, Azcapotzalco Student Chapter attending the internal meeting,
ACTIVITIES
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January 2014: Party Recruitment.
The aim of this event was to talk about our chapter, activities, benefits to be members, and how to
join us. Then we invited the prospective students to share with us their expectations and research
works. At the end, everyone enjoyed snacks and beverages.
Figure 2. The advisor with the current and prospective members of the IPN, Azcapotzalco Student
Chapter.
May 2014: Welcome and Farewell party for members who were/will studying abroad.
The parties involves a friendly environment between the chapter members providing meat, salads,
pasta dishes, soda, wine, and coffee in honour of the members who were/will studying abroad.
This event allows members who were studying abroad exchange points of view and share their
experiences.
Figure 3. A prospective and some current members during the welcome/farewell party in La Vid
Argentina - Polanco.
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Once a month (2014): Members´ Birthdays.
This event takes place once a month in a relaxing atmosphere with cake and beverages provided
by the student chapter.
Figure 4. Maria and Ivan explaining how to cut the cake.
Figure 5. Undergraduate members enjoying the birthdays.
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Twice a month (2014): Tea Time.
Tea time is a social event organized by the student chapter where chapter members and students
from other fields are invited to enjoy some snacks and beverages. This is a great opportunity to
interact with other departments in order to create future collaborations, and it is also a great
opportunity to invite those students to join our chapter.
Figure 6. Advisor and student members in the Tea Time.
November 2014: Mexico City and Teotihuacan day trip.
This is the first time that members of our chapter take the visiting researcher to meet some places
from Mexico City. The places visited by the members were: Iglesia de San Hipólito, Alameda
Central, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Sanborns de los Azulejos, Calle Madero, Catedral Metropolitana,
Palacio de Nacional, Zócalo Capitalino, and Museo del Templo Mayor. Also, the members brought
the visiting researcher to eat Mexican food such as Pozole, Chicharrón, Sopes, and flavoured
water.
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Figure 7. Professor Gilberto Brambilla, Sigifredo and Mariano at Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Figure 8. Catedral Metropolitana of Mexico City.
After show some sights from Mexico City, our guest wanted to know the Teotihuacan pyramids, so
the next day we take the visiting researcher to meet and climb the Temple of the Feathered
Serpent, and the pyramids of The Sun and The Moon. This experience provides a great opportunity
as chapter members to interact in a relaxing atmosphere with one of the best researchers on
Optical Fibre Tapers, practicing the English Language when we tried to explain the astronomical
phenomena of equinox, and a valuable networking opportunity at the Optoelectronic Research
Centre from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
ACTIVITIES
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Figure 9. Professor Gilberto (Left corner) and Mariano (Left) on the Temple of the Feathered
Serpent.
Figure 10. (Left to Right) Professor Gilberto, Sigifredo and Mariano on the top of The Pyramid of
the Sun.
Figure 11. (Left to Right) Jesús, Professor Gilberto and Sigifredo on the middle of The Pyramid of
the Moon.
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Educational Activities
List of Educational activities:
Leadership Workshop in Photonics Europe 2014.
Oral Presentation in Photonics Europe 2014.
Poster session in Photonics Europe 2014.
Oral Presentation in FOCUS Latin-America.
Short Talks.
Other activities.
13th April 2014: Leadership Workshop at Photonics Europe 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
This event were attended by Jesús Salvador Velázquez-González and Saúl Mújica-Ascencio where
they made new friends, and built their network with colleagues around the world. Also, they
received some tips for the chapter administration and an explanation regarding the characteristics
that a good leadership should have to organized different activities.
Figure 12. Jesús and Saúl are focusing on the talk before eating.
ACTIVITIES
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Figure 13. Saúl (at the top) is interchanging points of view with his team during the workshop.
Figure 14. Jesús taking some photos.
ACTIVITIES
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Figure 15. Tasha and Jesús at the end of the Student Chapter Leadership.
14, 15 and 17th April: Oral presentation in Photonics Europe 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
Jesús presented his work titled “Flavin and porphyrin-micro optical fibre biosensor: analysis and
design” and the Ismael’s work titled “Obsidianus lapis rugosity and hardness determination: fibre
laser craftsmanship”. Saúl presented his work titled “Determination of pulse energy dependence
for skin denaturation from 585 nm fibre laser”. With this experience they obtained valuable
advices to improve their research topics.
Figure 16. Oral presentation by Jesús.
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Figure 17. Oral presentation by Saúl.
Poster session in Photonics Europe 2014.
Saúl and Jesús shown in the poster session the main activities and areas of expertise of the
members, also shown the activities made and the future activities, of our SPIE student chapter.
Figure 18. Saúl is explaining our activities to other students from Mexico and Colombia.
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Figure 19. Saúl knowing the activities from Morocco and Tunisia student chapters.
Figure 20. Jesús explaining our activities to some students from Ukraine.
13th November 2014: Oral presentation in FOCUS Latin America 2014 in Medellin, Colombia.
This was the first international event to Ernesto González-Ocaña, who presented his research work
titled “Analysis of samples of crude and refined oil by fluorescence and micro optical fibres”. On
the other hand, he also attended the social and cultural events involving in the congress. This
experience was fantastic for him because he knew a lot of students and also had the opportunity
to listen some well-known researcher from Latin America.
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Figure 21. Picture of all the assistants at the FOCUS Latin America 2014.
Figure 22. Opening of FOCUS Latin America 2014.
Figure 23. Ernesto after his first oral presentation.
ACTIVITIES
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February 2014: Short talks with Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA)
The aim of this talk was to create a link between SEDENA and CIITEC, through the explanation of
our research work and the chapter activities.
Figure 24. SEDENA in the laboratory of photonics.
March 2014: Short talks with MSc Lizbeth Martinez Ramirez at CIITEC
The aim of this talk was to learn something about money administration. This was the first time
our student chapter include this kind of talks. During the exposition, Lizbeth provide us useful
information and gave us some tips to develop a good financial report.
Figure 25. Talk by MSc. Lizbeth Martinez Ramirez.
ACTIVITIES
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October 2014: Short talks with institutions from Mexico and El Salvador.
Our student chapter has a special meeting with the Mexican Scientific Police. The Scientific Police is a committee conformed by some Mexican and foreign institutions, such as Centro de Investigación en Cómputo (CIC – IPN), División Científica and University of El Salvador. The best part of the meeting was when all the members of the chapter explained their master or doctoral projects which were interesting for the committee of Mexican Scientific Police. At the end, we were together to have a dinner and we received a feedback from our projects.
Figure 26. Dr. Fernando and Sigifredo showing the optical fibre taper manufacturing.
Figure 27. Dining with the committee.
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November 2014: Short Talk with Professor Gilberto Brambilla from the ORC University of
Southampton.
Professor Gilberto Brambilla was invited by the OSA to give a talk in the Latin America Optics &
Photonics Conference in Cancun, Mexico. For that reason, IPN – Azcapotzalco Student Chapter
decide to invite him to give a scientific talk. Professor Brambilla talked about the goals of the
company in which he is the director, as well as his research working in Optical Fibre Tapers (OFT),
devices and sensors based on OFT, and the possibility to create an agreement between the ORC
and the Mexican Universities.
Figure 28. Scientific talk by Professor Gilberto Brambilla.
Figure 29. Research projects at the Optoelectronic Research Centre.
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Figure 30. Professor Gilberto Brambilla with the Optical Fibre Tapers research group at CIITEC after
his scientific talk.
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
IPN, Azcapotzalco Student Chapter was invited to give a scientific talks in
different places
Our Advisor, José Alfredo Álvarez-Chávez, was invited to give a scientific talk regarding his
research group by Universidad de El Salvador.
Figure 31. José in the Universidad de El Salvador.
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On the other hand, Ismael Aguilar-Morales was invited to give a scientific talk about his master
project by CIINDET conference.
Figure 32. Ismael talking at CIINDET Conference.
FUTURE ACTIVITIES:
The IPN – Azcapotzalco Student Chapter will continue to remain an active student society, and we
want to continue with the Social, Networking and Educational activities, such as:
Party Recruitment.
Members´ Birthdays and Tea Time.
Attending National and International congresses.
Organizing scientific talks.
Planning an activity together with the Mexican Students Chapters regarding International
Year of Light (IYL) 2015.
FINANCIAL REPORT
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Event Description Incoming Funds
Expenditures
Party Recruitment (1)
Snacks and beverages $ 30.00
Welcome party for members who were studying abroad, and Farewell party for members who are studying abroad.
Meals and beverages at the restaurant.
$ 50.00
Members´ Birthdays.
Cake and/or Jelly $ 70.00
Tea Time.
Food, Snacks and beverages $ 80.00
Tea Time and Birthdays supplies.
Coffee, Sugar, Cutlery, Plates, Glasses, Mugs and Napkins.
$ 60.00
Mexico City, and Teotihuacan day trip.(2)
Ground Transportation, Meals and Souvenirs.
$ 270.00
Photonics Europe 2014 (All the events).(1)
Airfare, Ground Transportation, Lodging, Meals.
$ 2,092.00
FOCUS Latin America.(2)
Airfare, Ground Transportation, Lodging.
$ 950.00
FOCUS Latin America.
Meals sponsored by our chapter. $ 50.00
Short Talks.
Food, beverages, supplies and services.
$ 30.00
Clothing Chapter.
10 T-shirts. $ 75.00
SPIE Membership.
New or renew memberships $ 25.00
Grants and Funds.
SPIE Activity Grant 2013 $ 400.00
SPIE Activity Grant 2014 $ 900.00
(1) SPIE Officer Travel Grant 2014 $ 2,092.00
(2) Members Fund $ 1,250.00
TOTAL $ 4,642.00 $ 3,782.00
Closing Balance (USD)* $ 860.00
Note. The activities without superindex were provided by the SPIE Activity Grants (2013 and 2014).
*With the remaining money, we pretend to continue with the academicals and social activities of the
chapter, as well as buy promotional material, student chapter uniforms, and supplies.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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All the members of the IPN – Azcapotzalco Student Chapter would like to express our gratitude to
SPIE for all the support gave us during this year.
We hope another successful and funny year.
Figure 33. Some members of the chapter.
Mexico City, January 4th 2015.
