Sekcje Studenckie SPIE

SPIE Student Chapter, Wroclaw University of Technology
Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology
Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27
50-370 Wroclaw
Internet: http://www.if.pwr.wroc.pl/spie
Report on the activities of SPIE Student Chapter
at Wroclaw University of Technology
for the period 12.2004 – 05.2005
We are expanding our numbers. We have currently 24 members and new members will join
our ranks in the nearest future.
1. Promotion of Science
• We are taking part in the celebrations of the International Year of Physics.
• We were present at the educational fair TARED in Wroclaw. Our members hosted the
presentation of our Faculty where they encouraged young people to study physics and
optics at our University. We also presented two times a speech on Nanotechnology for
the visitors of the fair, mainly people finishing high school, to show them the marvels
of present technology and its applications.
• We are trying to start the series of presentations for the pupils at high schools to
persuade them that there is more to physics than they are taught and that physics in
general and particularly optics may be fun and is extremely interesting and important in
modern world. We do this to encourage good pupils to study in these fields.
• We are starting to be involved in the organization of the Student Scientific Conference
held at our University. This year its official language was Polish but we try to change
into English and make it more international.
2. Contacts with other SPIE Chapters
• We have guests from other Polish Chapters in Warsaw and Torun and also Mexico and
Romania. They stayed in Wroclaw for two days.
3. Scientific Activities
• The members of our chapter prepared several papers:
Marcin Szpulak, Gabriela Statkiewicz, Jacek Olszewski, Tadeusz Martynkien, Waclaw
Urbanczyk, Jan Wójcik, Mariusz Makara, Jacek Klimek, Tomasz Nasilowski, Francis
Berghmans, Hugo Thienpont ,”Experimental and theoretical investigations of birefringent
holey fiber with a triple defect”, Appl. Opt. 44, (2005) 2652-2658.
Marcin Szpulak, Tadeusz Martynkien, Jacek Olszewski, Wacław Urbańczyk, Tomasz
Nasiłowski, Rafał Kotyński, Francis Berghmans, and Hugo Thienpont, “Sensitivity of highly
birefringent photonic bandgap fibers to temperature and strain”, Optical Fiber Sensors 2005,
319-322, Bruges, Belgium.
Marcin Szpulak, Tadeusz Martynkien, Jacek Olszewski, Wacław Urbańczyk , “Sensitivity
to hydrostatic pressure of birefringent photonic crystal fibers”, Optical Waveguide Theory
and Numerical Modeling 2005, Grenoble, France, 2005.
Wojciech Rudno-Rudzinski, G. Sek, K. Ryczko and J. Misiewicz, A. Somers,
R. Schwertberger, J. P. Reithmaier and A Forchel, „Optically probed wetting laser in
InAs/InGaAlAs/InP Quantum Dash structures.”, Applied Physics Letters 86 101904 (2005),
J. Misiewicz, R. Kudrawiec, M. Motyka, J. Andrzejewski, D. Golub, A. Forchel, „Photo and
contactless electroreflectance spectroscopy of step-like GaInAs/Ga(In)Nas/GaAs Quantum
Wells”, Microelectronic Journal (2005)
4. Future plans
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to make the program of lectures exchange more regular,
to take part in activities of the International Year of Physics and Festival of Science,
to visit optical fiber facility at UMCS in Lublin (maybe this time we will manage),
to have more members.
Our Chapter obtained 900 USD donation from SPIE. The money, together with the support
obtained from Wroclaw University of Technology, was used to buy the computer data
projector for our Chapter. Together with the notebook we purchased last year they constitute
the base for our activities allowing us to prepare and show presentations both during our
meetings and for external events.
President
Wojciech Rudno-Rudzinski
Vice President
Jacek Olszewski,
Treasurer
Magdalena Przybylo
Chapter Advisor
prof. Waclaw Urbanczyk
Member list
1. Andrzej Andruchów
2. Tomasz Borowik
3. Ewa Chmielewska
4. Slawomir Drobczyński
5. Rafal Hrynyk
6. Piotr Jurkiewicz
7. Marcin Nyk
8. Adam Miszta
9. Ewa Moczko
10. Marcin Motyka
11. Anna Kamila Nowak
12. Jacek Olszewski
13. Agnieszka Olżyńska
14. Grzegorz Paździor
15. Artur Podhorodecki
16. Magdalena Przybyło
17. Damian Pucicki
18. Wojciech Rudno-Rudziński
19. Damian Siedlecki
20. Gabriela Statkiewicz
21. Marcin Szpulak
22. Dorota Szczęsna
23. Marcin Syperek
24. Anna Zań