The Optical Society - NUS student chapter

[Research Engineer/postdoctoral fellow position] in computational imaging, and miniature spectral imaging device development. Require candidate with a background in computer science, physics, or optical design.

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Happy new year to everyone! We hope you had a enjoyable day in the first working day in 2016. We have an important update today. During December, our chapter had a successful annual meeting and gathering with our chapter members. During the meeting, we discussed about our chapter succession plan and we have elected a new committee to lead the chapter in 2016.

We are pleased to announce the new NUS-OSA officer team:
President: Wang Dacheng
Vice-President: Chen Yiguo
Treasurer: Wang Kancheng
Secretary: Lianwei Chen

We are looking forward to have another year of success with all of our members and the new committee team!

Our Chapter student representative Wang Dacheng from ECE went to an OSA sponsored trip to San Jose for OSA Student Leadership Conference and Frontiers in Optics Conference last month. Let's hear what Dacheng says about this trip there:

"I was honored to represent NUS-OSA student chapter to attend the OSA student leadership conference and the Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science conference 2015 in San Jose USA this October. This trip was supported by OSA, including a return flight ticket reimbursement, registration fee, three-night hotel accommodation and others. The student leadership conference benefited us with different views of leadership, career planning and CV/resume improvement. Particularly, advice given by invited hiring experts illuminated our career path. I met many students from different universities all over the world and learned a lot from those excellent student chapters. The technical conference invited experts to share their latest research results of optics and photonics. Being an NUS-OSA student chapter member, I enriched myself among different activities organized by the chapter and OSA society.

In the student leadership conference, Dr. Philip Russell from the Max Planck Institute gave us a welcome remark and shared his life story. Mr. John Taylor trained us how to use the OSA student chapter tools and resources to enrich ourselves in this optics and photonics community. This is really a good opportunity to improve our leadership ability in a research community. Dr. Hans-Juergen Schmidtake inspired us with his view of the future in optics society. After these talks, six student chapters were rewarded with student chapter excellence prize. Leaders from these chapters shared us their experience on how to improve the chapter in their universities. OSA also invited four hiring experts from both national labs and companies to illuminate career path in a panel discussion. This broadens our vision of future work. These experts also gave us useful advice to improve our resume/CV/cover letter. One student chapter leader even shared his experience on organizing and hosting a student conference. After this student leadership conference, OSA organized a party for all the students to meet and talk with each other. The technical conference of Fronties in Optics/Laser Science unite the OSA and APS communities for five days of quality, cutting-edge presentations, fascinating invited speakers and a variety of special events. This conference provided a good environment to view the work from other colleagues, share opportunities for discourse and network with top professionals from around the world. "

FiO is on-going!

Leaders in the field of were recognized during the first plenary session at this year's Frontiers in Optics on 20 Oct.

NTU Photonics Institute Seminar information. OSA members feel free to join.

Want to do something fun with optics? Here is a contest from OSA:

Enabled by Optics Contest
It’s Easy to Submit:

In a video format, take apart any product that has an optical component, and show us how the optics technology is required to make the product work.

1. Select a consumer product (suggestions include LED lighting/flashlight, solar cells [photovoltaic], flat panel display [polarization], smart phone/digital camera – or any other product of your choice – be creative!)
2. Take it apart and find the optical component(s)
3. Describe how the optical technology contributes to the end product

Details:
http://www.osa.org/en-us/corporate_gateway/events_programs/enabled_by_optics/student_submission_and_prize/

Some lecture information from ECE department:

One of OSA fellow in NUS, Prof. Hong Minghui is giving an inaugural professorial lecture next Monday. He will talk about his research work in Laser Precision Engineering.

You are welcome to join this lecture to find out interesting works in Prof. Hong's lab.

Dear all members,

Followed by the wonderful joint BBQ event with NTU OSA chapter last summer, we are now having a new event with them. This time, they are hosting NTU The Photonics Institutes Student Seminar. And they are inviting us to visit.

The time is next Wednesday, 16th Sep, 2015, 2.30pm-4pm.

This event is free, and we will provide transportation to NTU. If you want to go, please let us know first so that we can count the number of students going there. If you have any ideas about the event, you are also welcome to talk to us.

We are pleased to jointly organized our first seminar in the new semester. We invited Prof. Han Huang from the University of Queensland to talk about nano-fabrication of microlens and other intersting research. Here are some photos from yesterday's event. We are also happy to meet some new OSA student members during the event.

Greetings to all in this new semester! To kick start this semester's OSA chapter activity. We co-organized a seminar with Prof. Hong Minghui from ECE department on Nanoanufacturing Technologies For Optic Components and Mechanical Characterisation Methods for Nanostructures. The seminar details is:

Date and Time: 1 Sep, 2015, 10AM-11AM.
Venue: Seminar Room E5-02-32, Engineering Blk E5, FoE. NUS.
Speaker: Prof. Han Huang from the University of Queensland (UQ).

All are welcome, and light refreshment will be served after seminar.

Seminar - Details All are welcome to attend these Seminars. Should you have any enquiries, please contact Ms. Lily Png at 6516 6509 or you can e-mail to Ms Lily Png (.

Our admin is a bit lazy recently. Here are some photos from last last weekend. We are very glad to meet another important chapter in Singapore: the NTU OSA student chapter. In Singapore OSA now only have NUS, and NTU OSA Student chapters. We had a great time getting to know each other, visited some laboratories in NUS and CREATE Tower. Finally we had a BBQ party serving authentic Singapore local taste such as satay, sabal fish, and more.

It is great pleasure to meet our NTU friends, we discussed a lot about how we can organize more activities for our members at both sides. In the future we definitely will consider more joint activities, both academic and social events, to serve all our members better.