On April 6, 2023, our chapter held the first meeting of the year 2023 to align some goals and plans for the year. The meeting took place in the classroom of the laboratory and on the occasion ideas such as the competition for experiments, the international day of light and the technical visits that should take place were discussed.

This year we were pleased to have one of our representatives from the Optica UFSC Chapter (Federal University of Santa Catarina Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica UFSC) have been selected for the Student Leadership Experience, which is a program that brings together 100 Optica members from around the world. It takes place in conjunction with an annual Optica conference, Frontiers in Optics (#FiO). Our participant (Tainara Pedrosa) returning from #Rochester (NY) full of news to share with all the students of the chapter.
#leadership #experience #share #students #university #engenharia

On Thursday, October 6th, the architecture course class was held, as usual, every six months. On this occasion we had the immense pleasure of doing it in person, giving much more quality to our experimental class.

Our group thanks everyone who helps the class happen and also all the architecture students.

#architecture #students #quality #light #optica #spie #chapterspieufsc #chapteropticaufsc

Meeting to discuss new activities of the Student Chapter SPIE/OPTICA UFSC that took place on 09/15 at 1 pm at Labmetro – UFSC.
At this Meeting, it was decided to have a new president to lead the chapter’s presidency for the year 2023.

President: Thiago Wilvert ;
Vice President: Tiago Junior de Bortoli;

The presentation of the light class with optical experiments was also organized for the students of the Architecture course, which will take place on October 13th.

We also talked about the competition of experiments, the competition will take place on October 6th, to participate is simple, just set up an optical experiment and present it to the team on the scheduled day.

And last but not least, our participation in SEPEX, which is a science fair, aimed at the public of elementary and high school students. The event will take place from November 9th to 11th, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina – UFSC, And aims to disseminate the study of optics from simple optical experiments that have visual effects, inciting the curiosity of the target audience.

#students #chapter #SPIE #OPTICA #OSA

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On August 25, 2022, the first face-to-face meeting of the Chapter took place. Several topics were discussed on the occasion, including:
– Experiment competition
– Elections for the leaders of 2023
– Confraternization

The meeting served to align the events of 2022 and give directions for the coming months.

On Thursday, June 23, the class for the architecture course was held, as usual, every semester. On this opportunity we had the immense pleasure of returning in person, giving much more quality to our experimental class.

This semester, in addition to the opportunity to present our experiments in person, making the visualization much clearer, we also had the presence of civil engineering students.

Our group thanks everyone that help the class happen and also all the students of architecture and civil Engineering

The International Day of Light, 16 May, is a global initiative that provides an annual focal point for the continued appreciation of light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy.

The broad theme of light will allow many different sectors of society worldwide to participate in activities that demonstrates how science, technology, art and culture can help achieve the goals of UNESCO – education, equality, and peace.

This year, we are especially lucky that the International Day of Light coincides with a total lunar eclipse or “blood moon.”  Specifically, on the evening of 15-16th May, many parts of the world, especially regions of North and South America, Africa & Western Europe will witness a total lunar eclipse.  In fact, the total lunar eclipse will also be preceded by a partial solar eclipse on the 30th of April visible from parts of South America. Eclipses are great opportunities to jointly celebrate the significance of light and light-based technologies in astronomy and optics, and to promote events and activities within communities, schools and other institutions.

More information:

https://www.lightday.org/

https://mailchi.mp/03ff293014ec/idl2022-newsletter-march-20153233

Estamos muito felizes em anunciar o resultado da nossa tradicional competição de fotografia 2021.

Recebemos fotografias tendo a luz como protagonista da foto, exibindo qualquer um de seus fenômenos, Ex: raios, nascer do sol, pôr do sol, fenômenos da luz (dispersão, difração etc.), arco-íris, experimentos ópticos. Cada participante precisava incluir em sua inscrição um pequeno texto explicativo sobre a sua foto e os parâmetros técnicos aplicados. Como também, um pequeno texto contento a foto-descrição da imagem.

As fotos foram examinadas por 5 avaliadores diferentes, de forma anônima e com votação secreta.  Os critérios avaliados foram:

• 25 pontos – Criatividade.
• 25 pontos – Dificuldade.
• 25 pontos – Parâmetros técnicos.
• 25 pontos – Foto-descrição.

Premiação:

• 1º – Eduardo César Cordeiro Vieira (prêmio R$ 250,00)
• 2º – Filipe Zanini Broetto e Tiago de Bortoli (prêmio R$ 125*)
• 3º – Thiago Wilvert

* (prêmio de R$ 250,00 foi divido por dois devido ao empate do segundo lugar)

Para celebrar o dia internacional da luz (16 de maio), iremos realizar nossa tradicional competição de fotografia!

A inscrição ficará disponível entre os dias 14 de Junho e 30 de agosto.

Custos:

• Para membros do SPIE e OSA Student Chapter UFSC – Gratuito.
• Para membros de outros Chapters SPIE e OSA – R$ 5,00.
• Para o público geral – R$ 15,00.

As regras são simples:

• Fotografias tendo a luz como protagonista da foto, com qualquer um de seus fenômenos, Ex. raios, nascer do sol, pôr do sol, fenômenos da luz (dispersão, difração etc.), arco íris, experimentos ópticos.
• Fica livre a aplicação de técnicas de visão computacional, efeitos visuais e manejo de parâmetros de fotografia.
• Tamanho mínimo: 5mb, tamanho máximo: 20mb, em formato jpeg/jpg ou TIF.
• Fotografias com até 12MP.
• Fotografias que não seguirem as descrições não serão avaliadas.
• Fotografias com elementos não assimilados na captura (adição de elementos, animações, stickers) não serão avaliadas.
• Cada fotografia precisa conter em sua inscrição um pequeno texto explicando a fotografia e as técnicas aplicadas, e um pequeno texto fazendo a foto-descrição. Poderá ser realizado o envio sem os textos, mas salienta-se que eles fazem parte da avaliação e podem resultar em notas ruins.

Os critérios de avaliação:

• 25 pontos – Criatividade.
• 25 pontos – Dificuldade.
• 25 pontos – parâmetros técnicos.
• 25 pontos – Foto-descrição.

Premiação:

• 1º – R$ 250,00
• 2º – R$ 150,00
• 3º – R$ 100,00

As inscrições podem ser feitas através do formulário abaixo:

https://forms.gle/aBnrKsPKsRbzKD2ZA

Alguns vídeos serão postados no decorrer dos próximos dias, como forma de auxiliar aqueles que não tem experiência com fotografia.

Desejamos a todos boa sorte e uma boa competição!

In celebration of May 16, International Day of Light, this date was chosen because it was the anniversary of the first successful operation of the laser, in 1960, by the physicist and engineer Theodore Maiman. The SPIE/OSA Student Chapter UFSC, in partnership with the podcast “Focalizando” (focusing) and SPIE Student Chapter Recife, produced a special podcast that addressed some myths, false news and curiosities about light. The questions are shown below:

1. Can I wash the N95 mask in the washing machine?
2. Will measuring the temperature on your forehead melt your neurons?
3. Will watching netflix eating a microwave popcorn bring you cancer?
4. Are you going to become an X-MAN with the 5G?
5. Is it dangerous to sleep next to a cell phone while charging?
6. Why don’t we need to be afraid of thunder?

Are you curious to know about the answers? Listen to the podcast and share with your friends and family!

(This podcast was recorded in Portuguese.)