Optics Society Photo Competition - Science at Home

UofGOS Photo Competition

Follow the instructions below to enter and win a prize

We are running a photo competition on the theme of 'Science at Home'. Whether it's your workspace, a home experiment setup, or an educational activity, we want to see some of the science you have been doing outside of the lab.

Feel free to interpret the brief in any way you like, as long as the photo relates to the theme of 'Science at Home'.
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What are the prizes?

• Best photo: £50 voucher
• Runner up: £20 voucher

How to enter the competition?

Send us your photo via twitter at @UofGOS and use #ScienceAtHomePosterCompetition in the tweet. If you do not have a twitter, you can share the photo with us at uofgopticalsociety@gmail.com.

We will decide the winner for the competition and contact winners on 15th April 2021

Get creative! 

Optics Meets Industry (Career event)

Wednesday 15^th May

14:00 - 17:00
(followed by drinks&snacks reception)

Common Room, Kelvin Building, University of Glasgow.

Not sure which step you should take after your PhD or postdoc?

Come and have a coffee with former optics PhD students, to explore some of your options!

Confirmed speakers:

• Robin Head from M Squared

• Sean Reilly from Coherent

• Adam McKenzie from CST Global

• Tony Boutle from Ocean Optics

• Daniele Faccio from Quantic

• Elizabeth Adams from UofG

The event will start with the speakers introducing themselves, telling us a bit about what they do now and how their career developed so far. Then, we will divide everybody into 6 groups and make each group spend some time with each of the speakers, for a rotating Q&A session accompanied by coffee and biscuits.

There is a limited number of spaces available, so please reserve your spot on Eventbrite!

We are all very excited about this event and the great panel of invited speakers, and hope you'll want to join us for this nice afternoon of career inspiration!

Cheers,

UofGOS.

Present your research with Photography, a workshop by Kevin Mitchell

     

The UofGOS is very happy to advertise its first official event of 2019!

What:  Photography Workshop by Kevin Mitchell
When: Thursday 21st March 2019, 2:30pm - 5pm  (~2 hours workshop + a coffee break in the middle)
Where: Gilchrist seminar room (access from inside the Gilchrist Postgraduate Club), UoG main building, University Avenue
For whom: everybody's welcome, but will be particularly interesting for:
 - researchers looking for ways to make their setup look cooler on papers or social media
 - DSLR camera lovers
 - people who would like to know what a DSLR camera is

Kevin Mitchell  is a PhD student in the Optics Group and a keen enthusiast photographer. If you've ever been in the dungeon of the Kelvin Building you might have noticed some of his cool photographs on the walls, depicting various experiments and lab equipment. 
Last year he organised this workshop to pass on some of his tricks and tips, and we from the UofGOS have asked him to do it again!

In his workshop Kevin covers the basics, how to use the cameras, lenses and their settings, composition and lighting, introduces post processing, and gives some tips on how to get the best results.

Sign up through EventBrite and join us, it will be fun!

Cheers,
UofGOS 

Pictures above: Laura's setup (thanks Laura for the photos) --> Kevin's makeover

Chiara's trip to San Francisco with the 2019 SPIE Officer Travel Grant

SPIE gives student chapters the opportunity to send every year one of the chapter’s officers to a SPIE conference + leader ship workshop, thanks to the Officer Travel Grant.

With the 2019 grant, our secretary Chiara Garbellotto got the chance to participate to Photonics West, one of the biggest optics and photonics conferences, which is organised every year in San Francisco.

Here are some comments and photos from Chiara:

‘’My time at Photonics West was simply amazing!

As an officer travel grant holder, I got to participate to the whole conference (huge!) and on the top of that I was also enrolled to the one-day leadership workshop held the Friday before the beginning of the conference. There, I got to meet many other student chapter officers from all over the worlds, we shared ideas, experiences and tips on how to run chapters, organise and promote activities, get people involved.  This day was also a great opportunity for us to network and get to know each other, which I found very nice both for the enjoyment of the conference itself ( we kept meeting and socialising throughout the rest of the conference) but also to create a network of contacts which I think will be very valuable for our chapter in the future.

I’m very happy and grateful that I got to use our SPIE Officer Travel Grant this year, and I can’t wait for somebody else to use next year’s one to got to the same (or another) conference, and have a similarly great experience to the one I had, meet many other people and enrich our chapter with new experiences and connections!

Here are some pictures from my time at Photonics West, and if you want to ask me more about the officer travel grant, about SPIE or our Glasgow University student chapter, feel free to contact me at any time at c.garbellotto.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Cheers,

Chiara.’’


Top left:  group activity at the leadership workshop
Top right: with Meagan All, the SPIE Student Chapter Lead
Bottom left: with Emma from the other student SPIE chapter based in Glasgow, at the University of Srathclyde (SCOPE)
Bottom right: with Christine Haas, having fun learning the secrets of story telling

 From around San Francisco:

Out for dinner with SPIE friends from the leadership workshop :)

Christmas Social

Where:  Reading room (room 255), Kelvin Building (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow);

When: Thursday 13th December 2018, from 6pm;

What/Why: let's celebrate all together the first Christmas of our Optical Society!


Hi all,

Christmas is around the corner and this is the perfect time for us to have our first official social event!

We dedicated a lot of energy in the last few months to setting up the society,  dealing with  ideas, technical meetings and a lot of bureaucracy. I think it's more than fair to say that we have done a great job so far, and the time has come for us all to celebrate!

Come to the reading room on Thursday, there will be cold snacks and lovely pizza and drinks:
we can all make a toast to the Optical Society, finally up and running, talk about ideas for the new year, have a look and play around with our new outreach kit, and most importantly spend some time all together :)

The event is open to members but also to anybody who is interested in knowing more about the Optical Society!

Hope to see many of you there,

Cheers,

Chiara.
PhD student in the Imaging Concepts Group, School of P&A, UoG,
UoGOS secretary.