Outreach

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As an Event Officer for Holography and Diffractive Optics Technical Group of Optica (leading Optics & Photonics Society), Biswajit Pathak have been involved in organising a number of webinars - a few of which are listed below:
Biswajit Pathak is the founder President of SPIE IIT Guwahati Student Chapter. It came into existence officially on the 30th of October, 2015 at the premises of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati with a primary aim to popularize the field of optics and photonics among undergraduate and graduate students of North-East India. Since its inception, the chapter has been actively involved in a number of activities. More details about our activities can be found here.
A few activities are highlighted below:
Feel the Light – on Optics Outreach: The event entitled ‘Feel the Light’ – on Optics Outreach was organized at the Dept. of Physics, Cotton College, one of the most premier seat of higher learning in North-East India on 6th of February, 2016. 
Optics Teaching: We  organized an Optics Teaching event on the  20th of August, 2016 in some of the schools near to the IIT Guwahati campus.
SPIE Invited Lecture: The inaugural  SPIE invited lecture was organized at IIT Guwahati in association with the Dept. of Physics, IIT Guwahati on 3rd of October, 2016. The lecture was delivered by an eminent personality in the field of optics and photonics, Prof. Prasanta Kumar Datta, Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur.
Enjoy Physics – an Optics Outreach: The event ‘Enjoy Physics’, was the first outreach camp that was held outside Guwahati, i.e. at Dhemaji which is about 500 Km east of Guwahati. The event was organized by SPIE IITG student chapter in association with Outreach Education Programme, IIT Guwahati on 28th and 29th of October, 2016. 
Light: not a Light Matter – a Students’ Symposium: The event entitled ‘Light: not a Light Matter - a Students' Symposium (LLM-2016)’ was organized on 12th of November, 2016 at Dibrugarh University (DU) in association with Department of Physics, DU, Outreach Education Programme, IIT Guwahati and Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati. 
SPIE Officer Leadership Workshop, 2016: The President of SPIE IITG Student chapter, Mr. Biswajit Pathak represented the chapter at SPIE Photonics West - 2016 conference and at SPIE Officer Leadership Workshop held at California, USA.