Salamanca, Gto. November 29, 2018.- To impact the students' academic training and to update the teachers in the new areas of photonics research, guests from four countries shared their latest scientific and technological research work with teachers and students from the Electronics Department of the University of Guanajuato (UG).

Studies in photonics, lasers, optical fiber biosensors, among other topics, were presented at the third congress organized by the student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers of the University of Guanajuato (IEEE-UG) and members of the academic body of Telecommunications and Photonics, which included 11 lectures and a poster session, developed in the engineering division in Salamanca.

Guests participated from the Universidad Central de Florida, the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), the Centre for Research in Optics (CIO), the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASP), the Universidad de Valencia, the Universidad Politécnica de Sinaloa, the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente de Cali Colombia and the Universidad de Guanajuato.

On the congress, Dr. Armando Gallegos Muñoz, Rector of the Irapuato-Salamanca Campus, gave a recognition for his outstanding career as a researcher to Dr. Evgeny Kuzin, from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE).

Luis Martín González Vidal, student of the sixth semester of Electronic Engineering and president of the student chapter, explained that "Universidad de Guanajuato Photonics Society student Branch Chapter" is a student chapter belonging to the IEEE, a world association of engineers dedicated to the standardization and development in technical areas. With nearly 425,000 members and volunteers in 160 countries, it is the largest non-profit international association formed by new technology professionals.

Undergraduate, master and doctoral students interacted with the renowned guests at the "Third Congress IEEE-UG Photonics Society Student Branch", with the support of the Director of the electronics department, Dr. Mario Alberto Ibarra Manzano and the advisor of the student chapter, Dr. Julián Moisés Estudillo Ayala, who highlighted that this year the Nobel Prize in physics will be for a researcher in the field of optics, for the development of optical tweezers.

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