From SHG to mid-infrared SPDC generation in strained silicon waveguides 
C. Castellan, A Trenti, M Mancinelli, A Marchesini, M Ghulinyan, G Pucker and L. Pavesia
Proc. of SPIE Vol. 10358, doi: 10.1117/12.2273641
SPIE will support the 6th International Symposium on Optics and its Applications (OPTICS-2018, 17-20 February 2018 Trento (Italy)) which our chapter is organizing. 
The goal of this symposium is to bring together young and senior researchers from different countries working on optics, and to create a network to discuss the most recent developments and achievements in this area.
Use of Microring Resonators for biospecific interaction analysis 
T. Chalyana, G. A.J. Besselinkb, R. G. Heideman and L. Pavesi
Proc. of SPIE Vol. 10353, 103530Q, doi: 10.1117/12.2274132
23-25 August, 2017 Berlin, Germany 
We congratulate Stefano Signorini who won the IEEE Photonics Society award for the Best Poster Presentation during the Group Four Photonics conference. The poster title was Broad wavelength generation and conversion with Multi odal Four Wave Mixing in silicon waveguides.
President and vice-president of SPIE Student Chapter of the University of Trento: Tatevik Chalyan and Claudio Castellan, took part in the SPIE annual meeting on 6-10 August, San Diego, California, within the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2017 conference. They got the People's Choice prize with an experiment on the Snell’s law. 