Informational | Post by kharidiron on September 28th, 2006
New School Year, New Society, New Officers,
New Physics, New Students
Welcome back from the summer! Now forget it ever happened. You have physics to do! You have Lagrangians and Lorentz factors and calculuses of variations to master! Quick-like! It promises to be a long, difficult road, full of anxiety and self-hatred, BUT FEAR NOT! The SPS at UCSC is alive and well and prepared to help alleviate your tension (but neither your torque nor your drag coefficient — sorry).
We have a quarter full of good things coming up (like BBQs and field trips and movie nights), the first of which is a small one, but still valuable: Our first regular weekly meeting of the quarter will be today, Thursday, September 28th, at 5:30 PM in ISB 231. It will be an informational meeting, which means that we will be discussing the upcoming year and going over what we did last year. Thus, even though all of our subsequent regular Thursday meetings will feature a presentation of some physical note, there will be no speaker today.
You should still come, though, especially if you think you might like to be a future officer or are just curious. We welcome all! Even chem majors!
Or just come for the coffee, soda and cookies.
Our first major meeting of the quarter will be next Thursday, October 5th. It will feature an excellent presentation and perhaps some excellent (non-cookie) food.
More on that later.
Again, welcome back! Now go do that time dilation problem. I’ll be grappling with these Euler-Lagrange equations. Don’t mind me.
–James