The Society of Physics Students at UC Santa Cruz

This Week’s Meeting is Thursday, October 30 at 5:30 PM in ISB 231

We will be having elections for this year’s SPS officers. If you are interested in an officer position please come to the meeting.

Then we will be watching the second Futurama Movie: The Beast With a Billion Backs.

Reasons to come:

• Physics Jokes
• Decent Plot
• Recovery from Midterms
• Cool People
• Elections are the cool thing this year

There will be coffee tea and snacks.

-Karl

THIS WEEK’S MEETING IS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 at 5:30 PM in ISB 231   

Our special guest this week is Professor Michael Nauenburg 

Professor Nauenburg will demystify the paradoxes and conundrums brought up by Quantum Mechanics, as well as debunk the many absurd interpretations of this fundamental theory of Physics. 

 THIS WEEKS MEETING IS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 5:30 PM in ISB 231 

A presentation from our venerable advisor Professor George Brown 

Have you ever wanted to be a ballerina? Cage fighter? Christmas Elf? Well, ambitious ones, come learn about what secret paths physics may hold for you and your future. Professor George Brown will be divulging the inner-most workings of what may be possible for physicists such as you and me.

Bring your questions this Thursday. Please be prepared to be inspired. (”Professor Brown, how much money should I expect to make as a waitress with a physics degree?”)

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Secondly, SPS will soon be holding its annual officer elections. If you have potential interest in becoming an officer, please speak with one of the current officers about this monumental decision. Also, if you think that one of your classmates has great leadership potential, feel free to nominate them by speaking with a current officer.

The positions are not mutually exclusive; rather, officers take on tasks jointly and work together to prepare for the meetings and events. They are as follows:

President

Vice president

Secretary

Treasurer

Events Coordinator

Elections will be held within several weeks. Please consider becoming involved at an authoritative level. :) 

Karl 

This week’s meeting is THURSDAY Oct. 2nd, at 5:30 pm in ISB 231 

Attention all star-gazers, particle-smashers, and thoseotherwise physics-minded individuals:Welcome back to school! We hope that your transitionbetween summer fun and 8:00 morning classes has been trulyenergy-conserving (wait, isn’t everything?) and thatthings haven’t gotten too chaotic (yet).

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For the advent of this new school year, the Societyof Physics Students at UCSC (or SPS) would like to invite youto turn your potential energy into kinetic energy andwalk, bike, or collide your way over to our firstmeeting. Whether you are a Freshman Astro major eager tofind out: why the dark matter crossed the road, a newtransfer student still discovering how awesome theuniversity is, or a recently graduate sticking around to dosome research, come meet some new faces and reconnect with familiar ones.