Our annual pumpkin drop was a splattering success! This year’s fillings included fake blood, lavender oobleck, and even Real Analysis homework (it’s getting real). We finished with an awesome physics demo by Professor Fenton and Professor Greco: prepared with huge springs stretched by gravity, they dropped them without any applied …
This year, GT SPS took a trip to Boston, Massachusetts! Enjoy the following blog from some of our members on the trip: “This Fall, SPS took 11 undergraduate students to Boston on our annual Fall Trip! It was an eventful and enjoyable trip for everyone. Over 3 days, the group …
The Excellent Adventures committee, which coordinates various research events, held their first event, a “How to Get Involved in Research” presentation! Upperclassmen with prior research experience representing fields from biophysics to quantum optics gave a plethora of valuable advice.
SPS had the pleasure to meet Dr. Christopher Foy, an alumni of Georgia Tech and one of the founders of our SPS chapter! Over a delicious meal of Wingnuts, Dr. Foy talked to our students about his undergrad experiences, life after Tech, and his current work (incredibly rad things at …
Armed with ingredients like half-and-half, sugar, liquid nitrogen, and coconut milk (for those with dairy restrictions!), SPS made ice cream from scratch for the School of Physics. Faculty and students had the choice of vanilla, strawberry (with real fruit), or coconut, and toppings like pineapple, chocolate chip, and syrup. Thanks …
To welcome in this year’s incoming students, SPS hosted a levitating superconductors event, showing off the Meissner effect in a sensational demonstration. Event tickets overfilled, and around 75 students came to witness a gravity-defying demo and learn about quantum mechanics!
This year, our theme for the SPS Formal was “A Gala on Olympus”! Members dressed up in togas, robes, regalia, and various Greek garb to complement Howey’s courtyard, transformed into a pantheon. The event featured a professional DJ, an expert photographer, and golden ambrosia, and culminated in the “assassination” of …
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, SPS organized its Physics Field Day event, hosting over 75 high school students from across Georgia! Participants toured various physics labs in Howey, including groups researching graphene and cardiac dynamics, and were challenged by a series of physics activities, from Fermi questions …
This year’s Pi Day may have only been 50% of tau but it was 100% delicious (speaking as someone who had 15 plates of whipped cream smashed in their face) and 300% profitable compared to last year! Never before has SPS put out a more organized effort to smother the …
To celebrate the start of a new year, SPS hosted its annual waffle party! Nothing brings the physics department together more than the festivities of food. By noon, lines were stretching out the door for chocolate chip waffles- we’ll need to buy more ingredients next time.
