Using liquid nitrogen provided by Dr. Mourigal, SPS continues our Ice Cream Social tradition in the Howey Courtyard for the School of Physics. Faculty and students had the choice of vanilla or almond milk, and toppings like strawberries, pineapple, chocolate chip, and syrup. Thanks to everyone who came to enjoy …
This year, SPS’s formal revolved around video games we all love: Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and more. Our Formal Committee Chairs aimed for a cozy night of fun and celebrations, and our DJ made sure to amplify the vibes as our photographer captured moments in time.
Thanks to the Cookout Committee and School of Physics staff, we had an awesome end-of-year celebration, complete with a distinguished guest speaker, faculty superlatives, and delicious barbecue. We are going to miss all the graduated seniors greatly, and we wish them the best of luck in this next leg of …
Did you hear that? Yup, it’s time for the annual SPS Pi Day celebration, Pi a Physicist! Our lineup this year were SPS volunteers and officers (voluntold), and our victims eager physicists patiently staked out a post outside Howey, waiting for their inevitable creamy (and one eggy…) fates. Friends, physics …
Prepare for the most ambitious (and unplanned) SPS crossover yet: Excellent Adventures and Physics Field Day (PFD)! Excellent Adventures kicked off the evening with a productive study session in our pajamas, complete with pizza and energy drinks. After members finished their work for the night, they headed over to Rocky’s …
SPS hosted its annual waffle party open to the School of Physics (and those unaffiliated with it). Due to popular demand last year, our officers upped the supply this year to feed more people and include toppings like blueberries, whipped cream, and chocolate chips! We even crashed a lecture (with …
GT SPS partnered with Emory SPS to host a Super Smash Bros tournament, which was a smashing success! Teams of two paired up and entered the championship bracket, and only one emerged each round. The semifinals happened to feature a team of GT students and a team of Emory students, …
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 …
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 …
