This fall, we got to meet the new physics students during the School of Physics Undergrad Mixer. With the SPS officers, SoP professors, and wonderful new students, this event was a blast! Plus, new students got official School of Physics T-shirts and delicious pizza!
For the first time since COVID, SPS was able to organize our annual End of Year celebration filled with music, games, awards and a Mexican buffet. Following a colloquium by Dr. Steven Chu, the entire physics department gathered in mini Howey to celebrate another successful school year!
Our SPS Formal this year was pretty magical- we dressed up the secret courtyard in vines, lights, mushrooms, and fog, creating a secluded but festive alcove in the heart of Howey. Members dressed up in all sorts of eccentric fashions. See the Google Drive Folder for more pictures of this …
So many people got pied in the face. So many. Dripping dairy cream lives in perpetuity among the annals of their soiled shirts and hoodies, or at least it did until they did laundry. The primary volunteers for getting pied in the face were SPS officers, who were obligated to …
In October 2022, our Fundraising committee hosted the annual SPS Pumpkin drop, a classic event in which students and faculty would pay to see fruits of harvest plummeting from the top of the Howey Physics Building. Professors Edwin Greco and Flavio Fenton did the honor of dropping the pumpkins. Fancy …
We reached out to Rocky Mountain Pizza, a Georgia Tech staple, to partner for a trivia fundraiser. Five percent of proceeds from the night will go to us, and a TON of people were there. We got pizza and macaroni bites, but unfortunately sucked at trivia. We got 12th place, …
Another year, another Smash Tournament! We hosted a Super Smash Bros. tournament to raise money for the club and all our wonderful activities! Martino, John Lewis, and rest of the Smash Tournament Committee worked hard for two months to advertise it and put it on. We had a TON of …
We had six professors debate the topic, “Do we live in a simulation.” Thank you to Mary Conklin – Psychology, Gregory Turk – Computer Science, Predrag Citanovic – Physics, Zeb Rocklin – Physics, Hans Klein – Philosophy, and Santosh Vampali – Computer Science for giving their time to share their opinions with us students! Citanovic proved to be an interesting addition to the debate and provided ample physics shenanigans.
This years ice cream social was a huge success, many members new and old gathered together to eat delicious ice cream. Professor Martin Mourigal showed up of course and stole the show with a demonstration of superconductivity with some of the materials he makes in his lab. Thank you to everyone who participated, over 120 people came out!
This year’s department cookout was a great success! We had hot dogs and burgers and even mac and cheese. The capri-suns were a surprising hit. Thank you so much to graduating seniors to Douglas Stewart and Trey Schieper for organizing it. Thank you to Liam Regan, TJ Morietti, and Robin Glefke for manning the grills; also to Martino Stino, and Damon Griffin for lending a hand. At the end of the day, freshmen Paige and Yorick pulled out the cotton candy machine and tried their best at it (it was moderately sucessful)!
