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 …
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 …
Did someone say Nitro-tastic? Our Ice Cream Social was awesome! We had a great turnout to try our legen-dairy liquid nitrogen ice cream! We got to meet new students and promote SPS in the Howey Courtyard. Shoutout to Dr. Mourigal! We couldn’t have done this without you!
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!
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)!
Formal this year was absolutely amazing! Our committee team put together beautiful decorations and food. We said goodbye to the seniors and it was terribly sad, but we will keep in touch, of course. Traditionally graduating members sign a pillar in our lounge, but we have been around long enough that it is full! We then got creative and had the seniors sign a ceiling tile instead. Goodbye notes were written to all the graduates and paper plate awards handed out as well. Festivities ended with a tour of the Howey Observatory. Here’s to old friends and new traditions.
