We couldn't fit everybody into room 462 at our last meeting.

SPS meets every Friday at 3 PM in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, room 462. Go here for a campus map (the image is 132 KB, and on this map, Bloomberg is number 41).

Every other week, we have a speaker come in to talk with us about what he or she does. On days that we have no speaker, we watch a movie. The schedule of speakers and topics is below, and will be updated as soon as possible.

Although most speakers will be discussing physics related topics, people of ALL majors--from Chemistry to Africana Studies--are welcome at our meetings! You do not need to sign up or already be a member to attend, all meetings are open to anyone interested.
Although our board is familiar with many of the people in Bloomberg, there are lots of people we don't know about, as well as people outside the Bloomberg faculty who might have interesting things to talk about. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to talk to any of the board members.

September 14
Graduate School Panel: Hear a team of professors and graduate students talk about how graduate school admissions works.

September 21
Movie: Blade Runner

September 28
Professor Kaplan: The upcoming revolution in particle physics from the new colliders coming online around the world.

October 5
Mafia: Come play!

October 12
No meeting: Fall Break

October 19
Professor Krolik: Theoretical astrophysics on accretion disks.

October 26
Professor Tchernyshyov: Broken symmetries, topological defects and fractional charges.

November 2
Movie: (seniors will not be present due to GREs)

November 9
Speaker: TBA

November 16
Professor Marsh: Volcanism in the McMurdo Dry valleys of Antarctica.

November 23
No meeting: Thanksgiving break

November 30
Professor Armitage:

December 7
Movie: TBA

February 1
Professor Wyse: New Light on Dark Matter.

February 8
Dr. Kate Spillane: Master of Medical Physics at University of Pennsylvania to talk about medical physics in general as well as about the program at UPenn specifically.

February 15
Professor Reich: Studies of biological physics and soft matter using magnetic nanoparticles.

February 22
Movie: Serenity.

February 29
No meeting

March 7
Andrei Gritsan The LHC and particle physics.

March 14
Movie Yonng Frankenstien.

March 28
Professor Sundrum Meeting Will start at 3:45 this week. Professor Sundrum will be talking about string theory and the Randall-Sundrum models.

April 4
TBA

April 11
TBA

April 18
TBA

April 25
TRIP! 11:30-3PM we will be going to Goddard Space Flight Center. Bring your ID and a camera would be a good idea.