Recent and Upcoming Events

February 4: First Annual Hackathon at Davidson.  SPS members volunteered and participanted. Hannah, Nancy, Ella, and Collin won the overall award!

January 30: First SPS Meeting of the spring semester with pizza.

January 25: SPS booth at the Davidson Activities Fair.

January 23: Officially began mentoring program.

January 19: PhysCon 2016 Seminar. Join us for a seminar presented by the 15 students who attended PhysCon 2016.

January 13-15: Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, Virginia Tech University and Jefferson Lab. 3 students and 1 faculty member attended the conference.

September 10-January 1: Annual SPS Fantasy Football Challenge. 12 students and faculty entered; Tan Phan won (again).

December 6: SPS End-of-the-semester student research presentations.

December 5: SPS End-of-the-semester Meeting with pizza.

December 3: SPS Outstanding Chapter Award.

November2-6: PhysCon 2016. We have 16 students and 3 faculty attend the 2016 Quadrennial Physics Congress in San Francisco, CA. This was supported by a Clark Ross Davidson Research Initiative (DRI) Group Investigation Grant.

October 31: Haunted Dana Science Building and Party. We had a great Halloween party and set up boo bubbles, Jacob’s ladder, Wimshurst machine, Van de Graaff, and other "spooky" apparatus. This year's theme was Star Wars.

October 21:  Stargazing at Fisher Farms. Our largest annual event, over 300 attendees viewed the stars, galaxies, and star clusters.

October 15: Kickball Tournament, 2-5 pm. The "fall classic" involved mostly physics at our STEM kickball tournament with Math, Chemistry, and (hopefully) Biology, located across Ridge Road from the Golf Course.

October 15: Society of Physics Students at a Davidson Football Game. We had several students and faculty on the field for academic appreciation day.

October 17: Public lecture and dinner with Dr. Naomi Halas as part of the Smith Lecture.  Also meeting with the Women in Physics group.

October 12: Society of Physics Students Meeting. We had a PhysCon themed meeting to prepare for the big trip.

September 29:  Stargazing on Chamber's Lawn.  Local event, over 100 attendees viewed the stars, galaxies, and star clusters.

September 26-October 22: SPS GRE Prep. Join us and faculty for GRE prep sessions, in classical, modern, quantum, E&M, and stat/therm.

September 2: Vermonster Challenge for MS. Our bellies were willing and this year we did it.  We had two teams and Team 1 won! Team 2 was content in just eating the ice ream at a reasonable pace. 

September 6: First SPS Meeting of the semester.  Join us to discuss events this semester and learn about the Society of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma.

August 26: Second Annual SPS Ice Cream Social. Over 60 SPS and prospective physics majors attended.  We made liquid nitrogen (experimental) ice cream as well as traditional store bought (theoretical/computational) ice cream.

August 24: Davidson College Activities Fair from 5:30-7:30 p.m., on Chambers Lawn. This is a super opportunity to connect with new students as well as upper-class students about SPS. 

July 5:  Summer SPS Picnic for research students and faculty.

June 14: Submitted 2015-2016 Chapter Report.

May 1: Nikos Dokmetzoglou ran for Associate Zone Councilor for SPS Zone 5. Nikos was elected the 2016-2107 Associate Zone Councilor for SPS Zone 5.