SCSU Physics Club

Minutes

09/06/06

•  Introductions

- Officers

- advisers

•  Discussion of SPS Membership

- Benefits

- Cost

- APS Membership

- Physics Today

•  Club Membership Sign-up/Contact Info

- email sheet passed around room

- facebook.com

- myscsu groups homepage

- SoPE homepage: www.southernct.edu/clubs/physics

•  Overview of Meeting Format

- Old Business

- New Business

- Open Floor

•  Old Business

- none

•  New Business

- Club Spotlight

We were invited to setup a table at the Student Center Grand Opening. Items to bring: Van der Graph Generator, roller coasters, SPS Regional Conference poster.

- Physics Library: mention of resources available to students in the physics library.

- Tutors: mention of tutoring availability in tutoring center.

- Open House

Date decided to be Nov. 10 th , 2006, from 12 – 5 pm. Includes community involvement and displays. Open to families of students.

- Trip

•  Brookhaven NL

•  Discovery Museum, Bridgeport

•  Yale Particle Accelerators

•  CRISP Facility: Spring

•  Woods Hole Institute

•  IBM

•  Museum of Natural History, NYC/ Hayden Planetarium

- Denver APS Meeting: March 5-9, 2007. Largest physics meeting in the world.

- CMOC: March or April, micro/nano electronics

- CRISP Education Outreach: presentation by Heather Edgecomb. Discussion of responsibilities involved with becoming a mentor.

- Trebuchet Project: discussion of how when and where to build a trebuchet.