College of the Holy Cross
Society of Physics Students - SPS
Faculty Advisor: T. Roach

Announcements:
Find out what we did at the Wednesday March 13 meeting - see minutes below!

Agenda: Demos for the Academic Conference, Outreach project at the Roosevelt Elementary School.
blackhole.jpg (10K) Physical Review Focus: Breaking physics research stories and photos, clearly explained.

Minutes of Meetings: (in case you missed one)
September 25
October 25
November 5 [coming soon]
Nov. 29 Topic: Candy Drop, coordinated with Prof. Nienaber
Feb. 14 Summer Research Opportunities, semester activities
March 13

Membership:

You can join online via the American Institute of Physics or you can obtain a form from Prof. Roach.

General Information:
[Note: some of the links below are out of date - we're working on it]
National SPS Web Site

Summer Physics/Research Jobs Information:

Internships & Summer Work is a list of opportunities maintained by Holy Cross.  Several of them are devoted to science or can be searched for science related positions.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Also a list of the REU physics research sites, at many places across the country.
Search for Summer Physics Jobs in a list compiled by the American Physical Society.
AT&T Labs: Some summer research job opportunities.

Physics Links:

APSPhysical Review Focus: Breaking physics research stories and photos, clearly explained.
corral of atomsPhysics News: Click here to see recent exciting discoveries in physics research worldwide.

Old News:
October 2001:
Nobel Prize in Physics Given to
Eric Cornell Wolfgang Ketterle Carl Wieman
for work on Bose-Einstein Condensation, one of the weirdest forms of matter:
Bose-Einstein Condensate clouds: Official Nobel announcement

Revised 13 March 2002