Meeting Schedule
The current officer team makes a schedule of meetings, but topics are not final. We exist to serve our members, so if anyone has an idea for a meeting topic, please contact us and we will try our best to make it happen.
Spring 2026 First Meeting
Our first meeting of the spring semester is Friday, January 23th. Come learn about the club, eat pizza, and play some games!
| Meeting Day | Topic | Announcements |
|---|---|---|
| 1/23 | Welcome Back/Game Night | Pizza and Games! |
| 1/30 | SPS Elections | We will vote on new SPS officers! This will be a short meeting, but newly elected officers will stay for a meeting afterward. |
| 2/6 | Graduate Student Q/A Panel | A panel of 4-5 physics graduate students will be available to answer questions about applying to grad school. We will meet in Barnard 108. |
| 2/13 | Demo Night! | Officers will teach club members how to operate some optics and E&M demos in preparation for STEM Fun Night at Museum of the Rockies on 2/18 (come volunteer with us!) |
| 2/20 | Tentative: Lab Tour of MSU's SSEL Facility | |
| 2/27 | ||
| 3/6 | ||
| 3/13 | Math vs. Physics: Battle of the Majors (with Math Club) | We will be battling Math Club to determine which major is the best major. Competitions may include: the infamous integral bee, building towers with spaghetti and marshmallows, etc. The winning major will recieve a trophy declaring them the best major. The loosing team's officers will be pied with whipped cream pies. |
| 3/20 | Spring Break | Unfortunately, we can't force anyone to do physics over Spring Break. |
| 3/27 | Registration Talk | We will discuss class registration and have a Q/A about future classes. Upperclassmen and officers will advise underclassmen on classes. |
| 4/3 | ||
| 4/10 | Tentative: Annual Physics Bowl! | |
| 4/17 | University Day | Day off the celebrate MSU History! |
| 4/24 | Town Hall Pre-Discussion | We will discuss what comments and concerns club members would like to see brought up at the Physics Department Town Hall (on 5/3). |
| 5/1 | Town Hall | Meeting with the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum Committee to discuss concerns and changes undergraduates would like to see within the Physics Department. |
| 5/6 | Finals Week | No meeting! Good luck on finals! |
* These meeting topics are subject to change. Use this table as a guide to what we plan to be sharing with you this semester. Meeting topics will be fleshed out throughout the semester.
** These meetings are very tentative and will move according to availability of guests
Calendar of notable events
Keep an eye out for these other resources provided by the department/college:
Department Colloquium
The physics department puts on lectures on Mondays from 4-5pm in Barnard 103 (previously Fridays 4-5pm). These lectures are about current research going on, either by our own faculty or by captivating speakers brought in by the department. This is a great opportunity to see what a career in research looks like. See the department's website for more information.
Currently the department is still working on ironing out the details. Keep an eye out for when the ball gets rolling!
OpTeC Colloquium
If you are interested in optics or new quantum technology, keep an eye out for the OpTeC lectures. The meetings are weekly Thursday 4:10 digitally. Quite a few of our physics faculty are already on the list of lectures this semester. I would urge you to visit at least one of the lectures to get a taste of what laser physics looks like in engineering. Check out OpTeC's schedule.
RelAstro Lectures
If you are interested in gravity or solar physics, keep an eye out for the RelAstro lectures. The meetings are weekly Monday 2:10 in Roberts 209. I would urge you to visit at least one to get a taste of what gravity and solar physics looks like in research. Check out RelAstro's schedule.
Currently the department is still working on ironing out the details. Keep an eye out for when the ball gets rolling!
TAMIA/Women+
TAMIA (Towards a More Inclusive Astronomy) and W+iP (Women+ in Physics) work hard to tackle the hot topics around inclusion and systemic issues within our department. In the past, the groups have worked with SPS to bring information from a grad student perspective. See the W+iP website for more info.
Honors Presents
The honors college puts together lectures and other opportunities primarily for honors students, however they don't check attendance at the door. Some of these lectures are valuable to physics majors, such as conversations on sustainability and nuclear energy. Keep an eye out for cool opportunities on their schedule.
While Honors Presents is currently running, their online schedule is not up to date. Check the link to see if that has change, but your other option is to ask to be put on the email list by the Honors College or send us an email and we can check for recent opportunities in our email.
