January 24, 2012

T-shirt Sale

Do you want to loudly proclaim your major in your clothing choices? Do you enjoy feeling intellectually superior to others when they don't understand what's written on your shirt? Then the Physics Shirt is for YOU!

This year's design features a particle physics theme:
Front: "Many disciplines search for Truth and Beauty, but we found them."
Back: "(Truth is more massive)" Cloud Chamber image

They will be sold at cost for 15$ and MUST be preordered by emailing physsoc(AT)phas.ubc.ca and paid for by Friday, January 27th, 2012.

November 28, 2011

Exam Packs

The Physics Society is now selling exam packs for Physics 101. The cost is $5 for members, $10 for non-members. The exam packs will be available outside the Physics 101 classrooms.

Review Sessions

Review Sessions for Physics 101 will be held on December 3, 4, and 5, 2011. Each session will cover different material. Prices is $15 per session or $40 for all three. If you are a privileged Physsoc member, they are $10 each, $25 for all three. You can sign up for review sessions at the same locations as Exam Pack sales. Please see Review Sessions page for more details.

November 5, 2011

Beef and Pizza

The Physsoc will be holding the traditional beef and pizza event from 12 to 2 on Tuesday November 22th. This event is all about you! Come to the physsoc lounge, eat some pizza and share any beefs you may have about your professors, courses, labs, exams etc. Essentially if you have a problem with anything in the Physics department drop in and let us know! We'll be collecting all the beef and submitting it anonymously to the department on your behalf. In the likely case where you don't have any beef about our awesome department you can still come by and have a slice of pizza with your super cool physics pals. Did we mention the pizza is free?

October 20, 2011

Several event announcements for you today. Make sure to mark your calendars!

Lecture Series

Next Wednesday October 26th the Physsoc presents a talk by one of the Physsoc's biggest supporters Janis McKenna. The Talk will be about CP symmetry violation and the BaBar experiment. The location has not yet been determined, but an update will be posted as soon as this information becomes available.

Wii Night

Follow up an excellent lecture with a night filled with waggle based fun with your peers! Drop by the Physsoc between 7 and 9 next Thursday the 27th, the Wii will be on the big projector screen and there will be enough remotes for everyone!

LateX Session

The Physsoc will be holding a LateX training session for anyone interested in learning more about LateX and how to use it to make spiffy professional grade reports. The location has not yet been determined, but an update will be posted as soon as this information becomes available.

Movie and Observation Night

After you've soaked up some rich text formatting unwind with an excellent film and a star filled night. The Physsoc will be hosting another movie night on Saturday the 5th of November. Fittingly enough on Guy Fawkes night we will be presenting V for Vendetta, and afterwards instead of watching Parliament burn we will be going up on the roof to join the UBC Astronomy club in watching the stars burning in the night sky.

October 19, 2011

Storm the Gallery

Storm is back! Our traditional storming of campus pubs will recommence this Thursday, October 20th at 6:30. We'll be storming the Gallery Pub in the SUB after the exec meeting (which runs from 5:30 - 6:30). We'll leave the physsoc after the meeting, so join us there or at the Gallery.

CUPC 2012

In other news, we won the bid to host CUPC 2012 at UBC next year! The conferencewill be held in early October. If you're interested in helping out, tell your friendly neighbourhood Physsoc Exec.

September 22, 2011

Movie Night

The Physsoc is hosting its second almost-bi-weekly movie night next Thursday September 29th at 6:30.

So invite your friends (with memberships of course, or sign them up!) and settle in for an evening showing of Primer!

September 18, 2011

Sports Teams

Tired of long lectures? Feeling antsy from sitting in those uncomfortable chairs? Well then you need to go get active and the Physsoc has some teams for you to join!

The Physsoc is sponsoring several sports teams this fall and we're looking for new recruits. Whether you want to shoot some hoops, or launch some frisbees, or even something somewhat in between (we have soccer as well) the Physsoc has you covered. You might ask "Oh Physsoc, but I don't even know how to kick a frisbee" well that's okay you don't have to have any experience to join our teams! (however it would be nice if you knew how a frisbee works).

If you're interested in joining the basketball team please contact alicechik91@gmail.com, if you would rather play ultimate frisbee or soccer please contact matus.bundala@gmail.com, all applicants for ultimate frisbee must be serious about attendance, that is no skipping practices. Please include which team you are interested in joining in the subject line.

We hope to hear from you soon, and remember, you can't spell physical sports without Physsoc!

September 7, 2011

Back To School BBQ

The Physsoc is holding the year's first BBQ on Friday September 16th out in front of Hennings.

Drop by Hennings between 11am and 1pm to have some fun in the (hopefully present) sun, rest between classes and get your fill of burgers, pop and liquid nitrogen ice cream. Memberships will also be on sale so you can get in on the Physics action!

Make sure to inquire about the joint Physsoc and Astronomy club membership as the Astronomy club will be holding their first stargazing session the night of the BBQ.