National Science Week is just around the corner! To celebrate, the Physics Students’ Society will be holding another session of Physics in the Pub, a panel-led discussion on physics and the world around us, over a meal and a drink with friends.
The topic will be:
Can Physics Change Climate Change?
We’ll look at the people, the projects and the prospects for dealing with climate change through physics and other fields of science and engineering.
Joining us on the evening will be our panel:
- David Jamieson, Head, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
- Grant Schuster, Ernst & Young Sustainability Advisory Services
- Rachel Webster, Astrophysics Group, University of Melbourne
- Simon Torok, Communications, Marine and Atmospheric Research, CSIRO
Details:
All are welcome: we had at least sixty people show up to the previous Physics at the Pub, Can Physics Save the World? and had a great discussion.
There are also some other great National Science Week events running next week, so check out the website and go see some great science.
Also, if you’re around the University on Sunday, remember the PSS will be at the University of Melbourne Open Day, so drop round, say hello and see our awesome demo of the Meissner effect.
Hi everyone,
Hope you’ve all had a great break and are settling down for semester 2. To welcome you back, the PSS will be holding a BBQ next week. The particulars:
- Date: Monday, 2nd August 2010
- Time: 1 PM – 2 PM
- Venue: Physics Courtyard (beneath the ramp leading to the Physics Podium)
As always, we’ll have plenty of sausages, veggie patties, soft drinks and beer, free to all our members. If you’re not a member yet, you’re more than welcome to sign up on the day.
See you all there, and have a great, physics-filled semester 2.
It’s time for another BBQ!
This is the “Welcome to the second half of Semester One” BBQ.
Since our membership numbers are up this year, we’ve decided to relocate to a bigger venue.
Details are as follows:
- Date: Tuesday 13 April
- Time: 12:30-2pm
- Venue: Redmond Barry Courtyard (near the Medley, Lowe, Rivett & Lyle lecture theatres)
As usual, this event is 100% free for PSS members. This includes sausages, veggie burgers, soft drinks, beer & cider.
Hope to see you there!
A big thanks to everyone who showed up to our welcome back BBQ on Monday, and to those of you who couldn’t make it, we’ll hold another one soon. However, the next event will be the inaugural Physics in the Pub, where we’ll spend an evening in a panel-led discussion on physics and the world around us, over a meal and a drink with friends.
We’re kicking off the first Physics in the Pub with:
Can Physics Save the World?
The discussion panel we have lined up will be:
- Bryn Sobott CRC for Biomedical Imaging Development
- Jim Black Nossal Institute for Global Health
- Vivien Lee University of Melbourne Experimental Particle Physics Group
- Mark Boland The Australian Synchrotron
- Roger Rassool School of Physics, University of Melbourne
We’ll go on a journey from basic physics all the way to ridding the world of malaria and landmines.
Details:
All welcome! (You can join the PSS on the night.)
Hi everyone,
The semester’s wrapping up, and to celebrate the end of a gruelling twelve weeks the Physics Students’ Society is having a BBQ this coming Monday.
- Date: Monday 26th October, 2009
- Time: 1.00 pm — 2.00 pm
- Venue: Physics Courtyard (under the ramp leading up to the Physics Podium)
As usual, there’ll be sausages, veggie burgers, soft drinks and beer, free to all PSS members.
See you there, and good luck with your exams.
Update: Tickets are being sold from 1-2PM Monday-Friday this week (week 9) and Monday 12th (the day of the event) in the Physics courtyard (under the David Caro ramp, near the BBQ). Tickets are also available from Daniel Flynn (0430 018 003).
Come celebrate physicists’ vast collection of useless facts in the PSS’s first ever trivia night!
Running on Monday of week 10 this semester, we’ve booked out the Clyde Hotel (a 45 second run from the Physics building). This gives you the potential be one of about 80 lucky students to join in the games, drinks, trivia and PRIZES!
- When: Monday, October 12, 2009, 7:00pm – 11:00pm
- Where: The Clyde Hotel, 385 Cardigan Street, Carlton
- Price: Tickets are $10 per head.
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To welcome you all back for Semester 2, we’re having another Physics Students’ Society BBQ!
- Date: Monday 17th August 2009
- Time: 1pm – 2pm
- Venue: Physics Courtyard (under the ramp leading up to the Physics Podium)
There’ll be sausages, veggie burgers, soft drink and beer!
As always, this is a free for all PSS members, and new members are welcome to join on the day, so bring along your friends.
The Physics Students’ Society is planning an excursion to the open weekend at Parkes Radio Telescope, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the first moon landing in July 1969 as well as the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
- Dates: 17 – 20 July 2009. (This is the 2nd last weekend of the holidays.)
The plan is to drive up to Parkes by car convoy on Friday 17th July, spend two days in Parkes and visit the telescope, and then return to Melbourne on July 20th.
The total cost of the event will be approximately $100 + food. This is primarily the cost of 3 night’s accommodation at Parkes. The Student Union will be substantially subsidising the cost of driving to Parkes, by an amount that will depend on numbers.
If you are interested in coming, please send us an email expressing your interest with the following details:
- Name
- Email address
- Student number
- Mobile number
- If you can bring a car (and if so, the number of seats including the driver)
- Details for someone we can contact in an emergency (name & phone number)
So we can book the accommodation in advance, registrations will close at 12 PM on Thursday 11th June. We’ll need an upfront deposit of $90 so we can secure accommodation.
We’re having another Physics Students’ Society BBQ!
There’ll be sausages, veggie burgers, maybe even some bread; as well as soft drink, beer and cider. We’re also going to be trying to sell you our wonderful purple shirts and sign you up to our various road trips, study groups and other such club events.
The BBQ will start at around 12:30 this Friday afternoon (22nd May), and rock on until 2:00. Same as last time, the venue will be the Physics Courtyard (the BBQ area under the ramp leading to the Physics Podium). It’s free for all PSS members, and new members are welcome to join on the day.
Now’s the perfect opportunity to rope in any friends interested in joining. Spread the word, too; we can never be completely sure that everyone’s going to check their email in time — no matter how freakishly nerdy they are.
- Date: Friday, 22nd May 2009
- Time: 12.30 — 2.00 PM
- Venue: Physics Courtyard
Hope to see you there!
