The charming specimens below are the current PSS committee:
Emma Bland – President
Emma leads the PSS by fear and intimidation. One day she hopes to be in charge on an evil scientific organisation, just so she can spin around in her chair and say “I’ve been expecting you”. Emma enjoys talking about special relativity at social events, playing excessive amounts of Scrabble, and cycling to places even more remote than Monash University. Emma is embarrassed to admit that she has never successfully changed a light globe, and thus spends a lot of time in the dark. She blames this inability on her rather pathetic height, but we all know she’s just clumsy.
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atrick Clearwater – Secretary
Hailing from the code-mines of the Computer Science department, Patrick is slightly unhinged and can often be found wandering around attempting to convert Arts and Commerce students to Physics. In addition to physics, computers and other highly geeky activities, Patrick enjoys drinking tea (mmm… Brownian motion), long walks on the beach at night (mmm… astronomy) and the occasional attempt at global domination (mmm…high energy physics).
Angus McInnes – Treasurer
Angus is a third-year science student. He originally intended to major in computer science, but changed his mind after accidentally discovering the awesomeness of physics. This happened during an experiment looking for something unrelated. Much like how Penzias and Wilson discovered cosmic background radiation, but less Nobel-prizeworthy. Angus enjoys having incomprehensible conversations with interesting people, and with his computer, and sometimes with himself. He joined the PSS committee because he happened to be standing nearby when it started, without realising what he was getting into, and under the fear and intimidation of our leader he subsequently found himself unable to escape.
Daniel Flynn – Education Officer
Daniel is a third year science student, torn between the rigorous rigor that is mathematics and the approximated application of rigor that is physics. But not too approximated. That would be engineering. He can often be found climbing over seats, wearing lime green sweaters and asking lecturers unrelated questions in the middle of a lecture. It is also not uncommon to see this individual prancing around campus with a cup of coffee in one hand and his laptop in the other, mouthing along the songs playing in his earphones like a crazy person.
Belinda Nicholson – General Committee
Belinda was born the illegitimate daughter of Romanian prince and a tailor’s wife. After twelve years hiding in a dilapidated convent, she was granted political asylum in the United States of Tasmania in 1997, before immigrating to Australia three years prior thanks to a legal loophole and a time paradox. Belinda hopes one day to use her degree to become a physicist or perhaps an exotic dancer.
Lachlan Tantau – General Commit
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Lachlan has just finished his undergrad majoring in Physics and Maths & Stats, now doing his Masters in Physics. Lach joined the commitee at the end of 2009 in the hope of bridging the gap between postgradute students and undergraduate students. His hobbies include Yo-Yo’s, African drumming, taking pictures of pictures and buying old things just to see if they work, which they generally don’t. Not to mention his love of poetry and long walks on the beach.
Thor Taylor – General Committee Biography to come!
All committee positions are up for grabs at the Annual General Meeting (held during Semester 2). We welcome nominations for committee positions from students of all year levels
If you aren’t on the committee but would like to get involved with club planning, send us an email and we’ll keep you in the loop.
On that note, we’d like to thank Richard Hughes and Alex Finkel, who have helped out the committee over the past year