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SPS wants to help you step up your outreach to the community with free stuff! Chapters can get a freeScience Outreach Catalyst Kits (SOCK)to use in outreach presentations (first come, first serve). This year’s theme is eclipses! Or you can expand your chapter’s demo library through use of ourOutreach Demonstrations, with topics including astronomy, mechanics, optics, and more!
SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma Fall Awards Applications Now Open
Does your SPS chapter have an idea for an event, outreach, or research project, and need the funds to execute it? Let SPS National help you get there! Applications and advisor sign-offs are due Wednesday, November 15, 2023.
Engagement award to Sigma Pi Sigma chapters for funding events that aim to include alumni, help with chapter inductions, or expand the recognition within the campus and surrounding community
$600 maximum, awarded to several chapters annually
$2,500-$3,000 awards for students in Sigma Pi Sigma,
Awarded based on upholding its four pillars (Honor, Encouragement, Service, and Fellowship), and exhibition of the potential and intention for continued scholarship in physics, astronomy, or a closely related field
Preference for current undergraduates, graduate students, or those inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma within the past 10 years
To find more information about these award opportunities, including proposal templates, click here.
If you have any questions regarding applications, please contactsps-programs@aip.org.
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 - October 15. According to the US Department of Education, only eight percent of STEM related degrees were earned by Hispanic students between 2009 and 2010. SPS offers free joint membership to theNational Society of Hispanic Physicists – if you, or someone that you know, would like to add this to your SPS membership, emailsps@aip.orgwith your request!
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
One of the most prestigious STEM meetings in the world for students and early-career scientists, the Lindau Nobel Laurate Meeting allows around 40 Nobels to meet with a combination of around 600 undergraduate, master and doctoral students and early-career postdoctoral scientists. This year, the Lindau meeting will focus on physics, and be held June 30 – July 5 in Lindau, Germany. They are looking for the BEST U.S. students and early-career scientists in physics or closely related fields, and if selected, ALL travel expenses will be covered by Lindau. Please note that the deadline is Friday, October 13 and the candidate MUST have at least a 3.9 GPA or belong to the top 5% of their class. The pre-application link, with more information on required materials, may be foundhere.
Congratulations to the 2023 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics
Today,Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter. For more information on the winners and their research, check out the AIP press release here.
SPS brings you GradSchoolShopper
SPS offersGradSchoolShopper.com,the only global graduate program network dedicated exclusively to physics, astronomy, and the physical sciences. If you are looking for your graduate school path, this is free and for you! Check out
these articles full of resources and tips in the 2023 Guide to Grad School.
Upcoming Zones Meetings (Also Listed on the SPS Calendar)
Zone 13, October 13 – 14: Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX
Optica Frontiers in Optics & Laser Science (FiOLS), October 9 – 12: Tacoma, WA
Registration is open. Find meeting information here.
Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Diversity in STEM Conference, October 26 – 28: Portland, OR
Registration is open. Find meeting informationhere.
AVS 69th International Symposium & Exhibition, November 5 – 10: Portland, OR
Registration is open. Find meeting information here.
National Society of Black Physicists, November 9-12: Knoxville, TN
Registration is open. Find meeting informationhere.
ASA 185th Annual Meeting, December 4 – 8: Sydney, Australia
Registration is open. Find meeting information here.
AAPT Winter Meeting, January 6 – 8: New Orleans, LA
Registration is open. Find meeting information here.
AAS 243rd Meeting, January 7 – 11: New Orleans, LA
APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP), January 19 – 24
Registration is open. Find meeting information here.
AMS 104th Annual Meeting, January 28 – February 1: Baltimore, MD
Registration is open. Find meeting information here.
APS March Meeting, March 4 – 8: Minneapolis, MN
Abstract submissions due October 20, 2023. Find meeting information here.
SPS offers Travel Awards to members presenting their research at AIP member society meetings and Reporter Awards for individuals and chapters. A limited number of awards of up to $300 will be offered. Apply Today!
SPS Featured Jobs, REUs, & Internships-Check them out atSPS Jobsand hear about how to apply for REUswith #HowtoREU
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