Cambridge University Physics Society
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Announcements
- Science Societies' Garden Party 2009: Sidney Sussex Fellows Garden, 15th June, 11am-3pm. Join us a for an afternoon of fun and games, including live music and far, far too much Pimms! Open to all, £5/£2 non-member/member
- International Conference for Physics Students (ICPS) 2009 - website: http://icps2009.hfd.hr/
- The new committee for this year has been elected! Any questions, comments or suggestions e-mail us here
- Previous talks
- Wednesday 4th March 8pm: Dr Chris Lester "Experimental Particle Physics, CERN and the Large Hadron Collider"
- Wednesday 4th February 8pm: Dr Mark Lewney "Rock Guitar in 11 dimensions"
- Wednesday 11th February 8pm: Professor Jim Scott "Are insulators interesting"
- Omega Dinner 2009 - Signups have now closed.
- Lent 2009 Term Card - click here for details
- Michaelmas 2008 Term Card - click here for details
- Vacation Work Conference 2008 - Resources from the event are now online
Sponsors
CUPS is very proud to be sponsored by Detica, Hitachi, Nexus, Marks & Clerk, the TCM group of the Cavendish Laboratory, and the Institute of Physics East Anglia branch.
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Detica is proud to sponsor this term's CUPS lectures. Detica is the only consultancy to specialise in helping clients collect, manage and exploit information to reveal actionable intelligence. We focus on helping government and corporate clients reveal intelligence, maintain security, manage risk and strengthen resilience in today's complex operating environment. We also use our skills to assist clients with other information-intensive problems such as achieving regulatory compliance and understanding customer behaviour.
This year we are looking for over 100 highly-motivated graduates with a background in Physics, Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science. In return we can offer you a varied and intellectually demanding career spanning our core service areas of business consulting, technical consulting, system integration, delivery management, system support and electronic solutions.
For more information visit www.detica.com, email cambridge@detica.com or meet us over drinks after the lecture on the 4th February.
Garden Party 2008
The Science Societies' Garden Party was held this year in the Peterhouse Deer Park on Monday 16 June. See photos from the day.
Omega Dinner 2008
The Society's Annual Dinner, the "Omega Dinner" was held at Trinity College, Old Kitchens on the 27th of February 2008. See photos from the evening here.
The dinner is made possible by the very generous support of
Other Stuff
- Want to find out about Outreach Opportunities in physics?
- Interested in being a College/Year Rep? Details here.
Event archive: Society events are archived here.
Aims of the Society
We organise fun and interesting events and provide a social scene for everyone with an interest in Physics, organising regular events and talks, including cocktail evenings, sporting events and the fabulous Omega Dinner. CUPS presents an unrivalled opportunity to enjoy talks by internationally renowned speakers, which have included Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, on all subjects ranging from the cutting edge, to the purely historical, including philosophy, astronomy and bio-physics. In addition there is the chance for informal discussion afterwards. We also put on formal halls, trips, pub crawls, and an unrivalled annual garden party.
Thanks to all of you who signed up to the email lists, and who we met at the Freshers' Fair or after the induction talks. We hope to see you again at our events this term!
And Finally
- Make your own page on the wiki. Like Facebook.
- Have comments about the wiki or things you'd like us to change? Post them here.
- For those who doubted the trombone story(!), see here (though, like the BBC, we're not responsible for the content of external websites).
The CUPS ex-officio chair and secretary in a meeting with Professor Sir Martin Rees
