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Meetings are the lifeblood of SPS, and there are many opportunities to participate at the local, regional, national and even international levels. SPS Zone are encouraged to hold one or more Zone Meeting per academic year. In addition, SPS partners with many professional societies to host undergraduate research sessions at regional and national meetings across the United States.


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  • ASA 159th
  • APS/AAPT Joint
  • AGU FALL
  • 2009 ICPS

Does That Involve Acoustics?
BYU students at the 159th ASA MeetingBy John Boyle, Brigham Young University
Acoustics is HUGE and endlessly interesting. I enjoyed this conference because of the inherent interdisciplinary nature of every presentation and field of research. On paper, relatively few attendees could claim the title Acoustician or Professor of Acoustics. Musicians, surgeons, micro-biologists, marine biologists, geologists, linguists, engineers, federal crash investigators, shipbuilders, audiologists, you name it, they were at the conference.

Snow no match for students at the APS/AAPT Meeting
APS/AAPT Joint MeetingThe record snowfall in the mid-Atlantic region last February did not deter hundreds of enthusiastic undergraduate physics students from descending on Washington, DC, for the 2010 APS/AAPT Joint Meeting. SPS had six dedicated oral sessions and a poster session, in which 75 (!) SPS members presented their research. Many more undergraduates participated in the specialized research sessions. During the SPS student awards reception, 21 presenters were honored with "Outstanding Paper" certificates and books donated by APS and AAPT.

Here are four compelling perspectives on the jam-packed week from SPS Reporters.

Leigha Dickens | Katie Foote | Erin Lease | David Neto

The 2009 AGU Fall Meeting
By Michael Towle, University of Memphis
AGUBefore I attended the Fall 2009 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), my professors and fellow graduate students who had attended AGU in previous years gushed about how big it was. Sure, the official website stated that over 16,000 geophysicists would present their research. My mind has trouble processing and visualizing large numbers on a sheet of paper, so I thought, “How big could this rodeo actually get?” Upon arriving at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, I immediately discovered that AGU was incomprehensibly epic in scale.

SPS Outstanding Students Represent USA at ICPS in Croatia
Josh Fuchs (1st row, center)SPS Outstanding Student Award recipients Josh Fuchs and Gabriel Caceres represented SPS and the U.S. at the 2009 International Conference of Physics Students (ICPS), the annual conference of the International Association of Physics Students. This year’s conference was the 24th in a row and was held in Split, Croatia, August 10-18, 2009. It was organized entirely by the Student Section of the Croatian Physical Society. ICPS truly is a conference for physics students run by physics students.

Feature Articles: Josh Fuchs | Gabriel Caceres | Photos | Program Info


• Joint Meeting of Zone 14 and the Four Corners Section of APS
• Welcoming 2010 with the AAS 215th | Taking It All In: The 215th AAS Meeting
• Space Exploration & Climate Change: An Introduction & Interdisciplinary Discussion
• COSMO '09: Where the Subatomic Meets the Extragalactic
• Three C’s at the Four Corners: Communication, Collaboration, Camaraderie
• Annual Meeting of the CA Section of APS

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