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AIP & its Member Societies
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) operates within the American Institute of Physics (AIP), an umbrella organization for SPS, the Sigma Pi Sigma honor society, and ten other professional science societies.
The American Institute of Physics
AIP is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare. It is the mission of the Institute to serve the sciences of physics and astronomy by serving the Societies, by serving individual scientists, and by serving students and the general public.
AIP Member Societies
Undergraduate students can receive free membership in one of AIP's ten member societies for up to three years when joining SPS.
SPS also co-sponsors SPS Research Sessions with many of these societies during their professional meetings across the United States. A limited number of SPS Travel Awards ($200 each) are offered to help fund a SPS member’s travel to these SPS Research Sessions.
The American Physical Society (APS)
Promotes the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and all branches of fundamental and applied physics.
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Devotes itself to the advancement of optics, pure and applied, in all its branches.
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Seeks to increase and diffuse the knowledge of acoustics and to promote its practical applications.
The Society of Rheology (SoR)
Promotes the advancement and applications of rheology, the science of deformation and flow of matter, and its applications.
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
Promotes the advancement of the teaching of physics and furtherance of appreciation of the cultural role of physics.
American Crystallographic Association (ACA)
Promotes the study of the arrangement of the atoms in matter, its causes, its nature, and its consequences, and the tools and methods used in such studies.
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
Promotes the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science.
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
Seeks to promote the application of physics to medicine and biology.
AVS: The Science and Technology Society
Promotes communication, dissemination of knowledge, recommended practices, research, and education in the use of vacuum and other controlled environments to develop new materials, process technology, devices, and related understanding of material properties for the betterment of humanity.
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Promotes the scientific study of the Earth and its environment in space.
Other AIP Organizations
AIP Corporate Associates
The mission of the AIP Corporate Associates program is to serve the industrial physics community by improving the effectiveness of people and organizations in advancing corporate goals through the use of physics. Toward this end, they sponsor the annual Industrial Physics Forum, and provide other benefits to members.
Society of Physics Students (SPS)
The professional society for physics students and their mentors.
Sigma Pi Sigma Honor Society
The national physics honor society.
AIP Affiliated Societies
An Affiliated Society is any not-for-profit local, regional, or national organization interested in physics. It is elected to this status by the AIP Governing Board; action by the AIP Corporation is not required. There are 24 such societies currently affiliated with AIP, ranging in individual membership from 25 to about 35,000.
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