Wooster's Physics Club History
The College of Wooster has hosted a chapter of the Society of Physics Students since 1968.
Wooster Physics Club (2011-2012)
The 2012 T-shirt was a long time coming!
Officers
- President David Simpson
- Vice-President Lorenzo Dumancas
- Treasurer Andrew Blaikie
- Secretary Larry Markley
- Ambassador to New Zealand Lily Christman
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- 2011 September 2: Scot Spirit Day
- 2011 September 15: Luce dinner poster and photos
- 2011 September 28: General Meeting
- 2011 October 7-8: Astronomy Club Overnight Observing
- 2011 October 26: General Meeting and group photo
- 2011 November 9: Outreach Training: Air Pressure
- 2011 November 12: Great Lakes Science Center Trip Photos
- 2011 November 16: Outreach Training: Electricity & Magnetism
- 2011 November 18: Astronomy Club Observing Photos
- 2012 January 25: General Meeting
- 2012 February 2: Outreach Forces & Motion Video Shoot
- 2012 February 11: Astronomy Club Cleveland Natural History Museum Trip Photos
- 2012 February 16: Outreach Pressure Video Shoot
- 2012 March 28: General Meeting
- 2012 Apri 12: E & M Video Shoot
- 2012 Apri 19: Light & Sound Video Shoot
- 2012 Apri 21: Science Day was a success!
- 2012 Apri 22: Taylor Bowl 23
- 2012 June 5: Astronomy Club Transit of Venus Photos
Wooster Physics Club (2010-2011)
Annual Report (1.2 MB PDF)
The 2011 T-shirt was comical.
Officers
- President Larry Markley
- Vice-President Karl Smith
- Treasurer David Simpson
- Secretary D. Alex Sullivan
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- 3 September 2010: Scot Spirit Day
- 16 September 2010: Luce Dinner
- 22 September 2010: General Meeting
- 24 September 2010: Outreach Training (Force & Motion)
- 1 October 2010: Outreach Training (Air Pressure)
- 20 October 2010: General Meeting
- 29 October 2010: Outreach Training (Light & Sound)
- 20 November 2010: COSI Columbus
- 9 February 2011: General Meeting
- 2 March 2011: General Meeting
- 2 April 2011: Science Day 3 was a big success
- 29 April 2011: Senior Posters
- 1 May 2011: Taylor Bowl 22
Wooster Physics Club (2009-2010)
Annual Report (2.8 MB PDF)
The 2010 T-shirt was lyrical.
Officers
- President Heather Moore
- Vice-President Alison Huff
- Treasurer Larry Markley
- Secretary R. Mike Winters
- Advisor Deva O'Neil
Events
- 28 August 2009: Scot Spirit Day
- 10 September 2009: Luce Dinner (Pizza and Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Night)
- 1 October 2009: Stargazing at College Golf Course (rescheduled from 9/24)
- 15 October 2009: Summer Research Symposium
- 15 November 2009: Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland OH
- 17 November 2009: Leonid Meteor Shower Viewing
- 14 January 2010: Physics Club selected as a 2009 Outstanding SPS Chapter!
- 17 April 2010: Science Day 2
- 18 April 2010: Taylor Bowl 21
Wooster Physics Club (2008-2009)
Annual Report (2.4 MB PDF)
The 2009 T-shirt was quantum mechanical.
Officers
- President Heather Moore
- Vice-President Henry Timmers
- Treasurer Frank King
- Secretary Mary Mills
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- 29 August 2008: Scot Spirit Day
- 11 September 2008: Luce Dinner
- 24 September 2008: General Meeting
- 30 September 2008: Summer Research Symposium
- 6-8 November 2008: ΣΠΣ Quadrennial Congress at Fermilab
- 22 November 2008: COSI Columbus
- 22 November 2008: Senior I.S. Presentations
- 28 January 2009: General Meeting
- 28 January 2009: Physics Club wins a 2009 Marsh White Award!
- 4 February 2009: Physics Club selected as a 2008 Outstanding SPS Chapter!
- 25 February 2009: General Meeting
- 1 April 2009: Science Day Prep Meeting
- 4 April 2009: Science Day 1 was a big success!
- 19 April 2009: Taylor Bowl 20
- 2 May 2009: Ethiopian dinner in Cleveland
Wooster Physics Club (2007-2008)
Annual Report (7.1 MB PDF)
The 2008 T-shirt honors Wooster's Arthur Compton.
Officers
- President John Gamble
- Vice-President Kelly Patton
- Treasurer Henry Timmers
- Secretary Kirsten Larson
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- 31 August 2007: Scot Spirit Day
- 4 September 2007: Woody Shew Colloquium
- 12 September 2007: Luce Dinner
- 26 September 2007: General Meeting
- 27 September 2007: Josh Martin Colloquium
- 2 October 2007: Summer Research Symposium
- 2 December 2007: GLSC & HRC & Tower City Center
- 5 December 2007: General Meeting
- 22 January 2007: Elizabeth Freeland Colloquium
- 23 January 2008: General Meeting
- 26 January 2008: Theoretical Physics Video Shoot
- 30 January 2008: Theoretical Physics Test Screening
- 27 February 2008: General Meeting
- 20 April 2008: Taylor Bowl 19
Wooster Physics Club (2006-2007)
The 2007 T-shirt was classic rock.
Officers
- President Danny Tremblay
- Vice-President Danny Shai
- Treasurer Stephen Poprocki
- Secretary Kelly Patton
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- Fri 1 Sep 06: Scots Spirit Day
- Wed 13 Sep 06: Luce Dinner
- Tue 26 Sep 06: Summer Research 2006
- Wed 4 Oct 06: General Meeting
- Sat 11 Nov 06: Trip to COSI in Columbus
- Thu 30 Nov 06: Senior I.S. Progress Reports 1
- Thu 7 Dec 06: Senior I.S. Progress Reports 2
- Wed 7 Feb 07: General Meeting
- Wed 28 Mar 07: General Meeting
- Sun 22 Apr 07: Taylor Bowl 18
- Sat 28 Apr 07: Indian Dinner
Wooster Physics Club (2005-2006)
The 2006 T-shirt was esoteric.
Officers
- President Jeremy Hohertz
- Vice-President Danny Tremblay
- Treasurer Kathy McCreary
- Secretary Danny Shai
- Ambassador to New Zealand Nathan Utt
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- Fri 2 Sep 05: Scot's Spirit Day
- Wed 14 Sep 05: Bornhuetter pizza & ice cream dinner
- Wed 21 Sep 05: General meeting
- Sat 1 Oct 05: Outreach training
- Sat 5 Nov 05: GLSC & dinner in Cleveland
- Thu 8 Dec 05: Senior thesis progress reports
- Wed 1 Feb 06: Presentations by ambassadors to New Zealand & Japan
- Wed 22 Feb 06: General meeting selects T-shirt finalists
- Wed 8 Mar 06: General meeting selects T-shirts
- Sun 23 Apr 06: Taylor Bowl 17
Wooster Physics Club (2004-2005)
The 2005 T-shirt was moo!
Officers
- President Austin Carter
- Vice-President Dan Utley
- Treasurer Kathy McCreary
- Secretary Jeremy Hohertz
- Advisor Lowell Boone
Events
Wooster Physics Club (2003-2004)
The 2004 T-shirt was iconic.
Officers
- President Tom Spears
- Vice-President Katie Frato
- Treasurer Nithya Venkataraman
- Secretary Nick Harmon
- Ambassador to Scotland Austin Carter
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- Fri 29 Aug 03: Physics Table at Scot's Spirit Day
- Wed 10 Sep 03: Luce Dinner & Dessert Social
- Fri 13 Nov 03: Lecture by Oleg Lavrentovich "Emerging Topics in the Optics of Liquid Crystals"
- Sat 15 Nov 03: Trip to COSI and dinner in Columbus
- Thu 4 Dec 03: Senior I.S. Presentations + Pizza & Pop
- Mon 26 Jan 04: General Meeting
- Fri 6 Feb 04: Lecture by Matt Mewes "Testing Relativity"
- Mon 9 Feb 04: Lecture by Susan Thompson "Variable White Dwarf Stars"
- Fri 13 Feb 04: Lecture by Jeff Loats "20 Ways to Catch a Gamma Ray: Nuclear Band Mixing in Erbium 166"
- Thu 25 Mar 04: General Meeting
- Fri 9 Apr 04: Lecture by Lauren Jones "The Source of Far Infrared Radiation in Spiral Galaxies"
- Wed 14 Apr 04: Lecture by Leo Pantelidis "Dynamics of the Heisenberg Model"
- Sun 18 Apr 04: Taylor Bowl 15
- Fri 7 May 04: Dr. Boone's barbecue
Wooster Physics Club (2002-2003)
This year's T-shirt was silk screened front and back.
Officers
- President Jeff Moffitt
- Vice-President Tom Spears
- Treasurer Ryan Hartschuh
- Secretary Becky Urban
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- Fri 30 Aug 2002: Physics Table at Scot's Spirit Day
- Tue 10 Sep 2002: Organizational Meeting
- Wed 18 Sep 2002: Pizza and Dessert Night
- Tue 1 Oct 2002: Summer Research Talks
- Sat 23 Nov 2002: Great Lake Science Center & Dinner
- Tue 3 Dec 2002: Senior I.S. Research Presentations & Pizza
- Wed 15 Jan 2003: Lecture by Rellen Hardtke "The Search for Gamma-Ray Burst Neutrinos from the Earth's South Pole"
- Fri 17 Jan 2003: Lecture by Bonnie Valant-Spaight "Fundamentally Incomplete: Pushing the Boundaries of the Standard Model of Particle Physics"
- Mon 20 Jan 2003: Lecture by Susan Lehman "Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy: Detecting Nanomoles of Water to Improve Growth of Nanoscale Devices"
- Fri 7 Mar 2003: Lecture by Jackie Milingo "Planetary Nebulae and Their Role in the Chemical Evolution of Our Galaxy"
- Tue 1 Apr 2003: Junior I.S. Computer Simulation Presenations + Pizza & Pop
- Mon 8 Apr 2003: Lecture by Paul Bloom "Measurements of Branching Fractions and Charge-Parity Violating Asymmetries in B Meson Decays to η' K"
- Sun 13 Apr 2003: Taylor Bowl 14
- Mon 21 Apr 2003: Lecture by Don Driscoll "Cryogenic Dark Matter Search"
- Fri 9 May 2003: Dr. Garg's Indian Dinner
- Thu 26 Jun 2003: Lecture by Lowell Boone "They Came from Outer Space! An Introduction to Astrophysics with the STACEE Gamma-Ray Telescope"
Wooster Physics Club (2001-2002)
This year's T-shirt was silk screened front and back.
Officers
- President Jeff Moffitt
- Vice-President Ryan Hartschuh
- Treasurer Christie Egnatuk
- Secretary Dan Brubaker
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- Tue 28 Aug 2001: Organizational Meeting
- Fri 31 Aug 2001: Physics Table at Scot's Spirit Day
- Tue 18 Sep 2001: Pizza & Dessert Night & Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
- Tue 16 Oct 2001: Summer Research Symposium
- Thu 18 Oct 2001: Yearbook Photo
- Sat 17 Nov 2001: Columbus Science Museum & Dinner
- Tue 27 Nov 2001: Senior I.S. Research Presentations
- Tue 4 Dec 2001: Lecture by Dan Stinebring "Using Pulsars to Probe the Interstellar Medium"
- Mon 21 Jan 2002: Organizational Meeting
- Thu 11 Jan 2002: Lecture by Ben Schumacher "Quantum Information and Quantum Computing"
- Wed 27 Feb 2002: Lecture by Tatiana Sergan "Negative Birefringence Films from Non-traditional Materials for Viewing Angle Improvement of Liquid Crystal Displays"
- Thu 28 Feb 2002: Lecture by Monwhea Jeng "Scaling, Universality, & Self-Similarity in Disordered Systems"
- Fri 29 Feb 2002: Lecture by Stacy Palen "The Magellanic Perspective: A Survey of Stellar Corpses in Our Satellite Galaxies"
- Mon 8 Apr 2002: Lecture by Todd Coleman "Phenomenology of Heavy-Light Mesons"
- Thu 11 Apr 2002: Lecture by John Lindner "Climbing Kilimanjaro"
- Wed 17 Apr 2002: Lecture by Alice Churukian "Interactive Engagement in an Introductory Physics Course: Learning Gains and Perceptions"
- Sun 21 Apr 2002: Taylor Bowl 13
- Fri 3 May 2002: Senior I.S. Posters, Pizza & Pop
- Sun 5 May 2002: Dr. Garg's Indian Dinner
- Mon 3 June 2002: Lecture by Mauro Alves "Simulated Static Line Broadening in PAC Spectra"
- Thu 6 June 2002: Lecture by Rick Batman "Computational Method of Studying Polymer Mixtures Next to Surfaces"
Wooster Physics Club (2000-2001)
This year's T-shirt was ingenious!
Officers
- President Lauren Ault
- Vice-President Amy Lytle
- Treasurer Scott Hughes
- Secretary Rachel Costello
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- Thu 7 Sep 2000: Organization Meeting
- Wed 14 Sep 2000: Pizza & Dessert Night
- Tue 19 Sep 2000: Summer Research Symposium
- Tue 14 Nov 2000: Lecture by Bram Boroson "The Care and Feeding of Neutron Stars"
- Sat 18 Nov 2000: Columbus Science Museum & Dinner
- Tue 28 Nov 2000: Senior I.S. Research Presentations
- Mon 22 Jan 2001: General Meeting
- Thu 5 Apr 2001: General Meeting
- Thu 12 Apr 2001: Sunspot Gazing
- Sun 22 Apr 2001: Canoeing at Mohican
- Mon 23 Apr 2001: Taylor Bowl 12
- Mon 30 Apr 2001: Shapley Lecture by Rocky Kolb "The Quantum and the Cosmos"
- Tue 1 May 2001: Lecture by Rocky Kolb "The Alarming Phenomenon of Particle Creation in the Early Universe"
- Fri 4 May 2001: Spring Senior I.S. Posters, Pizza, & Pop
- Thu 10 May 2001: Indian Dinner at Dr. Garg's house
Wooster Physics Club (1999-2000)
Officers
- President Chris Templeman
- Vice-President Amy Lytle
- Treasurer Rachel Costello
- Secretary Sean English
- Advisor Dan Ludwigsen
Events
- Wed 15 Sep 99: PIzza & Dessert Night
- Tue 19 Oct 99: Film "2001: A Space Odyssey"
- Sat 20 Nov 99: Great Lakes Science Center & Dinner Photos!
- Tue 30 Nov 99: Lecture by Charles Rosenblatt "Manipulating Gravity: Liquid and Liquid Crystalline Bridges"
- Tue 07 Dec 99: Fall Senior I.S. Oral Reports & Pizza
- Mon 10 Apr 00: Lecture by J. Eric Goff "Metal Surfaces and the Photon-Drag Effect"
- Wed 12 Apr 00: Lecture by David G. Fischer "Three-dimensional Near-Field Imaging"
- Mon 17 Apr 00: Taylor Bowl 11
- Fri 05 May 00: Spring Senior I.S. Posters & Pizza
- Thu 11 May 00: Indian Dinner
- Thu 25 May 00: Lecture by Francisco Solis "The Ionic Glass Picture of DNA Condensation"
- Mon 12 Jun 00: Lecture by Bram Boroson "The Care and Feeding of Neutron Stars"
Wooster Physics Club (1998-1999)
The 1998-1999 Physics Club T-shirt front and back were terrific!
Officers
- President Dave Walkenhorst
- Vice-President Paul Rebillot
- Treasurer Josh Bozeday
- Secretary Christy Rauch
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- Dinner & Dessert @ Wednesday 16 September 1998
- Science Block Party @ Friday 9 October 1998
- Lecture by Bill Antel @ Tuesday 20 October 1998
- Lecture by J. Eric Goff @ Thursday 19 November 1998
- Great Lakes Science Center trip @ Saturday 21 November 1998
- Fall Senior I.S. Oral Reports @ Thursday 3 December 1998
- Lecture by Jennifer Goetz @ Friday 19 February 1999
- Lecture by Janice Hudgings @ Monday 22 February 1999
- Lecture by Elaine Kirkpatrick @ Friday 26 February 1999
- Lecture by Dan Ludwigsen @ Monday 19 April 1999
- Taylor Bowl 10 @ Wednesday 21 April 1999
- Lecture by Patrick McGraw @ Friday 23 April 1999
- Picnic Lunch and Canoeing @ Sunday 2 May 1999
Wooster Physics Club (1997-1998)
Check out 1997-1998 Physics Club T-shirt.
Officers
- President Jodee Jones
- Vice-President Carrie Williams
- Treasurer Dave Walkenhorst
- Secretary Christy Rauch
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- Science Block Party (Friday 12 September 1997)
- Pizza & Dessert Night (Wednesday 24 September 1997)
- Lecture by Nobel Laureate Joseph Taylor (Wednesday 5 November 1997)
- Trip to Great Lakes Science Center (Saturday 15 November 1997)
- Lecture by Paula Turner (Thursday 20 November 1997)
- Fall Senior I.S. Oral Reports (Thursday 4 December 1997)
- Lecture by Phil Boss (Thursday 19 February 1998)
- Lecture by Bill Trimmer (Tuesday 14 April 1998)
- Taylor Bowl 9 (Sunday 19 April 1998)
- Lecture by Adi Bulsara (Thursday 23 April 1998)
Wooster Physics Club (1996-1997)
The year's T-shirt celebrates student research!
Officers
- President Chris Ditchman
- Vice-President Chris Spillmann
- Treasurer Josh Bozeday
- Secretary Francesca Mascarenhas
- Advisor John Lindner
Events
- Fall Canoe Trip & Picnic (Sunday 15 September 1996)
- Faculty Barbeque (Saturday 28 September 1996)
- Lecture by Dr. Philip Westerman (Wednesday 9 October 1996)
- APS Meeting at Ohio University (Friday-Saturday 1-2 November 1996)
- Fall Senior I.S. Oral Reports (Thursday 14 & 21 November 1996)
- Star Wars: Special Edition (Saturday 1 February 1997)
- Career Day (Saturday 15 February 1997)
- Social Event (Saturday 22 February 1997)
- Lecture by Dr. Satyendra Kumar (Thursday 3 April 1997)
- Taylor Bowl 8 (Saturday 5 April 1997) PHYSICS WINS!
- Indian Cook-In (Sunday 20 April 1997)