The Society of Physics Students at Yale is a registered undergraduate organization dedicated to serving the physics community. Yale SPS hosts weekly study sessions (lovingly dubbed “pizza and pset night”) as well as biweekly dinners with students and physics faculty. We also organize bi-annual prize lectures where distinguished physicists are invited to speak and spend the day with undergraduate students.
Additionally, the Society of Physics Students serves as a platform for mentorship and community-building – we host social events, and maintain a variety of resources and student-oriented help guides on our website. Yale SPS works very closely with the Physics Department, the Student Advisory Committee for Physics, and the department-elected peer mentors.
Finally, Yale SPS is a chapter of the national Society of Physics Students, as well as a member organization of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) since 1998. We thus provide students access to AIP memberships and associated benefits, such as journal/magazine access and information about scholarships.
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Join Us!
The physics department offers a fantastic faculty, great students, and a vibrant community. So how do you join SPS?
We have no formal membership requirements. Just add your email address to the contact form below, and we will send the link to our Discord and Slack channels, as well as add you to the mailing list. You’ll then receive info about our faculty pizza talks and any other events we hold.
If you are really into physics and want to join a professional society of physicists, consider joining the American Physical Society (APS). There are online forms at the APS website.