Welcome!

The Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a student run organization at Harvard College dedicated to serving the undergraduate physics community at Harvard.

What We Do

  • We have weekly meetings on Mondays at 6:00 PM in the Mather Private Dining Room. Our meeting minutes are sent out to our mailing list.
  • We host informal lunches with the weekly colloquia speakers (Mondays, noon, Lyman 425).
  • We have a mailing list which advertises lots of other goodies. The address for the official mailing list is sps-list@hcs. You can subscribe to the list and view its archives online. We also have a more informal, discussion-based mailing list, sps-open@hcs. You can subscribe to sps-open here.
  • We organize occasional Cool Physics talks given by undergraduates. If you're interested in giving a talk, please email your favorite SPS officer (listed on the right).

    We also...

    • ... have liquid nitrogen parties!
    • ... send a delegation to the Ig Nobel Prizes every year.
    • ... publish the SPS Guide to Physics at Harvard.
    • ... have a Buddy System to help out underclassmen.
    • ... help students find out about Research Opportunities.
    • ... challenge other groups to vicious games of ultimate frisbee, dodgeball, or poker. We crush all who stand in our path.
    • ... offer tutorials on such subjects as LaTeX and graduate school admissions.
    • ... serve as a general liaison between undergraduates and the Department.