[Postgrad] SCOPE free pizza & beer event THIS WEDNESDAY

[Brynmor Jones]

Hi all,

 

As we mentioned in the post-grad induction, we're having an event where you
can come along and share some free pizza and beer with us, and join the
society if you fancy! It's this Wednesday (15th October), at 5:30pm in the
common room on Level 8 (where the tea etc. was after the talk).

 

There is no requirement to be a member to come along, but if you would like
to sign up you will need to be a member of the Optical Society of America,
European Physical Society or Institute of Physics (or other European
national physics society, eg. DPG) and bring along your membership number -
then you can join for free!

 

While I'm on the subject, we need new committee members! The current
committee is graduating soon, so 1) will not have time to arrange the fun
stuff that SCOPE is for, and 2) will be gone completely in about half a year
anyway. To that end, if you'd like to get involved, this Wednesday is a
great time to do so.

 

Reasons for joining the committee:

 

Doing what you want with the society! 

Want a visit to a company? Organise it, with the help of our academic
adviser, and make it happen! Want to go for go-karting? Apply for funds and
get a whole group going! Experience dealing with the public? Get involved
with outreach events with the financial backing of the OSA and EPS through
SCOPE.

 

International travel!

OSA leadership conference - (up to $2,000 USD for travel costs for one
representative, free registration for the FiO conference and 2 nights in a
hotel). Last year was in Orlando, FL. Why not bolt on a holiday in the US
afterwards?

EPS Young-minds leadership meeting - meeting with committee members from
across Europe, last year in Paris. Again, travel and accommodation paid for.

 

Your CV! 

Employers look for more than just experience in doing your PhD, everyone you
know here will get that. Participation in the committees of student
organisations, especially respectable ones like OSA chapters, are a good
thing for your CV, showing teamwork, leadership, and all sorts of buzzwords
they always try and get you to add.

 

Building contacts!

Being part of the leadership of a student chapter for OSA makes for
surprising contacts across the world. The physics world is surprisingly
small, if you meet a student OSA member across the world they may well have
met someone in your chapter before, which creates a great initial
connection. 

Organising company visits requires email connections with senior people
within the company, a direct contact that can come in handy if ever you
consider industry jobs in that field. 

 

You can do however much you want, it's up to you guys. For example, none of
us felt like updating the old website, so we never did - there's no pressure
really.

 

 

Hope to see you all there this Wednesday, or you can email me if you are
interested but can't make it. If there's anyone you know that this email
hasn't reached, who might be interested, please forward it on to them
(masters students for example, I'm not sure if they're on the postgrad list)

 

Bryn :)

 

Current president of SCOPE

 

Follow us: www.facebook.com/scope.strathclyde
<http://www.facebook.com/scope.strathclyde>  (you don't need to sign up to
facebook to view it, don't worry)

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://phys.strath.ac.uk/pipermail/postgrad/attachments/20141013/c20c6373/attachment.html