The department of Physics and Astronomy sponsors the Rochester Symposium for Physics Students (RSPS). This Northeast regional undergraduate research conference is held each year, typically in the latter half of the Spring semester. Hosted on the campus of the University of Rochester since 1981, the symposium will be hosted at other regional colleges every several years as of 2006. At RSPS symposia, research projects have been presented in talks by undergraduates representing regional institutions including: SUNY Colleges at Albany, Brockport, Binghamton, Fredonia, Oswego and Plattsburgh; and Allegheny College, Canisius College, Colgate University, Houghton College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College, West Point, and colleges nearby in Canada. Talks by undergraduates have covered topics in condensed matter physics, atomic physics and optics, computational physics, astronomy, high-energy physics, instrumentation and techniques, and environmental physics. As of 2005, the symposium has also included a special lecture by a guest speaker. The abstracts of all the participants' papers are published on-line annually.

To get information about this year's upcoming meeting, click on the link below:

RSPS 2007

To see the proceedings from this year's, as well as previous year's, RSPS meetings, click here.

For more information, send e-mail to: rsps@pas.rochester.edu, or contact the Secretary for Undergraduate Affairs:

Janet L. Fogg-Twichell Department of Physics & Astronomy Bausch & Lomb 211 University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627-0171 (585) 275-6679 janf@pas.rochester.edu

or:

Prof. Frank L. H. Wolfs Department of Physics & Astronomy Bausch & Lomb 203A University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627-0171 (585) 275-4937 wolfs@pas.rochester.edu

Go to Undergraduate Programs page.

Go to Special Programs page.