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 third year 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. The abstracts of all the participants' papers are published on-line annually.

RSPS 2013

RSPS Proceedings:

• RSPS 2012
• RSPS 2011
• RSPS 2010
• RSPS 2009
• RSPS 2000-2008

For more information, send email to: rsps@pas.rochester.edu, or contact the Administrative Assistant 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) 643-5496
wolfs@pas.rochester.ed