PSA Meeting Minutes - February 13, 2009 ======================================== Attendance: Carolyn Kierans Ryo Narumi Senny Foo Vincent Chen Gwen Springford Savanna Shaw Jane Lee Karol Krizka Marcus Puetz Brian Kootte Howard Huo Mehrad Alavino Steven Suh Zahra Namini Eric Thewalt Taras Shoipard Jason Kirkby James Jamie Official Meeting Start at 15:50 ------ Pizza was served. Undergraduate Pacific Physics and Astronomy Conference -- Carolyn announces a undergraduate conference at UBC. - March 14, 2009 - Free to register (and free Pi) - Lab tours, student presentations, key-talk speaker - Pub night at the end Register online! New Computer -- Steven bought a new computer, which is now in the common room. Quick statistics: - AMD Athlon 2X - 3Gb RAM - Nvidia 7xxx video card Vote on reimbursing Steven Suh $500.00 for the computer: PASSED List of what needs to be installed on the computer: Maple, MATLab, IgorPro Carolyn will check with Barbara Frisken for licenses for the above software 4-Legged Chairs -- Carolyn says that Barabra contacted her that some of the chairs that were in the PSA Common Room violated SFU's safety standards. So Carolyn had to get rid of them and get new chairs from Barbara. Common Room Improvements -- Carolyn gives her list of items that need to be cleaned in the room, the member's response is below each prefixed with a tab: - stain on door - old water-cooler - it is dirty, so throw out - sell old Mac, for parts - doesn't work, so might as well get rid of it - try to fix first, to get a higher profit. Carolyn knows someone who might help. - no internet on one of the Windows computers - Karol will take a look at it - old black umbrellas - keep for emergency - old XEROX boxes - sell She also gave some suggestions (response with tabs): - Make some tea (there is already kettle and some tea bags in the), bring your own cups. Lots of people interested. - Also get a water cooler? Too expensive Spring Social -- Carolyn says that we have about $150 left in our budget, so we should throw a social in March. Some of her points: - Might need to get some extra funding from SFSS, for the food (not beer) - What beer to get: - Kieths, Okanagan, Granville Island, Guinness <- Let Carolyne pick 4 - Just get a keg, $200 per keg, serves ~200 - Last year all beer sold out, so this might be cheaper - Who has serving it right? Contact Carolyne. - Also get veggie dip and other cheap snacks. Bio-Phys Lounge -- - The bio-phys lounge is being renovated. Will be closed for at most a month. Leigh Palmer Tea -- Carolyn reminds us about last semester's "Tea w/ Leigh Palmer" and if we would like to try have it again. Another of her suggestions is to bring a professor in to talk to us about their research, like with the CAP speaker last semester. - Both ideas sound great, Carolyn will talk to the faculty if they are interested. - If we can do only one of the above, we will vote which one later. Pizza Reimbursement -- Vote on reimbursing Carolyn Kierans $57.75 for the Pizza: PASSED Adjourned at 16:30