On October 18th European Physical Society Young Minds Section of Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (CPST) & Vilnius University (EPS YM Vilnius) together with SPIE and OSA student chapters (Vilnius) organized informational meeting for students from Faculty of Physics (Vilnius University). EPS YM Vilnius held recruitment event to encourage new members to join our chapter. CPST provided auditorium and basic equipment for presentations and meeting.
At the informational meeting EPS YM Vilnius chapter presented its main goals and activities. We presented a group of students from university and CPST, who assemble to organize activities related to the involvement with scientific community, promotion of science among local communities. We discussed with students about our events and events that we contributed to organize like International conference for students of physics and natural sciences “Open Readings”, “Sunrise Valley Semiconductor Seminars”, “10th Lithuanian Π day championship”, “Modern density functional theory – from physics to coding” workshops, workshops “What’s hot in the science publishing: the scientists’ approach”, etc.. We wanted students to learn more about the mission and vision of EPS YM.
The meeting was used to welcome, acquaint, inform, motivate, and engage new members. To illustrate how the Section operates, each our member has given a short overview. After presentation social-evening “Go Fish for EPS-YM Members” with pizzas has been organized at coffee house “Kino studija” (near the Faculty of Physics). Some of our members and chapter alumni told the students how EPS YM works, that we want to build a comaraderie around a shared passion. 8 students joined us. Our chapter wants to maintain strong and active. EPS-YM Vilnius set up and established a presence on a Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EPSYMVilnius/
