Our student society: PsiStar

There are more than 200 societies and sports teams at Queen Mary. We’re very proud to support PsiStar, our very own student-run physics society.

www.facebook.com/groups/PsiStar/

Undergraduate students tour the School’s supercomputer. This very large computing cluster is used in processing data from particle physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

PsiStar committee members at Freshers Fair Physics students on a PsiStar trip to the European Space Agency in 2019

Hi! I’m Luke, President of PsiStar. We’re here to make your time at Queen Mary as enjoyable as possible, organising a host of social activities and fun lectures throughout the year for our close knit and friendly community.

We also organise extra-curricular lectures from the fantastic academics in the school; talking about their research on the cutting edge of physics, as well as careers events with organisations like the Institute of Physics and Teach First.

Every year we run a trip abroad to visit different places with links to physics – we’ve been to Chernobyl, to the European Space Research Centre near Amsterdam and to Iceland and Norway to see the Northern Lights. We’ve even been to CERN! In 2019 we placed in the Top 10 best societies in the UK, so you’ll be in good hands.