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FysKam is the student association primarily aimed at those who study physics at Uppsala University but non physicists are also welcome to become members and participate in our events. FysKam's roots can be tracked back to 1982 when it was founded by Mats Göthe and David Nordfors. FysKam was shut down at some point around 1991 in correlation with the physicist programme being shut down and replaced with the scientist programme. FysKam was reinstated some unknown year there after but exactly when is not known since the earliest protocols in our possesion date back to 1999 and don't reference anything about it. In the beginning we were seated at Fysikum, these days known as old Fysikum, in Engelska Parken, but during the 1990s up to 2003 the science institutions moved to BMC, Polacksbacken and Ångströmlaboratoriet. It was only logical that FysKam would do the same and was, at the latest, 2001 fully established at Ångströmlaboratoriet.
Wictor Willfjord Eriksson
Chairman
The Chairman ensures that everything that needs doing gets done, for instance by delegating tasks to the rest of the board. Takes care of the associations external communications and sends out summons to board- and yearly meetings. The Chairman also runs the Chairman-instagram!
fys-ordf@utn.se
Alma Ferreira
Vice Chairman
The Vice Chairmans number one responsibility is to support the Chairman in their duties. The Vice Chairman is also the sections information manager and is in charge of the social medias and this website. The Vice Chairman also represents the section in UTN's nomination committee.
fys-vice@utn.se
fys-info@utn.se
Nils Mogensen
Student Council President
The Student Council President is responsible for study monitoring for FYS students and leads the Student Council by for instance hosting at least two Student Council meetings per term. Also represents the physics educations in UTN's education committee.
fys-sr@utn.se
Moa Skogeklint Nowakowski
Treasurer
The Treasurer takes care of everything that involves the associations economy for instance by recovering dues and paying debts, but also taking care of accounting and declaration. The treasurer keeps track of the budget and helps the board make educated decisions with economy in mind.
fys-kassor@utn.se
Júlia Strempel Pons
Head of International Affairs
The Head of International Affairs takes care of FysKam's international business. For instance acts as FysKam's contact person with the MER reception. The Head of International Affairs also sits in UTN's International Committee and thus reports what is being discussed there to the Student Council Meetings.
fys-inter@utn.se
Alicia Scott
Secretary
The Secretary keeps minutes at the board-, student council- and yearly meetings and makes sure that there are good and useable templates available for different relevant documents. The secretary also ensures minutes are properly adjusted and makes sure signed copies are printed out and available in the section rooms archive.
fys-sek@utn.se
Saga Dahlin
Study Social Manager
The Study Social Manager is responsible for questions regarding student life and study environment, and for arranging study-related events such as Plubbs. Together with the Student Council President, the Study Social Manager makes sure that FYS students have a good study environment.
fys-soc@utn.se
Shahriar Shirazi
Corner Master
The Corner Master is responsible for taking care of our beautiful section room, for instance by keeping a cleaning list and conveying the code to those signed up on it. The Corner Master is also responsible for ordering och restocking goods for the kiosk in Skamvrån.
fys-lokal@utn.se
fys-inkop@utn.se
Daniel Agrell
Event Manager
The Event Manager is responsible for, together with the Club Committee and Vice Event Manager, arrange different events throughout the year such as sittningar and the Large Pub Crawl. The Event Manager makes sure the events are marketed through the Club committee instagram.
fys-fest@utn.se
Samuel Rydén
Head of Sports
The Head of Sports is responsible for, together with the Sports Board, arrange different events throughout the year as well as responsible for FysKam's participation in ÅM. The Head of Sports is also in charge of the Sports committee-instagram.
fys-idrott@utn.se
Skamvrån
Skamvrån is the locale where we hang out. You can find it in house 18, the middle of the red officiers houses by Ångströmslaboratoriet. Here you can sit and study, there's often other students here that you might be able to ask for help if needed. You can buy something to drink, frozen food and snacks from the kiosk or why not drink a cup of coffee, we have Coffee Communism in Skamvrån. Free coffee with voluntary donations! This means that you can drink as much coffee as you want and then you pay back after your own ability. And since we don't discriminate of course tea is also included in the Coffee Communism. Requests regarding the selection in the kiosk? There's a list where you can write requests, no guarantee that we can buy everything on the list. We also sell merch in the form of patches, cloth bags and Coffee Communism cups.
Tour
In the Skamvrå to the left you will find our kiosk! Here you can buy drinks from the fridge, food from the freezer and tons of snacks! Here you can also buy some of the sections merch. If you think something is missing from the kiosk you can write suggestions and recommendations in the Skamvrås whiteboard and we will see what we can do. On the fridge there is usually posters with information regarding some activities that the section is doing currently and the monthly schedule.
To the right of the fridge you will find two magical boxes that in some magical way transforms cold food into heated food (the inverse is not possible tho sadly :( ). Here we also have the pride and joy of Skamvrån - COFFEE! There is also tea in the teadrawer. Below the teadrawer there is various tools that you can use from the tooldrawer, just make sure to place them back once you are done. There is also a guitarr hanging that you can entertain other inhabitants in the Skamvrå with if you feel like it.
This table is the perfect spot to sit at if you want to focus and lock in a little bit. It's also an amazing spot to eat your heated lunch at. On the right side of the blackboard there is also some important informations that should not be erased (except updating todays word etc) but the rest of the blackboard is free to use whenever you want! At this table there is usually a lot of intelligent people sitting so if you have any questions you can also feel free to ask them here!
Here is a comfortable study space with couches (and blankets), perfect for more relaxed studytime. Feel free to use the speakers but do consider the others that are studying. Same goes for the guitar, feel free to play but do consider the others that are studying. It's also perfectly fine to open the window during the time of the year when it's weather for it, but make sure to close it before leaving otherwise you'll unleash Locale and Study Social Manager's wrath.
In this corner you can find the amongst other things a TV and speakers. Feel free to use these for a cozy movie night or other things, just make sure not to bother people studying too much. In this bookshelf you can also find the sections archive where for example minutes from meetings (that are also posted in the footer of this website), economy documents and various other documents! These are public records so you are most welcome to read these documents!
In this bookshelf you'll find course books for a miture of courses that you are free to use while in Skamvrån. If you want to borrow a book outside Skamvrån you'll first of all have to write yourself on the cleaning list (on the door) and MOST IMPORTANTLY ask Locale and Study Social Manager. Feel free to donate books you dont need anymore if you feel like it! It's most appreciated! :)
Merch
FysKam cloth bag
Coffee Communism cup
FysKam pin
Patches
Population
Poglas
Has "democratically" been decreed to count as half a rat.
Coglas
Cogwheel-Douglas
Baronen jr.
"The cubs yearn for the mines."
Laudalino Aglaia Dorothea Hagerblom Palmgren Sjöquist Thun (with gavel)
They are the first and second guillotiners ¨mutual child (to clarify Emanuel's and Minna's) and came to be after an internal joke during 2021:s board's photography session. They are also called "Skam-babyn" eller "Skambebisen".
Shrede
Shreds when no one is in Skamvrån.
Pedro (Pato Verde, Skamvråns Patron)
Loves Overleaf so much that he tatooed the logo on his body.
Baltazar
Baltazar, long for Bal, short for Blue
Peppa Pig
Peppa Pig was a price during IUPAKs Gingerbreadbuilding-tournament that was won by Noemi (IUPAK) and Matilda "Tbag" Lundström (FysKam) and that was shared equally by the Vice Event Manager Daniel who sawed it in half. Each of the halves are now taped in each respective section room.
Flaminkai
Hanged
Proven
Duchess of GLuFS
Duchess of GLuFS (Glada Lundafysikers Studieråd) was won during a beerpong event with GLuFS down in Lund when the board of 2025 traveled down to visit with them. With great honor the Duchess of GLuFS is now living in Skamvrån.
Ingerätt
Ingerätt is depressed because nothing is going right for him (Inge rätt means no right in Swedish). It's pretty sad actually.
Calle
Calle aka "Prince Charles" if you are fancy.
Pascal, Nemo, Inge Rue
Babtized in Skamvrån under oath off Physics handbook by a cheap priest from TEMU
Skamvrån wasn't always located in house 18. Until 2022 Skamvrån was located in Å81411 on the first floor in house 8 of Ångströmslaboratoriet. These days it's less known that before that it was located in Å80406, since it was moved in 2012. Exactly how long it was located there isn't certain more than at the latest from 2006. In 2001 Skamvrån had according to a meeting minute just moved into Å81405, this minute was however written by hand and no other documents in our possesion point to this locale. Skamvrån existed already back at old Fysikum, it was located close to the entrance and there was a couch, table hockey (broke in 2002 :() and the ability to purchase snacks. Not a lot has changed in other words.
Section clothing
Like many other sections we have our own section clothing. It comes in the shape of a blue labcoat with FysKam's logo on the back.
Interested in getting your own? Obviously! So how do you get one? We order them based on demand, and is normally done during early
autumn in conjunction with new students arriving, so keep an eye out for an order form during that time.
Did you know that FysKam didn't always have labcoats as section clothing? FysKam's first official section clothing was available
already in the 80s, it was a white overall with the then logo on the back. In 1988 they swapped to a blue overall with the same logo
instead, FysKam's first patch was also made this year. In 2011 it was decided to create the so called Skamkappan (shame coat), a
large coat made from sturdy fabric that is inspired by the clothing worn by the Jedi in Star Wars (there's a rumor that a few still
exist stored away securely). Skamkappan came to be due to overalls and labcoats wasn't seen as representing the physics
education correctly. One of the suggestions was a blue blazer as it was a much better representation of a physicists everyday life.
The suggestion was outvoted due to highlighting a masculine image of the physics education, while physicists work to get rid
of the assumption that physics is male dominated. Other problems was size (surface to attach patches) and prize. Because of this
a form of full body coverage clothing was suggested instead to better match the overall, labcoat and morning robe which ended up
landing in the form of a coat with a hood and sleeves. These where however a lot pricier than other section clothing due to being
custom made, the process for this was also a hassle. In 2014 it was decided, by membership vote, that a blue labcoat should be
FysKam's section clothing.
Old FysKam
Due to, amongst other things, that the section was shut down for some time, pieces of our history has become lost throughout the years. With the help of members from early FysKam and by digging through old documents and our old websites (at least three have existed before this one) we've managed to gather some already forgotten things and some that was risking being forgotten.
FysKam's original logo in the form of a sticker.
FysKam's first fabric patch depicting old Fysikum, produced ca. 1988.
A pin in the shape of FysKam's original logo (in the middle at the top), year of origin unknown.
A ticket to Naturvetarbalen (The Science Student's Ball) 1986. Naturvetarbalen was from the beginning an event arranged by FysKam, these days it's arranged by UTN.
A ticket to Midvinterbalen (The Midwinter Ball) 1987. Unknown if it is connected to Naturvetarbalen. They are different colour (easier to see in the frame in Skamvrån) which could be with and without alcohol, this is only speculation however.
Not official FysKam clothing, sewn and used by a group FysKam:ers during the River Rafting 1988 as a counterpart to the technologists' technologist hats which is why it's covered in pins. The blue piece of paper is a membership card which was used to show you where a member before we had a digital member registry. Finally the blue ribbon at the left is a FysKam order ribbon.
Not sure if this is an "official" piece of FysKam clothing, it is however amongst the oldest.
Medal from the Grand Pub Crawl (or "Coat Run" as it was called in the Skamkappe era) 2013.
Was at FysKam's first 30th anniversary, if it was made for this or if it already existed is not known. The ribbon is identical to the order ribbon in the above image.
Old FysKam logo that was used some time around 2004-2009.
Old FysKam logo that was used some time around 2009-2011. Yes, it is Ulf Danielsson's face on the logo. On the yearly meeting 2011 was the first time a preliminary version of the current logo was shown.
One of few images (available to us) of an elusive Skamkappa.
The old FysKam overall, with the same print as the patch.
An overall shared by FysKam and Möbius from the time there only was one science programme.
FysKam has celebrated it's 30th anniversary twice. First in 2010, but later it was discovered it was the wrong
year since the section was founded in 1982, the solution was to celebrate again in 2012.
in the 80s FysKam had it's own newspaper that naturally was named FysKams Tidning (FysKam's Newspaper).
A couple scanned pages can be found here
(only in swedish unfortunatley).
During a short period of time FysKam had a game association named FUSK (Fyskams Utilitaristiska SpelKompani)
(the abbreviation is swedish for cheating). It was founded in the autumn of 2014 and had a few events during spring 2015. According to the
associations statutes the association can only be dissolved att FUSK's yearly meeting if it is explicitly mentioned in the summons
and less than five members are opposed. There's no documentation so it's unknown if the association ever was formally dissolved.
Before the MILF was conceptualized FysKam was working on it's own songbook. Some songs that were likely to be included can be found
here
and here!
Full Teknist (Drunk Technologist). Written for and performed during a spex at Kongressen 1988.
A fancier sittning that in some way was connected to the election of FysKam's board.
Another song, Jag Var På Nation Igår (I Was At a Nation Yesterday),
that together with Full Teknist can inofficially be attributed to the project "Grön SAAB -69".
Performance of the song Full Teknist
at FysKam's first 30th anniversary.
In 2005 it was decided that FysKam should have a simple website, suspected to be
this one.
For the interested, there's a blog
about the Bachelor's Programme in Physics from 2011-2015 (in swedish).
There's also a blog
about the Master's Programme in Physics written by a few different international students from 2011-2016 (in english! :D).