In grad school I played on several intramural sports teams. When it came time to come up with names for the sports, a lot of these were uninspired. But some went out of their way to come up with clever discipline-related names.
For our optics department water polo team, for instance, I suggested several, including
Sinc Functions
Tubular Waveguides
This got me thinking about other such possibilities. For a math department baseballor softball team an obvious choice seemed
The Sturm-Liouville Sluggers
I think I heard of someone actually using this, somewhere.
Or, for a team from the math department at Rice or somewhere nearby, you could have
The Houston Eulers
Anybody hear about any other such team names? Or can you suggest others?
I was thinking more along the lines of a physics department team called
Schroedinger’s Catchers
Millennium High School, Tracy, Ca.
Home of The Falcons.
My medical residency volleyball team was the Fever Spikers.
If you had a physics department football team, one of the cheers you could use is
“Paschen-Back, Paschen-Back
w-a-a-a-a-a-ay Back!”
I always thought LaGrange, New York should have a team called the Multipliers.
That’s good.
Then LaPlace, Louisiana could have one called the Transforms.
Or maybe the Equations
Maxwell, New Mexico could also have the Equations, but I think the Demons would be better
Intramural team names for my grad school physics department included Zitterbewegung (Wiki link: Zitterbewegung - Wikipedia), but that was too hard to say. They settled on the Quantum Ducks (because “quark!”). I think the math department team was the Eulers.
My wife attended high school in La Grange, IL; I’d thought that the Points would be an excellent name for their sports teams. But, alas, they are the boring old Lions.
The math department at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts could have the Witches of Agnesi
Only nobody would get it.
MIT used to have a skydiving club – no joke.
They called themselves the Tektites
It makes more sense when you realize that an old nickname for MIT is “Tech”
MIT still has a square dance club called the Tech Squares. Again, it makes more sense when you know that there’s a commercial complex in Kendall Square near MIT called Technology Square, or Tech Square for short.
Speaking of Massachusetts, how about the Newton Meters?
Baseball bats have been made in Louisville – or at least the metro area – since the late 19th Century. The Bats play there in Louisville Slugger Field.
Nice.
Much better than the Figs.
How about the Copenhagen (NY) Interpretations ?
There are towns named Paris in 22 states, including Maine, New York, and Wisconsin.
You could have teams named the Greens and the Plasters
The Classics departments could have teams named The Judgments