Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2022
Volume 67, Number 3
Monday–Friday, March 14–18, 2022; Chicago
Session K13: What Do Early-Career Physicists Do?Careers Invited Live Streamed Outreach Undergrad Friendly
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Sponsoring Units: FIAP FECS Chair: Adam Iaizzi, Natl Taiwan Univ Room: McCormick Place W-183A |
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 3:00PM - 3:36PM |
K13.00001: Being an editor: A fun thing to do with your Ph.D Invited Speaker: Juan-Jose Lietor-Santos In this presentation, I will talk about my personal journey, through grad school all the way to the editorial team at the Physical Review. I will discuss the perks of the job, how a typical day being at editor for a physics journal look like at the Physical Review, go through a few tips to make your submissions more successful, introduce you to the world of refereeing, and provide you with an outlook on a different and fulfilling career path. |
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 3:36PM - 4:12PM |
K13.00002: Transitioning from Physics into the Data World Invited Speaker: Rashi Verma
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:12PM - 4:48PM |
K13.00003: To a Start-up, the Space Force, and Beyond! A path to being a physicist with 'only' a bachelor Invited Speaker: Cameo Lance "To go anywhere in physics you need a Ph.D.!" Students studying physics tend to hear this advice in some form or another during their studies. The path of earning a bachelor's degree, then a Ph.D., getting a few postdocs then ultimately achieving a professorship is the path laid for many undergraduates. In this talk, I will discuss the impact this advice had on my early academic trajectory, my path to researching dark matter at international laboratories, and ultimately, my success in the commercial world with "only" a bachelor's degree. I will present a different path for physics students, encompassing my leaps into the space industry, becoming "Director of Physics Programs" at a space start-up, and solving hard problems for the Space Force. I'll also highlight the value of graduate degrees and spending time working in the 'real world'. |
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:48PM - 5:24PM |
K13.00004: Pitfalls and shortcuts on the journey from academic science into hard tech entrepreneurship: A personal story. Invited Speaker: John Katsoudas Grants make research possible. Industry makes commercial products possible. Connecting both ends of the value-creation chain is a challenge that has long flummoxed universities and federal labs. When promising results emerge from research, most professors and scientists rely on institutional “technology transfer” departments to file “State of the Art” patents and solicit interest from industry. After 17 years as a beamline scientist, I chose to follow my technology, formed a startup, and to date have secured over $10M for my company’s technology development. |
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 5:24PM - 6:00PM |
K13.00005: Exciting the Masses; Careers in Public Engagement Invited Speaker: Rebecca Thompson A degree in physics can be the start of many different career paths and for those interested in telling a broad audience about the wonders of physics, and science in general, public engagement and informal science education is an excellent career choice. However, this is rarely presented as an option or even seen as a possibility and is occasionally met with statements such as "is public outreach really even a career?" Working in science centers, with professional societies, at government labs, and in the private sector are all rewarding career options. This talk will discuss my experience as a public engagement professional and offer practical resources for those who wish to choose this as a path. |
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