Opportunities for Talented People with Physics Training David Toback Department of Physics and Astronomy Texas A&M University Phone: 979-845-1179 E-mail:

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Opportunities for Talented People with Physics Training David Toback Department of Physics and Astronomy Texas A&M University Phone: Mechanics Scholars Luncheon Texas A&M University

2 Good news and Bad news Good news – You have been identified as being in the top 2% of all physics performers in Physics 218 – You get a free lunch Bad news: – You clearly have the talent and the “right stuff” to get further training in physics – You have to listen to me give a pitch on why you should SERIOUSLY think about taking more physics classes

3 Common Myths I’d like to start by listing some common myths 1. People All physics majors are dorks and kinda weird I don’t know ANYONE who does physics except my high school teacher and my Prof from this last semester 2. Jobs: The advice I got in high school was “You’re good at math and science? You should be an engineer!” If you have a physics degree, you can either be a professor or a high-school teacher. Right? The only thing you can do with a physics degree is research in physics. Right? Physics is all theory, engineering is where you do REAL things

4 Common Myths cont… More common myths 3. Money: The salaries for people with physics degrees aren’t good 4. Uhmm… Physics? Really? What do professors DO anyway? I’ve heard about some cool physics things but they aren’t relevant to the “real world” The cool stuff isn’t covered in any of the classes What are the research areas? Warning: My answers may be more blunt than you wanted…

5 Let’s talk Jobs and Money first since, frankly, I think that is what most of you would need to hear about anyway before we get to any of the other stuff… After I’ve convinced you not to worry, then we can talk about the fun stuff…

6 High School Teacher or a Professor only? No! People who say that don’t know what they were talking about!

7 No jobs? Fact or Fiction? Unemployment rate in Percent

8 Ok… what kind of job? Depends on what kind of degree you get… let’s do them one at a time: – Bachelors – Ph.D.

9 Ok… Lets say I get a bachelors… then what? Most people go on to get advanced degrees, but many get jobs right out of college Highest degree attained by physics bachelors 5 to 8 years after graduation

10 Ok… What can you do with a bachelors degree?

11 Who’s going to hire me? Companies hiring people with physics degrees in Texas Advanced Micro Devices Alcatel Allstate Insurance Company Alpha Sim Technology, Inc. Avant! Corporation Ball Semiconductor, Inc. Boral Material Technologies Camp, Dresser & McKee Control Systems International Cypress Semiconductor Dell Computers DRS Technologies, Inc. Fairfield Industries Helena Laboratories Corporation Insurdata Kellogg, Brown & Root Kelly Scientific Resources Law Office of Robert Swafford Litton-TASC, Inc. Litton-TASC, Inc. Lockheed Martin Milsoft Integrated Solutions Mobilestar Network Motorola National Instruments National Semiconductor Corporation Nortel PGS Tensor Radiant Photonics Raytheon Reltec Corporation Sercel, Inc. Sony Semiconductor Southwest Research Institute Technical Alliance Recruiters Traas Ionics Corporation United Space Alliance Verizon Wireless

12 A: Yup!!! Q: Is the money any good compared to other things I might do?

13 What about a couple of years down the road? What will I be doing then?

14 Let’s say you get a Ph.D. Will that improve your earning potential? Yup!!! You can do physics or applied physics

15 If I get a PhD what kind of money will I end up making long term? VERY Good money whether you stay in the field or not!

16 Other questions.. More years of school? How am I going to convince my mom to pay for that? 1. Believe it or not, in graduate school your tuition is paid for you 2. Even better… you are often PAID a salary to take classes and do research! Compare to law-school which is about $250k in loans

17 Switching topics… Do physicists do anything useful or interesting? Yes… The whole reason for doing physics is that it’s the most interesting thing in the world to do!

18 What are the cool things physics research have produced? Radar Lasers The Internet Medical imaging (MRI) Optical fibers Power: Nuclear, Solar, Hydro, Fusion(?) Semiconductors (chips for computers, DVD players, video games etc…) Superconductors Lots more…

19 Example Differences Between Science and Engineering Scientists came up the understanding of how to make the perfect wing for an airplane Scientists figured out how to make electronics out of materials Scientists figured out how to make the Internet Engineers worked to find which materials made it cheaper Engineers figured how to put more chips on a circuit board Engineers figured out how to make cable cheaper so lots of people could use it

20 What are the interesting physics areas? Current Research areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (relativity and the study of the origin of the universe, Dark Energy) Condensed Matter & Materials Physics Atomic/Laser Physics Nuclear physics (what’s inside the nucleus?) Particle physics (what’s inside a proton? Dark Matter, LHC) String theory/Theory of Everything (what are particles made of?) All of these use Quantum Mechanics which is also kinda neat All of these use Quantum Mechanics which is also kinda neat

21 Interested in Learning more of the “Cool” Physics? Physics department now offers a course entitled “Big Bang, Black Holes, No Math” Covers Stephen Hawking’s “Brief History of Time” Cross listed as Physics 109 and Astronomy 109 Tier 2 Answers many of the questions you want to know about Cosmology Stars Black Holes General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics Particle Physics Etc….

22 Interested in Undergraduate Research? Physics department has a long history of award winning undergraduate research in many areas: Applied Physics Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology Atomic Physics Condensed Matter Physics Materials Physics Nuclear Physics Particle Physics Quantum Optics String Theory… Scholarships available to the types of students who do well on Challenge Exams ;-)

23 Keep in Touch! Interested in a physics degree? Minor? Double major? Applied physics? Pick up a Department Brochure Contact the undergraduate advisor: Ms. Sandi Smith ,

24 Good Luck on your finals!

25 Extra slides on some of the research we do here at the Physics Department at Texas A&M University

26 A “Theory of Everything” String Theory, Grand Unified Theories, Theory of everything…

27 Ocean Temperature Profile Remote Laser Sensing

28 DNA Sequencing lab-on-a-chip using nanotechnology

29 High T c Super- conductors structured 1,000 A cable for Bi-2212

30 Characterization at the Nanoscale Scanning Tunneling Microscopy e.g. an atomically flat surface of GaSb/InAs

31 Supersymmetry Experiments Yes that’s a person! Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and CMS at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN High energy frontier; Big toys Searching for Supersymmetry, the Higgs boson

32 Applied Physics at Texas A&M Physics is crucial to many important advances Computing (classical and quantum) DNA sequencing and other biotech areas Laser Remote Sensing Magnetic Devices and Data Storage Nanotechnology and Sensing Optical Technology Superconductivity (low T c and high T c )

33 Fluorescence from laser cooled ions

34 The Cyclotron One of two University based Cyclotrons in the US

35 “Slow Light” Welch: Group Velocity of Light can be reduced

36 Quantum Mechanical Foundations Fry, Walther: Einstein- Podolsky-Rosen Experiment based on atoms

37 Collinear Raman Generator t A new light source to study new physicsA new light source to study new physics Extension of EIT ideas to molecular systemsExtension of EIT ideas to molecular systems Photoionization with single-cycle pulses. Possible extensions of our technique: 1.studying complicated motion of complex molecules 2.probing ultrafast electronic dynamics in atoms.

38 Devices based on Molecular Nanomagnets Large Magnetic Moment Potentially useful for: Magnetic storage Quantum Computing

39 Nanomagnetic Sensing Teizer: Micro- and NanoSQUIDs