fsu physics infographic 2015
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63%Physics majors
29%Physics & Astrophysics majors
13%Physical Science majors
Also availablePhysical Science/FSU-Teach major
fourstudents to
every
faculty memberone
5
Homes away from home: Some of the labs where Seminole physicists work
faculty advisors for all majors
offered in the FSU Dept. of Physics
Brookhaven National Lab, New YorkCERN, SwitzerlandElectron Stretcher and Accelerator, GermanyEuropean Southern Observatory, ChileFermi National Accelerator Lab, Illinois
2,000+pages of Honors thesis work have beenpublished since 2002
Gemini Observatory, Hawai‘i and ChileLawrence Berkeley National Lab, CaliforniaLos Alamos National Lab, New MexicoMcDonald Observatory, TexasNational High Magnetic Field Lab, Florida
National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab, Michigan NIST Center for Neutron Research, MarylandOak Ridge National Lab, TennesseeThomas Jefferson National Accelerator, VirginiaTRIUMF, Canada
when students participate in research, they...gain hands-on experience that graduate programs and employers value
work one-on-one with a faculty mentor
are often paid a stipend for their time
may stay at FSU, go to another state, or travel abroad
get to see if they enjoy research before committing to a graduate program
may participate in interdisciplinaryresearch
may beinvited to present theirfindings atnational meetingsor conferences
meet and collaborate with other undergraduates and graduate students
About the FSU Physics DepartmentQuick FactsA small community at a large university.
161undergraduate students
allinterested students find
research positionswith faculty mentors
On average, physics
graduates earn
$40-$65KAnd that’s just
out of the gate.
Why Physics at FSU?A Wide Range of Opportunities:
Where Are FSU Physics Grads Now?Since 2002, over 180 people have graduated from the FSU Physics Department with bachelor’s degrees. We have information about the current employment
status of about half of those students. Graduate study is highly represented here because our graduates under the age of 27 were the most likely to respond.
Physics or Astronomy Graduate Program
28%
Other Science Fields
Graduate Program
14%
Private Sector - Computational
9%
Private Sector - Financial
4%
Private Sector - Engineering
6%
Private Sector - Other
9%
Entrepenuer6%
Active Military4%
Government5%
Colleges & Universities
7%K-128%
Graduate Programs Attended by FSU Physics UndergraduatesBoston UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCase Western UniversityClemson UniversityColumbia UniversityDuke UniversityFlorida Institute of TechnologyFlorida State UniversityFreie Universität BerlinGeorgia TechKansas State UniversityMichigan State UniversityNorth Carolina State University
Ohio State UniversityRutgers University Stanford UniversityTexas A&M UniversityTulane UniversityUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of California, IrvineUniversity of California, Santa
BarbaraUniversity of Central FloridaUniversity of Colorado University of Florida
University of Illinois, ChicagoUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-
ChampaignUniversity of MichiganUniversity of New MexicoUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of RochesterUniversity of San FranciscoUniversity of TennesseeUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonVanderbilt UniversityYale University
Besides getting Sheldon Cooper’s jokes on The Big Bang Theory.
$$ $Graduate students in physics receive an ample stipend and
tuition waiver.
Reprinted courtesy of the American Institute of Physics from the Fall 2009 Salary Survey, with permission of the National Association of Colleges and Employers, copyright holder.
Benefits of a Degree in Physics Thoughts from our First YearDiscovering Physics Students
“Faculty are easy to talk to.”
“The Astrophysics program is excellent.”
“There’s a ton of school spirit!”
“Well, it’s close...
but not TOO
close to hom
e.”
“It’s nice and far from home!”
“The
Mag
Lab
and
the
Nuc
lear
Acc
eler
ator
ar
e he
re!”
“There are so many things to get involved with at
FSU, and plenty of non-science options.”
“This is a solid physics program.”
“FSU isn’t pretentious.”
“I visited other universities
and this was the best.”
“Everyone here is so friendly!”
Current and Former StudentsResearcher Profiles
Balancing class and lab work to produce new knowledge.
Jorge
Gonzalez
b e g a n h i s
research at
FSU’s National
High Magnetic
Field Laboratory
less than a
month after his
h igh school
graduation from
Miami Senior
High School. He
is one of FSU’s
new Presidential
Scholars.
Ky le S e r n i a k part icipated in research related to the heat-transfer process in selective microwave heating of heterogenous catalysts. Today, he is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Physics at Yale University.
While working
at FSU’s Fox
Superconducting
Accelerator Lab,
D r e w B l a n k s t e i n improved the
performance of
experiments that
study the nuclear
reactions taking
place in stars.Gregory Seel is a 1st year physics major at FSU and one of the university’s first class of
P r e s i d e n t i a l S c h o l a r s . Gregory is a
graduate of Winter Park
High.
A m e l i a Estry is a graduate of Deltona High School and a current physics major at FSU. Since starting her research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory during her freshman year, she has
focused on antiferromagnetic materials that exhibit unique superconductive properties.
Her work this summer included a trip to the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in New Mexico.
I took physics in eleventh grade. […] And it shook my understanding of math and science […]. It was exactly what I was looking to do in college and my career, which is why I came to a school with such strong programs in both physics and research!
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ContinuedResearcher Profiles
During
her time at
FSU, Kelly Pawlak
researched condensed
matter, with a focus
on Bose-E ins te in
c o n d e n s a t i o n .
Currently, she is a first
year PhD student
at the University
of California at
Santa Barbara.
D a n i e l S u a r e z g r a d u a t e d
from Christopher Columbus High School and is an undergraduate researcher in the National High
Magnetic Field Laboratory.
Michael W o o d s
i s an FSU u n d e r g r a d u a t e
physics major and a researcher at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory examining how conduction electrons move in metals under extreme conditions.
His ultimate goal is to become a nuclear engineer.
Linsey R o d e n b a c h
began research as
a first year student
and is currently in
her second year
in the physics
program. She works
at FSU’s National
High Magnetic Field
Laboratory, where
she is building a
device to study
magnetic properties
of materials at
high fields and low
temperatures. Aust in Skeeters i s a n F S U
u n d e r g r a d u a t e phys ics major
who is helping to design an upgrade
for a half-billion dollar detector at
CERN’s LHC, where the Higgs Boson was discovered. In addition, Austin was a “learning assistant” for the
d e p a r t m e n t ’ s Studio Physics
class. His ultimate goal is to become
a patent lawyer.
I would like to be a neurosurgeon that also does research, but for the research I really want to combine neuroscience with math and physics. I think it’s really profound that complex impulses can lead to consciousness. I figured that learning about conductivity through condensed matter studies would be a nice place to start.
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Scientists
spend their lives
climbing mountains. We
may never make it to the
top — we may never find
a complete description of
the universe — but the
climb gives us a new
perspective on the
world.
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