The people in physics around me -
now:
Students:
John Lai, PhD student 1/2017-
David Wandler, PhD student 2019-
Andrew Cox, PhD student 1/2020-
...and then:
Postdocs:
Adam Peterson, 2016-2018 , PhD Minnesota 2016, PDF at LBL
Mohamed Anber, 2010-2014, PhD U. Mass Amherst 2010; Assistant Prof., Lewis and Clark College, OR
Yanwen Shang, 2006-2009, PhD NYU 2006, postdoc at Perimeter Institute; finance, Citigroup, NY
Andrew Blechman, 2006-2009, w/ M. Luke, PhD Johns Hopkins 2006, postdoc, Wayne State U.; teacher, MI
Siew-Phang Ng, 2006-2008, PhD Maryland 2004, finance, UBS, Singapore
Joel Giedt, 2002-2005, PhD Berkeley 2002, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Eduardo Ponton, 2000-2001, PhD Maryland 2000, Assistant Prof., Columbia U.; Prof., ICTP, Sao Paulo
Bogdan Dobrescu, 2000-2001, PhD Boston U. 1998, Senior Staff Member, Theory Group, Fermilab
Students:
Mathew Bub, Undergraduate summer research 2020, now grad student at Caltech
Andrew Cox, Undergraduate summer research 2019
Sam Wong, Undergraduate research 2019/2020, now grad student at Stanford
Jared Barron, Undergraduate summer research 2018
Peter Bedford, Undergraduate summer research 2018
Erfan Shalchian, PhD student 2010-2019
Peter Bedford, Undergraduate summer research 2017
Shayne Gryba, Undergraduate summer research 2017
Vito Pellizzani, Visiting MSc student (EPFL), 2016-2017
Kyle Wamer, Undergraduate Thesis 2015-16; USRA 2016, now grad student at UBC
Brett Teeple, PhD student 2011-2015, teaching
Johathan Braden, PhD student 2014 (formerly L. Kofman’s, joint with J.R. Bond), now PDF at Imperial
Scott Collier, Undergraduate Summer Research 2013, now a grad student at Harvard
Seth Strimas-Mackey, Undergraduate Summer Research 2013, now a grad student at Cornell
Marat Mufteev, Undergraduate Summer Research, 2012, now a grad student at Toronto
Scott Collier, Undergraduate Summer Research, 2012
Alex Forcier, MSc 2011 (jointly with C. Dyer), left the field
Santiago De Lope Amigo, MSc 2006, PhD 2010, Sr. Analyst at Royal Bank of Canada
Siavash Golkar, MSc/PdD student 2007-2009, Ph.D. U. of Washington, now postdoc at NYU
Nan Yang, Senior Undergraduate Thesis, 2006-7, Ph. D. Harvard
Behi Fatholazadeh, MSc 2003, PhD student 2003-present, switched to experiment
Jay Sheldon, 2001-2002, MSc., left the field
James McGuire, 2000-2001, Senior Undergraduate Thesis, left the field
Jeffrey Satinover, 2000-2001, Senior Undergraduate Thesis; now (as always) MD with private practice and
research scientist (complex systems) at the ETH, Zurich
For prospective students:
Some very sound advice for prospective students is found here.
To reiterate: learn more about the field!
This means: talk to people already in it, read books, read the particle physics blogs (e.g.,
Of Particular Significance, Resonaances, Quantum Diaries Survivor), as well as the
string-theory ones (to get an idea of the variety of opinions, be sure to check out
both the most notable “for ” (appears not accessible anymore) and “against”- ones, but don’t
forget that to make up your own mind it is best to study a subject first).
Finally, see some interesting statistics on high-energy theory faculty jobs from 1994-2017.