Students who have been accepted to the Duke Physics graduate program are just now finding congratulatory emails in their inboxes. Many of you alumni will remember the feelings of excitement when choosing to attend Duke. This issue highlights the diverse experiences in physics research available at Duke. These strengths come from cutting-edge faculty, state-of-the-art research facilities, a strong global presence, and an enriching graduate community.
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Josh Albert, a fourth-year graduate student at Duke, recently returned from another trip to a high energy physics experiment in Japan. “The travel is fascinating,” Albert says. “Not just from a physics perspective but also because I’m able to meet people with such different perspectives.” High energy physics experiments are massive endeavors, requiring teams of hundreds or thousands of physicists from dozens of countries. Graduate students and undergrads at Duke are active participants in these international endeavors.
Duke Physics Alumni have gone on to succeed in incredibly diverse career paths. We’ve collected the destinations for Duke Physics alumni from the past 18 years and included them in a word cloud.
Professor Moo-Young Han is back from a sabbatical semester at Seoul National University in Korea. He taught undergraduate and graduate-level physics classes, and spent a great deal of time theorizing about particle physics with his colleague and old friend Jihn E. Kim. “He and I work in the same area,” Han says. “He is the foremost theorist in Korea.” Kim and Han were doing what every theoretical particle physicist in the world is doing right now: “Basically making bets about what might happen at the Large Hadron Collider.”