Timeline for How do you get to research about theoretical high energy physics as an undergraduate?
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| Feb 11, 2023 at 4:48 | history | edited | gshxd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2023 at 11:43 | comment | added | astronat supports the strike | @IvanNepomnyashchikh "without any salary" no!! Absolutely DO NOT work for free. No supervisor should employ people they can't pay. It's exploitative and skews an already unbalanced system further in favour of students with a pre-existing financial cushion. | |
| S Feb 3, 2023 at 1:38 | history | edited | Nobody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 3, 2023 at 0:57 | answer | added | Boba Fit | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 3, 2023 at 0:44 | comment | added | Boba Fit | "Junior" means 3rd year? As in freshman, sophomore, junior, senior? | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 22:30 | comment | added | Ivan Nepomnyashchikh | Look through the faculties websites -> see which ones work in theoretical physics and teach undergrad courses -> take their courses -> do exceptionally well in their courses (do not miss a single office hour, ask additional not hw related questions) -> closer to the end of the term, at the end of a lecture come to the one you like the most and beg him to let you work in his lab (of course, without any salary), tell him you want to do your undergrad thesis on any of his topics. I assume you want to get to the Ph.D. level. The easiest Ph.D. is when you work on the same topic since the undergrad. | |
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| Feb 2, 2023 at 21:40 | answer | added | ZeroTheHero | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 21:33 | comment | added | Jon Custer | You might want to search out an REU for next summer (if it is not too late - too far removed from the process). See nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=69 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 21:30 | comment | added | Jerome | It's absolutely best to start in grad school. Your background is good, with some HEP work under your belt already even as an undergrad. Ask your current faculty advisor if they have any contacts on the theoretical side. Then, apply to the schools where they are---or even just apply to grad schools with HEP-Th researchers that seem like a good fit, and reach out to those professors with whom you'd like to do research. If they think the fit is good and would like to work with you, then that's about all there is to it. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 21:29 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | Are there faculty at your institution that do research in theoretical high energy physics? How did you get into work in experimental particle physics? | |
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| S Feb 2, 2023 at 21:17 | history | asked | gshxd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |