2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Inelastic Collisions Outside Academe: Alternate Careers for Physicists

16 Jun 2015, 19:55

35m

CCIS L2-190 (University of Alberta)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité Physics Career Paths: Stories of where a Physics Education can lead / Cheminements de carrière en physique: où des études en physique pourraient vous mener

Speaker

Dr Gary Albach (Former President and CEO, Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures)

Description

Many physicists find rewarding careers outside universities, in industry and government service. Gary Albach has collected paycheques from all three sectors and shares job-seeking tips plus the terrors and challenges of the inelastic collisions within his career as a “lapsed physicist”.