Three Recent HMC Physics Alums Discuss Looking for Physics-Related Jobs

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Speaker(s): Wylie Rosenthal (’12), Chris Cotner (’13), and Chris Gage (’13)

We are excited to welcome back to campus three recent HMC physics graduates to provide their insights into the job market for physics graduates and tips on landing your first job. Wylie Rosenthal (’12) took an optical engineering job with Zygo after graduating and worked there for three years before moving in 2015 to the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization. Chris Gage (’13) has worked as a firmware engineer at Opto 22 in Temecula since graduating, and will shortly begin a graduate program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSD. Classmate Chris Cotner (’13) spent a year after graduating earning a master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering at USC before landing a job at SpaceX.

Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. in Shanahan B460. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.