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Re: After the particle physics degree

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Subject Re: After the particle physics degree
Date 2015-12-04 23:13 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> After the particle physics degree
>> http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/after-the-particle-physics-degree
> 
> 
> 
>> Figuring out insurance rates and conducting particle physics research
>> are more similar than one might expect. Both depend on interpreting
>> complicated data using high-level mathematical analysis.
>>
>> For particle physicist Meghan Anzelc, that overlap helped her
>> transition from newly minted PhD to insurance cost analyst.
>>
>> Today, as an assistant vice president at CNA in Chicago, Anzelc
>> trains her group to use programming language and database tools to
>> predict insurance pricing for small-business clients. She says the
>> job requires her to use many of the skills she learned in her
>> undergraduate and graduate physics work?data manipulation, critical
>> and analytical thinking, and working as a team.

Lucky her; real jobs in physics are few and far between. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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After the particle physics degree Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 16:40 -0600
  Re: After the particle physics degree jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-04 23:13 +0000
  Re: After the particle physics degree "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-12-05 04:44 -0800
    Re: After the particle physics degree Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-12-06 15:20 -0800
      Re: After the particle physics degree gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-06 18:33 -0600
        Re: After the particle physics degree Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-12-09 17:23 -0800
      Re: After the particle physics degree "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-12-11 03:00 -0800
  Re: After the particle physics degree gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-06 07:55 -0600

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