Student Opportunities at UW Physics

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Museum Docent Job Opportunity

Posted Thursday, March 1, 2018

Are you a current or soon-to-be physics student? Want to learn more physics? Want to practice teaching? Looking for a “side” job? Need more pizza money? Become an Ingersoll Physics Museum Docent! We are urgently looking for proactive independent students (undergrad or graduate) to help give general public tours of the Physics Museum. High-demand months are March through October every year. The typical tour group is a middle school science class. A good understanding of general physics is a must.

Duties: Conduct tours of the Ingersoll Physics Museum. Duration of each tour is about one hour. Report any broken exhibits to your supervisor. Stay up-to-speed with the online tour schedule and correspond with your supervisor as to the tours that you can or can not conduct, and show up for your tour. Correspondence is manly through email.

Position is “Extreme Part-Time”, sporadic, and year round. On-the-job training included. Contact: Steve Narf, Instructional Program Manager Office Phone: 608/262-3898 Office location: 2237 Chamberlin Hall

Ingersoll Museum

Below is a list of faculty and staff that hire undergraduate students to work in laboratories and/or do theoretical calculations in the Physics Department:

Atomic Physics
Shimon Kolkowitz	kolkowitz@wisc.edu
Jim Lawler	jelawler@wisc.edc.edu
Mark Saffman	msaffman@wisc.edu.edu
Thad Walker	tgwalker@wisc.edu
Deniz Yavuz	yavuz@wisc.edu

Condensed Matter Physics
Victor Brar	vbrar@wisc.edu
Mark Eriksson	maeriksson@wisc.edu
Pupa Gilbert	pupa@physics.wisc.edu
Robert McDermott	rfmcdermott@wisc.edu
Mark Rzchowski	rzchowski@physics.wisc.edu

Garage Physics
Duncan Carlsmith	duncan@hep.wisc.edu

Space/Astro/Neutrino Physics
Keith Bechtol	kbechtol@wisc.edu
Francis Halzen	francis.halzen@icecube.wisc.edu
Albrecht Karle	albrecht.karle@icecube.wisc.edu
Dan McCammon	mccammon@physics.wisc.edu
Peter Timbie	pttimbie@wisc.edu
Justin Vandenbroucke	justin.vandenbroucke@wisc.edu

Particle Physics
Kevin Black	kblack@hep.wisc.edu
Tulika Bose	tulika@hep.wisc.edu
Duncan Carlsmith	duncan@hep.wisc.edu
Sridhara Dasu	dasu@hep.wisc.edu
Matthew Herndon	herndon@hep.wisc.edu
Kimberly Palladino	kpalladino@wisc.edu
Brian Rebel	brebel@wisc.edu

Plasma Physics
Jan Egedal	egedal@wisc.edu
Cary Forest	cbforest@wisc.edu
John Sarff	jssarff@wisc.edu
Dale Schutte	schutte@wisc.edu
Peter Weix	pjweix@wisc.edu

Computing
Dan Bradley	dan@physics.wisc.edu

Instructional Laboratories
Assist with instructional laboratory setup
Brett Unks	unks@wisc.edu

Physics Museum Docents & Lecture Demonstration
Tour guides in the museum and assist with lecture demonstration
Steve Narf	srnarf@wisc.edu