Class of ’17 Physics Majors placed into PhD Programs

Andy Ding will enter graduate school at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo. For the summer before that, he has been accepted into a competitive summer school on experimental quantum computing, and following that has a paid summer research internship arranged. He has also been offered a research opportunity at the University of Vienna, which may lead him to defer matriculation at Waterloo.
Simon Liu will enter the U of I Astronomy PhD program, where he plans to attend, but is deferring for one year so as to return to Caltech for a year to assist with deployment of one of his projects there before entering graduate school in astronomy at the University of Illinois. The first part of his summer was spent finishing up his research efforts at IWU.
Jason Chen will enter a graduate program in theoretical Astrophysics at the University of California, Davis.
Krystyna Lopez was selected as an American Physical Society Bridge Fellow in the Bridge to the Doctorate Program in Physics at Indiana University. She is the IWU Bill Murphy Research Assistant for Summer 2017.
Chris Rudnicki will enter a graduate program at UC-Riverside for a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
Toan Le will enter a graduate program in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UW-Madison, where he plans to continue doing research with our collaborator, Prof. Andreas Velten.

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