I’m giving an invited career talk at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting tomorrow (Thursday March 7) at 12:42 pm.

The talk is titled: An unexpected journey: a physicist’s path to consulting
Thursday March 7 at 12:42 CT
Room 102AB

My talk is part of a session on non-academic careers sponsored by FECS and FIAP. There are some other great talks planned:

Session T30: What Do Early Career Scientists Do?

Thursday March 7 12:06-14:30
Room 102AB

T30.00002: U.S. Government Career Opportunities for Physicists
Invited Speaker: Sara J Gamble, U.S. Army Research Office
12:06 – 12:42

T30.00003: An unexpected journey: a physicist’s path to consulting
Invited Speaker: Adam Iaizzi, Booz Allen Hamilton
12:42 – 13:18

T30.00004: Life as an early career physicist: from startup to Fortune 500
Invited Speaker: Nick Proite, 3M
13:18 – 13:54

T30.00005: Invited Talk: Phillip Rauscher
Invited Speaker: Phillip M Rauscher, University of Chicago
13:54 – 14:30

If that doesn’t sound interesting, check out these other sessions cosponsored by FECS. Due to some back luck with the scheduling, they are also in the 11:30-14:30 Thursday time slot.

T06: Science Communication and International Public Impact

• The Physics of Star Wars
• Science as a common language for building bridges
• Why physics matters
• Quark, camera, action! Bringing science communication to social media
• CERN 70th anniversary and beyond

T62 Cosponsored by FHPP, FECS, CSWP

• Review of antimatter experiments: from theory to experiment & experiment to theory
• How Einstein was influenced by the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
• Many faces of Casimir: mirrors, black holes, and beta decay
• To be or not to be a faculty administrator?
• Women in physics in district Swat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract for my talk:

Dr. Adam Iaizzi is a senior consultant on the quantum team at Booz Allen Hamilton, a technology and consulting firm that serves primarily government clients. In this talk, Dr. Iaizzi will show how he transitioned from academic research to a career in consulting in just a few years and give a glimpse into the day-to-day life of a consultant working on highly technical topics.

Adam got his B.S. in physics from Ithaca College in 2011. From there, he went on to Boston University for a Ph.D. in computational condensed matter physics. In 2018, Adam moved to Taipei to work as a postdoc at National Taiwan University. Throughout this time, Adam’s research focused on using computer simulations to understand the behavior of low temperature quantum magnets. In 2020, Dr. Iaizzi was awarded a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, which places scientists in roles advising federal agencies and members of Congress. Dr. Iaizzi was placed in the Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics working on the international legal agreements and diplomatic letters that support large scientific collaborations like the U.S. contribution to the LHC at CERN and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). He was also the lead point-of-contact for the office’s $24M/year portfolio of grants in quantum information science. Since January 2023, Adam has been in his current role on the quantum team at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he has applied his scientific training to a variety of topics from developing simulations to analyzing national quantum strategies.