{"id":479,"date":"2006-08-10T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T09:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/10\/career-options-for-theorists\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T09:14:06","slug":"career-options-for-theorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/10\/career-options-for-theorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Options for Theorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted by several people, most recently <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2006\/08\/10\/world-series-poker-theorist\/\">JoAnne Hewett<\/a>, one of the players at the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event is a Ph.D. physicist: Michael Binger, recently of SLAC. So, I guess we need to expand the list of non-academic physics careers to include &#8220;professional poker player.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure how Prof. Katz left it off his list.<\/p>\n<p>JoAnne quotes from his bio:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Michael Binger hopes to continue doing research in physics without having to run the rat-race of getting a job and impressing all the right people as he puts it. A win here at the World Series of Poker Main Event would definitely give him the freedom to do pretty much anything he wants.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is one of the few areas where theorists have a clear advantage over experimentalists. The top prize for the tournament is something like $12 million, which would set a theorist up for life. An experimentalist, though, could burn through that in two, three years tops, even in a relatively cheap field like AMO physics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted by several people, most recently JoAnne Hewett, one of the players at the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event is a Ph.D. physicist: Michael Binger, recently of SLAC. So, I guess we need to expand the list of non-academic physics careers to include &#8220;professional poker player.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/10\/career-options-for-theorists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Career Options for Theorists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}