The PHD Movie 2:
Still in Grad School

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"Astute, funny"
-Nature Journal

"Laugh-out loud... almost impossible not to relate"
-Nature Physics

"Well, postdocs think it's funny."
-The New York Times

Synopsis

The Nameless Grad Student and his group must travel to an important academic conference and square off against a rival group as they compete for results and grant money. Meanwhile, Cecilia's advisor is going on sabbatical, which means she has to finish writing her thesis or be stuck in grad school another year. It's a comedy.

The PHD Movie!
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Behind the Scenes!

Get a sneak peek behind the scenes of the production of the movie in this image gallery and video:

Set Photos!

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Movie Stills!!



Cast and Crew!

Jorge Cham (Writer/Producer): Jorge is the creator of the comic strip "Piled Higher and Deeper (phdcomics.com) and the co-founder of the science and discovery outreach collaborative PHD TV. He obtained his Ph.D. in Robotics from Stanford University and is a former Instructor and Research Associate at Caltech.

Iram Parveen Bilal (Director): Iram is the Founder and CEO of Parveen Shah Productions. Her noted first feature length film, JOSH (English title: Against the Grain) was a 2012 Women in Film Awardee and was recently honored to be part of the US Library of Congress Permanent Collection.

Main Cast
Alexandra Lockwood, Ph.D. (Cecilia)
Raj Katti (The Nameless Grad Student)
K. Zachary Abbott (Prof. Smith)
Fawzia Mirza (Dr. Sangeeta Singh)
Crystal Dilworth, Ph.D. (Tajel)
Evans Boney, Ph.D. (Mike Slackenerny)
Tony Chu (Prof. Chu)
Katie Condidorio (Mariko)
Barbera Howard (Dr. D)

PHD Movie 2 Screenings!

Watch the 1st PHD Movie  Click on each University for time and location information 
(08/06) Stanford University - (PHD Movie 1)
(08/24) Charles Sturt University - (PHD Movie 1+2)
**Special Test Screening!
(09/04) University of Chile - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/10) Virginia Commonwealth University - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/16) European Advanced Accelerator Concept Conference - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(09/16) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/16) Stanford University - (PHD Movie 1)
(09/17) Tampere University of Technology - (PHD Movie 1)
(09/21) City University London - (PHD Movie 1)
(09/21) ETH Zurich - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/22) Simon Fraser University - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(09/22) University of New South Wales - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/23) University of Georgia - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/23) Simon Fraser University - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/23) Monash University Malaysia Campus - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/24) Scripps Research Institute - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/24) University of Alabama at Birmingham - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/24) �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne - (PHD Movie 1)
(09/24) Scripps Research Institute - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/24) CERN - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
9/24 - Booksigning (5:30pm), Lecture (6:00pm) and PHD Movie 2 Screening (7:30pm) at CERN
9/25 - Booksignings (1-2pm and 5-6pm) at FNAC/Researchers Night PLUS Special Discussion with The Big Bang Theory Science Consultant David Saltzberg (7:00pm)!
(09/25) University of Colorado Denver - (PHD Movie 1)
(09/25) Duke University - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/25) University of Waikato - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/25) University of Helsinki - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/25) University of Newcastle - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/30) Weizmann Institute of Science - (PHD Movie 1)
(09/30) Simon Fraser University - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(09/30) University of Saskatchewan - (PHD Movie 2)
(09/30) Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (Australia) - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/01) �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/01) University of Maryland, College Park - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham plus Alexandra Lockwood, star of the PHD Movies!
(10/01) Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (Australia) - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/02) Simon Fraser University - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/05) Ohio University - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(10/06) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (PHD Movie 2)
Booksigning (1:45pm) and Q&A (3pm) with Jorge Cham on 10/7!
(10/06) California Institute of Technology - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham plus Director Iram Bilal and members of the cast and crew!
Caltech Y 100th Anniversary Outdoor Festival featuring LA-themed foods by Caltech Dining starting at 5:30pm
(10/07) Georgetown University - (PHD Movie 2)
Lecture and Booksigning with Jorge Cham on *October 13th* at the Biomedical Graduate Education Student Research Day.
(10/07) UiT The Arctic University of Norway - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/07) Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/08) Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (Australia) - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/08) Stanford University - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
Full lecture by Jorge Cham at 4:00pm in Hewlett 200. Booksigning from 5-5:30pm.
(10/10) Binghamton University - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/12) University of New Mexico - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/12) University of St Andrews - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/13) University of Victoria - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/14) University of Helsinki - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/14) UiT The Arctic University of Norway - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/14) University of Nevada, Las Vegas - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/15) Florida Atlantic University - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(10/15) University of Wuerzburg - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/15) Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham plus Director Iram Bilal!
(10/15) Lincoln University - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/15) University of New South Wales - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/15) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/16) University of Missouri - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
Lecture with Jorge Cham at 1 pm in Leadership Auditorium, MU Student Center
(10/16) Massey University - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/16) University of Mississippi - (PHD Movie 1)
Sponsored by: Graduate School, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Graduate Student Council, Associated Student Body.
(10/16) The University of Auckland - (PHD Movie 1)
Screening @ 6pm local (GMT+13) time.
(10/16) University of Mississippi - (PHD Movie 2)
Sponsored by: Graduate School, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Graduate Student Council, Associated Student Body.
(10/20) Nanyang Technological University - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/20) University of California, Los Angeles - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/20) University of Victoria - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/21) Karolinska Institutet - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(10/21) Utah State University - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/22) University of Copenhagen - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/22) Royal Institute of Technology - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(KTH Sweden)
(10/22) University of Luxembourg - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(10/23) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/23) University of California, Davis - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(10/23) West Virginia University - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/26) Universite de Montreal - (PHD Movie 1)
Lecture and Q&A with Jorge Cham
(10/26) Auburn University - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
Lecture and Booksigning with Jorge Cham at 12 noon
(10/26) University of Alabama - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/26) Ohio Northern University - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/26) The American Chemical Society - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/27) Monash University - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/27) Georgia Institute of Technology - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
Q&A and short talk by Jorge at 5pm
(10/27) University of East Anglia - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/28) Norwegian University of Science and Technology - (PHD Movie 1)
(10/28) University of South Wales - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(10/28) TRIUMF/UBC - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/28) Princeton University - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/28) Harvard University - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(10/28) Princeton University - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/29) University of Luxembourg - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(10/29) Harvard Medical School - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(10/30) University of Geneva - (PHD Movie 2)
(10/30) Lincoln University - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(11/02) Universite de Montreal - (PHD Movie 2)
Lecture and Q&A with Jorge Cham
(11/03) Masaryk University - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(11/03) University of Glasgow - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(11/04) University of York - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(11/04) Plymouth University - (PHD Movie 1)
(11/04) Max Planck Institute for Brain Research - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/04) University of Texas at Austin - (PHD Movie 1)
(11/04) University of Ulm - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/05) University of Warwick - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(11/05) University of Texas at Austin - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/05) George Washington University - (PHD Movie 1)
(11/06) University of Oxford - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(11/09) Kings College London - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(11/09) Instituto Superior Técnico - (PHD Movie 1)
(11/10) University of Exeter - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(11/10) University of East Anglia - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/11) Monash University - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/11) University of Utah - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/11) Plymouth University - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/12) Radboud University Nijmegen - (PHD Movie 1)
(11/12) Michigan State University - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/12) Instituto Superior Técnico - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/12) University of Nottingham - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
Book signing w/ Jorge Cham
(11/12) Norwegian University of Science and Technology - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/12) University of California, Merced - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/12) University of Rochester - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/12) Institute of Molecular Genetics ASCR, V. V. i. - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/13) Salk Institute for Biological Studies - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/13) Imperial College London - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
Jorge’s Lecture 6:50- 7:50pm, Book signing/reception 8:00-9:00pm
(11/16) Science and Technology Facilities Council - (PHD Movie 1)
(11/16) University of Oregon - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/17) Florida Atlantic University - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/17) ASA, CSSA, SSSA & ESA Annual Meeting - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
Jorge Cham Keynote Lectures on 11/15 and 11/18
(11/17) West Virginia University - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/17) Vienna University of Technology - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(11/17) New York University - (PHD Movie 1)
(11/18) University of Münster - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(11/18) Utah State University - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/19) Artois University - (PHD Movie 1)
(11/19) University of Stuttgart - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/19) University of Notre Dame - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/19) Universite de Montreal - (PHD Movie 2)
Lecture and Q&A with Jorge Cham
(11/20) Uppsala University - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/20) University of California, Irvine - (PHD Movie 2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham plus Crystal Dilworth, Zachary Abbott
(11/23) Hebrew University of Jerusalem - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/24) University of Bayreuth - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(11/25) Aarhus University - (PHD Movie 1)
(11/26) Polytechnic University of Valencia - (PHD Movie 2)
(11/27) Meiji University - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(11/27) Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(11/30) Universite catholique de Louvain - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/02) Artois University - (PHD Movie 1)
(12/02) GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/02) University of Paderborn - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/03) University of Otago - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/03) Macquarie University - (PHD Movie 1)
(12/03) Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley - (PHD Movie 1)
(12/03) Macquarie University - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/03) Old Dominion University - (PHD Movie 1)
(12/04) Telethon Kids Institute - (PHD Movie 1)
(12/04) Flinders University - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/04) McMaster University - (PHD Movie 1)
(12/04) Kansas State University - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/04) University of Adelaide - (PHD Movie 1)
(12/04) Monash University - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/04) University of Adelaide - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/09) Vanderbilt University - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/09) Stockholm University - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/09) Central European University - (PHD Movie 1)
(12/11) Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB - (PHD Movie 1+2)
Q&A with Jorge Cham
(12/11) The Feinstein institute for medical research - (PHD Movie 1)
(12/14) Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/16) Kaiserslautern University of Technology - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/17) Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - (PHD Movie 2)
(12/18) University of Coimbra - (PHD Movie 2)
(01/07) Oregon State University - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(01/08) Wageningen University and Research Centre - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(01/26) Technical University of Munich - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(02/12) University of California, Berkeley - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(02/16) Northwestern University - (PHD Movie 2)
(02/17) University of Illinois at Urbana�Champaign - (PHD Movie 2)
(02/23) Northwestern University - (PHD Movie 2)
(02/23) University of Bremen (Germany) - (PHD Movie 1+2)
(03/22) Royal Holloway, University of London - (PHD Movie 2)
(03/23) University at Buffalo - (PHD Movie 1)


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About The PHD Movie 2

"Piled Higher and Deeper: Still in Grad School" is the sequel film of the popular comic strip "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham (phdcomics.com - phdmovie.com). The film takes a smart and humorous look at the world of Academia through the eyes of four grad students, and features real academics (including a Nobel Prize winner!) in many of the roles. It was funded in large part by Kickstarter backers (including COINS and Papers) and filmed at the California Institute of Technology. The film was produced as part of a continued collaboration between PHD Comics and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. You can watch more of Jorge Cham's Quantum videos by clicking here.