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Governance

Department Chair: Linda Hirst

Graduate Group Chair: David Strubbe

Undergraduate Chair: Brian Utter

 

Committees

Graduate Affairs/Exec:  David Strubbe (chair), Hui Cai, Dustin Kleckner, Jay Sharping

Undergraduate Affairs/Exec:  Brian Utter (chair), Bin Liu, Toni Stone

Graduate Admissions & Recruitment:  Chih-Chun Chien (chair), Kinjal Dasbiswas, Jing Xu, Lin Tian, David Strubbe (ex-officio)

Curriculum Committee:  Brian Utter (chair), Linda Hirst, Chih-Chun Chien, David Strubbe 

Recruitment and OutreachDustin Kleckner (chair), Kinjal Dasbiswas, Jay Sharping

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Ajay Gopinathan (co-chair), Sarah Loebman (co-chair), David Strubbe

Awards and Fellowships: Bin Liu, Ajay Gopinathan (chair), Linda Hirst

 

Graduate student positions

Graduate student executive committee: Jonah Beurkens, Christopher Mastandrea, Kelvin Yip, Matthew Metcalf, Uday Panta

School of Natural Sciences Graduate Student Advisory Council: Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir

Graduate Student Association delegates: Shivam Kamboj, Maria Perez Mendoza

 

Coordinators

Academic Personnel: Linda Hirst

Foundations of Physics (PHYS 202): David Strubbe (coordinator), Anna Nierenberg, Kinjal Dasbiswas, Hui Cai

Senior Theses (PHYS 196): Jay Sharping

Website: Tom Martinez and Vanessa Lopez

Faculty Social Media Lead: Anna Nierenberg

Graduate Student Social Media Leads:  Abhinav Kumar, Joey (Jose) Contreras

Colloquium (PHYS 293):  Anna Nierenberg

Natural Sciences Executive Committee (NSEC): Lin Tian (Rep)

Faculty Assessment Organizer (FAO): Brian Utter

Introduction to Graduate Research (PHYS 251): Jing Xu

 

Non-Departmental Committee Memberships

Chair of the Academic Senate: Kevin Mitchell

General Education Executive Committee (GEEC):  Brian Utter (chair)

Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP): Ajay Gopinathan

Privilege and Tenure (P&T):  Lin Tian (Chair)

Graduate Council (GC): Michael Scheibner (chair)

Faculty Welfare and Academic Freedom (FWAF): Sarah Loebman

Committee on Research Computing (CoRC):  David Strubbe

Representative to Data Science and Computing Executive Committee: Sarah Loebman 

 

Administrative Roles

Vice-Chancellor for Research: Gillian Wilson

Associate Dean of Graduate Division: Sayantani Ghosh

 

 

External Advisory Board

Dan Stamper-Kurn (UC Berkeley)

Mehran Kardar (MIT)

Rob Phillips (Caltech)

Enrico Ramírez Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz)

Jessica Kirkpatrick (ThredUp)

Ari Socrates (TextNow)