Officers / Committees

Graduate Student Body Representatives

Graduate Professional Council (GPC)

• Representative – Michael Gramlich
• “At Large” Rep – Matt Mower

Graduate Student Association (GSA)

• Representative – Matt Beckner

Committees

Student Course Planning Committee

To 1. Aid faculty in decisions on which courses are offered over coming semesters by querying current students about courses they would like to see, 2. Develop recommended tracks for incoming graduate students (now available on the Resources page), 3. Organize an “Effective Communications in Science” course in the department; a list of possible topics has been compiled and is available here.

• Chair – Matt Mower
• Members – Mohammad Sherafati, Bill Isaacson, Jimmy Romanos
• Past Members (Thank you!) – Michael Mayo, Haibo Lin, Michael Gramlich, Woodrow Petrovic

Web Site Committee

Responsible for content available on the PAGSA website.

• Chair – Matt Mower
• Members – Jhuma Das, Matt Beckner
• Past Members (Thank you!) – Michael Mayo, Monika Golebiowska, Keshab Paudel, Jagath Gunasekera

Committee for Teaching Excellence

To unify individual lab quality improvements and to encourage TAs to improve their teaching skills.

• Chair – Mohammad Sherafati
• Members – John Gaddy, Bill Isaacson
• Past Members (Thank you!) – Michael Mayo, Jeff Owens

Social Events Committee

The purpose of the social events committee is to organize departmental social events (i.e. Physics Thanksgiving, picnics, etc.) and to meet and share our experiences with prospective graduate students so that they may be familiar with a few students when they arrive in the department. The social events committee chair also acts as the public outreach liaison. The public outreach liaison is responsible for organizing events and information for the non-physics community to promote a general increase of interest in physics.

• Chair – Matt Beckner
• Members – Suklima Guha Niyogi, Deepika Menon, Keshab Paudel, John Gaddy, Raina Cepel, Bill Isaacson
• Past Members (Thank you!) – Monika Golebiowska, Michael Gramlich

Past Committees
(Mission accomplished or no longer active)

Journal Club Committee

Suggests Journal Club presentations become mandatory for all physics graduate students. A resolution has been drafted and is available here.

• Chair – Michael Gramlich
• Members – Matt Mower, John Gaddy, Matt Beckner