Departmental Committees

Physics Council

Professor Edmund Bertschinger, Department Head
Professor Krishna Rajagopal, Associate Head for Education
Professor Deepto Chakrabarty, Head, Astrophysics Division Head
Professor Edward Farhi, Head, Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Division
Professor Peter Fisher, Head, Experimental Nuclear and Particle Division Head
Professor Jacqueline Hewitt, Director, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Professor Patrick Lee, Head, Atomic, Biophysics, Condensed Matter & Plasma Physics Division
Professor Richard Milner, Director, Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Mr. Matthew Cubstead, Administrative Officer

2010-2011 Education Committee members are:

Professor Krishna Rajagopal, Associate Department Head for Education, Chair
Professor John Belcher, New Technologies Coordinator
Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Training and Support Coordinator
Professor Senthil Todadri, Graduate Student Coordinator
Professor Mehran Kardar, General Examination and Requirements Coordinator
Professor J. David Litster, Junior Lab Faculty Head, Career Counselor
Professor Nergis Mavalvala, Undergraduate Coordinator
Ms. Catherine Modica, Academic Administrator
Professor Christoph Paus, Graduate Appointments Coordinator
Dr. Sean Robinson, Flexible Major Program Coordinator
Professor Gunther Roland, Junior Lab Faculty Head
Professor Paul Schechter, Subject Coordinator
Professor Vladan Vuletic, Graduate Admissions Officer
Professor Edmund Bertschinger, Department Head, ex officio
Mr. Matthew Cubstead, Administrative Officer

Part I General Exam Committee:

Professor Nergis Mavalvala (chair)
Professor Joe Formaggio
Professor Marin Soljačić

Part II General Exam Committee:

Professor Barton Zwiebach (chair)
Professor Alan Guth
Professor Martin Zwierlein

Part III Oral Exams are given in the following specialties:

Astrophysics
Atomic and Optical Physics
Biophysics
Condensed Matter Experiment
Condensed Matter Theory
Nuclear and Particle Experiment
Nuclear and Particle Theory
Quantum Information
Plasma Physics

Pappalardo Fellowships Executive Committee: 2010-11 Academic Year

Professor Max Tegmark, Chair - Cosmology
Professor Ray Ashoori - Condensed Matter Experiment
Professor Janet Conrad - Experimental High Energy Physics
Professor Scott A. Hughes - Astrophysical General Relativity
 Professor Mehran Kardar - Soft Condensed Matter Theory
Professor Leonid Levitov - Condensed Matter Theory
Professor Iain Stewart - Theoretical Particle Physics
Professor Washington Taylor - String Theory
Professor Edmund Bertschinger, Department Head, Physics, ex officio - Theoretical Astrophysics
Ms. Carol Breen, Communications & Pappalardo Fellowships Program Administrator

Colloquium Committee

Professor Jesse Thaler
Professor Josh Winn
Professor Martin Zwierlein
Professor Bernd Surrow
Mr. Nathaniel Thomas (SPS representative)
Mr. Matthew Walker (PGSC representative)
Professor Edmund Bertschinger, Ex Officio