Department Committees and Service Roster
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Department Chair
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Kaplinghat | |
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Vice Chair of Planning
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Rajaraman | |
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Vice Chair of Graduate Studies
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Chernyshev | |
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Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies
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Barwick
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Departmental Committees and Service Assignments
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| Space | Rajaraman (Chair), Chernyshev, Li, Lin, Taborek, Barth | |
| Colloquium | Ochoa (Chair), Bardoczi, Xia, Siryaporn, Shields | |
| Seminar Organizers | Robertson (Astrophysics), Chernyshev (Condensed Matter), Lin (Plasma), Shirman (Particle) | |
| Reines Lecture | Feng, Barth, Bardoczi, C. Yu | |
| Community Engagement & Outreach | Heidbrink, Whiteson | |
| Awards | Robertson (Chair), Feng, Taffard, Tajima, Wu, C. Yu | |
| Committee for Academic Personnel Reviews | Tim Tait (Chair), Steve White | |
| Non-Senate Academic Review | Lankford (Chair), Taffard | |
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Graduate Studies
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Chernyshev (Chair), Krivorotov, Allard, Buote, Lee, Lin, Shirman | |
| ChaMP Co-Director | Howard Lee | |
| Astrophysics Graduate Concentration Director | Cooray | |
| Graduate Qualifying Exam | Rajaraman (Chair), White, J. Yu | |
| Astrophysics Qualifying Exam | Cooray (Chair), Abazajian, Barth, Bullock, Buote, Kaplinghat, Kirkby, Robertson, Sallum, Shields, | |
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Graduate Admissions
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Murgia (Chair), Bardoczi, Bian, Buote, Lee, Shirman, Romhanyi, Jauregui, Siryaporn
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Undergraduate Education
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Barwick (Chair), Scaffidi, Romhanyi, Tucker, J. Yu, Ratz, Ex-officio: Bian, Rajaraman | |
| Undergraduate Advising | Tucker (Chair), Romhanyi, Scaffidi, Whiteson | |
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Undergraduate Admissions
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Xia (Chair), Cooper, Li, Scaffidi | |
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Undergraduate Learning Assistants
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Siwy (Chair)
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| Teaching Labs | Bian, Jauregui | |
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Incoming Undergraduate Physics Major Advisors
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Physics & Applied Physics advisors
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Bian, Dollar, Jauregui, Lee, Murgia, Ochoa-Ricoux, Romhanyi, Shirman, Tucker, Whiteson, Wu, Xin, Yu (J)
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Undergraduate Area of Focus Advisors
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| Honors Advisor | Sanchez-Yamagishi | |
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General Physics
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Barwick
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Astrophysics
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Buote
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Computational Physics
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Xin
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Philosophy of Physics
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Whiteson
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Physics Education
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Tucker
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Business & Law
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Tucker
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Engineering Physics
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Xin | |
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Biomedical Physics
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Siryaporn
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General Applied Physics
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Xin
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Minors in Earth System Science
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Tucker
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Society of Physics Students advisor
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Whiteson
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Student Mentoring
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co-Chairs
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Dollar, Tucker
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Members
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M. Banh, A. Brown, R. Riley, K. Wimberly
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DECADE Mentor
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Murgia
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Department Student Group Leadership
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Physics Graduate Caucus
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UNITY
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https://sites.uci.edu/unity/ | |
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Campus Service and Membership on UCI Academic Senate
Committees and Councils (2025-26)
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| Council on Enrollment Management and Admissions | Shirman (Chair) | |
| Council on Faculty Welfare, Diversity, and Academic Freedom | Parker | |
| Academic Integrity Review Board | Heidbrink | |
| Committee on Privilege and Tenure (CPT) | Siwy | |
| Committee on Privilege and Tenure (CPT), Complaint Advisor Panel | Feng | |
| Council on Research, Computing, and Libraries (CORCL) | Kirkby | |
| Graduate Council | Lin | |
| Subcommittee on Courses | Bian | |
| UROP Faculty Advisory Board | Xin, Collins | |
| Last updated 10/29/2026 |