Division of the Physical Sciences
Committee Members
Individual Committee members have committed to being available to any junior faculty member who seeks confidential advice or feedback on any issue within the Division. This is especially helpful if a junior faculty member wishes to talk to someone outside his or her own department. For the 2009-2010 academic year, the Committee Members are:
Susan Kidwell
William Rainey Harper Professor, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College
Todd Dupont
Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics, the James Franck Institute, and the College; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute
Gregory Hillhouse
Professor, Department of Chemistry and the College
Gregory Lawler
Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics and the College
Peter May
Professor, Department of Mathematics and the College
Sidney Nagel
Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Physics, the James Franck Institute, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College
Michael Gladders
Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the College
Professor Stephan Meyer
Traveling to the South Pole to work on the South Pole Telescope.
Photo courtesy Stephan Meyer
South Pole
Joaquin Vieira, UChicago grad student, at the South Pole.
Photo by Jeff McMahon
ATLAS Detector
Used in High Energy Physics experiments to study proton-proton collisions.
Nuclear Energy
Henry Moore’s statue Nuclear Energy, with the Regenstein Library and Max Palevsky residence hall in background.
