Administrative Activities

Advisory etc. Committees

• Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the 23rd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR23, to be held in 2022)
• Topical group convener for Snowmass DPF of APS, for the Theory Frontier (2020-2022)
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of QTS-12 (XII International Symposium “Quantum Theory and Symmetries” (to be held in Moscow, 2-6 August 2021)
• Scientific Advisory Committee for Quantum Gravity 2020
• Member of the KITP Advisory Board (2016-2020)
• External School Director for the ICTP Spring School (2017-2020)
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of Strings 2017, Strings 2018, Strings 2019, Strings 2020, Strings 2021
• Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the 22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR22, held in 2019)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics in Florence (till 2018)
• Session Chair at the 21st International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR21, held in 2016)
• Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the 20th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR20, held in 2013)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the INI conference on Mathematics and Physics of the Holographic Principle (held in 2013)
• Member of the Executive Committee for Materials, Physical and Nanosciences COST Action MP1210
• Committee member of the Gravitational Physics Group of the Institute of Physics (till 2012)

Editorships

• Associate Editor for the Journal General Relativity and Gravitation (till 2017)
• Correspondent for the “Matters of Gravity” Newsletter of the American Physical Society Topical Group in Gravitation

Conferences organization:

For a list of conferences I have co-organized, see here.

Committees (present and past) at UC Davis:

• Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics (QMAP) Executive Committee
• Honors Committee for the College of Letters & Science
• Academic Senate Committee on Admissions and Enrollment
• Departmental Undergraduate Advisors Committee
• Departmental Steering Committee
• Undergraduate Scholarships, Honors and Prizes Committee
• Rhodes and Marshall Scholarship Committee
• Graduate Studies Internal Fellowship Review Committee
• Frederica Darema Speaker Series Committee (Chair)
• Graduate Curriculum Committee
• Space Committee
• Colloquium Committee (Chair)
• Graduate Admissions Committee
• Graduate Recruitment Committee
• Communications & Outreach Committee
• Physics Community Committee
• Physics Club Advisor

Admin at Durham (till 2015):

• Course Director for the MSc in Particles, Strings and Cosmology (run jointly between Mathematical Sciences and Physics departments)
• MSc in Mathematical Sciences BoE and Management Board
• MSc in Particles, Strings and Cosmology BoE and Management Board
• Postgraduate Studies Committee
• Staff Student Committee PG
• Chair of the Undergraduate Colloquium Committee
• Departmental Diversity Contact