Officers and Committees 2022-2023

The Beatrice Tinsley Prize Lecture is given each year by a distinguished physicist in honor of Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley, the first female professor of astronomy at Yale, where she worked from 1974 until her death in 1981. Her work on disk galaxies has proven foundational in the decades following her passing. In 2018, the Yale Society of Physics Students inaugurated the Beatrice Tinsley Prize Lecture, which saw the invitation of Asimina Arvanitaki. This prized was started to honor Tinsley’s myriad contributions and to encourage collaboration and contact between distinguished physicists and the Yale undergraduate physics community. The speaker is jointly invited and hosted by the Society of Physics Students, Women in Physics, and Undergraduate students from Astronomy.

Members

SPS leadership (presidents and board)
WiP leadership (presidents and board)
2 students from Astronomy 
DUS ex-officio
WIP faculty advisor, ex-officio

Teaching assignments for the department are done by the Chair, in consultation with the DUS & DGS and graduate and undergraduate program teams.

Members

Karsten Heeger (Chair, Physics Department)
Sarah Demers (DUS) 
Daisuke Nagai (DGS)
Stacey Watts (graduate registrar)
Daphne Klemme (undergraduate registrar)
Rona Ramos (graduate program coordinator)

The vision of APS-IDEA is that, as a result of collective efforts, physics and related fields will become more inclusive of all social identities, with a diversity reflective of the nation, and with an equitable distribution of opportunities and resources.

Members

Faculty

• Helen Caines (She/her/hers), co-leader
• Rona Ramos (She/her/hers), co-leader
• Larry Gladney (He/him/his)
• Karsten Heeger (He/him/his)
• Reina Maruyama (She/her/hers)
• Meg Urry (She/her/hers)

Postdoctoral Associates

• Laura Havener (She/her/hers)

Graduate Students

• Aniket Maiti  (He/him/his)

Undergraduate Students

• New Member TBD

Staff

• Geriana Van Atta (She/her/hers)

The Graduate Student Advisory Committee serves as a point of communication between the graduate students and the administration of the department. The committee advises the Chair, the DGS, and other faculty on matters related to graduate students and the graduate program, including (but not limited to) helping plan and organize annually scheduled departmental events.The committee members also advocate on behalf of graduate students with the Chair and DGS. Committee members are appointed for one calendar year. The composition of the committee includes at least one representative from each cohort, with a primary goal of representing inclusive and diverse sets of interests. Committee members meet with the Chair and DGS once a month. The committee also meets internally once a month while regularly soliciting feedback from other students in their cohorts.

Members

Daisuke Nagai (DGS, co-chair)
Karsten Heeger (Chair, co-chair)
Rona Ramos (Faculty)
Stacey Watts (Graduate Registrar)

Hannah Bossi (Year 4)
Caitlin Gish (Year 2)
Sophia Hollick (Year 2)
Aniket Maiti (Year 4)
Xiaowei Ou (Year 1)
Samantha Pagan (Year 3)
Iris Ponce (Year 2)
Joseph Shomar (Year 3)
Benjamin Siegel (Year 3)