Oversight Committee

The Oversight Committee oversees the activities of the Institute.  The Committee advises the FTPI director, the head of the School of Physics and Astronomy and the dean of the College of Science and Engineering. The Oversight Committee serves as a liaison between FTPI and the broader national and international theoretical physics community, as well as other sectors.

John Beacom

John Beacom

Co-chair

Director, Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP)
Department of Physics and Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University

Premala Chandra

Premala Chandra

Member

Center for Materials Theory
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

Dr. Bianca M. Fine

Bianca M. Fine

Co-chair

University of Minnesota
Fine Associates, Minneapolis, MN

Professor Martin Greven

Martin Greven

Member

Director, Center for Quantum Materials
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota

Jim Kakalios

James Kakalios

Ex-officio

Head, School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota

Alex Kamenev

Alex Kamenev

Ex-officio

Director, Fine Theoretical Physics Institute
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota

David Kaplan headshot

David Kaplan

Member

Institute for Nuclear Theory 
University of Washington

Subir Sachdev

Subir Sachdev

Member

Hershel Smith Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, Harvard University

Evan Skillman

Evan Skillman

Member

Minnesota Institute of Astrophysics
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota

Dam T. Son headshot with blackboard

Dam T. Son

Member

Enrico Fermi Institute
James Franck Institute
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics, The University of Chicago

Daniel Spirn

Daniel Spirn

Member

Director, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

Former FTPI Oversight Committee Members

NameYearsInstitution
Allan Bromley1988-1990    Yale University
William I. Fine1988-2002Fine Associates
Leo Kadanoff1988-1990University of Chicago
Larry McLerran1988-1993University of Washington
James Serrin1988-1994University of Minnesota
Frank Wilczek1988-2003Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Steve Gasiorowicz1988-2015University of Minnesota, FTPI
Marvin Goldberger1991University of California, Los Angeles
Allen M. Goldman1991-2015University of Minnesota
Burt Halperin1991-2005Harvard University
Marvin Marshak1991-1995University of Minnesota
Roald Sagdeev1993-2013University of Maryland
Arkady Vainshtein1993-1996University of Minnesota, FTPI
Avner Friedman1994-1999Ohio State University
Boris Shklovskii1996-1999University of Minnesota, FTPI
C.C. Huang1997-2009University of Minnesota
Keith Olive1999-2005University of Minnesota, FTPI
Kenneth Keller2000-2005University of Minnesota
Helen Quinn2003-2008Stanford University, SLAC
Leonid Glazman2005-2007Yale University
David Nelson2005-2009Harvard University
H. Ted Davis2007-2009University of Minnesota
Mikhail Voloshin2007-2013University of Minnesota, FTPI
Erick Weinberg2008-2017Columbia University
Steven Girvin2009-2013Yale University
David Kohlstedt2009-2013University of Minnesota
Allan MacDonald2014-2018University of Texas, Austin
Keith Olive2013-2019University of Minnesota, FTPI
Ron Poling2009-2019University of Minnesota
Douglas N. Arnold2015-2019University of Minnesota
Leon Balents2015-2019Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara    
Robert Myers2015-2019Perimeter Institute
Shaul Hanany2015-2019University of Minnesota
Edward "Rocky" Kolb    2015-2020University of Chicago
E. Dan Dahlberg2015-2022University of Minnesota
Mirjam Cvetic2018-2022University of Pennsylvania
M. Claudia Scarlata2020-2022University of Minnesota
Marcela Carena2020-2023Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Paul Crowell2019-2024University of Minnesota