Service

Physics Community

• Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the Springer Series Multiversal Journeys (2007 -).
• Member, Editorial Board of the New Journal of Physics (January 2006 -).
• Member, Editorial Board of The Gravitational Lens (2005-2007).
• Chair, 2008 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium.
• Member, organizing committee, 2007 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium.
• Member, International Task Force on Cosmology and Linear Colliders.
• Co-Chair, American Linear Collider Physics Group - Working Group on Cosmology and the Linear Collider (2003-)
• Co-organizer, The Small, the Large and the Universe : New horizons in Gravity and Astrophysics , the 2002 Fall meeting of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society, Syracuse (2002).
• Co-convener and Speaker: Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology session, 2002 meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, College of William and Mary (2002).
• Co-organizer and Invited Speaker: Topical Subgroup on Early Universe Cosmology and Tests of Fundamental Physics: Working Group on Astro/Cosmo/Particle Physics at Snowmass 2001: the Future of Particle Physics.
• Invited public lecture on “Modern Cosmology” at the University of Oklahoma (2001).
• Referee
  • Nature
  • Physical Review Letters (PRL)
  • Physical Review D (PRD)
  • Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)
  • Physics Letters B (PLB)
  • Nuclear Physics B
  • New Journal of Physics (NJP)
  • General Relativity and Gravitation (GRG)
• Grant Reviewer
  • National Science Foundation
  • Department of Energy
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • Canadian National Research Council
    

Syracuse University

• Member of the Promotion and Tenure Committee of the College of Arts & Sciences (2007-)
• Member of the Faculty Council of the College of Arts & Sciences (2002-2004)
• Member of the Admissions Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences (2002-2004)
• Chair, Graduate Curriculum Committee (2006-2007)
• Faculty Search Committee in Gravitational Waves and Cosmology (2006-2007)
• Graduate Recruiting Committee (2006)
• Faculty Search Committee in Gravitational Waves and Cosmology (2005-2006)
• Chair, Faculty Search Committee in Particle Physics and Cosmology (2004-2005)
• Chair, Faculty Search Committee in Cosmology, Relativity and Gravitational Physics (2003-2004)
• Physics Department Web Redesign Committee (2003)
• Physics Department Chair Search Committee (2002-2003)
• Saturday Morning Physics Lecture Series (2002-2007)
• Colloquium Director (2001-2002)
• Graduate Admissions Committee (2000-2002)
• Qualifying Exam Oral Committee (2000)
• Founded (with D. Marolf) Graduate Student Journal Club (2000)
• Graduate Advisor (2000- )
• Undergraduate Advisor (2000)
• Freshman Forum (2000)
• Thesis committee:
  • Jeremy Pinier (Engineering) (2007)
  • Subha Viswanathan (Chemistry) (2007)
  • Sebastian Burciu (Mathematics) (2005)
  • Antonio De Felice (2005)
  • Belkis Cabrera (2005)
  • Joe Roser (2004)
  • Waled Emam (2004)
  • Scott Kittelberger (2004)
  • Salah Nasri (2003)
  • Sergey Karamov (2003)
  • Chaouki Boulahouache (2002)
  • Andri Gretarsson (2002)
  • Angelo Cacciuto (2002)
  • Badis Ydri (2001)
  • David Rideout (2001)
  • Panayotis Benetatos (2000)