Senior graduate students, whose research experience make them invaluable resources for the entire group. Co-captains are here to help the team with the day-to-day questions, pointing them in the right direction, and supervising group events.

With an entire semester of practice talks, visitors, and activities to organize, the meeting manager is essential to arranging these and keeping track of events. The meeting manager schedules these events at the beginning of the semester and ensures that speakers and visitors are up-to-date with their commitments. Keeping all of this on track makes the semester flow smoothly and that the group is obtaining the most out of our meetings.

In order to promote the work done by group members, past and present, the webmaster administrates the website you are currently on. If you are reading this, then they have been successful! The webmaster makes sure our group’s research is accessible to all, and that our member’s details are up-to-date so collaboration with new partners can be made feasible.

With the high-performance computational resources available to our group, it is essential to have cluster managers that can help members gain access and learn how to use the supercomputers that are at our disposal. Much of our research nowadays requires these resources, and our cluster managers are key to making our ideas lead to concrete results. These managers are knowledgeable in navigating computer clusters and using their software to perform essential calculations, as well as communicating with cluster administrators and technical services to resolve issues and choose the right hardware for our needs.

At the intersection of our group’s emphasis on collaboration and high-performance computing is the MUSES collaboration to answer critical interdisciplinary questions in nuclear physics, gravitational wave astrophysics, and heavy-ion physics. Our MUSES ambassador connects our group to this collaboration, working on both administrative tasks and scientific projects.