Department Overview

Academic Advising

• • • Undergraduate Advising
      
      
      Undergraduate Advisors
      
      
      Graduate Advisors

  Undergraduate Advising

  
  Departmental advisors are assigned to each of our majors: AP, AM, and MSE. The same advisors track students from their sophomore to junior to senior years; in other words, students have the same advisor for three years. General AP, AM, and MSE advisors can be contacted when the assigned advisor is not available.
  
  These advisors can give you advice about your major requirements and help you keep on track toward graduation. They can also offer advice about graduate school options and career directions; they are prepared to discuss other academic and career matters, as well. Academic questions outside your major should be addressed to academic advisor in the Center for Student Advising (CSA) in Lerner Hall. Answers to questions concerning career direction (involving nearer-term employment, professional schools, ...) can be sought from your Career Education advisor.
  
  First-year students with potential interest in majoring in AP, AM, or MSE are welcome to chat with the general advisor in their area.
  
  Second-year pre-major students are welcome to chat with the sophomore advisor in their area (Class of 2012).
  
  Students potentially interested in spending a junior term abroad should speak with an APAM advisor as soon as possible (even as first-year students) so they can chart a successful program.

  
  
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  Undergraduate Advisors

  
  

  Applied Physics (AP) Undergraduate Advisors

  General AP Undergraduate Advisors
  Irving P. Herman, Professor and Department Chair - Fall 2009
  Phone: 212-854-4950
  Email: iph1@columbia.edu
  Office: 208 Mudd / 905 CEPSR
  
  Thomas Pedersen, Associate Professor Spring 2010
  Phone: 212-854-6528
  Email: tsp22@columbia.edu
  Office: 204 Mudd
  
  Class of 2010 AP Undergraduate Advisor
  Latha Venkataraman, Assistant Professor
  Phone: 212-854-1786
  Email: lv2117@columbia.edu
  Office: 926 CEPSR
  
  Class of 2011 AP Undergraduate Advisosr
  Irving P. Herman, Professor and Department Chair - Fall 2009
  Phone: 212-854-4950
  Email: iph1@columbia.edu
  Office: 208 Mudd / 905 CEPSR
  
  Thomas Pedersen, Associate Professor Spring 2010
  Phone: 212-854-6528
  Email: tsp22@columbia.edu
  Office: 204 Mudd
  
  Class of 2012 AP Undergraduate Advisor
  Irving P. Herman, Professor and Department Chair
  Phone: 212-854-4950
  Email: iph1@columbia.edu
  Office: 208 Mudd / 905 CEPSR
  
  
  

  Applied Mathematics Undergraduate Advisors

  General AM Undergraduate Advisor
  Marc W. Spiegelman, Associate Professor
  Phone: 845-365-8425
  Email: mspieg@ldeo.columbia.edu
  Office: 211 Mudd
  
  Class of 2010 AM Undergraduate Advisors
  Marc W. Spiegelman, Associate Professor
  Phone: 845-365-8425
  Email: mspieg@ldeo.columbia.edu
  Office: 211 Mudd
  
  Lorenzo M. Polvani, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-7331
  Email: lmp3@columbia.edu
  Office: 216 Mudd
  
  Class of 2011 AM AM Undergraduate Advisor
  (for students with last names beginning with A-L)
  Guillaume Bal, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-4731
  Email: gb2030@columbia.edu
  Office: 206 Mudd
  
  Class of 2011 AM AM Undergraduate Advisor
  (for students with last names beginning with M-Z)
  Adam Sobel, Associate Professor
  Phone: 212-854-6587
  Email: ahs129@columbia.edu
  Office: 217 Mudd
  
  Class of 2012 AM Undergraduate Advisor
  Michael I. Weinstein, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-3624
  Email: miw2103@columbia.edu
  Office: 212 Mudd
  
  Chris Wiggins, Associate Professor
  Phone: 212-854-1114
  Email: chris.wiggins@columbia.edu
  Office: 205 Mudd
  
  
  

  Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Undergraduate Advisor

  General MSE Undergraduate Advisor
  Chris Marianetti, Assistant Professor
  Phone: 212-854-9478
  Email: chris.marianetti@columbia.edu
  Office: 1144 Mudd
  
  Class of 2010 MSE Undergraduate Advisor
  Siu-Wai Chan, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-8519
  Email: sc174@columbia.edu
  Office: 1136 Mudd
  
  Class of 2011 MSE Undergraduate Advisor
  Chris Marianetti, Assistant Professor
  Phone: 212-854-9478
  Email: chris.marianetti@columbia.edu
  Office: 1144 Mudd
  
  Class of 2012 MSE Undergraduate Advisor
  Chris Marianetti, Assistant Professor - Fall semester
  Phone: 212-854-9478
  Email: chris.marianetti@columbia.edu
  Office: 1144 Mudd
  
  James S. Im, Professor - Spring semester
  Phone: 212-854-8341
  Email: ji12@columbia.edu
  Office: 1111 Mudd
  
  

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  Graduate Advisors

  Applied Physics Graduate Advisor
  

  General AP/AM/MSE 1st Year Graduate Advisor
  (Ph.D. track or Ph.D. only)
  Michael E. Mauel, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-4455
  Email: mem4@columbia.edu
  Office: 213 Mudd
  
  Applied 1st Year Graduate Advisor
  (M.S., Ph.D. track or Ph.D.)
  Michael E. Mauel, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-4455
  Email: mem4@columbia.edu
  Office: 213 Mudd
  
  
  

  Applied Mathematics Graduate Advisors
  

  Applied Mathematics 1st Year Graduate Advisor
  (Ph.D. track or Ph.D. only)
  Chris Wiggins, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-1114
  Email: chris.wiggins@columbia.edu
  Office: 205 Mudd
  
  Applied Mathematics 1st Year Graduate Advisor
  (M.S. or CVN only)
  Guillaume Bal, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-4731
  Email: gb2030@columbia.edu
  Office: 206 Mudd
  
  

  
  
  Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Advisors
  

  Materials Science and Engineering 1st Year Graduate Advisor
  (Ph.D. track or Ph.D. only)
  Simon Billinge, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-2918
  Email: sb2896@columbia.edu
  Office: 1105 Mudd
  
  Materials Science and Engineering 1st Year Graduate Advisor
  (M.S. or CVN only)
  Siu-Wai Chan, Professor
  Phone: 212-854-8519
  Email: sc174@columbia.edu
  Office: 1136 Mudd
  
  
  

  Medical Physics Graduate Advisor (M.S. only)
  

  John C. Arbo, Associate
  Phone: 212-865-0497
  Email:
  Office: 287C Engineering Terrace 
  

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