1. Students should establish their Supervisory Committee at least four months before scheduling the General Examination.



2. The Supervisory Committee is responsible for determining that a student's background of study and preparation are sufficient to justify the undertaking of the General Examination.



3. Committees chaired by an Adjunct or Affiliate faculty member of the Physics Department must include at least two regular Physics Department faculty members. Students whose Research Adviser is not a member of the Physics Department Graduate Faculty (regular, adjunct or affiliate) must have a regular member of the Physics Graduate Faculty as Chair of the Supervisory Committee, and that Chair is expected to exercise an active supervisory role over the research.



4. The Graduate School Representative is a voting member of the committee who must have no conflict of interest (such as budgetary relationships or adjunct appointments) with the department of either the student or the supervisory committee chair.



5. Members may be added at any time.



6. The Graduate School guidelines on the Supervisory Committee can be found in Graduate School Memorandum 13.
   

How to Set-up a Supervisory Committee

1. Consult with your Research Adviser about which faculty you should ask to serve on your Supervisory Committee. Your Supervisory Committee must have a minimum of five members, a majority of whom (including the Chair and the Graduate School Representative) must be members of the Graduate Faculty. The normal composition of a committee is as follows:
   
   
   • Research Adviser, who acts as Chair of the Supervisory Committee
   • One other faculty member from the same field
   • Second faculty member from the same field of physics, who is a theorist/experimentalist if the research topic is primarily an experimental/theoretical one
   • One other faculty member from a different area of physics
   • Faculty member, who acts as Graduate School Representative (GSR) of the Supervisory Committee


2. Once you have obtained the consent of the faculty to serve on your Supervisory Committee, please fill in the form below and press the submit button.

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