Academic Senate Review
Department of Economics
March 10-11, 2008
Location: 9294 Bunch Hall
Site Visit Schedule
Sunday, March 9, 2008
7:00 p.m. Dinner meeting: Initial organizational session for review team members only.
Tanino’s Ristorante, 1043 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024, (310) 208-0444:
Mark Moldwin, Barbara Boyle, Roger Savage, Carol Bakhos, George Mailath, Lars Peter Hansen
Monday, March 10, 2008
8:00
9:00
10:00
12:00
1:15
2:00
2:45
Breakfast discussion with Gary Hansen, Roger Farmer, Jinyong Hahn
Meeting with Acting Dean Reynaldo Macias
Meeting with representative groups of faculty in major research areas:
10:00-10:25 Microeconomics: Simon Board, Moshe Buchinsky, Hugo Hopenhayn,
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, John Riley, William Zame
10:25-10:50 Macroeconomics: Andrew Atkeson, Matthias Doepke, Roger Farmer, Lee
Ohanian, Aaron Tornell, Pierre-Olivier Weill
10:50-11:15 Econometrics: Moshe Buchinsky, Jinyong Hahn, Ekaterini Kyriazidou,
Rosa Matzkin
11:15-11:40 Economic History: Leah Boustan, Dora Costa, Naomi Lamoreaux
11:40-12:05 Applied Microeconomics: Daniel Ackerberg, Sandra Black, Leah Boustan,
Hugo Hopenhayn
Lunch – review team members only (Faculty Center)
Group meeting with undergraduate students
Jessica Cameron (jecameron@ucla.edu)
Amy Wang (amy.wang@ucla.edu)
Naseem Delparastaran(ndelan@ucla.edu)
Jennifer Hatt, (jmhatt@gmail.com)
Rachel Stauber (rachelstauber@gmail.com)
Mohammad Sepehr Khosravani Zangeneh (sepehr1782@ucla.edu)
Joseph Lei (jjlinternational@gmail.com)
Group meeting with graduate students
Andres Zambrano (azambrano@ucla.edu)
Paulina Restrepo Echavarria (paur@ucla.edu)
Cesar Serra (cserra@ucla.edu)
Martine Mariotti (martine.mariotti@yahoo.com)
Gissele Gajate Garrido (ggajateg@ucla.edu)
Review of undergraduate advising
Jinyong Hahn, Vice-chair, Graduate Studies
Julie Plotkin, Sr. Student Affairs Officer, Undergraduate Studies
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3:05
3:30
4:00
5:00
Review of graduate advising
Roger Farmer, Vice-chair, Undergraduate Studies
Barbara Garcia, Student Affairs Officer, Graduate Studies
Review of Teaching Assistant Program (TAP)
Mark Wright, TAP Faculty Advisor
Simeon Alder (graduate student), TAP consultant
Barbara Garcia, TAP Staff Advisor
Jairo Rendon, current TA
Sophia Zhang, current TA (might attend)
Closed session for review team only.
Faculty dinner hosted by Economics Dept. Location TBA.
Andrew Atkeson, Simon Board, Roger Farmer, Naomi Lamoreaux,
Rosa Matzkin, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Pierre-Olivier Weill
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
8:30
9:45
11:15
12:00
1:00
1:30
2:00
3:00
4:00
Assistant Professors Group Meeting
Simon Board, Leah Boustan, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Jonathan Vogel,
Mark Wright
Individual meetings with faculty, staff and students.
9:45 graduate student, Anna D’Souza (adouza@ucla.edu)
10:00 graduate student, Corey Garriott (cgarriott@ucla.edu)
10:15 undergrad student, Pablo Valentin (pvalen@ucla.edu)
10:30 undergrad student, Roger Ling (roger.ling@gmail.com)
Tour of the department and affiliated facilities.
Lunch – review team members only [at the Faculty Center]
Meeting with administrative staff
Lora Clarke, Chief Administrative Officer
Gwen Matthews, Front Office Coordinator
Tomarion Brown, Front Office Assistant
Gloria McBride, Sr. Financial Analyst
Michelle Ellis, Accounting Assistant
Ed McDevitt, Assistant to the Chair
Sandra Hernandez, Academic Personnel Coordinator
Barbara Garcia, Student Affairs Officer, Graduate Programs
Julie Plotkin, Sr. Student Affairs Officer, Undergraduate Programs
Dounia Sadeghi, Student Affairs Officer, Undergraduate Programs
Timothy Kwok, Information Technology Coordinator
Lucas Lee, Information Technology Assistant
Meeting with Development Officers
Kevin Albert (Board of Visitors), Stephen Jennings (College of Letters & Science)
Closed session for review team only
Final review team meeting with chair and vice chairs.
Gary Hansen, Chair
Roger Farmer, Vice-chair, Graduate Studies
Jinyong Hahn, Vice-chair, Undergraduate Studies
Exit meeting – 2121 Murphy Hall. EVC/Provost Scott Waugh, Dean Reynaldo Macias,
Graduate Dean Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Vice Provost Judith Smith, Review Team (Mark
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Moldwin, Barbara Boyle, Roger Savage, Carol Bakhos, George Mailath, Lars Peter Hansen),
Chair Gary Hansen, Vice Chair Roger Farmer, Vice Chair Jinyong Hahn, UgC Chair Stuart Brown,
GC Chair Jan Reiff, CPB Representative Jack Judy, FEC Representative Richard Thorne
Contact:
For additional information, please contact:
Lora Clarke, CAO, Phone: x 51333, E-mail: lclarke@econ.ucla.edu
Alternate Contacts:
Gwen Matthews or Tomarion Brown in Main Office, Phone: x51011
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