Academic Senate Review Department of Economics March 10-11, 2008 Location: 9294 Bunch Hall Site Visit Schedule

Mark Moldwin, Barbara Boyle, Roger Savage, Carol Bakhos, George Mailath, Lars Peter Hansen

9:00 Meeting with Acting Dean Reynaldo Macias

10:00 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

12:00 Lunch – review team members only (Faculty Center)

1:15 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)

2:00 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)

2:45 Review of undergraduate advising

Jinyong Hahn, Vice-chair, Graduate Studies

Julie Plotkin, Sr. Student Affairs Officer, Undergraduate Studies

Roger Farmer, Vice-chair, Undergraduate Studies

Barbara Garcia, Student Affairs Officer, Graduate Studies

3:30 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)

4:00 Closed session for review team only.

5:00 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

Simon Board, Leah Boustan, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Jonathan Vogel,

Mark Wright

9:45 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)

11:15 Tour of the department and affiliated facilities.

12:00 Lunch – review team members only [at the Faculty Center]

1:00 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

1:30 Meeting with Development Officers

Kevin Albert (Board of Visitors), Stephen Jennings (College of Letters & Science)

2:00 Closed session for review team only

3:00 Final review team meeting with chair and vice chairs.

Gary Hansen, Chair

Roger Farmer, Vice-chair, Graduate Studies

Jinyong Hahn, Vice-chair, Undergraduate Studies

4:00 Exit meeting – 2121 Murphy Hall. EVC/Provost Scott Waugh, Dean Reynaldo Macias,
Graduate Dean Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Vice Provost Judith Smith, Review Team (Mark
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

Gwen Matthews or Tomarion Brown in Main Office, Phone: x51011