Serge Rudaz

Visiting Professor, Université de Paris XI, Orsay, 1994-1995; Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Physics, 2006-2007; Founding Director of the Honors Program and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2007.

George W. Taylor/ITAS Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2006; University of Minnesota IT Student Board, Best Instructor,1998;Elected Fellow, American Physical Society, 1995;University of Minnesota IT Student Board, Outstanding Instructor, 1992; Herzberg Medal, Canadian Association of Physicists, 1985; NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1984-1991 Advisory Board, University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study, 2007-; Advisory Board, Seven Pines Institute, 2006- Principal Investigator, NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at the School of Physics, University of Minnesota 2003-2007; Organizing Committee, SUSY30, Minneapolis, October 2000;Organizing Committee, APS-Particles and Fields Meeting, Minneapolis, 1996;Consultant, Particle Data Group, 1986-1996;Governing Board, Lewes Center for Physics,1985-1988;Chairman,Sixth Workshop on Grand Unification, Minneapolis, 1985 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee;Graduate Curriculum Committee;Graduate Written Exam Committee (including 4 years as Chair); Student Scholarships and Awards Committee

Unified theories of elementary particle interactions and their phenomenology, applications to cosmology and astroparticle physics; supersymmetry; relativistic many-body physics, including phase transitions in quantum field theories at finite temperature and density; models of hadronic interactions; physics of topological defect formation in the early universe and in condensed systems.