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Department Committees 2026-2027


There may be updates to these assignments until the beginning of Fall semester.

ASTRONOMY TASK FORCE ORGANIZATION
Grace Telford
AWARDS COMMITTEE (FACULTY/STAFF)
David Kieda (Chair)
Tino Nyawelo
Christoph Boehme
Valerie Smith
AWARDS COMMITTEE (STUDENT)
Tanmoy Laskar (Chair)
Jordan Gerton
Valy Vardeny
Saveez Saffarian
Gernot Laicher
Alex Munoz (event planning)
Stacie Cuadro (undergrad)
Calvin Dittmore (grad)
COMPUTING
Doug Bergman (Chair)
Wayne Springer
Brad Hawks
CONDENSED MATTER TASK FORCE
Mengxing Ye (Chair - Fall)
Eric Montoya (Chair - Spring)
CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND ACCESS LIAISON
Claudia De Grandi
FACULTY MENTORING PROGRAM
Wayne Springer (Chair)
Valerie Smith
FUTURES
Dave Kieda (Chair)
Gustavo Marques-Tavares
Andrey Rogachev
Grace Telford
Saveez Saffarian
GRADUATE ADMISSIONS COORDINATION
Nick Borys (Chair)
Oleg Starykh
Dennis Soldin
Saveez Saffarian
Kevin Zhang
Dan Wik
Vikram Deshpande
Gail Zasowski (ex officio)
Calvin Dittmore
GRADUATE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
Andrey Rogachev (Chair)
Oleg Starykh
Charlie Jui
Kyle Dawson
Doug Bergman
Gail Zasowski (ex officio)
GRADUATE PROGRAM, CURRICULUM, RECRUITMENT
Gail Zasowski (Chair)
Kyle Dawson
Nick Borys
Dave Kieda
Calvin Dittmore
HONORS LIAISON
Paolo Gonodolo
LAOA
Ben Bromley (Chair)
Paolo Gondolo
LA DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR
Claudia De Grandi
MAP
Qi Feng
OMBUDS LIAISON
Kyle Dawson
PANDA NETWORK
Christoph Boehme (Chair)
Rhett Zollinger
Claudia De Grandi
Stacie Cuadro
POSTDOCTORAL AFFAIRS
Dennis Soldin (Chair)
Valy Vardeny
Wayne Springer
PROGRAM STATISTICS
Paolo Gondolo (Chair)
Ben Bromley
Doug Bergman
PHYSICS EDUCATION & OUTREACH
Wayne Springer (Chair)
Kevin Davenport
Shanti Deemyad
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Vikram Deshpande (Chair)
John Belz
Gustavo Marques-Tavares
Grace Telford
RPT CHAIR & SAC ADVISOR
Charlie Jui
SAFETY
Audrey Rogachev (Chair)
Gernot Laicher
Nick Borys
Zhiheng Liu
SPS ADVISOR
Tino Nyawelo
SURF/REU PEOGRAM
Tino Nyawelo (Chair)
Jordan Gerton
Qi Feng
TA COMMITTEE
Kevin Davenport (Chair)
Zheng Zheng
Kelby Hahn
Shanti Deemyad
Gail Zasowski (ex officio)
Anna Christopherson (mentor TA)
TEACHING EXCELLENCE COMMITTEE
Claudia De Grandi (Chair)
Kelby Hahn
Kevin Davenport
Yao-Yuan Mao
Ben Bromley
Dan Wik
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM & CURRICULUM
Jordan Gerton (Chair)
Claudia De Grandi
Christoph Boehme
Stacie Cuadro
UNDERGRADUATE RECRUITMENT & TEACHER OUTREACH
Rhett Zollinger (Chair)
Christoph Boehme
Tino Nyawelo

COLLEGE COMMITTEES

ACADEMIC APPEALS
Peter Stang (Chair)
Randy Jensen
Tory Richardson
Hannah Fritze
Kayla Gonzalez
Quyen Tran
COLLEGE COUNCIL
Ben Bromley
Rhett Zollinger
Kevin Zhang
CONVOCATION
Katelin Goings
CURRICULUM
Jordan Gerton
SAFETY
Andrey Rogachev
RETENTION, PROMOTION & TENURE
Wayne Springer
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
Valy Vardeny

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES

ACADEMIC SENATE
INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING PROGRAM
SENATE – ACADEMIC FREEDOM
SENATE – EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
SENATE – PRESIDENT ELECT
SENATE – UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
UTAH ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS & COSMOLOGY INSTITUTE
UTAH DIXON LASER INSTITUTE
ENDORSED SCHOLARSHIP ENDORSEMENT COMMITTEE

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