Department Committees 2023-2024 – Department of Physics & Astronomy

Committee descriptions and 23-24 Committee Assignment PDF

AWARDS COMMITTEE (FACULTY/STAFF)

John Belz (Chair)
Valy Vardeny
Paolo Gondolo
Mikhail Raikh
Marcia Cook

AWARDS COMMITTEE (STUDENT)

Gail Zasowski (Chair)
Anil Seth
Gernot Laicher
Oleg Starykh
Jeremy Thomas
Anthony Pantziris
Naua Uluave

COMPUTING

Wayne Springer (Chair )
Brad Hawks
Michael Vershinin

DEVELOPMENT

Dan Wik (Chair)
Ramón Barthelemy
Saveez Saffarian
Christoph Boehme

EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Tino Nyawelo (Chair)
Shanti Deemyad
Eric Montoya
Mengxing Ye

FACULTY SEARCHES

Christoph Boehme (Co-chair)
Vikram Deshpande (Co-chair)
Shanti Deemyad
Andrey Rogachev
Oleg Starykh

FUTURES COMMITTEE

Yue Zhao (Chair)
Vikram Deshpande
Oleg Starykh
Saveez Saffarian
Dennis Soldin
Ramón Barthelemy

GRADUATE PROGRAM, CURRICULUM & RECRUITMENT

Pearl Sandick, Director of Graduate Studies (Chair)
Douglas R Bergman
Oleg Starykh
Gail Zasowski
Kelsey Krause

GRADUATE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

Douglas Bergman (Chair)
Charlie Jui
Eugene Mishchenko
Pearl Sandick (DoGs)
Tugdual LeBohec

GRADUATE ADMISSIONS COORDINATION

Dan Wik (Chair)
Pearl Sandick (DoGs)
Jordan Gerton
Yue Zhao
Gustavo Tavares
Andrey Rogachev
Dennis Soldin
Saveez Saffarian

LEARNING ASSISTANT (LA) PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Claudia De Grandi (Chair)

LGBT+ AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

Tanmoy Laskar
Yao-Yuan Mao

LAOA (LEARNING ANALYTICS AND OUTCOME ASSESSMENT)

Eugene Mishchenko (Chair)
Rhett Zollinger
Paolo Gondolo

OMBUDS LIAISON

Gail Zasowski (Chair)

PANDA NETWORK

Gail Zasowski (Chair)
Jordan Gerton
Yao-Yuan Mao
Claudia De Grandi
Eric Montoya

POSTBACCALAUREATE PROGRAM

Ramón Barthelemy (Chair)
Anil Seth

POSTDOCTORAL AFFAIRS

John Belz (Chair)
Tanmoy Laskar
Zhengkang Zhang
Christoph Boehme

PUBLIC EDUCATION & OUTREACH

Kevin Davenport (Chair)
Adam Beehler
Julie Callahan
Tino Nyawelo
Paul Ricketts
Rhett Zollinger

RETENTION, PROMOTION & TENURE

Christoph Boehme

SAFETY

Charles Jui (Chair)
Gernot Laicher
Zhiheng Liu (Safety Coordinator)
Paul Ricketts
Andrey Rogachev
Harold Simpson

PUBLIC PRESENTATION COMMITTEE

Yao-Yuan Mao (Co-chair)
Oleg Starykh (Co-chair)
John Belz
Doug Bergman
Gustavo Marques-Tavares
Kevin Zhang
Shanti Deemyad
Michael Vershinin
Vikram Deshpande
Mengxing Ye
Andrey Rogachev

SPS ADVISOR

Kelby Hahn (Chair)

SRI LIAISON

Yao-Yuan Mao (Chair)

STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL (SAC)

Christoph Boehme (Chair)

SUSTAINABILITY AND CURRICULUM

TA COMMITTEE

Pearl Sandick (Chair)
Kevin Davenport
Jordan Gerton
Zheng Zheng

ASTRONOMY TASK FORCE ORGANIZATION

Tanmoy Laskar (Chair)

TEACHING EXCELLENCE

Claudia De Grandi (Chair)
Orest Symko
Kelby Hahn
Jordan Gerton
Kevin Davenport
Rhett Zollinger

UNDERGRADUATE ADVISOR – HONORS

Jordan Gerton (Chair)

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM & RECRUITMENT

Anil Seth (Chair)
Jeremy Thomson
Jordan Gerton
Tino Nyawelo
Andrew T. Ve'e

REU & SURP PROGRAMS

Tino Nyawelo (Chair)
Jordan Gerton

PASSAGE

Mengxing Ye (Chair)
Pearl Sandick (Co-Advisor)
Kelsey Krause

COLLEGE COMMITTEES

ACADEMIC APPEALS

Peter Stang (Chair)
Eugene Mishchenko
Randy Jensen
Tory Richardson
Hannah Fritze
Kayla Gonzalez
Quyen Tran

COLLEGE COUNCIL

CONVOCATION

CURRICULUM

EDI

SAFETY

RETENTION, PROMOTION & TENURE

Wayne Springer

SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

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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