| Karl Gordon is an Assistant Astronomer at Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona and is a member of the MIPS Instrument and
Science Teams. His main scientific research interests are in the field
of interstellar dust, including the observational properties of dust
grains (eg., extinction curves, Extended Red Emission, and infrared
dust emission) and radiative transfer in dusty systems (eg., reflection
nebulae and galaxies). The LMC is an obvious bridge between work on
Milky Way dust and dust in other galaxies. His main functional role
for SAGE is to lead the team responsible for the data reduction and
extraction of photometry from the SAGE MIPS observations.
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| Joseph L. Hora is the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Project Scientist at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is a member of the team
that was responsible for building and calibrating the IRAC instrument on
the Spitzer Space Telescope. His research interests include star
formation, planetary nebulae, and infrared instrumentation.
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| Doug Kelly is a staff scientist at the University of Arizona.
He is a member of the MIPS instrument team, and he was chief
test engineer during the development of the instrument. His
scientific interests include mass loss, late stages of stellar
evolution, star formation in galaxies, and the evolution of
galaxies in clusters. Doug is currently serving as chief
systems engineer for the near-infrared camera on the James Webb
Space Telescope. Doug's interests in the LMC include dust
properties and stellar mass loss in a metal-poor environment,
feedback of ejected material into the ISM, and the evolution
of the mass-losing stars.
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| Claus Leitherer received his Ph.D. in 1985. Following postdoctoral positions
in Heidelberg and Boulder he joined Space Telescope Science Institute in
1988, where he is currently an Associate Astronomer. His responsibilities at
STScI include the panel review and proposal selection process within the
Science Policies Division. His main scientific interests are atmospheres and
evolution of hot stars, resolved and unresolved massive stellar populations,
the stellar content and interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies,
starburst activity in galaxies, and spectrophotometric evolution models of
galaxies.
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| Suzanne Madden is a research scientist at the Service d'Astrophysique
(SAp) of the CEA in Saclay, France. She was on the ISOCAM instrument
team and is on the Herschel SPIRE and PACS teams and the Planck HFI
team. Her science interests include the interplay between star
formation and the ISM in the wide variety of galactic
environments. She studies the IR to mm properties of dust, the ionised
gas and photodissociation regions/molecular clouds. The LMC allows us
to zoom in on star formation and the ISM properties of our nearby
neighbor. Exploring the physical properties of the various components
of this well-resolved low metallicity galaxy in detail, will help us
understand the intrinsic properties of more distant, unresolved
galaxies.
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| Ciska Markwick-Kemper is an assistant professor at the University of
Virginia. Her work focusses on understanding the formation and
processing of circumstellar and interstellar dust, mainly by studying
the mineralogical composition and grain properties by means of infrared
spectroscopy. She is also interested in mass loss processes in
post-main-sequence stars.
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| Marilyn Meade is a Researcher at the University of Wisconsin.
Marilyn has over 30 years experience processing data, starting with the
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, and including the International
Ultraviolet Explorer, the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimetry
Experiment, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer and now the
Spitzer Space Telescope. Marilyn helped develop the Wisconsin
IRAC pipeline, and keeps it running 24 hours a day. She is
also a member of the GLIMPSE team.
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| Jeremy Mould is Director of NOAO, a member of the Spitzer MIPS team,
and interested in the late stages of stellar evolution.
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