| Knut Olsen is an Associate Astronomer at the Cerro Tololo
InterAmerican Observatory in Chile. His research is in the area of
stellar populations in nearby galaxies; the Large Magellanic
Cloud is a frequent target of his studies. He is particularly
interested in the star formation, chemical enrichment, and dynamical
histories of nearby galaxies and the role that globular clusters
played in their formation. His current CTIO responsibilities include
serving as Instrument Scientist for the Hydra-CTIO spectrograph,
providing support for the Mosaic-2 imager, and aiding in the planning
for a ~30-m Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope; he is transitioning to a
position with the NOAO Gemini Science Center in Tucson, AZ.
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| Roberta Paladini is a Post Doctoral fellow at the Centre d‘Etude Spatiale
des Rayonnements (CESR) in Toulouse (France) where she holds an individual
European Marie Curie Fellowship. Her major scientific interest
are Galactic HII regions, star formation, interstellar medium and Galaxy
structure. As a PLANCK
associate, she also works in the field of Galactic foregrounds (free-free,
synchrotron and dust emission) in the context of Cosmic Microwave Background
experiments. In addition, she participates in the PILOT balloon experiment
led
by Jean-Philippe Bernard.
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| Nino Panagia is an ESA Senior Astronomer working at STScI on JWST
related matters. His main scientific interests include supernovae and
supernova remnants, diffuse matter in galaxies (HII regions, molecular
clouds and star-forming regions, planetary nebulae, and interstellar
dust), stellar winds from early type stars, stellar populations (mostly
in the LMC, SMC and M51), and cosmology (expansion and acceleration of
the universe, primordial stellar populations, and reionization of the
universe). He is a member in several large project teams, such as SCP
(HST-10496: Efficient Dark Energy Studies with Supernovae and Clusters -
Supernova Cosmology Project), GRAPES (HST-9793: The Grism-ACS Program
for Extragalactic Science) and PEARS (HST-10530: Probing Evolution And
Reionization Spectroscopically), SAINTS (HST-10549: Supernova 1987A
INTensive Survey), and "Searching for galaxies at z>6.5 in the Hubble
Ultra Deep Field" (HST-10632).
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| Déborah Paradis is a Ph.D student with Jean-Philippe Bernard at CESR in
Toulouse, France.
Her scientific interest are the interstellar medium, dust emission (IR
to millimeter), essentially studies of the variations of dust properties
in the various phases of the ISM.
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| Kevin Volk is a Science Fellow at Gemini Observatory, based in Hilo,
Hawaii. He was the instrument scientist for the T-ReCS mid-IR instrument
for a while at Gemini South before recently moving to Gemini North, where
he is about to become the instrument scientist for its mid-IR instrument
Michelle. His research interests are in the areas of planetary nebulae,
circumstellar dust shells in evolved stars, and in particular in
mid-infrared spectroscopy of dust features of all sorts.
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Barbara Whitney is a Senior Research Scientist at the Space Science
Institute. She lives and works in Madison Wisconsin and is a
member of the Wisconsin IRAC pipeline team. She has developed
radiative transfer models of forming stars, and assisted Tom Robitaille in producing a large grid of models,
available on this website.
These will be used in conjunction with a model fitter to analyze star
formation in the LMC. Barbara is also a member of the GLIMPSE team
and will be interested to compare star formation characteristics between our
Galaxy and the LMC.
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| Dennis Zaritsky is a Professor at the University of Arizona's
Steward Observatory. He has recently completed an optical photometric
catalog
of the Magellanic Clouds (http://ngala.as.arizona.edu/dennis/mcsurvey.html)
and studies the star formation history and structure of the Clouds.
In parallel with SAGE, he and collaborators are undertaking a large
kinematic survey (~10000 stars) of the the LMC.
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