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The Organizing Committee
- Paul Crowther (Sheffield,
UK)
Paul Crowther received his PhD in 1993 from University College London and is currently a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield, UK. His primary research is quantitative spectroscopy of hot stars with stellar winds, including both massive stars and PN central stars. Current interests related to properties of O and early B stars in the Magellanic Clouds, surveys of Wolf-Rayet stars in external galaxies, the massive stellar content of giant HII regions, and starburst galaxies both near and far.
- Margaret Hanson (Cincinnati, USA)
Margaret received her PhD
in 1995 from the University of Colorado under the direction of Peter S.
Conti. She spent three years at the University of Arizona, Steward
Observatory, as a Hubble Fellow. She is now Professor of Physics at the
University of Cincinnati. She delights in obtaining spectra of massive stars
(particularly infrared) to constrain their characteristics at all
evolutionary stages. She also studies massive young clusters through their
high mass stars to reveal the structure and star formation history of our
Milky Way. She has served as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of The
Astronomical Journal since 2005.
- Artemio Herrero (Canarias, Spain)
- Norbert Langer (Bonn, Germany)
- Claus Leitherer (STScI, USA)
Claus
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 a Tenured Astronomer and serves as the Head of the Science Policies Group. 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.
- Stan Owocki (Delaware, USA)
- Joachim Puls (University Observatory Munich, Germany; CHAIR)
Joachim is a
Privatdozent (lecturer). His main
interests include NLTE spectroscopy of hot stars, stellar atmospheres,
radiation driven winds, radiation hydrodynamics.
- Gregor Rauw (Liege, Belgium)
- Nicole St-Louis (Montreal, Canada)
- Richard Townsend (Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Rich
received his Ph.D. in 1997 from University College London. After spending a year outside astronomy, he returned to UCL as a Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2003 he relocated to the United States, and since 2008 has been an Assistant Professor on the faculty of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Current interests include nonradial oscillations, magnetic fields, winds and critical rotation of massive stars, studied using theoretical and computational tools.
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