The Organizing Committee
- Paul Crowther (Sheffield,
United Kingdom)
Paul Crowther
received his PhD in 1993 from University College London and is
at present a Royal Society Research Fellow and Lecturer in Astronomy at
the University of Sheffield, UK. His primary research is quantitative
spectroscopy of hot stars with stellar winds. Current interests related to
properties of O and early B stars in the Magellanic Clouds, Wolf-Rayet
stars in external galaxies, starburst galaxies and the massive stellar
content of giant HII regions within the Milky Way, including the Super
Star Cluster Westerlund 1.
- Alex Fullerton (JHU, USA)
Alex received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1990. Following
postdoctoral positions at the Bartol Research Institute and the
Universitaets Sternwarte Muenchen, he moved to the Johns Hopkins University
in 1997 to work as a support astronomer for Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic
Explorer (FUSE). Since 2004, Alex has also been affiliated with the Space
Telescope Science Institute, where he supports the development of the FGS
Tunable Filter Imager for the James Webb Space Telescope. His research is
focused on spectroscopic analysis of the photospheres and winds of
early-type stars, with particular emphasis on trying to understand the
time-dependent structure of hot-star winds.
- Gloria Koenigsberger (UNAM, Mexico)
Gloria received her Ph.D. in 1983 from Penn State University, after which she returned to Mexico to occupy a permanent research position at the Instituto de Astronomia UNAM in Mexico City. She was the Director of the Instituto 1990-1998, and is currently a member of the staff at the Centro de Ciencias Fisicas UNAM, in Cuernavaca. Her main scientific interests are stellar atmospheres and winds, and interaction mechanism in massive binary systems.
- Norbert Langer (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- 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 an Associate Astronomer. His responsibilities at
STScI are split between the support of HST and JWST. 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.
- Phil Massey (Lowell, USA)
Phil completed his thesis work at the
Univ. of Colorado under the direction of Peter S. Conti in 1980. After 3
pleasant years as a postdoctoral fellow at the DAO, he joined the scientific
staff of Kitt Peak/NOAO, where his duties included helping to look after the
4-meter Mayall telescope. In 2000 he joined the staff of Lowell
Observatory, in Flagstaff, AZ. He studies massive stars found both locally in the Milky
Way, and in the Magellanic Clouds, as well as the more distant members of
the Local Group. His interests are centered on understanding the evolution
and physical properties of massive stars, and in star formation processes. His
expertise includes crowded-field photometry and optical stellar
spectroscopy.
- Georges Meynet (Geneva, Switzerland)
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- Stan Owocki (Delaware, USA; Chair)
- Joachim Puls ( University Observatory Munich, Germany)
Joachim is a
Privatdozent (lecturer). His main
interests include NLTE spectroscopy of hot stars, stellar atmospheres,
radiation driven winds, radiation hydrodynamics.
- Nicole St-Louis (Montreal, Canada)
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