[:en][three_fourth last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=” background_image=” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=” border_style=” border_style=”” padding=” margin_top=” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=” animation_type=” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=” class=” class=”” id=””][fusion_text] Brian Schmidt is a Laureate Fellow and Distinguished Professor at The Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory. Brian was raised…

[:en][three_fourth last=”last=”link=””” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=” background_image=” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=” border_style=” border_style=”” padding=” margin_top=” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=” animation_type=” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=” class=” class=”” id=””][fusion_text] Distinguished Senior Scholar and Professor at Penn State University. Feigelson completed a dissertation at Harvard under Riccardo Giacconi, and took…

[:en][three_fourth last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=” background_image=” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=” border_style=” border_style=”” padding=” margin_top=” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=” animation_type=” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=” class=” class=”” id=””][fusion_text] Education and Degrees Diploma in Physics 1971, Technische Universität Berlin Ph. D. in Astronomy 1973, Technische Universität Berlin Habilitation in…

[:en][three_fourth last=”last=”link=””” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=” background_image=” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=” border_style=” border_style=”” padding=” margin_top=” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=” animation_type=” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=” class=” class=”” id=””][fusion_text] Peter Stetson is interested in most aspects of observational astronomy, but the bulk of his effort has been in photometry…

[:en][three_fourth last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=” background_image=” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=” border_style=” border_style=”” padding=” margin_top=” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=” animation_type=” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=” class=” class=”” id=””][fusion_text] Tony Tyson is the Chief Scientist of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. His research interests are in cosmology, dark matter,…

[:en][three_fourth last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=” background_image=” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=” border_style=” border_style=”” padding=” margin_top=” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=” animation_type=” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=” class=” class=”” id=””][fusion_text]Wolfgang Gieren´s research focuses on the calibration of the extragalactic distance scale mostly using stellar distance indicators, such as Cepheid variables,…