 Leo GirardiHe/Him My main interests are in the fields of stellar evolution and stellar populations in the Local Group, essentially any aspect that involves the star counts -- for instance inferences on the MW distribution of stellar mass and its star formation history, constraints to stellar evolution from star clusters, binaries and the distribution of their properties, statistics of very cool stars in the AGB, etc. |
 John GizisHe/Him My main research interests are in the solar neighborhood, very-low-mass stars, and brown dwarfs: MLTY dwarfs and subdwarfs. I am co-chair of the Stars, Milky Way & Local Volume Science Collaboration. I have been working on astrometry with LSST and plan to participate in Commissioning Activities. I am interested in applying machine learning to LSST datasets, and am Associate Director of U. Delaware's Data Science Institute. |
 Knut OlsenHe/Him Knut Olsen's research interests span a broad range in the general area of stellar populations. He is particularly interested in looking for evidence for processes of galaxy formation and evolution in the stars contained in nearby galaxies. He has looked for clues to these processes in globular cluster systems, in the star formation history of field stars, in the interaction of massive stars with their surroundings, in internal galaxy dynamics, and in the faint structure of the outskirts of galaxies. Techniques that he has applied to these problems include crowded field photometry, stella |
 R. Michael RichHe/Him My principle research interest is in the Galactic bulge and stellar populations. I am interested in the age and origin of the bulge and thick disk, and the relationship of those populations to the inner halo and globular clusters. I have also worked on the binary star content of the local Galactic halo population, and am interested in dwarf galaxies, as well as the low surface brightness Universe, and resolved stellar populations of galaxies in the Local Volume. I am a member of the Stars, Milky Way, and Local Volume collaboration, as well as the Galaxies science collaboration. |
