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Time-domain astronomy and transient surveys

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Alexei Filippenko

Alexei Filippenko is an astronomer and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies supernovae and black holes and helped discover the accelerating expansion of the Universe in 1998.

Avishay Gal-Yam

Avishay Gal-Yam (אבישי גל-ים) is an Israeli astrophysicist and full professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for classifying superluminous supernovae and identifying SN 2007bi as a pair-instability candidate.

Brian Metzger

Brian D. Metzger is a theoretical astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Columbia University whose 2010 kilonova predictions, confirmed in 2017, earned the New Horizons in Physics Prize.

Edo Berger

Edo Berger is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, there since 2008, known for work on short gamma-ray bursts and for leading the identification of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave event.

Lin Yan

Lin Yan is an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, on its professional staff since 2000, who studies infrared extragalactic astronomy and time-domain transients.

Nathan Smith (astronomer)

Nathan Smith is an astronomer and Professor at Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, who studies the evolution and death of massive stars, supernovae, and eruptive transients like Eta Carinae.

Shrinivas Kulkarni

Shrinivas Kulkarni is an Indian-born American astronomer, the George Ellery Hale Professor at Caltech, known for millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray burst distances, and founding the Zwicky Transient Facility.