Dr. Robert Jedicke
Robert Jedicke has had four professional
careers: football, particle physics, astronomy and software engineering.
He received his PhD in experimental particle physics from the University
of Toronto, Canada, for work on flavor dependence in the production of
charm-strange mesons. After a brief stint in the professional Canadian
Football league with the B.C. Lions, he held post-doctoral positions at
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL, and at the
University
of Arizona's Lunar & Planetary Laboratory where he worked on the
Spacewatch near Earth asteroid survey. He spent more than five years at
Veeco Corporation in Tucson developing image analysis software for
interferometers before accepting a faculty position at the Institute for
Astronomy at the University of Hawaii in March 2003. He is currently the
manager of the Pan-STARRS moving object processing system that will
discover more asteroids and comets each month than have been found in
the past two centuries. He has discovered two comets and an asteroid is
named after his family.
Dr. William Burgett
William Burgett
received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Johns Hopkins
University in 1989. His fields of interest are fluid dynamics, high
energy and cosmic ray physics, and astrophysics. From 1989 to 2003, he
lived in the Dallas area working as a systems engineer for Texas
Instrments and Raytheon, a physicist at the Superconducting Super
Collider, and as a visiting professor of physics at UT-Dallas from
1999-2003. In 2003, he joined the Pan-STARRS Project at the University
of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, and he became the Pan-STARRS Project
Manager in October 2005.
