Project Team

Principal Investigator
Bruno Vaz Castilho	LNA/MCT	bruno@lna.br
Science Team
Augusto Damineli Beatriz Barbuy Gabriel P. Franco Gustavo P. Mello Katia Cunha Verne V. Smith	IAG/USP IAG/USP IF/UFMG OV/UFRJ ON/MCT Universidade do Texas IAG / USP
Project Team
Bruno V. Castilho Clemens D. Gneiding Germano R. Quast	LNA/MCT LNA/MCT LNA/MCT	bruno@lna.br clemens@lna.br germano@lna.br
Conceptual Optical Design
Bernard Delabre	ESO
Optical Consultant
Robert Tull Damien Jones	Universidade do Texas
Project Management
Keith Taylor	LNA/MCT
Mechanics
Vanessa Machanhan Ruben Dominguez Diego Mercadal Andreas Klossek	LNA/MCT LNA/MCT UNIFEI/LNA/MCT LNA/MCT
Control Systems
Francisco Rodrigues and Team + Possible Collabs	LNA/MCT UFMG / UFCS	cote@lna.br
Software
Antônio Kanaan Maximiliano Abans Henrique da Luz	UFSC LNA/MCT LNA/MCT
Integration, Tests
Bruno V. Castilho Antonio Cesar Oliveira Rodrigo Campos Clemens D. Gneiding	LNA/MCT LNA/MCT LNA/MCT LNA/MCT	bruno@lna.br cesar@lna.br rodrigo@lna.br clemens@lna.br

† - Most of the listed personal are only partially dedicated to this project.
* - The Mechanical Engineering Department of UNIFEI will likely participate in some subsystems projects yet to be defined.
** - A grater involvement of F.Santoro on this project depends on the SOAR ISB schedule.

Collaborators & Scientific Support

During the proposal of this instrument to the SOAR community we received the Scientific Support of several colleagues (other then the ones listed above), which we would like to record here:

LNA	Carlos A. Torres	Mariângela O. Abans	Albert Bruch
IAG/USP	Antonio M. Magalhães	Marcos Diaz	Augusto Daminelli
	Eduardo J. Pacheco	Jane Gregorio-Hetem	Walter Maciel
	Nelson V. Leister	Silvia Rossi
ON/MCT	Ramiro de La Reza	Celso Batalha	Cláudio Bastos
	Thais Mothe	Lício da Silva	Francisco Araújo
OV/UFRJ	François Cuisiner	Silvia Lorenz
UFRN	José Renan de Medeiros
UFMG	Domingos Soares	Wagner Corradi
UFES	Roberto Ortiz
UEFS	Paulo Poppe	Vera Martin

MSU	Timothy Beers	Steve Sepf
UNC	Jim Rose	Chris Clemens
ESO	Luca Pasquini
Lick Obs.	Ricardo Schiavon	Christopher Wilmer

We wish to thank all the team members that contributed to to produce this document and design concept, and especially to Bernard Delabre (ESO), Robert Tull (Texas Univ.), Luca Pasquini (ESO), as well as Clemens Gneiding (LNA), Steve Heathcote (SOAR) and F. Santoro (LNA/CTIO) for the fruitful discussions.