Dear Daniel,

I would be interested in being part of the network:
either as a associate collaborator at IAP (to be able
to get access to the network collaboration, travel
money etc) , or as having Stockholm as a real node.

I realise that the latter alternative (node) might be a bit
delicate and I do not want to push it unless you think
it is a good idea and a strength to the network application
(e.g. by increasing the geographical coverage). In
that case, we are three senior researchers that would be
interested in joinging. Apart from myslef: Gšran Oloffson
(IR astronomer, working with embedded star forming
regions in our galaxy, and IR instrumentation) and
Claes Fransson (Supernovea expert, working on among
other things on the modelling of the interaction between
SNe and the ISM in starburst regions). G. Oloffson
has developed a 2-5 micron camera for the NOT which
makes it possible to map star forming regions embedded
in hot dust (e.g. in the L-band) with a good spatial
resolution (basically diffraction limited so the
FWHM can be as good as 0.3 arcsec). Access is granted
through the Swedish membership in NOT. So, a possible
PhD project could be "dusty starbursts in the IR". In
this respect it could also be of interest to note that
Sweden will have 23% of the time on the APEX telescope
which will have the capability of bolometer imaging at
300 - 900 micron that can map cool dust, and other
things.

We are also involved in the european part of the MIRI
consortium that will build a 5-30 micron camera/spectrograph
for the JWST (next generation space telescope). This
will have great potential impact of the understanding
of dusty starburst regions, and the proposed project could
be seen as a forerunner.

Our contribution to the rest of the network could be
expertise in the mid IR and acess to the intruments.

Already, I have collaborative projects on starburst with
Paris (you), Granada and Marseille, 3 of the proposed nodes
so it should be possible to find other projects as well.
For example, our work (Stockholm, Marseille, Granada,
Uppsala) on Fabry-Perot studies of BCGs are quite unique
and could perhaps be of interest for the network?

Gšran
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