Robert A. McLaren (b. 1946) is a Canadian astronomer who began his career at the University of Toronto in infrared astronomy. He subsequently served as director of the CFHT and then as associate director of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, where he focused his efforts on the development of astronomy facilities on Maunakea.

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Thomas Allan Aaron Sigut (b. 1966) is a Canadian astronomer who completed his PhD at the University of Toronto on infrared Rydberg transitions in B stars in 1995. He is known for his research on circumstellar disks around hot stars, classical Be stars, Herbig Ae/Be stars and non-LTE radiative transfer as applied to precise stellar abundance determinations.

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Martin Houde (b. 1963) is a Canadian astronomer studying the physical processes involved in the formation of stars. He completed his PhD in Physics at the Université de Montréal in 2001. His research spans magnetic fields and turbulence in molecular clouds, the polarization of molecular spectral lines, astronomical instrumentation and super-radiance.

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Carol Evelyn Jones née Millar (b. 1958) is a Canadian astronomer whose research focuses on circumstellar disk-like distributions of material, computational astrophysics, emission-line stars and Be stars. She was the Chair of the International Astronomical Union's Division G Working Group on Active B stars from 2015 to 2021.

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Pauline Margaret Barmby (b. 1972) is a Canadian astronomer known for her work on star formation and stellar populations in nearby galaxies. She obtained her PhD from Harvard in 2001 on globular clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy. She became the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Western Ontario in London Canada in 2022.

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