Saurabh W. Jha Rutgers the State University of New Jersey Lars Bildsten University of California - Santa Barbara Ryan Foley University of California - Santa Cruz Wen-fai Fong Northwestern University Robert P. Kirshner Harvard University G. H. Marion University of Texas at Austin Curtis McCully Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Adam Riess The Johns Hopkins University Maximillian Stritzinger Aarhus University