Miscellaneous Documents / Posters / Presentations

A method to find variable/transient sources in a stack of image data:
The Consecutive Signed-Slope (CSS) Method (vsn 4/27/2021)
Presentation at Troop-4 Scout Meeting (May, 2021):
Basic Celestial Navigation
Moving Object Discovery Engine (LSST study report; July 2017):
Moving Object Discovery Engine report
LSST asteroid discovery meeting (Pasadena; December 2016):
Discovering/recovering asteroids and NEOs using LMODE software
"WISE at 5: Legacy & Prospects" presentation (February 2015):
Machine-learned classification of variable stars detected by (NEO)WISE
SPIRITS team-meeting presentation (February 2015):
SIDE: Spitzer Image Differencing & Extraction
GReater IPAC Technology Symposium presentation (GRITS V, October 2013):
Test-driving IPAC's first Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor: a new era in parallel computing
White paper (August 2013):
Benchmarking the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor
Prototype WITS Image Differencing and Extraction pipeline (WIDE), where WITS stands for "Wide field Infrared Time-domain Survey (November 2012):
WIDE pipeline summary
White paper on Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) research project (June 2011 - January 2012):
Optimal Detection of Rare "sub-significant" Events in the Time-Domain
AAS 219th Meeting (January 2012); BAAS #430.03:
Abstract; Poster: Imtrandetect: a new tool/methodology for detecting astronomical transients from large image-data streams down to low S/N
Presentation at "Digging deeper and faster: algorithms for computationally limited problems in time-domain astronomy" (Dec 2011):
Imtrandetect: a new tool/methodology for transient detection
A Survey for Galaxies in the Zone-of-Avoidance using WISE

Circinus collaboration proposal

AAS 218th Meeting (May 2011); BAAS #328.10:
Abstract; Poster: WISE Nearby Galaxy Atlas
- Galaxy sample montage 1 (2.9 MB tiff)
- Galaxy sample montage 2 (23 MB tiff)
AAS 217th Meeting (January 2011); BAAS #333.12:
Abstract; Poster: A WISE View of Nearby Spiral Galaxies: mapping the spatial distribution of star formation and stellar mass along the Hubble sequence
Greater IPAC Science Symposium presentation (GISS, May 2010):
2MASS AGN Down Under: brute force spectroscopy with 6dF
GReater IPAC Technology Symposium presentation (GRITS I, May 2009):
AWAIC: A WISE Astronomical Image Co-adder
AAS 213th Meeting (January 2009); BAAS #459.05:
Abstract; Poster: AWAIC: A WISE Astronomical Image Co-adder
AAS 211th Meeting (January 2008); BAAS #157.09:
Abstract; Poster: The Southern Near-IR AGN Survey: spectroscopic observations from 6dF
Spitzer Conference: New Views of the Cosmos (November 2004):
Abstract; Poster: Large Scale Structure at 24 Microns from Counts-in-Cells
ADASS XIV Conference, Pasadena, CA (October 2004):
Abstract; Poster: Processing of 24 Micron Image Data at the Spitzer Science Center
Probing Galactic Spheroid Formation through Mergers
Searching for AGN and Ultraluminous Galaxies
WIRE science and proposals (Aug. 1998 - Jul. 2000):
Red Quasars in the Las Campanas Infrared Survey
Spectroscopy of "Red" flat-spectrum Radio Quasars
Star Formation Rates of Faint Radio Galaxies
A Deep 1.4 GHz Radio Survey of WIRE Mid-IR Fields
Mid-IR Colors of the Reddest Quasars
Are Galactic Halos Dusty?
Diffuse Dust in Rich Galaxy Clusters
Selecting AGN from the WIRE Deep Survey
Fourth Year (Honors) Project; School of Physics, University of Melbourne (1993):
Optically Obscured Quasars