Category Archives: Publications

2012: Publications

Posted on December 1, 2012 by

Cosmology with Photometrically-Classified Type Ia Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey Heather Campbell, Chris B. D’Andrea, Robert C. Nichol (ICG, Portsmouth), Masao Sako, Mathew Smith, Hubert Lampeitl, Matthew D. Olmstead, Bruce Bassett, Rahul Biswas, Peter Brown, David Cinabro, Kyle S. Dawson, Ben Dilday, Ryan J. Foley, Joshua A. Frieman, Peter Garnavich, Renee Hlozek,Saurabh W. Jha, Steve Kuhlmann, Martin Kunz, John … Continue reading →

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Radical Research VII – Anyone Can Do Research!

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

One of the best trends in science outreach over the past decade has been the emergence of ‘citizen science‘ – the idea that the layperson could actually contribute to real science. But I find myself dissatisfied with the current state … Continue reading →

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Radical Research VI – Thinking outside the box with a 3D poster

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

Perhaps I am unusual but I find poster sessions some of the most deeply frustrating sessions at conferences. I can see people have (usually) put a lot of work into their posters but I find them impossible to read given … Continue reading →

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Publications in the 2nd half of 2011

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

In the last few months, members of the Cosmology group at AIMS have been busy publishing papers! They include, Multi-Metric Gravity via Massive Gravity Nima Khosravi, Nafiseh Rahmanpour, Hamid Reza Sepangi, Shahab Shahidi Photometric Supernova Cosmology with BEAMS and SDSS-II … Continue reading →

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Journal Science honors ‘universe awareness’ with award

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

A Web site that aims to inspire young children by teaching them about the immensity of the universe and the wonder of the night sky has won the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). “The Web site is … Continue reading →

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Recent Group Publications

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

In his recent visit to AIMS, Roberto Trotta completed the following works on how best to use SNIa observations to produce cosmological constraints and constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model fits: Improved constraints on cosmological parameters from SNIa data M.C. March … Continue reading →

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Sichel Medal for Melvin Varughese

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

Our very own Melvin Varughese has been awarded the 2010 Herbert Sichel Medal! The medal rewards the best statistics paper published the previous year in a peer-reviewed journal by a South African statistician. The medal came into existence in 1997 … Continue reading →

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Recent Group Publications

Posted on February 24, 2011 by

The properties of SN Ib/c locations G. Leloudas, A. Gallazzi, J. Sollerman, M.D. Stritzinger, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, D. Malesani, M.J. Michalowski, B. Milvang-Jensen, M. Smith Dependences of Type Ia Supernovae Lightcurve Parameters on the Host Galaxy Star Formation Rate … Continue reading →

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Group publications in November

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

Spectral properties of Type Ia supernovae up to z~0.3 J. Nordin, L. Ostman, A. Goobar, R. Amanullah, R.C. Nichol, M. Smith, J. Sollerman, B.A. Bassett, J. Frieman, P.M. Garnavich, G. Leloudas, M. Sako, D.P. Schneider NTT and NOT spectroscopy of … Continue reading →

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Group Publications in October

Posted on November 4, 2010 by

Statistical Classification Techniques for Photometric Supernova Typing by James Newling & al., with Melvin Varughese, Bruce Bassett, Bryony Martin and Mathew Smith (arXiv:1010.1005) See also the video abstract for the paper posted here A Mismatch in the Ultraviolet Spectra between … Continue reading →

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Group publications in September

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

One new paper was published, and one was revised this month: Optical discovery of stellar tidal disruption flares by Sjoert van Velzen et al. with Mathew Smith (arXiv:1009.1627) The Cosmic Microwave Background in an Inhomogeneous Universe – why void models … Continue reading →

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Boosting for Supernova Classification

Posted on September 30, 2010 by

This is a video abstract to our paper, “Statistical Classification Techniques for Photometric Supernova Typing” arxiv:1010.1005. The additional material here accompanies the paper, and may be of interest to those interested in boosting (a statistical technique for classification problems) or … Continue reading →

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