Michael J. Way, PhD
Astronomer/Computer Scientist
NASA/Ames Research Center
and NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Adjunct Faculty Hunter College
I co-host The GISS Lunch Seminar Series
Recent Talks:
100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the CMB
( pdf ): 2011/06. Also available as a
video on youtube
Multi-Scale Structure in 3-D Surveys and Simulations of the Universe
( pdf ): Uppsala Galaxy Group Seminar 2010/10
Photometric Redshift estimation using Gaussian process regression: ETH.pdf: ETH Zurich 2011/06
GISS Lunch Seminar (2009/01/07)
Dark Energy in the Universe - finally a 2nd opinion!
GalaxyZoo Morphology Classification using Machine Learning
( pdf ):
Uppsala Galaxy Group Seminar 2009/09
Stanford University (2008/07) Stanford/KIPAC
tea time talk on Photo-z estimators in the SDSS
JHU.pdf (2009/03) John Hopkins University
talk on new Gaussian Process Regression techniques for Photo-z estimation
Recent Publications:
Challenges for LSST scale data sets:
arXiv:1108.5124 , Way 2011, commentary to appear in Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V
Galaxy Zoo Morphology and Photometric Redshifts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey:
pdf (arXiv) Way 2011, ApJ, 734, L9
[ blogged by astrodatamining.net ]
Lemaître’s Hubble relationship ( Physics Today vol 64, issue 8, Page 8 ,
arXiv:1104.3031v1)
Way & Nussbaumer 2011
Proceedings of the 2011 New York Workshop on Computer, Earth & Space Science
(abs) Way & Naud 2011,
arXiv:1104.1580v1
Structure in the 3D Galaxy Distribution: I. Methods & Example Results
(pdf ,
arXiv:1009.0387),
Way, Gazis & Scargle 2011, ApJ, 727, 48
Viewpoints: A high-performance high-dimensional exploratory data analysis tool
(pdf,
arXiv:1008.2205)
Gazis, Levit & Way 2010, PASP, 122, 1518
New Approaches To Photometric Redshift Prediction Via Gaussian Process
Regression In The SDSS (pdf,
arXiv:0905.4081)
Way,Foster,Gazis,Srivastava 2009, ApJ 706, 623
High relative velocity central dumbbells in poor clusters
(pdf)
Quintana,Proust,Hertling,Ramirez,Toledo,Way, 2009, AN 330, 924
Stable and Efficient Gaussian Proces Calculations
(pdf,
Journal)
Foster,Waagen,Aijaz,Hurley,Luis,Rinksy,Satyavolu,Way,Gazis,Srivastava
2009, JMLR 10(Apr):857--882
Novel Methods for Predicting Photometric Redshift from SDSS Photometry using
Virtual Sensors (pdf)
Way & Srivastava 2006, ApJ, 647, 201
Southern Abell Redshift Survey Cluster I. The Data
(pdf)
Way, Quintana, Muriel, & Lambas 2005, AJ 130, 2012
Large Scale Structure in the SDSS Galaxy Survey
(pdf)
Doroshkevich, Tucker, Allam, & Way, 2004, A&A, 418, 7
Non-Gaussianity of the Derived Maps from the First-Year Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe Data (pdf) Chiang, Naselsky,
Verkhodanov, & Way 2003, ApJ 590L, 65
Recently co-hosted workshops:
CESS 2011
Interdiscipinary Workshop at GISS
February 2011
CESS 2009
Interdiscipinary Workshop at GISS
February 2009
ROSES Workshop #3
at NASA Ames March 2006
ROSES Workshop #2
at NASA Ames February 2005
NASA/Ames Research Center Workshop for Space Scientists and Information
Techonologists October 3-4, 2002.
About Motorcycles , Harpers Magazine - November 2009
Recently read books, classes taken, etc
Poems
for all occasions.
The mathematician plays a game in which he himself invents the rules, while the
physicist plays a game in which the rules are provided by Nature. --P.A.M. Dirac
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