Michael J. Way, PhD
Astronomer/Computer Scientist
NASA/Ames Research Center and NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Adjunct Faculty - Queens College, NY

I co-host The GISS Lunch Seminar Series

Recent Talks:
A Brief History of the Prediction and Detection of the expansion of The universe and The Cosmic Microwave Background (Updated 2009/04)
GISS Lunch Seminar (2009/01/07) Dark Energy in the Universe - finally a 2nd opinion!
Uppsala Friday Galaxy Group Mtg (2009/09/11) GalaxyZoo Morphology Classification using Machine Learning!
Stanford University (2008/07) Stanford/KIPAC tea time talk on Photo-z estimators in the SDSS
Albany.pdf State University of New York Albany talk on Photo-z collaborations
JHU.pdf (2009/03) John Hopkins University talk on new Gaussian Process Regression techniques for Photo-z estimation

Recent Publications:
Way,Foster,Gazis,Srivastava, "New Approaches To Photometric Redshift Prediction Via Gaussian Process Regression In The Sloan Digital Sky Survey" 2009, ApJ 706, 623, also see arXiv
Quintana,Proust,Hertling,Ramirez,Toledo,Way, "High relative velocity central dumbbells in poor clusters", 2009, AN 330, 924
Foster,Waagen,Aijaz,Hurley,Luis,Rinksy,Satyavolu,Way,Gazis,Srivastava, "Stable and Efficient Gaussian Proces Calculations" 2009, JMLR 10(Apr):857--882 ( Journal Link )
Way & Srivastava, "Novel Methods for Predicting Photometric Redshift from SDSS Photometry using Virtual Sensors" 2006, ApJ, 647, 201
Way, Quintana, Muriel, & Lambas, "Redshifts in the Southern Abell Redshift Survey Cluster I. The Data" 2005, AJ 130, 2012
Doroshkevich, Tucker, Allam, & Way, "Large Scale Structure in the SDSS Galaxy Survey" 2004, A&A, 418, 7
Chiang, Naselsky, Verkhodanov, & Way, "Non-Gaussianity of the Derived Maps from the First-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Data" 2003, ApJ 590L, 65

Research pages:
Our NYU VAGC SDSS DR6 catalogs
Recent Photo-z calculations and results
research related page
data products page
data products related to doroshkevich DR1 set
CMB data page
Intelligent Systems proposal group page
Datamining group page (defunct)
Using 2MASS and SDSS to map the galaxy (Halo)

Recently co-hosted workshops:
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.
Recently read books, classes taken, etc
News resources
Music resources
Favorite Museums 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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