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Publications

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Eric J. Mendelsohn. Using MilkyWay@home to Measure the Mass of the Orphan-Chenab Stream Progenitor Dwarf Galaxy. PhD thesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2022.
Eric J. Mendelsohn, Heidi Jo Newberg, Siddhartha Shelton, Lawrence M. Widrow, Jeffery M. Thompson, Carl J. Grillmair. Estimate of the Mass and Radial Profile of the Orphan-Chenab Stream's Dwarf-galaxy Progenitor Using MilkyWay@home. The Astrophysical Journal, 2022.
Siddhartha Shelton, Heidi Jo Newberg, Jake Weiss, Jacob S. Bauer, Matthew Arsenault, Larry Widrow, Clayton Rayment, Travis Desell, Roland Judd, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Eric Mendelsohn, Matthew Newby, Colin Rice, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Jeffery M. Thompson, Carlos Varela, Benjamin Willett, Steve Ulin, Lee Newberg. An Algorithm for Reconstructing the Orphan Stream Progenitor with MilkyWay@home Volunteer Computing. The Astrophysical Journal, 2021.
Heidi Jo Newberg, Siddhartha Shelton, Eric Mendelsohn, Jake Weiss, Matthew Arsenault, Jacob S. Bauer, Travis Desell, Roland Judd, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Lee A. Newberg, Matthew Newby, Clayton Rayment, Colin Rice, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Jeffery M. Thompson, Steve Ulin, Carlos Varela, Lawrence M. Widrow, Benjamin A. Willett. Streams and the Milky Way Dark Matter Halo. International Astronomical Union, 2020.
Siddhartha Shelton. Constraining Dwarf Galaxy Properties Using Tidal Streams. PhD thesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2018.
Jake Weiss. The Stellar Density of the Major Substructure in the Milky Way Halo. PhD thesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2018.
Jake Weiss, Heidi Jo Newberg, Travis Desell. A Tangle of Stellar Streams in the North Galactic Cap. The Astrophysical Journal, 2018.
Jake Weiss, Heidi Jo Newberg, Matthew Newby, Travis Desell. Fitting the Density Substructure of the Stellar Halo with MilkyWay@home. The Astrophysical Journal, 2018.
Julie Dumas, Heidi Jo Newberg, Bethany Niedzielski, Adam Susser, Jeffery M. Thompson, Jake Weiss, Kim M. Lewis. Testing the Dark Matter Caustic Theory Against Observations in the Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal, 2015.
Samantha Scibelli, Heidi Jo Newberg, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Brian Yanny. Census of Blue Stars in SDSS DR8. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 215, Issue 2, pages 25 pp, 2014.
Yan Xu, Heidi Jo Newberg. Exploration of Galactic Structures Beyond the Sun Toward the Anti-Center of the Milky Way. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 298, pp. 450-450, 2014
Heidi Jo Newberg, Matthew Newby, Travis Desell, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela. MilkyWay@home: Harnessing Volunteer Computers to Constrain Dark Matter in the Milky Way. In the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, pages 98-104, 2014
Matthew T. Newby. The Sagittarius Tidal Stream and the Shape Of The Galactic Stellar Halo. PhD thesis. Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute. 2013
Matthew Newby, Nathan Cole, Heidi Newberg, Travis Desell, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, Benjamin Willett, and Brian Yanny. Spatial Characterization of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Tidal Tails. Astronomical Journal, 145(163), May 2013.
Benjamin Arthur Willett Simultaneous Orbit Fitting of Stellar Streams: Constraining the Galactic Dark Matter Halo. PhD thesis . Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2010
Travis Desell, David P. Anderson, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg, Boleslaw Szymanski and Carlos A. Varela. An Analysis of Massively Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms. In the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona, Spain, July 2010. To Appear.
Travis Desell, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos A. Varela, Heidi Newberg and David P. Anderson. Validating Evolutionary Algorithms on Volunteer Computing Grids. In the Proceedings of the 10th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2010), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2010. To Appear.
Nathan Cole, Travis Desell, Daniel Lombranaa Gonzalez, Francisco Fernandez de Vega, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg, Boleslaw Szymanski and Carlos Varela. Evolutionary Algorithms on Volunteer Computing Platforms: The MilkyWay@Home Project. In F. Fernandez de Vega, E. Cantu-Paz (Eds.): Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence, SCI 269, pp 63-90. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 2010
Travis Desell. Asynchronous Global Optimization for Massive-Scale Computing. PhD thesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2009
Travis Desell, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, Heidi Newberg and Nathan Cole. Robust Asynchronous Optimization for Volunteer Computing Grids. In the 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience2009), Oxford, UK, pages 263-270, December 2009.
Travis Desell, Anthony Waters, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, Matthew Newby, Heidi Newberg, Andreas Przystawik and Dave Anderson. Accelerating the MilkyWay@Home volunteer computing project with GPUs. In 8th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2009), Wroclaw, Poland, September 2009. To appear.
Nathan Cole. Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams with Application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails. PhD thesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2009.
Nathan Cole, Heidi Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Travis Desell, Carlos Varela, and Boleslaw Szymanski. A Study of the Sagittarius Tidal Stream Using Maximum Likelihood. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVIII, 411: 221, 2009.
Nathan Cole, Heidi Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Travis Desell, Kristopher Dawsey, Warren Hayashi, Jonathan Purnell, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos A. Varela, Benjamin Willett, and James Wisniewski. Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams with Application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails. Astrophysical Journal, 683:750-766, 2008.
Travis Desell, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. An Asynchronous Hybrid Genetic-Simplex Search for Modeling the Milky Way Galaxy using Volunteer Computing. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008), Atlanta, Georgia, pages 921-928, July 2008.
Travis Desell, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. Asynchronous Genetic Search for Scientific Modeling on Large-Scale Heterogeneous Environments. In Proceedings of the 17th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW/IPDPS'08), Miami, FL, pages 12pp, April 2008. IEEE.
Boleslaw Szymanski, Travis Desell, and Carlos A. Varela. The Effect of Heterogeneity on Asynchronous Panmictic Genetic Search. In Proc. of the Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM'2007), LNCS, Gdansk, Poland, September 2007.
Travis Desell, Nathan Cole, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. Distributed and Generic Maximum Likelihood Evaluation. In 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (eScience2007), Bangalore, India, pages 337-344, December 2007. Best paper finalist.

Talks

Heidi J Newberg. Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way. Satellites and Streams in Santiago Conference 2015. Santiago, Chile. April 2015.
Heidi J Newberg. Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way. The American Astronomical Society Conference 2015. Washington, US. January 2015.
Larry Widrow. Is the Milky Way Ringing? RPI Physics Colloquium. RPI, Troy, New York, USA. October 2014.
“The Milky Way galaxy, Dark Matter, Galactic cannibalism, and 350,000 volunteered computers,” Public Lecture, Beijing Planetarium, Beijing, China, December 14, 2013
From Analyzing the Tuberculosis Genome to Modeling the Milky Way Galaxy: Using Volunteer Computing for Computational Science. [ppt] [keynote]. Public Talk. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. November 2010.
Travis Desell. MilkyWay@Home and Volunteer Computing at RPI. [ppt] [keynote]. RPI Center for Open Source Software (RCOSS). RPI, Troy, New York, USA. April 2010.
Matthew Newby. The Maximum Likelihood Problem and Fitting the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream. [ppt] RPI Astrophysics Seminar. RPI, Troy, New York, USA. October 2009.
Boleslaw Szymanski. Robust Asynchronous Optimization for Volunteer Computing Grids [ppt]. The 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2009). Oxford, UK. December 2009.
Travis Desell. Asynchronous Global Optimization for Massive-Scale Computing [ppt] [keynote]. PhD Defense. RPI, Troy, New York, USA. November 2009.
Travis Desell. Robust Asynchronous Optimization using Volunteer Computing Grids [ppt] [keynote]. 5th Annual Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop. Barcelona, Spain. October 2009.
Carlos Varela. Enabling Synchronous Computation on Volunteer Computing Grids [pdf]. The 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, September 2008.

Posters

Jake Weiss, et al. Using a New Model for Main Sequence Turnoff Absolute Magnitudes to Measure Stellar Streams in the Milky Way Halo. AAS 2016.
Siddhartha Shelton, et al. Measuring Dark Matter With MilkyWay@home. AAS 2016.
Heidi J Newberg, et al. Locating Dark Matter with MilkyWay@home. Satellites and Streams in Santiago 2015.
Julie Dumas, et al. Testing the Dark Matter Caustic Ring Theory Against Observations in the Milky Way. AAS 2015.
Charles Martin, et al. Unmasking the Hercules-Aquila Cloud in the North. AAS 2015.
Jake Weiss, et al. Defining the Spatial Extent of the Virgo Overdensity and the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream with MilkyWay@home. AAS 2015.
Jake Bauer, et al. Dark Matter Content of Dwarf Galaxies, Measured from Tidal Debris. AAS 2014.
Matthew Newby, et al. Relating Dark Matter to Tidal Streams with MilkyWay@home. AAS 2014.
Jake Weiss, et al. Painting a More Accurate Picture of the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream. AAS 2014.
Jeff Thomspon, et al. The Sagittarius Dwarf GalaxyTidal Debris in the South Galactic Cap. AAS 2014.
Matthew Newby, et al. The Density of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Tidal Tails from Statistical Photometric Parallax. AAS 2013.

Support

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers 0612213, 0607618, 0448407, 1009670, 1615688, and 1908653.

Charting the Structure of the Milky Way Stellar Halo and Disk, NSF AST Grant #1615688, 09/15/2016 - 08/31/2019, Principal Investigator: Heidi Jo Newberg
Stars and Dark Matter in the Halo of the Milky Way, NSF AST Grant # 1009670, started 09/15/2010. Principal Investigator: Heidi Newberg.
Data-Driven Discovery of the Milky Way Origin and Evolution from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, NSF IIS Grant #0612213, started 07/26/2006. Principal Investigators: Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg, Boleslaw Szymanski and Carlos Varela.
Revealing the Structure of the Galactic Halo through Statistical Analysis - Middle School Teacher Training, NSF AST Grant #0607618, started 07/15/2006. Prinicpal Investigators: Heidi Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail.
Middleware and Programming Technology for Grid Computing, NSF CAREER Grant #0448407, started 01/21/2005. Principal Investigator: Carlos Varela.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.