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About me

1. I work at the Australia Telescope National Facility in Epping, New South Wales.
2. I am currently Project Lead and Engineer for computing for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder.
3. I am Research Program Leader for Software Development at the ATNF.
4. I am a member of the SKA International Engineering and Management Team.
5. I was the late Dan Briggs' PhD supervisor. Here is his truly excellent thesis.

Papers

1. Paper on Climbing Mount Exaflop - from the pathfinders to the Square Kilometre Array
2. Query ADS for my published papers
3. Query arXiv for my preprints
4. Query Google Scholar for me

Talks, colloquia

1. Talk at meeting on HPC in Observational Astronomy, Pune October 2009 on the ASKAP Software Model(pdf, keynote zipped, ppt zipped)
2. Virtual talk at IAU 2009 symposium honoring the award of the Reber prize to Barry Clark, entitled After the Clark CLEAN (keynote zipped - 170MB, Quicktime zipped - 267MB, MPEG 4 Video zipped - 25MB)
3. Talk at Curtin University, Perth on Climbing Mount Exaflop - computing for ASKAP and the Square Kilometre Array (pdf, keynote zipped, ppt zipped)
4. Keynote talk at ISGC 2009 on Climbing Mount Exaflop - computing for the Square Kilometre Array(pdf, ppt, key)
5. Presentation on the ASKAP and SKA computing(pdf, ppt, key)
6. Presentation on the Single Digital Backend(pdf, ppt)
7. Talk at CAUDIT on Australia and the Square Kilometre Array (pdf, key)
8. Talk at SKA2008 on The computing challenges for the Square Kilometre Array Pathfinders (pdf, key, ppt)
9. Talk at AUT, Auckland, Feb 2008 on Climbing Mount Exaflop - computing for the Square Kilometre Array (pdf - 40MB, key - 275MB)
10. Colloquium at Auckland Astronomical Society, Feb 2008 on Building the ultimate radio telescope - the Square Kilometre Array (pdf - 35MB, key - 132MB)
11. Colloquium at NRAO Socorro, Oct 2007, on The Computing Challenges for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (pdf - 18MB, key - 119MB)
12. Talk at SKA2007, Manchester on SKA Computing - Tough Questions
13. Talk at ADASS 2006 on on Calibration and Imaging for the next generation of radio telescopes
14. Talk at the ATNF Synthesis School, September 2006 on Wide Field Imaging
15. Talk at the ATNF Synthesis School, September 2006 on The Next Generation of Radio Arrays in Australia
16. Talk at RAL, Berkeley, 14 February 2004 on Wide-field imaging for the next generation of radio telescopes  
17. Colloquium at Swinburne and ATNF in September/October, 2004 on The Square Kilometre Array - Computing Challenges
18. Talk at the SKA meeting in Penticton, July 2004 on SKA computing - an overview
19. Talk at the RFI2004 meeting in Penticton, July 2004 on RFI excision without a reference horn
20. Colloquium at the AOC, May 2004, on Far field, near field, and wide field imaging
21. Talk at the NRAO Chautauqua Short Course 2004 on Introduction to Interferometry
22. Talk at NRAO, 2003, on Multiscale Clean - an update
23. Talk at ADASS XI BOF on Virtual Observatories on Distributed Software Projects

Reports, software, diagrams, etc.

1. Report on The Correction of Near Field Effects in Radio Interferometric Geolocation
2. The venerable SDE package
3. The MMA test image M31.FITS (FITS)
4. Wilczek-Drapatz MEM algorithm
5. Cornwell-Evans MEM algorithm
6. tConvolve.cc and the newer version tConvolveBLAS.cc
7. Diagram of CASA/AIPS++ MeasurementSet V2 definition (jpg, Visio)