Eric H. Neilsen, Jr.

I keep an online notebook and a del.icio.us page with links.

Bibliography (First author publications only)

• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "Image Stacking Tools for Modern Surveys." Poster presented at Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XVII, London, September 23-26, 2007.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Chris Stoughton. "Running the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Archive Server." In Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XVI, edited by R. Shaw, F. Hill, D. Bell, 2007.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., James Simone. "Lattice QCD Data and Metadata Archives at Fermilab and the International Lattice Data Grid." In Proceedings of CHEP 2004. 2004.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Alan Uomoto, Stephen M. Kent, James T. Annis. "Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric telescope automation and observing software." In Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 4848, Advanced Telescope and Instrumentation Control Software II, edited by Hilton Lewis, 376-386. 2002.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Richard G. Kron, William N. Boroski. "Sloan Digital Sky Survey observing time tracking and efficiency measurement." In Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 4844, Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return III, edited by Peter J. Quinn, 130-138. 2002.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Zlatan I. Tsvetanov. "The Structure of the Virgo Cluster from Surface Brightness Fluctuations in Hubble Space Telescope Images." The Astrophysical Journal 536 (June 2000): 255-265.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "The Surface Brightness Fluctuations and Globular Cluster Populations of Virgo Elliptical and Lenticular Galaxies." PhD diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 1999.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Zlatan I. Tsvetanov. "The Color Distributions of Globular Clusters in Virgo Elliptical Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 515 (February 1999): 13-16.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Zlatan I. Tsvetanov, Holland C. Ford. "The Surface Brightness Fluctuations and Globular Cluster Population of NGC 4478." The Astrophysical Journal 483 (February 1997): 745-753.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "Maxwell's Demon and the Entropy of Information." Honors Project, Kenyon College, 1992.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Astrophysics, 1999
  The Johns Hopkins University
• Master of Information Technology and Management, 2006
  Illinois Institute of Technology
• Master of Arts in Astrophysics, 1995
  The Johns Hopkins University
• Artium Baccalaurei in Physics, 1992. magna cum laude, with High Honors in Physics
  Kenyon College

Last modified June 2009.