Bibliography

Notes for presentations

• Python for Dervish and Astrotools Users (and other astronomers), a chalk-talk given to the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics.
• The Essentials of Astronomy Data, a tutorial given to software developers starting to work with astronomy data.
• Image coaddition, PSF homogenization, and matched filters.
• Evolution of seeing in SDSS imaging runs.

Conferences (First author presentations only)

• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Erik E. Gottschalk. "A Prototype Data Processing System for JDEM." In Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XIX, edited by Yoshihiko Mizumoto, Koh-Ichiro Morita, and Masatoshi Ohishi, 2010.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "Image Stacking Tools for Modern Surveys." In Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XVII, edited by Robert W. Argyle, Peter S. Bunclark, and James R. Lewis., 2008.
• 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.

Journal articles (First author publications only)

• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Archive Server." Computing in Science and Engineering 10 (January 2008): 13-17.
• 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., 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.

Dissertations and theses

• 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. "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

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