Adam McMaster

I’m an astronomy PhD student with the Open University studying variable stars in the SuperWASP all sky survey.

STFC Introductory Course in Astronomy for New Research Students

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I gave a student lightning talk at this week’s STFC Introductory Course, titled An Interactive Catalogue of Variable Stars, where I gave a brief overview of the SuperWASP Variable Stars project and the online variable star catalogue I’m building.

A PDF of the slides is available.

Edit: I’m pleased to add, this won first prize for Best Student Talk!

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OU Upgrade Talk

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As part of the Open University’s first year “upgrade” process (i.e. their probation process) I gave an internal talk about what I’ve been working on. This in...

SuperWASP Variable Stars: Classifying Light Curves Using Citizen Science

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There’s a new SuperWASP paper up on the Arxiv, SuperWASP Variable Stars: Classifying Light Curves Using Citizen Science, written by my fellow student, Heidi ...

The Solar System Has a Lot of Water

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I wrote about the various places you can find water in the solar system on Three Alpha:

Why You Should Use Docker in Your Research

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I gave a talk at the Wetton Workshop in Oxford in June, and then wrote a blog version of that for the Zooniverse blog:

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