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Mr Adam McMaster

Profile summary

  • Research Student
  • Research Student
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • School of Physical Sciences
  • adam.mcmaster

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Professional biography

I’m an astronomy PhD student supervised by Professor Andrew Norton, Dr Ulrich Kolb, and Dr Hugh Dickinson. I’m working on the SuperWASP Variable Stars project on the Zooniverse.

Before starting my PhD, I worked in the web hosting industry and have many years of programming experience developing websites, web services, and related tools. Most recently I worked at the University of Oxford as a developer and cloud computing engineer with the Zooniverse.

I have a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Leicester and a BSc in Natural Sciences (Astronomy and Planetary Science) from the Open University.

Research interests

My research interests include astrophysical transients, time-domain astronomy, and applications of machine learning to the classification of astronomical data.

Publications

A SuperWASP Light Curve Displaying a Single Long-duration Transit: A Jupiter Size Exoplanet in a Very Distant Orbit? (2022)
Norton, Andrew; Dickinson, Hugh; McMaster, Adam; Middleton, Matthew and West, Richard
Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 6, Article 84(4)

Disaster, Infrastructure and Participatory Knowledge: The Planetary Response Network (2022)
Simmons, Brooke D.; Lintott, Chris; Reece, Steven; Allen, Campbell; Miller, Grant R. M.; Yore, Rebekah; Jones, David; Ishikawa, Sascha T.; Jardine-McNamara, Tom; Boyer, Amy R.; O’Donnell, James E.; Fortson, Lucy; Kuzin, Danil; McMaster, Adam; Trouille, Laura and Wolfenbarger, Zach
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 7(1) (p 21)

VeSPA: The SuperWASP Variable Star Photometry Archive (2021-10)
Mcmaster, Adam; Norton, Andrew J.; Dickinson, Hugh J.; Thiemann, Heidi B. and Kolb, Ulrich C.
Research Notes of the AAS, 5(10) (p 228)

SuperWASP Variable Stars: Classifying Light Curves Using Citizen Science (2021-03)
Thiemann, Heidi B.; Norton, Andrew J.; Dickinson, Hugh J.; McMaster, Adam and Kolb, Ulrich C.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(1) (pp. 1299-1311)

VeSPA: The SuperWASP Variable Star Photometry Archive (2021-06)
McMaster, Adam; Norton, Andrew; Dickinson, Hugh; Thiemann, Adelheid and Kolb, Ulrich
Postgraduate Research Poster Competition, The Open University