Brennan Hughey Curriculum Vitae

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1 Brennan Hughey Curriculum Vitae Office Telephone: (928) Academic Complex 1 Room 212 Home Telephone: (414) Willow Creek Rd hugheyb@erau.edu Prescott, AZ Citizenship: United States Academic Preparation: Ph.D. in Physics, University of Wisconsin Madison (2007) Adviser: Dr. Albrecht Karle. Minor in Astronomy. B.S. in Physics, Hope College, summa cum laude (2001) Minors in Mathematics and Writing. Academic Employment: Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott (2013- present) Visiting Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott ( ) Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee ( ) Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kavli Institute ( ) Teaching Experience: Taught 1 Section of Computational Methods (Fall 2013) Taught 7 Sections of Physics I for Engineers (Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014) Taught 6 Sections of Physics III for Engineers (Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014) Teaching assistant for a total of 4 sections of General Physics II at UW-Madison (Fall 2001, Spring 2002) Lab T.A. and Homework Tutor for General Physics at Hope College ( )

2 Research Mentoring: David Stiles ( ), ERAU undergraduate, senior thesis Vinicius Branco (2014), ERAU undergraduate Sandi Wibowo (2011), UWM graduate student Image analysis of QUEST data for follow-up of compact binary coalescence candidate triggers Jackie Villadsen ( ), MIT undergraduate, senior thesis A high-frequency gravitational-wave burst search with LIGO s Hanford site David Chester (2009), MIT undergraduate Directional anisotropy search feasibility studies George Coss (2008), MIT undergraduate Data quality in high frequency LIGO data Grant Funding: NSF LIGO Research Support grant Multi-messenger Astronomy and Detector Characterization in LIGO, awarded $126,000 over period from June 2013 to June 2016 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University internal research grant, awarded $12,500 over period from July 2013 to June 2014 Computer Skills: Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Macintosh Software: Root, PAW++, MATLAB Languages: C/C++, Fortran, LaTeX, HTML, shell scripting

3 Professional Activities: Co-Chair of Science Speaker Series colloquium committee for ERAU Prescott department of natural sciences (Fall 2013-present) Member of Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society Member of American Physical Society Member of Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society LIGO detector characterization group burst group liaison LIGO burst group representative to Calibration Committee Review committee member for Joint ANTARES/LIGO/Virgo neutrino and gravitational wave coincidence search Interplanetary Network/LIGO/Virgo coincidence search Internal reviewer for several papers and publications on behalf of LIGO presentation and publication committee Outreach Activities: Astronomy Beyond Light public talk at invitation of Prescott Astronomy Club Prescott, AZ (2014) Demonstrations at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Open House physics department booth (2011) IceCube overview talks in Astronomy Club and undergrad class (2010,2011) Participated in and helped design AMANDA/IceCube displays for: Science Expeditions program (2003,2004,2005,2006) Wonders of Physics Open House (2005,2006,2007) UW Space Place Open House (2005) Wisconsin Alumni Association s On the Road program at Notebaert Nature Museum Chicago, Illinois (2004)

4 Talks: ERAU Ignite Seminar Radio Pulse Coincidence Searches with LIGO Prescott, AZ (2013) 13 th Marcel Grossmann Meeting Swift Satellite Follow-Ups of Gravitational Wave Candidate Triggers from LIGO/Virgo Stockholm, Sweden (2012) International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICFP) Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Wave Interferometers: Recent Results from LIGO and Virgo Kolymbari, Crete, Greece (2012) (LIGO invited talk) Miami 2011 topical conference on elementary particles, gravitation and cosmology, Listening to the Universe with LIGO and Virgo: Recent Results and Future Prospects Fort Lauderdale, FL (2011) (LIGO invited talk) 9 th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Search for Gravitational Waves in Coincidence with Radio Transients from Pulsar Surveys Cardiff, Wales, UK (2011) Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop, Electromagnetic Follow-ups of Candidate Gravitational Wave Triggers in the Recent LIGO and Virgo Science Runs Milwaukee, WI (2011) University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Center for Gravitational Cosmology Seminar, Rapid Electromagnetic Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Candidates Milwaukee, WI (2010) Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University physics seminar, Hearing the Universe with Gravitational Waves Prescott, AZ (2010) MIT Kavli Institute Postdoc Symposium, Electromagnetic Follow-Ups of LIGO/Virgo Triggers Cambridge, MA (2010) April APS Meeting, All-Sky Burst Searches for Gravitational Waves at High Frequencies Denver, CO (2009)

5 MIT Kavli Institute Postdoc Symposium, The Search for Transient Gravitational Wave Bursts in LIGO Cambridge, MA (2009) 11 th Annual Eastern Gravity Meeting, Status of LIGO. Pennsylvania State University (2008) MIT Kavli Institute Postdoc Symposium, A High Frequency Burst Search with the LIGO Interferometers Cambridge, MA (2008) Lake Louise Winter Institute, Status of the IceCube Experiment. Lake Louise, Alberta Canada (2007) Laurentian University Department of Physics and Astronomy/ SNO / SNOLAB Joint Seminar, An Untriggered Search for High Energy Neutrinos from Gamma- Ray Bursts with AMANDA-II. Sudbury, Ontario Canada (2007) Carleton University Physics Seminar, An Untriggered Search for High Energy Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA-II. Ottawa, Ontario Canada (2007) Rencontres du Vietnam, Recent Results from the AMANDA Experiment. Hanoi, Vietnam (2004) Hope College Physics and Engineering Seminar, AMANDA and IceCube: Neutrino Astrophysics at the South Pole Holland, Michigan (2004) Presentation at LIGO/Virgo plenary in: Rome, Italy (2012) (remote presentation) Krakow, Poland (2010) College Park, Maryland (2008) California Institute of Technology (2008) Presentation at LIGO/Virgo face-to-face meetings in: Hanover, Germany (2013) Boston, Massachusetts (2012) Arcadia, California (2011) Krakow, Poland (2010) Arcadia, California (2010)

6 Arcadia, California (2009) College Park, Maryland (2008) Cambridge Massachusetts (2008) Hanover, Germany (2007) Cambridge, Massachusetts (2007) Presentations at IceCube/AMANDA collaboration meetings in: Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2006) Wilmington, Delaware (2004) Madison, Wisconsin (2002) Poster Presentations: 8 th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, A High Frequency Search for Gravitational Waves in the 1 st Year of LIGO s Fifth Science Run New York, NY (2009) APS April Meeting, Qpipeline Based All-Sky High Frequency Burst Search With LIGO St. Louis, MO (2008) TeV Particle Physics II, Searches for Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts with AMANDA-II and IceCube Madison, WI (2006) APS Division of Nuclear Physics Fall Meeting, Pre-Equilibrium Particle Emission in 35 and 60 MeV/A Kr + Au,Th Reactions Williamsburg, VA (2000) APS Centennial Meeting, Helium-6 Halo Nucleus Interactions Atlanta, GA (1999) Refereed Publications, Direct work on paper: ** denotes primary authorship * denotes one of two primary authors S. Adrián-Martínez et al. (ANTARES, LIGO and Virgo Collaborations) A First Search for Coincident Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos Using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007 JCAP 1306 (2013) 008

7 P. A. Evans et al. Swift follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events Astrophysical Journal Supplements 203 (2012) 28 * Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave transients Astronomy & Astrophysics 539 (2012) A124 D.M. Macleod, S. Fairhurst, B. Hughey, A.P. Lundgren, L. Pekowsky, J. Rollins, J. R. Smith Reducing the effect of seismic noise in LIGO searches by targeted veto generation Class. Quant. Grav. 29 (2012) All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run Physical Review D 81 (2010) ** Search for High Frequency Gravitational Wave Bursts in the First Calendar Year of LIGO's Fifth Science Run Physical Review D 80 (2009) Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run Physical Review D 80 (2009) First Joint Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts in LIGO and GEO600 Data Classical and Quantum Gravity 25 (2008) *A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration) Search for Neutrino-Induced Cascades from Gamma Ray Bursts with AMANDA Astrophysical Journal 664 (2007) G.C. Hill, J. Hodges, B. Hughey, A. Karle and M. Stamatikos Examining the Balance Between Optimising an Analysis for Best Limit Setting and Best Discovery Potential, Proc. of PHYSTAT 2005, Oxford (refereed)

8 Other Refereed Publications: (Less direct contributions to papers, e.g. data quality monitoring and support work, shifts on site) The Ninja-2 Project : Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations Classical and Quantum Gravity 31 (2014) Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the 5th LIGO science run Classical and Quantum Gravity 31 (2014) Constraints on cosmic strings from the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave detectors Physical Review Letters 112 (2014) Gravitational Waves from known pulsars : results from the initial detector era Astrophysical Journal 785 (2014) 119 J. Aasi et al. (LIGO and Virgo Collaborations with astronomical partners) First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-Wave Candidate Events Astrophysical Journal Supplements 211 (2014) 7 Search for Long-lived Gravitational-wave Transients Coincident with Long Gamma-ray Bursts Physical Review D 88 (2013) Directed Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from the Galactic Center Physical Review D 88 (2013) Parameter Estimation for Compact Binary Coalescence Signals with the First Generation Gravitational Wave Detector Network Phys. Rev D 88 (2013) J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration) Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light Nature Photonics 7, (2013)

9 all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data Physical Review D 87 (2013) Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown in LIGO-Virgo Data from Physical Review D 87 (2013) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during LIGO science run 6 and Virgo science runs 2 and 3 Astrophysical Journal 760 (2012) 12 The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches Classical and Quantum Gravity All-Sky Search for gravitational-wav bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run Physical Review D 85 (2012) Search for Gravitational Waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes Physical Review D 85 (2012) J. Abadie et al. (LIGO Collaboration) Implications for the Origin of GRB from LIGO Observations Astrophysical Journal 755 (2012) 2 Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at Hz Physical Review D 85 (2012) First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts Astronomy & Astrophysics 541 (2012) A155 Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO s Sixth Science Run and Virgo s Science Runs 2 and 3 Physical Review D 85 (2012)

10 All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data Physical Review D 85 (2012) Directional LImits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data Physical Review Letters 107 (2011) J. Abadie et al. (LIGO Collaboration) A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit Nature Physics Online, 11 September 2011 Beating the Spin-Down Limit on Gravitational Wave Emission form the Vela Pulsar Astrophysical Journal 737 (2011) 93 Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown Physical Review D 83 (2011) Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Six Magnetars Astrophysical Journal 734 (2011) L35 A search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar Physical Review D 83 (2011) Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run Nuclear Instruments and Methods A624 (2010) 223 First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star Astrophysical Journal 722 (2010) 1504 Search for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO and Virgo Data from S5 and VSR1 Physical Review D 82 (2010)

11 Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by groundbased gravitational-wave detectors Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 (2010) Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts during LIGO s fifth and Virgo s first science run Astrophysical Journal 715 (2010) 1453 B. Abbott et al. (LIGO and Virgo Collaborations) Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO science run 5 and Virgo science run 1 Astrophysical Journal 715 (2010) 1438 B. Abbott et al. (LIGO and Virgo Collaborations) Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with science run 5 LIGO data Astrophysical Journal 713 (2010) 67 First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings Physical Review D 80 (2009) Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data Physical Review D 80 (2009) Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO s fifth science run Physical Review D 80 (2009) B. Abbott et al. (LIGO and Virgo Scientific Collaborations) An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin Nature 460 (2009) 990 Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data Physical Review D 80 (2009) Stacked Search for Gravitational Waves from the 2006 SGR Storm Astrophysical Journal 701 (2009) L68-L74

12 Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Binary Coalescences in the First Year of LIGO's S5 Data Physical Review D 79 (2009) LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Reports on Progress in Physics 72 (2009) R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration) Search for Point Sources of High Energy Neutrinos with Final Data from AMANDA-II Physical Review D 79 (2009) M. Ackermann et al. (IceCube Collaboration) Search for Ultra High-Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II Astrophysical Journal 675 (2008) 1014 A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration) The Search for Muon Neutrinos from Northern Hemisphere Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA Astrophysical Journal 674 (2008) A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration) Multiyear Search for a Diffuse Flux of Muon Neutrinos with AMANDA-II Physical Review D 76 (2007) September 2007 A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration) Detection of Atmospheric Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 9-string Detector Physical Review D 76 (2007) A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration) Five Years of Searches for Point Sources of Astrophysical Neutrinos with the AMANDA-II Neutrino Telescope Physical Review D 75 (2007) A. Achterberg et al (IceCube Collaboration) Limits on the High-Energy Gamma and Neutrino Fluxes from the SGR Giant Flare of 27 December 2004 with the AMANDA-II Detector Physical Review Letters 97 (2006) A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration) On the Selection of AGN Neutrino Source Candidates for a Source Stacking Analysis with Neutrino Telescopes Astroparticle Physics 26 (2006)

13 A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration) First Year Performance of the IceCube Neutrino Telescope Astroparticle Physics 26 (2006) A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration) Limits on the Muon Flux from Neutralino Annihilations at the Center of the Earth with AMANDA Astroparticle Physics 26 (2006) M. Ackermann et al. (AMANDA Collaboration) Optical Properties of Deep Glacial Ice at the South Pole Journal of Geophysical Research 111 (2006) D13203 M. Ackermann et al. (AMANDA Collaboration) Limits to the Muon Flux from Neutralino Annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA Detector Astroparticle Physics 24 (2006) M. Ackermann et al. (AMANDA Collaboration) The IceCube Prototype String in AMANDA Nuclear Instruments and Methods A556 (2006) M. Ackermann et al. (AMANDA Collaboration) Search for Extraterrestrial Point Sources of High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II Using Data Collected in Physical Review D 71 (2005) M. Ackermann et al. (AMANDA Collaboration) Flux Limits on Ultra High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-B10 Astroparticle Physics 22 (2005) M. Ackermann et al. (AMANDA Collaboration) Search for Neutrino-Induced Cascades with AMANDA Astroparticle Physics 22 (2004) J. Ahrens et al. (AMANDA and SPASE Collaborations) Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Composition at the Knee with the SPASE-2/AMANDA-B10 Detectors Astroparticle Physics 20 (2004) J. Ahrens et al. (AMANDA Collaboration) Muon Track Reconstruction and Data Selection Techniques in AMANDA Nuclear Instruments and Methods A524 (2004)

14 J. Ahrens et al. (SPASE and AMANDA Collaborations) Calibration and Survey of AMANDA with the SPASE Detectors Nuclear Instruments and Methods A522 (2004) J. Ahrens et al. (IceCube Collaboration) Sensitivity of the IceCube Detector to Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Muon Neutrinos Astroparticle Physics 20 (2004) J. Ahrens et al. (AMANDA Collaboration) Search for Extraterrestrial Point Sources with AMANDA-II Physical Review Letters 92 (2004) J. Ahrens et al. (AMANDA Collaboration) Limits on the Diffuse Fluxes of High Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 Detector Physical Review Letters 90 (2003) G.V. Rogachev et al. Proton Elastic Scattering from 7 Be at Low Energies Physical Review C64 (2001) D. Lizcano et al. Alpha-Particle Emission from 6 He+ 209 Bi Revista Mexicana De Fisica (2000) E.F. Aguilera et al. Transfer and/or Breakup Modes in the 6 He+ 209 Bi Reaction Near the Coulomb Barrier Physical Review Letters. 84 (2000) Selected Conference Proceedings: B. Hughey for the IceCube Collaboration Status of the IceCube Experiment Lake Louise Winter Institute, February 2007, Lake Louise, Alberta Canada B. Hughey for the IceCube Collaboration Searches for Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts with AMANDA-II and IceCube 2 nd Workshop on TeV Particle Astrophysics, August 2006, Madison, Wisconsin

15 B. Hughey and I. Taboada for the IceCube Collaboration Neutrino-Induced Cascades From GRBs With AMANDA-II 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 3-10 August 2005, Pune, India B. Hughey for the AMANDA Collaboration Recent Results from the AMANDA Experiment 5th Rencontres du Vietnam, New Views in Particle Physics, 5-11 August 2004, Hanoi, Vietnam