You've reached Hugh Garsden's Home Page at the School of Physics, University of Sydney.
I'm a PhD student working on microlensing. I'm part of the Gravitational Astrophysics Group.

I work in gravitational lensing, microlensing, quasars, and cosmology, usually by running very large parallel supercomputer simulations, analysing/reducing huge data sets, figuring out what's going on, and publishing that in a paper.

I've been working as a computational scientist for a long time, and in other fields such as biomedicine, speech recognition, parallel computing.

Talks

Gravitational Microlensing: numerical implementation and examples
Presented at Computational and Simulation Sciences Transformational Capability Platform Annual Conference, 16 March 2011

High Resolution numerical Analysis of Quasar Microlensing
Presented at IoA Cambridge, 9 Dec 2010

A billion points of light
Presented at 13th Microlensing Workshop, Jan 2009.

Papers

Garsden, H., Lewis, G. F. (2011) The effect of source size in detecting small mass objects with quasar microlensing. In prep.

Garsden, H., Bate, N., Lewis, G. F. (2011) Microlensing of the reverberation mapping of a quasar broad-line region. In prep.

Kedziora, D., Garsden, H., Lewis, G. F. Gravitational Microlensing as a probe of the Electron Scattering Region in Q2237+0305. MNRAS (accepted).

Garsden H., Lewis G., Harvey-Smith L. (2010) The Water Maser in MG 0414+0534: The Influence of Gravitational Microlensing. MNRAS, 419.

Bate N.F., Fluke C.J., Barsdell B.R., Garsden H., Lewis G.F. (2010) Computational advances in gravitational microlensing: A comparison of CPU, GPU, and parallel, large data codes. New Astronomy, 15, 726

Garsden H., Lewis G.F. (2010) Advances in computational high optical depth gravitational microlensing(invited paper). The Open Astronomy Journal, 2010, 3, 173.

Garsden H., Lewis G.F. (2010) Gravitational microlensing: A parallel, large-data implementation. New Astronomy, 15, 181

plus 14 papers from my previous lives.

Personal

I've been around since the Web was born. These days you put everything on Facebook (which I do have), but:

Likes: Beach, wine, music (rock/jazz/classical), theatre (Shakespeare, classics), reading (sci fi, novels), movies (sci-fi, classics, shlock), science, psychology, philosophy, reading, whisky, travel, British comedies (Goons/Hancock/Python...).

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