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Curriculum Vitae

Brian P. Abbott

Hayden Planetarium

Department of Astrophysics

American Museum of Natural History

Central Park West at 79th Street

New York, NY 10024-5192

Voice: +1-212-496-3578

Fax: +1-212-769-5007

E-mail: abbott at amnh.org

Web: http://brianabbott.net/

Employment

2004—Present American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY: Manager, Digital Universe; Hayden Planetarium
2000—2004 American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY: Data Analyst; Hayden Planetarium
1999—2000 American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY: Project Astronomer, Digital Galaxy Project; Hayden Planetarium
1997—1999 University of Toledo, Toledo, OH: Research Assistant, Department of Physics & Astronomy
1996 Main Line Night School, Radnor, PA: Instructor
1992—1996 Villanova University, Villanova, PA: Research Assistant, Department of Astronomy
1992—1995 Villanova University, Villanova, PA: Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy

Education

M.S. Physics, May 1999: University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Thesis: Ionization Structure and Mass-Loss for Rapidly-Rotating Near Main-Sequence B Stars
Advisor: Jon E. Bjorkman
B.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics, May 1995: Villanova University, Villanova, PA

Technical Skills

Web Development: Author, Programmer, and Editor of haydenplanetarium.org which receives roughly half a million hits per month, and brianabbott.net, which receives about 250,000 hits per month.
Programming: Perl, C, PHP, Javascript, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, LaTeX, KML, IDL
Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, Solaris, Windows
Miscellaneous: Google Earth, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe AfterEffects, IRAF

Publications

Digital Universe Guide

Brian Abbott

2006, A 200-page guide to the Digital Universe Atlas

Virtual Universe

Brian Abbott, Carter Emmart, and Ryan Wyatt

Natural History Magazine, April 2004, Volume 113 Number 3, pp.44—49

The Digital Universe Coalition: Building a Prototype NVO E/PO Portal

Mendez, B.; Craig, N.; Haisch, B.; Lindblom, J.; Hanisch, R.; Summers, F.; Abbott, B.

2004, American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #78.05

Visualizing and Analyzing Massive Astronomical Datasets with Partiview

Abbott, B. P.; Emmart, C. B.; Levy, S.; Liu, C. T.

2004, in P.J. Quinn, and K.M. Gorski (editors), Toward an International Virtual Observatory. ESO Astrophysics Symposia: 57--61. Berlin: Springer

Hayden Planetarium's Digital Universe: The Extragalactic Atlas

Abbott, B. P.; Gawiser, E.; Emmart, C. B.; Wyatt, R. J.

2003, American Astronomical Society Meeting 203, #118.07

Partiview User's Guide

Brian Abbott

2003, A manual for the Partiview software package

An Interactive Viewing System for 3-D Astronomical Data

Emmart, C. B.; Abbott, B. P.; Wyatt, R. J.; Levy, S

2001, American Astronomical Society Meeting 199, #22.10

The Astrophysics Visualization Archive: Toward a Virtual Observatory Node at AMNH/Hayden

Abbott, B. P.; Liu, C. T.; Tyson, N. D.

2001, American Astronomical Society Meeting 199, #10.06

3-D Visualizations of Massive Astronomy Datasets with a Digital Dome

Liu, C. T.; Abbott, B.; Emmart, C.; Mac Low, M.; Shara, M.; Summers, F.; Tyson, N. D.

Virtual Observatories of the Future, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 225. Edited by Robert J. Brunner, S. George Djorgovski, and Alex S. Szalay. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ISBN: 1-58381-057-9, 2001, p.188

Ionization Structure and Mass Loss for Rapidly-Rotating Near Main-Sequence B Stars

Bjorkman, J. E.; Abbott, B. P.

The Be Phenomenon in Early-Type Stars, IAU Colloquium 175, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 214, edited by Myron A. Smith and Huib F. Henrichs. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ISBN 1-58381-045-5, 2000, p.632

Ionization Structure and Mass-Loss for Rapidly-Rotating Near Main-Sequence B Stars