Andrew Howard's Education, Papers, Posters, and Talks

Education:

Ph.D. in physics (concentration in astrophysics), Harvard University, 2006
A.M. in physics, Harvard University, 2001
S.B. in physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1998

Theses:

Harvard PhD Thesis:
Andrew W. Howard. "Astronomical Searches for Nanosecond Optical Pulses." Thesis Advisor: Paul Horowitz. Harvard University, Physics Department, June 2006. download

MIT Undergraduate Thesis:
Andrew W. Howard. "A UV Enhancement Cavity of Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen." Thesis Advisor: Thomas J. Greytak. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics Department, June 1998.

Papers:

Refereed Journals:

Andrew W. Howard, Paul Horowitz, Charles M. Coldwell, Edward J. Groth, Norm Jarosik, David W. Latham, Robert P. Stefanik, Alexander J. Willman, Jr.. Jonathan Wolff, and Joesph M. Zajac. "Search for Nanosecond Optical Pulses from Nearby Solar-type Stars." Astrophysical Journal 613, 1270-1284, 2004.

Andrew W. Howard and Paul Horowitz. "Optical SETI with NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder." Icarus 150, 163-167, 2001. article (requires license); preprint

Refereed Conference Proceedings:

Andrew W. Howard, Paul Horowitz, Curtis Mead, Pratheev Sreetharan, Jason Gallicchio, Steve Howard, Charles Coldwell, Joe Zajac, and Alan Sliski. "Initial Results from Harvard All-sky Optical SETI." Proceedings of the 57th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Valencia, Spain, 2006.

Curtis Mead, Paul Horowitz, Andrew W. Howard, Pratheev Sreetharan, Jason Gallicchio, Steve Howard, Joe Zajac, and Alan Sliski. "Challenges in the First All-sky Optical SETI." Proceedings of the 57th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Valencia, Spain, 2006.

Andrew W. Howard, Gu-Yeon Wei, William J. Dally, and Paul Horowitz. "PulseNet - A Parallel Flash Sampler and Digital Signal Processor IC for Optical SETI." Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2006.

Andrew Howard, Paul Horowitz, Charles Coldwell, Robert Stefanik, Jason Gallicchio, Chris Laumann, and Alan Sliski. "All-sky Optical SETI." Proceedings of the 54th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, 2003.

Andrew Howard and Paul Horowitz. "Is there `RFI' in pulsed optical SETI?" Proceedings of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum III. Ed. Stuart Kingsley, SPIE, 2001. preprint

Paul Horowitz, Charles Coldwell, Andrew Howard, David Latham, Robert Stefanik, Jonathan Wolff, Joe Zajac. "Targeted and All-Sky Search for Nanosecond Optical Pulses at Harvard-Smithsonian Optical SETI at Harvard-Smithsonian". Proceedings of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum III. Ed. Stuart Kingsley, SPIE, 2001. preprint

Andrew Howard, Paul Horowitz and Charles Coldwell. "An all-sky optical SEII survey." Proceedings of the 51st IAF Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Acta Astronautica, 2000. preprint

Andrew Howard, Paul Horowitz, Charles Coldwell, Samuel Klein, Anne Sung, Jonathan Wolff, Joe Caruso, David Latham, Costas Papaliolios, Robert Stefanik, and Joe Zajac. "Optical SETI at Harvard-Smithsonian." Proceedings of Bioastronomy '99 - A New Era in Bioastronomy. Eds. Guillermo Lemarchand and Karen Meech. ASP Conference Series 213, 545-552, 2000. preprint

Other Papers:

Andrew Howard. "Optical SETI for Academics and Amateurs." Proceedings of "SETIcon01" -- the technical symposium of the SETI League, 2001. preprint

Andrew Howard. "Interstellar Gravitational Dispersion of Short Optical Pulses". Unpublished, 2000.

Posters:

Andrew Howard, Gu-Yeon Wei, Paul Horowitz. "PulseNet - A Parallel Flash Sampler and Digital Signal Processor for Optical SETI." Presented at the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), in San Jose, 2006.

Andrew Howard, Gu-Yeon Wei, Paul Horowitz. "PulseNet - A Parallel Flash Sampler and Digital Signal Processor." Presented at Harvard Industrial Partnership (HIP), 2005.

Andrew Howard and Paul Horowitz. "Terrestrial Planet Finder as a SETI Instrument." Presented at Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference II at Scripps Oceanographic Institute, 2005.

Andrew Howard, Paul Horowitz, Chip Coldwell, Jason Gallicchio, Chris Laumann, Alan Sliski, Pratheev Sreetharan, Robert Stefanik, Jonathan Wolff. "All-Sky optical SETI." Presented at Bioastronomy 2004 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Andrew Howard and Paul Horowitz. "Terrestrial Planet Finder as a SETI Instrument." Presented at the Towards Other Earths conference in Heidelberg, Germany, 2003.

Andrew Howard, Paul Horowitz, Charles Coldwell, Jason Gallicchio, Chris Laumann, Alan Sliski, and Robert Stefanik. "All-Sky Optical SETI." Presented at Bioastronomy 2002 on Hamilton Island, Australia in July, 2002. pdf

Talks:

"Initial Results from All-sky Optical SETI at Harvard." Given at The Internation Astronautical Congress in Valencia, Spain, 2006.

"The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)." Given at Pale Blue Dot III, an astrobiology conference in Chicago, 2006.

"Initial Results from All-sky Optical SETI at Harvard." Given at The SETI Institute, 2006.

"Initial Results from All-sky Optical SETI at Harvard." Given to Dan Werthimer's group at UC Berkeley, 2006.

"PulseNet and Optical SETI." Guest Lecture in Computer Science 148, Harvard University, 2005.

"Five-year search for Nanosecond optical pulses from nearby solar-type stars at Harvard/Smithsonian and Princeton." Given at The Significance of Negative Results - A Planetary Society Workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004.

"Five-year search for Nanosecond optical pulses from nearby solar-type stars at Harvard/Smithsonian and Princeton." Given at Bioastronomy 2004 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

"Optical SETI at Harvard/Smithsonian." Given at Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference, 2004.

"Targeted Optical SETI at Harvard/Smithsonian and Princeton." Given at Bioastronomy 2002 on Hamilton Island, Australia, 2002

"Is there `RFI' in pulsed optical SETI?" Given at Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum III (part of the SPIE annual conference) in San Jose, California, 2001.

"An all-sky optical SETI survey." Given at the 51st IAF Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2000.

"Optical SETI at Harvard-Smithsonian." Given at Bioastronmy on the Kohola Coast, Hawaii, 1999.