User:Ben Gardiner

I am a candidate for Mater's of Science (Engineering) with a specialization in computational science at Queen's University in the dept. of Mathematics and Statistics. Planned completion of this program in in May 2007. I also have a Bachelor of Science (Engineering) from Queen's University in Mathematics & Engineering, Control and Communications. My education in undergraduate and graduate programs has been in electrical engineering, applied mathematics and statistics. My master's thesis proposes an application of higher-order spectral analysis to the detection of intermodulation products introduced by amplifiers. While completing my graduate degree, I have been working-on and managing the Queen's Solar Radio Telescope project: A student designed and assembled SRT. The P.I. on this project, and my graduate supervisor, is Dr. David J. Thomson. The work of this project included assembling an eight channel superheterodyne receiver, its control circuitry and code. During the course of my work on this project I have presented at each of the three Canadian Solar Workshops to date and the 2006 AGU fall meeting. My previous academic experience was as a R.A.: implementing signal processing routines at the Royal Military College of Canada with Drs. D. McGaughey and M. Tarbouchi. My interests in mathematics include integral transforms, tensor calculus and complex analysis. In statistics: stationary processes, higher-order spectra, nonparametric methods and multitaper spectral analysis. In engineering: radio frequency, electronic and software. My computational interests include OpenMP, MPI, FORTRAN, C++ expression templates, the boost library, STL and the GNU autotools. I am also interested in opensource development of software, in general.