Dr Philip Charlton
BMaths(Hons) PhD
Course Co-ordinator MCompMod
Lecturer in Mathematics
Office Location
Room: 114
Building: 01
Consultation Times:
Mailing Address
School of Computing and Mathematics
Locked Bag 588
Wagga Wagga NSW 2678
Australia
Telephone: +61 2 6933 4104
Fax: +61 2 6933 2080
Email:pcharlton@csu.edu.au
Brief Biography
Philip completed his PhD in mathematics at the University of Newcastle in 1998. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena , and as a lecturer at La Trobe University. His research interests are in data analysis for the detection of gravitational waves, differential geometry and relativity.
Research Focus
Gravitational Waves
Relativity
Differential Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Teaching Responsibilities
STA201 (Scientific Statistics)
MTH101 (Computer Aided Maths Applications 1)
MTH219 (Linear Algebra)
MTH102 (Computer Aided Mathematics 2)
STA201 (Scientific Statistics)
Professional Activities
Maths and Stats Seminar Co-ordinator
Selected Publications
B Abbot et al. "Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves", Physical Review D76 082003 (2007).
E J Candès, P R Charlton and H Helgason. “Detecting Highly Oscillatory Signals by Chirplet Path Pursuit”, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis21 issue 1 (2007).
P R Charlton and A Lazzarini. “Comparison of band-limited RMS between DARM_ERR and calibrated strain in S4” , LIGO Technical Report T-060138.
B Abbot et al. “Joint LIGO and TAMA300 Search for Gravitational Waves from Inspiralling Neutron Star Binaries”, Physical Review D73 102002 (2006).
B Abbot et al. “Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data”, Physical Review D73 062001 (2006).
B Abbot et al. “Search for gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's third science run"”. Classical and Quantum Gravity23 (2006) S29-S39.
Current Research Students
Craig Wright, PhD topic “The quantification of information systems risk”.
Mark Weedon, PhD topic “Solar heat loads on outdoor tanks”.
Past Research Students
Matthew Robards, “A discriminant analysis for undersampled data”, Honours 1st Class, 2008.
Leanne Morgan, “A simple-to-use analytic mathematical model of channel seepage under Australian conditions”, Honours 1st Class, 2007.