Science publications

  • Armstrong, E. An optimization method for estimating functional connectivity and electrophysiology within a biological neuronal network.  (In revision with Physical Review E); arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03834, 2018a
  • Armstrong, E., Patwardhan, A.V., Johns, L., Kishimoto, C.T., Abarbanel, H.D.I., Fuller, G.M. A Path-integral-based Approach to Neutrino Flavor Evolution.  Physical Review D 96(8): 083008, 2017b
  • Abarbanel, H.D.I., Shirman, S., Breen, D., Kadakia, N., Rey, D., Armstrong, E., Margoliash, D. A Unifying View of Synchronization for Data Assimilation in Complex Nonlinear Networks.  Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 27(12): 126802, 2017
  • Abarbanel, H.D.I., Shirman, S., Armstrong, E., Dean D., Extracellular Potentials as Data Assimilation Measurement Functions for the Dynamics in Networks of Neurons. (In preparation)
  • Armstrong, E., Abarbanel, H.D.I. Model of the songbird nucleus HVC as a network of central pattern generators, Neurophysiol. 116(5): 2405-2419, 2016
  • Kadakia, N., Armstrong, E., Breen, D., Morone, U., Daou, A., Margoliash, D., Abarbanel, H. D.I., Nonlinear Statistical Data Assimilation for HVCRA Neurons in the Avian Song System. Biological Cybernetics6:417-434, 2016
  • Breen, D., Shirman, S., Armstrong, E., Daou, A., Margoliash, D., Abarbanel, H.D.I. HVC Interneuron Properties from Statistical Data Assimilation.  arXiv preprint arXiv: 1608:04433, 2016
  • Armstrong, E., Patterson, J., Michelsen, E., Thorstensen, J., Uthas, H., Vanmunster, T., Hambsch, F.-J., Roberts, G., Dvorak, S., Orbital, Superhump, and Superorbital Periods in the Cataclysmic Variables AQ Mensae and IM Eridani. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) 435, 707, 2013
  • Armstrong, E., Patterson, J., Kemp, J. Two Photometric Periods in the AM CVn System CP Eridani.   MNRAS 421, 2310, 2012
  • Skinner, J., Thorstensen, J., Armstrong, E., Brady, S. The New Eclipsing Cataclysmic Variable SDSS 154453+255.  Publications of the Astron. Soc. of the Pacific (PASP) 123, 901, 2011
  • Copperwheat, C.M., Marsh, T., Dhillon, V., Littlefair, S., Woudt, A., Warner, B., Patterson, J., Steeghs, D., Kemp, J., Armstrong, E., Rea, R. The Photometric Period in ES Ceti.  MNRAS 413, 3068, 2011
  • Dai, X, Halpern, J., Morgan, N., Armstrong, E., Mirabal, N., Haislip, J., Reichart, D., Stanek, K., Optical and X-Ray Observations of GRB 060526: A Complex Afterglow Consistent with an Achromatic Jet Break. Astrophysical Journal (Ap J) 658, 509, 2007
  • Armstrong, E. al. GRB 060102: MDM Observation, GRB Coordinates Network, Circular Service 4427, 1, 2006
  • Thorstensen, J., Armstrong, E. Is FIRST J102347.6+003841 Really a Cataclysmic Binary?   Astronomical Journal (AJ) 130, 759, 2005
  • Patterson, J., Thorstensen, J., Armstrong, E. The Dwarf Nova PQ Andromedae.  PASP 117, 922, 2005
  • Patterson, J. and 19 co-authors, Superhumps in Cataclysmic Binaries. XXV. qcrit, epsilon(q), and Mass-Radius. PASP 117, 1204, 2005
  • Patterson, J., Thorstensen, J., Vanmunster, T., Fried, R., Martin, B., Campbell, T., Robertson, J., Kemp, J., Messier, D., Armstrong, E., Rapid Oscillations in Cataclysmic Variables. XVI. DW Cancri. PASP 116, 516, 2004
  • Pretorius, M.L. Woudt, P., Warner, B., Bolt, G., Patterson, J., Armstrong, E., High-speed photometry of SDSS J013701.06 – 091234.9. MNRAS 352, 1056, 2004
  • Mirabal, N. Halpern, J., Chornock, R., Filippenko, A., Terndrup, D., Armstrong, E., Kemp, J., Thorstensen, J., Tavarez, M., Espaillat, C., GRB 021004: A Possible Shell Nebula around a Wolf-Rayet Star Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor. Ap J 595, 935, 2003

Publications of questionable scientific merit

  1. Armstrong, E. Colonel Mustard in the Aviary with the Candlestick: a limit cycle attractor transitions to a stable focus via supercritical Andronov-Hopf bifurcation.  https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11559
  2. Armstrong, E. A Neural Networks Approach to Predicting How Things Might Have Turned Out Had I Mustered the Nerve to Ask Barry Cottonfield to the Junior Prom Back in 1997.  arXiv preprint arXiv:1703:10449, 2017 April 1
  3. Armstrong, E. Pipe-cleaner Model of Neuronal Network Dynamics. arXiv preprint arXiv:1603:09723, 2016 April 1
  4. Armstrong, E. Non-detection of the Tooth Fairy at Optical Wavelengths.  arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0492 2012 April 1; Journal of Irreproducible Results 52, 3: 22-25, 2014