# Papers

Here are some of the academic papers I have written on machine learning, high
energy physics, and cosmology.

## Machine Learning

- Ni et al. ["Sampled Image Tagging and Retrieval Methods on User Generated Content"](https://bmva-archive.org.uk/bmvc/2017/papers/paper104/index.html) *British Machine Vision Conference 2017*. ([arXiv:1611.06962][arxiv-1611])

[arxiv-1611]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06962

## Physics

### High Energy Physics

- **Gude**, Alexander. ["Measurement of the phistar distribution of Z bosons decaying to electron pairs with the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV"](/blog/my-phd-thesis/) *Ph.D. Thesis for the University of Minnesota*. ([UMN Library][umn-thesis]) ([Video of Defense][defense-video]) ([Readable summary][thesis_post])
- CMS Collaboration. ["Search for heavy neutrinos and W bosons with right-handed couplings in proton--proton collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV"](https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3149-z) *Eur. Phys. J. C*. vol. 74. 2014. pp. 3149. doi: [10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3149-z](https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3149-z).
- CMS Collaboration. ["Measurement of the Rapidity and Transverse Momentum Distributions of Z Bosons in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV"](https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.032002) *Phys. Rev. D*. vol. 85. 2012. pp. 032002. doi: [10.1103/PhysRevD.85.032002](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.032002).

[thesis_post]: /blog/my-phd-thesis/
[umn-thesis]: https://hdl.handle.net/11299/175445
[defense-video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEcGh5ds4D8

### Supernova Cosmology

- **Gude**, Alexander. ["Spectral Study of Twenty-Three Type Ia Supernovae Using Principal Component Analysis"](/files/undergrad_thesis.pdf) *UC Berkeley Honors Thesis*. 2008.
- Suzuki et al. ["The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey: V. Improving the Dark Energy Constraints Above z>1 and Building an Early-Type-Hosted Supernova Sample"](https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/85) *ApJ*. vol. 746, no. 1. 2012. pp. 85. doi: [10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/85](https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/85).
- Dawson et al. ["An Intensive HST Survey for z>1 Supernovae by Targeting Galaxy Clusters"](https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3928) *AJ*. vol. 138, no. 5. 2009. pp. 1271. doi: [10.1088/0004-6256/138/5/1271](https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/138/5/1271).
- Barbary et al. ["Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope"](https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1648) *ApJ*. vol. 690, no. 2. 2009. pp. 1358. doi: [10.1088/0004-637X/690/2/1358](https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/690/2/1358).
- Kuznetsova et al. ["A New Determination of the High-Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rates with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys"](https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3120) *ApJ*. vol. 673, no. 2. 2008. pp. 981. doi: [10.1086/524881](https://doi.org/10.1086/524881).