Mark Taylor's publications

Astonomy Software

My current job is software rather than research, hence I am producing few publications these days outside presentations at the Astronomical Data And Software Systems conference series. Here they are:
  1. Starlink Software Developments,
    M.Bly, D.L.Giaretta, M.J.Currie and M.B.Taylor,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 295, ADASS XII, 445 (2003)
    Published .ps file .pdf file.
  2. HDX Data Model - FITS, NDF and XML implementation,
    D.L.Giaretta, M.B.Taylor, P.W.Draper, N.Gray and B.McIlwrath,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 295, ADASS XII, 221 (2003)
    Published .ps file, .pdf file.
  3. Web Services and their use in Starlink Software,
    M.B.Taylor, R.T.Platon, A.J.Chipperfield, P.W.Draper and D.L.Giaretta,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 295, ADASS XII, 325 (2003)
    Published .ps file, .pdf file.
  4. Data Models in the VO: How Do They Make Code Better?,
    N.Gray, D.L.Giaretta, D.S.Berry, M.J.Currie, P.W.Draper, M.B.Taylor,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 314, ADASS XIII, 535 (2004)
    Published .ps file, .pdf file.
  5. Starlink Software,
    D.Giaretta, M.Currie, S.Rankin, P.Draper, N.Gray, D.Berry, M.Taylor,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 314, ADASS XIII, 832 (2004)
    Published .ps file .pdf file.
  6. TOPCAT & STIL: Starlink Table/VOTable Processing Software,
    M.B.Taylor,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 347, ADASS XIV, 29 (2005)
    Submitted .ps file.
  7. Porting the Starlink Software Collection to GNU Autotools,
    N.Gray, T.Jenness, A.Allan, D.S.Berry, M.J.Currie, P.W.Draper, M.B.Taylor,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 347, ADASS XIV, 119 (2005)
  8. Starlink Software Developments,
    P.W.Draper, A.Allan, D.S.Berry, M.J.Currie, D.Giaretta, S.Rankin, N.Gray, M.B.Taylor,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 347, ADASS XIV, 22 (2005)
  9. STILTS - A Package for Command-Line Processing of Tabular Data,
    M.B.Taylor
    ASP Conf. Ser. 351, ADASS XV, 666 (2006)
    Poster .pdf file, paper .ps file.
  10. Binding Applications Together with PLASTIC,
    John D Taylor, Thomas Boch, Marco Comparato, Mark Taylor, Noel Winstanley, Robert G Mann,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 376, ADASS XVI, 511 (2007)
  11. GAIA 3D: Visualising Data Cubes,
    Peter W Draper, Malcolm J Currie, Tim Jenness, Jamie Leech, Frossie Economou, David S Berry, Mark B Taylor,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 376, ADASS XVI, 695 (2007)
    Submitted .ps file.
  12. Astro Runtime - An API to the Virtual Observatory,
    Noel Winstanley, John D Taylor, Mark B Taylor, Keith Noddle, Eduardo Gonzalez Solares, Johan Lindroos,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 376, ADASS XVI, 571 (2007)
  13. Column-Oriented Table Access Using STIL: Fast Analysis of Very Large Tables,
    Mark Taylor, Clive Page,
    ASP Conf. Ser., 394, ADASS XVII, 422 (2008)
    Submitted paper .pdf, poster .pdf.
  14. STILTS Plotting Tools: Scriptable graphics generation from small and large tables,
    Mark Taylor,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 411, ADASS XVIII, 510
    Submitted paper .pdf, poster .pdf.
  15. SAMP: Application Messaging for Desktop and Web Applications,
    Mark Taylor, Thomas Boch, Jonathan Fay, Mike Fitzpatrick and Luigi Paioro,
    ASP Conf. Ser. 461, ADASS XXI, 279
    Published paper .pdf, presentation .pdf.
  16. Application Interoperability with SAMP,
    Mike Fitzpatrick, Omar Laurino, Luigi Paioro and Mark Taylor,
    ASP Conf. Ser., ADASS XXII
    Submitted paper .pdf.

Lattice dynamics

This work was mostly done while I was doing a postdoc in Neil Allan's group in the Chemistry department at Bristol University between March 1995 and March 1998. (That web page also includes a rather silly picture of me from around then).

Note that unless you are located in the .bris.ac.uk domain, the links to papers below will not be accessible for copyright reasons. Please contact me if you would like copies of any of these papers.

  1. Free-energy derivatives and structure optimization within quasiharmonic lattice dynamics,
    M.B.Taylor, G.D.Barrera, N.L.Allan and T.H.K.Barron,
    Phys. Rev. B 56, 14380 (1997).
    Published .ps file, .pdf file
  2. Shell: a code for lattice dynamics and structure optimisation of ionic crystals,
    M.B.Taylor, G.D.Barrera, N.L.Allan and T.H.K.Barron,
    Comput. Phys. Commun. 109, 135 (1998).
    Published .ps file, .pdf file.
  3. Quasiharmonic free energy and derivatives for three-body interactions,
    M.B.Taylor, N.L.Allan, J.A.O.Bruno and G.D.Barrera,
    Phys. Rev. B 59, 353 (1999).
    Published .ps file, .pdf file, or (slightly more nicely typeset?) preprint .ps file.
  4. Ionic Solids at elevated temperatures and high pressures: MgF2,
    G.D.Barrera, M.B.Taylor, N.L.Allan and T.H.K.Barron,
    J. Chem. Phys. 107, 4337 (1997).
    Published .ps file, .pdf file.
  5. Quasiharmonic free energy and derivatives for slabs: oxide surfaces at elevated temperatures,
    M.B.Taylor, C.E.Sims, G.D.Barrera, N.L.Allan and W.C.Mackrodt,
    Phys. Rev. B 59, 6742 (1999).
    Published .ps file, .pdf file.
  6. Hybrid Monte Carlo and lattice dynamics simulations: the enthalpy of mixing of binary oxides,
    J.A.Purton, J.D.Blundy, M.B.Taylor, G.D.Barrera and N.L.Allan,
    Chem. Commun. 627 (1998).
    Published .ps file, .pdf file
  7. Free energy of formation of defects in polar solids,
    M.B.Taylor, G.D.Barrera, N.L.Allan, T.H.K.Barron and W.C.Mackrodt,
    Farad. Discuss. 106, 377 (1997).
    Published .ps file, .pdf file
  8. Ionic solids at elevated temperatures and/or high pressures: lattice dynamics, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo and ab initio studies,
    N.L.Allan, G.B.Barrera, J.A.Purton, C.E.Sims and M.B.Taylor,
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2, 1099 (2000).
    Published .ps file, .pdf file
  9. Free energy of solid solutions and phase diagrams via quasiharmonic lattice dynamics,
    N.L.Allan, G.D.Barrera, R.M.Fracchia, M.Yu.Lavrentiev, M.B.Taylor, I.T.Todorov and J.A.Purton,
    Phys. Rev. B. 63, 094203 (2001).
    Published .pdf file
  10. Evaluation of thermodynamic properties of solids by quasiharmonic lattice dynamics,
    N.L.Allan, G.D.Barrera, T.H.K.Barron and M.B.Taylor,
    Int. J. Thermophys. 22, 535 (2001)
    Published .pdf file

Magnetic and compositional ordering in metals

The following papers were published as a result of my Ph.D. done at the Physics department at Bristol University under the supervision of Balazs Gyorffy between 1989 and 1992.
  1. A ferromagnetic monolayer with model spin-orbit and dipole-dipole interactions,
    M.B.Taylor and B.L.Gyorffy
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 5, 4527 (1993)
    Published .ps file, .pdf file
  2. Magnetic and compositional order in nickel-rich NicFe1-c alloys,
    M.B.Taylor, B.L.Gyorffy and C.J.Walden,
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 3, 1575 (1991)
  3. Monte Carlo simulations of an FCC NicFe1-c alloy with vector magnetic freedom,
    M.B.Taylor and B.L.Gyorffy,
    J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 104-107, 877 (1992)
  4. Monte Carlo simulations of a simple Ising spin model representing 111 and 100 nickel-iron multilayers,
    M.B.Taylor and B.L.Gyorffy,
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 3, 4971 (1991)

And now for something completely different

I collaborated with my friend Tom on a paper about data analysis techniques based on his work observing baboons in Kenya:
  1. Data for free: How to estimate the association of non-focal subjects using a focal window,
    T.D.Sambrook and M.B.Taylor,
    Behaviour 137, 1257 (2000)
Mark Taylor - m.b.taylor@bris.ac.uk
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