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Dr James Robert Fergusson

Career

  • 2022-: Course Director for the MPhil in Data Intensive Science
  • 2022-: Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science
  • 2017-: Deputy Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science
  • 2015-: Centre for Theorertical Cosmology Lecturer, University of Cambridge
  • 2009-2014: Research associate, University of Cambridge
  • 2005-2008: PhD student, University of Cambridge

Research

James is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics GR research group. His current research interests are primordial non-Gaussianity and the bispectrum of the CMB and Large Scale Structure. James looks after the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science and the MPhil in Data Intensive Science. The Cambridge CDT in Data Intensive Science is an innovative, interdisciplinary centre, distributed between the Department of Physics (Cavendish Laboratory), Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) and the Institute of Astronomy (IoA).  The MPhil in Data Intensive Science is an innovative new masters programme which provides cutting edge training in statistical analysis, machine learning and research computing and their application to scientific analysis.

Publications

Efficient optimal non-Gaussian CMB estimators with polarization
JR Fergusson
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2014)
90,
043533
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.043533)
General parity-odd CMB bispectrum estimation
M Shiraishi, M Liguori, JR Fergusson
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2014)
2014,
008
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/008)
Universal non-Gaussian initial conditions forN-body simulations
DM Regan, MM Schmittfull, EPS Shellard, JR Fergusson
– Physical Review D
(2012)
86,
123524
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.86.123524)
The CMB bispectrum
JR Fergusson, M Liguori, EPS Shellard
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2012)
12,
031
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/032)
Rapid separable analysis of higher order correlators in large-scale structure
JR Fergusson, DM Regan, EPS Shellard
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2012)
86,
063511
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.063511)
Effects and detectability of quasi-single field inflation in the large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background
E Sefusatti, JR Fergusson, X Chen, EPS Shellard
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2012)
2012,
033
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/08/033)
Optimal Polyspectra Estimation
JR Fergusson, EPS Shellard
(2011)
(link to publication)
COrE (Cosmic Origins Explorer) A White Paper
TC Collaboration, C Armitage-Caplan, M Avillez, D Barbosa, A Banday, N Bartolo, R Battye, JP Bernard, PD Bernardis, S Basak, M Bersanelli, P Bielewicz, A Bonaldi, M Bucher, F Bouchet, F Boulanger, C Burigana, P Camus, A Challinor, S Chongchitnan, D Clements, S Colafrancesco, J Delabrouille, MD Petris, GD Zotti, C Dickinson, J Dunkley, T Ensslin, J Fergusson, P Ferreira, K Ferriere, F Finelli, S Galli, J Garcia-Bellido, C Gauthier, M Haverkorn, M Hindmarsh, A Jaffe, M Kunz, J Lesgourgues, A Liddle, M Liguori, M Lopez-Caniego, B Maffei, P Marchegiani, E Martinez-Gonzalez, S Masi, P Mauskopf, S Matarrese, A Melchiorri, P Mukherjee, F Nati, P Natoli, M Negrello, L Pagano, D Paoletti, T Peacocke, H Peiris, L Perroto, F Piacentini, M Piat, L Piccirillo, G Pisano, N Ponthieu, C Rath, S Ricciardi, JR Martin, M Salatino, P Shellard, R Stompor, LTJ Urrestilla, BV Tent, L Verde, B Wandelt, S Withington
(2011)
(link to publication)
Optimal Trispectrum Estimators and WMAP Constraints
JR Fergusson, DM Regan, EPS Shellard
(2010)
(link to publication)
General CMB and primordial trispectrum estimation
DM Regan, EPS Shellard, JR Fergusson
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2010)
82,
023520
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.82.023520)
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Email

J.Fergusson@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B1.12

Telephone

01223 765247

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