Honors & Fellowships:

National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2014 – 2017.

Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2014 – 2017.

Chance Irick Cooke Graduate Fellowship, C.U. Boulder, 2009-2010.

Relevant Skills:

Programming Languages: Python (fluent), IDL, Fortran, C/C++.

Software: SolidWorks, HFSS, Xic.

Example Laboratory Experience/Skills: Cryogenic refrigeration (pulse-tube coolers, Adiabatic
Demagnetization Refrigerators); vacuum systems; optical and dark testing of millimeter-wave detectors (TES bolomoters); wire bonding; time-domain multiplexing; frequency-domain multiplexing.

Example Analysis Experience/Skills: Telescope beam measurements; telescope pointing corrections; time-ordered-data reduction to maps; Fisher matrix forecasting of cosmological parameter constraints; Markov chain monte carlo parameter estimation (CosmoMC) and Bayesian likelihood analysis; reduction of Chandra X-ray observations of galaxy clusters; PCA techniques; computer simulations using supercomputer clusters.

Field Experience: Deployed to geographic South Pole, Antarctica three times to service, upgrade, and characterize instruments on the South Pole Telescope, (Dec 2011 - Feb 2012, Nov 2012 - Jan 2013, Jan 2017 - Feb 2017).

Service & Outreach Activites:

Referee for the Astrophysical Journal.

Service on NSF grant review panel.

Member of Argonne HEP Division Lunch Seminar Committee, Jan 2018 - May 2018.

Organizer/lead of South Pole Telescope power spectrum analysis telecon (May 2015 - April 2018, Co-lead with Tom Crawford May 2017 - April 2018).

Regular speaker at Adler Planetarium: Space Visualization Lab, Chicago, IL, Nov 2014 - July 2017.

Lab instructor for KICP CMB Summer school, Aug 2017.

Lab instructor for KICP Yerkes Summer Institute, Jul 2017.

Co-presenter, Bright Horizons Pre-school STEM program, Chicago, IL: Mar 2017, Apr 2017, Jun 2017, Oct 2017, Mar 2018.

Chair of the 2015-2016 KICP Friday Seminar committee.

Speaker for KICP Lifelong Learning program: Nov 2014, Apr 2015, Jul 2015, May 2016, Aug 2016, May 2017.

Co-presenter (with Lindsey Bleem), 2014 GLPA Conference Mini-workshop: Swirls in the Sky the Science Behind the Headlines: BICEP2, B-modes and Observing from the South Pole.

Four-time invited lecturer at Regis University, Denver, CO (CMB Cosmology for Introductory Astronomy), 2012-2014.

Invited lecturer for CU-STARS program, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2013.

Invited lecturer at Flagstaff Academy, Longmont, CO (middle school), 2012.

Talks:

Workshop - “The Future of H0 : Crisis or Concordance?," Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Oct 2018, (invited).

Conference - Cosmo 2017, Paris Diderot University, Aug 2017.

Seminar - HEP Division, Argonne National Laboratory, May 2017 (invited).

Workshop - Theoretical Advances in Particle Cosmology, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Oct 2016, (invited).

Seminar - Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics, Nov 2016, (invited).

Conference - 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Aug 2016.

Conference - CMB Polarization Special Session, American Astronomical Society Meeting 228, San Diego, CA, Jun 2016.

Conference - American Astronomical Society Meeting 225, Seattle, WA, Jan 2015.

Conference - NSF AAPF Symposium, American Astronomical Society Meeting 225, Seattle, WA, Jan 2015.

Conference - CMB Special Session - American Astronomical Society Meeting 223, Washington, D.C., Jan 2014.

Conference - American Astronomical Society Meeting 223, Washington, D.C., Jan 2014.

Seminar - CASA/JILA Seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2012.

Conference - The Monster’s Fiery Breath Feedback Conference, Madison, WI, June 2009.

Seminar - CASA/JILA Seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 2009.

Publications Submitted or in Preparation:

1. Sayre, J., Henning, J. W., Reichardt, C., et al. (2018). Measurements of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background from 500 square degrees of SPTpol data, in preparation.

2. Henning, J. W., Wu, W., et al. (2018). Cosmological parameters from SPT-SZ and SPTpol, in preparation.

3. Raghunathan, S., Patil, S., et al. (2018). Mass calibration of optically selected DES clusters using a measurement of CMB-cluster lensing with SPTpol data. arXiv:1810.10998.

4. Thakur, R., Henning, J. W., Barry, P., & Shiroko, Q., Eand Tang. (2017). Simulating cosmic microwave background anisotropy measurements for microwave kinetic inductance devices. arXiv:1711.01192.

5. Abazajian, K. N., et al. (2016). Cmb-s4 science book. arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02743.

Refereed Publications:

1. Chown, R., Omori, Y., et al. (2018). Maps of the Southern Millimeter-wave Sky from Combined 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ and Planck Temperature Data. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 239, 10.

2. Abbott, T., et al. (2018). Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: a precise H0  estimate from DES Y1, BAO, and D/H data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480, 3879-3888.

3. Kim, J., Marrone, D. P., Roy, A. L., Wagner, J., et al. (2018). The 1.4 mm Core of Centaurus A: First VLBI Results with the South Pole Telescope. The Astrophysical Journal, 861, 129.

4. Simard, G., Omori, Y., et al. (2018). Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the Angular Power Spectrum of a Combined 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ and Planck Gravitational Lensing Map. The Astrophysical Journal, 860, 137.

5. Henning, J. W., Sayre, J., Reichardt, C., et al. (2018). Measurements of the temperature and e-mode polarization of the cmb from 500 square degrees of sptpol data. The Astrophysical Journal, 852 (2).

6. Manzotti, A., Story, K., Wu, W., et al. (2017). Cmb polarization b-mode delensing with sptpol and herschel. The Astrophysical Journal, 846 (1).

7. Whitehorn, N., Natoli, T., et al. (2016). Millimeter transient point sources in the sptpol 100 square degree survey. The Astrophysical Journal, 830 (2), 143.

8. Keisler, R., Hoover, S., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., et al. (2015). Measurements of sub-degree b-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background from 100 square degrees of sptpol data. The Astrophysical Journal, 807 (2).

9. Crites, A., Henning, J. W., et al. (2015). Measurements of e-mode polarization and temperature-e-mode correlation in the cosmic microwave background from 100 square degrees of sptpol data. The Astrophysical Journal, 805 (1), 36.

10. Story, K., Hanson, D., et al. (2015). A measurement of the cosmic microwave background gravitational lensing potential from 100 square degrees of sptpol data. The Astrophysical Journal, 810 (1).

11. Hanson, D., Hoover, S., Crites, A., et al. (2013). Detection of b-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background with data from the south pole telescope. Physical Review Letters , 111  (14), 141301.

12. Henning, J. W., Gantner, B., Burns, J. O., & Hallman, E. J. (2009). On the origin of cool core galaxy clusters: comparing x-ray observations with numerical simulations. The Astrophysical Journal , 697  (2), 1597.

Conference Proceedings:

1. Bender, A. N., et al. (2018). Year two instrument status of the SPT-3G cosmic microwave background receiver. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, 10708, 1070803.

2. Ding, J., et al. (2017). Optimization of transition edge sensor arrays for cosmic microwave background observations with the south pole telescope. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 27 (4), 1-4.

3. Posada, C. M., et al. (2016). Large arrays of dual-polarized multichroic tes detectors for cmb measurements with the spt-3g receiver. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, 991417.

4. Bender, A., et al. (2016). Integrated performance of a frequency domain multiplexing readout in the spt-3g receiver. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, 99141D.

5. Posada, C., et al. (2015). Fabrication of large dual-polarized multichroic tes bolometer arrays for cmb measurements with the spt-3g camera. Superconductor Science and Technology, 28 (9), 094002.

6. Chang, C., et al. (2015). Low loss superconducting microstrip development at argonne national lab. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 25 (3), 1-5.

7. Benson, B., et al. (2014). Spt-3g: a next-generation cosmic microwave background polarization experiment on the south pole telescope. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, 91531P.

8. George, E., et al. (2014). A study of al{mn transition edge sensor engineering for stability. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 176 (3-4), 383-391.

9. Yefremenko, V., et al. (2013). Design and fabrication of 90 ghz tes polarimeter detectors for the south pole telescope. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 23 (3), 2100605.

10. Chang, C., et al. (2012a). Detectors for the south pole telescope. Physics Procedia, 37 , 1381-1388.

11. Henning, J. W., et al. (2012). Feedhorn-coupled tes polarimeter camera modules at 150 ghz for cmb polarization measurements with sptpol. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, 84523A.

12. Chang, C., et al. (2012b). Optical and thermal properties of anl/kicp polarization sensitive bolometers for sptpol. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 167 (5-6), 865-871.

13. Sayre, J., et al. (2012). Design and characterization of 90 ghz feedhorn-coupled tes polarimeter pixels in the sptpol camera. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, 845239.

14. Hubmayr, J., et al. (2012). An all silicon feedhorn-coupled focal plane for cosmic microwave background polarimetry. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 167 (5-6), 904-910.

15. Bleem, L., et al. (2012). An overview of the sptpol experiment. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 167 (5-6), 859-864.

16. Austermann, J., et al. (2012). Sptpol: an instrument for cmb polarization measurements with the south pole telescope. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, 84521E.

17. George, E. M., et al. (2012). Performance and on-sky optical characterization of the sptpol instrument. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, 84521F.

18. Story, K., Leitch, E., et al. (2012). South pole telescope software systems: control, monitoring, and data acquisition. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, 84510T.

19. Hubmayr, J., et al. (2011). Stability of al-mn transition edge sensors for frequency domain multiplexing. Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on, 21 (3), 203-206.

20. Henning, J. W., et al. (2010). Optical eciency of feedhorn-coupled tes polarimeters for next-generation cmb instruments. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, 774122.

21. Henning, J. W., Gantner, B., Burns, J. O., & Hallman, E. J. (2009). Testing numerical models of cool core galaxy cluster formation with x-ray observations. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1201 (1), 282-285.

22. Yoon, K., et al. (2009). Feedhorn-coupled tes polarimeters for next-generation cmb instruments. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1185 (1), 515-518.

23. McMahon, J., et al. (2009). Planar orthomode transducers for feedhorn-coupled tes polarimeters. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1185 (1), 490-493.

24. Bleem, L., et al. (2009). Optical properties of feedhorn-coupled tes polarimeters for cmb polarimetry. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1185 (1), 479-482.

25. Appel, J., et al. (2009). Characterizing and modeling the noise and complex impedance of feedhorn-coupled tes polarimeters. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1185 (1), 211-214.

26. Austermann, J., Niemack, M., et al. (2009). Measurements of bolometer uniformity for feedhorn coupled tes polarimeters. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1185 (1), 498-501.