Samuel Nathan Richards

2012 - 2013: AAO Extended Studentship to contine work on SAMI as a Pre-Doc
2008 - 2012: BSc (Hons) Astrophysics with Research Year (First Class Honours at the University of Hertfordshire, UK)
2010 - 2011: Research Year at the University of Sydney and Australian Astronomical Observatory working on the new multiplex integral field spectral for the AAT "SAMI"
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Authored Papers:
1. Richards, et al., 2012, BASIS: Bayfordbury Single-object Integral Field Spectrograph, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Conference Proceedings 8446.82 (http://to.ly/dQ4c)
2. Fogarty, et al., 2012, Data analysis and first science with the Sydney-AAO multi-object IFS (SAMI), SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Conference Proceedings 8446.211
3. Bryant, et al., 2012, SAMI: a new multi-object IFS for the Anglo-Australian Telescope, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Conference Proceedings 8446.31
4. Croom, et al., 2012, The Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 421 (1) p872 (Paper: http://to.ly/eln8, Article: http://to.ly/b6wz)
5. Fischer, et al., 2011, A Photonic Integrated Dual-Arm Spectrograph, White Paper for KECK 2011 Instrument Upgrade Review, 2nd Round only

Assisted Papers:
1. Saward, et al., 2012, Keeping Staff and Students Together - Challenges in Extending the Virtual Learning Environment into Social Networks, International Blended Learning conference 2012
2. Thompson, et al., 2010, A search for debris disks in the Herschel-ATLAS, Astronomy & Astrophysics 518 id.L134 (http://to.ly/eln8)

Conference Posters:
1. Richards, et al., 2012, Integral field spectroscopy on small aperture telescopes, UK & Germany National Astronomy Meeting 2012 (http://to.ly/cAY7)
2. Richards, et al., 2012, BASIS: Bayfordbury Single-object Integral Field Spectrograph, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Conference Proceedings 8446.82