Referreed Journal Papers

• "Measurement of CMB Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data",
  H. C. Chiang et al,
  submitted to ApJ, astro-ph/0906.1181

• "Improved measurements of the temperature and polarization of the CMB from QUaD",
  M. L. Brown et al,
  submitted to ApJ, astro-ph/0906.1003

• "A Measurement of Arcminute Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array ",
  M. K. Sharp et al,
  submitted to ApJ, astro-ph/0901.4342

• "Small Angular Scale Measurements of the CMB Temperature Power Spectrum from QUaD",
  R. B. Friedman et al,
  submitted to ApJ, astro-ph/0901.4334

• "Cosmological Parameters from the QUaD CMB polarization experiment",
  P. G. Castro et al,
  submitted to ApJ, astro-ph/0901.0810

• "Parity violation constraints using 2006-2007 QUaD CMB polarization spectra",
  E. Y. S. Wu et al,
  accepted by PRL, astro-ph/0811.0618

• "Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey",
  Z. Staniszewski et al,
  Submitted to ApJ, astro-ph/0810.1578

• "Application of a Self-Similar Pressure Profile to Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Data from Galaxy Clusters",
  T. Mroczkowski et al,
  Accepted by ApJ, astro-ph/0809.5077

• "Second and third season QUaD CMB temperature and polarization power spectra",
  C. Pryke et al,
  ApJ 692 (2009) 1247-1270, astro-ph/0805.1944

• "QUaD: A High-Resolution Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter",
  J. Hinderks et al,
  ApJ 692 (2009) 1221-1246, astro-ph/0805.1990

• "First season QUaD CMB temperature and polarization power spectra",
  P. Ade et al,
  ApJ 674 (2008) 22-28, astro-ph/0705.2359

• "Observations of High-Redshift X-Ray Selected Clusters with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array",
  S. Muchovej et al,
  ApJ 663 (2007) 708, astro-ph/0610115

• "Polarization Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager",
  A. C. S. Readhead et al,
  Science 306 (2004) 836-844, astro-ph/0409569

• "DASI Three-Year Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Results",
  Erik M. Leitch, J. M. Kovac, N. W. Halverson, J. E. Carlstrom, C. Pryke, M. W. E. Smith,
  ApJ 624 (2005) 10-20. astro-ph/0409357

• "Properties and performance of the prototype instrument for the Pierre Auger Observatory",
  J. Abraham et al,
  2004, NIMA, Volume 523, p50. NIMA

• "Scientific optimization of a ground-based CMB polarization experiment",
  M. Bowden at al,
  2004, MNRAS, Volume 349, Issue 1, pp. 321-335. astro-ph/0309610

• "Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background using DASI",
  J. Kovac, E. M. Leitch, C. Pryke, J. E. Carlstrom, N. W. Halverson, W. L. Holzapfel,
  Nature 420 (2002) 772-787. astro-ph/0209478

• "Measuring Polarization with DASI",
  E. M. Leitch, J. M. Kovac, C. Pryke, B. Reddall, E. S. Sandberg, M. Dragovan, J. E. Carlstrom, N. W. Halverson, W. L. Holzapfel,
  Nature 420 (2002) 763-771. astro-ph/0209476

• "The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background to l = 3500: Mosaic Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager",
  T. J. Pearson et al,
  Astrophys.J. 591 (2003) 556-574. astro-ph/0205388

• "The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background to l = 3500: Deep Field Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager",
  B. S. Mason et al,
  Astrophys.J. 591 (2003) 540-555. astro-ph/0205384

• "The Composition of Cosmic Rays at the Knee",
  S.P. Swordy at al, (Knee workshop paper)
  Astroparticle Physics 18 (2002) 129. astro-ph/0202159

• "Cosmological Parameter Extraction from the First Season of Observations with DASI",
  C. Pryke, N. W. Halverson, E. M. Leitch, J. Kovac, J. E. Carlstrom, W. L. Holzapfel, M. Dragovan,
  Astrophys.J. 568 (2002) 46-51. astro-ph/0104490

• "DASI First Results: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Angular Power Spectrum",
  N. W. Halverson, E. M. Leitch, C. Pryke, J. Kovac, J. E. Carlstrom, W. L. Holzapfel, M. Dragovan, J. K. Cartwright, B. S. Mason, S. Padin, T. J. Pearson, M. C. Shepherd, A. C. S. Readhead,
  Astrophys.J. 568 (2002) 38-45. astro-ph/0104489

• "Experiment Design and First Season Observations with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer",
  E. M. Leitch, C. Pryke, N. W. Halverson, J. Kovac, G. Davidson, S. LaRoque, E. Schartman, J. Yamasaki, J. E. Carlstrom, W. L. Holzapfel, M. Dragovan, J. K. Cartwright, B. S. Mason, S. Padin, T. J. Pearson, M. C. Shepherd, A. C. S. Readhead,
  Astrophys.J. 568 (2002) 28-37. astro-ph/0104488

• "A Comparative Study of the Depth of Maximum of Simulated Air Shower Longitudinal Profiles",
  C. Pryke,
  Astroparticle Physics 14 (2001) 319. astro-ph/0003442

• "A Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Spectrum and Composition at the Knee",
  J.W. Fowler, L.F. Fortson, C.C.H. Jui, D.B. Kieda, R.A. Ong, C.L. Pryke, P. Sommers,
  Astroparticle Physics 15 (2001) 49. astro-ph/0003190

• "A new air-Cherenkov array at the South Pole",
  J.E Dickinson, J.R Gill, G.C Jill, J.A Hinton, J. Lloyd-Evans, D Potter, C. Pryke, K. Rochester, R. Schwarz, A.A. Watson,
  Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods in Physics Research A 440 (2000) 114.

• "Long baseline testing of a GPS based, autonomous event time-tagging system",
  C. Pryke,
  Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods in Physics Research A 394 (1997) 420. ps

• "The Lateral Distribution of Extensive Air Showers Produced by Cosmic Rays above 10¹⁹ eV as Measured by Water-Cerenkov Detectors",
  R.N. Coy, G. Cunningham, C.L. Pryke and A.A. Watson,
  Astroparticle Physics 6 (1997) 263. ps

• "A high performance GPS based autonomous event time-tagging system with application in a next generation Extensive Air Shower array",
  C. Pryke and J. Lloyd-Evans,
  Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods in Physics Research A 354 (1995) 560. ps

Talks and Lectures

"Viewing the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World",
Northwestern University Physics Colloquium, 2 October 2009. html
• "Systematics in QUaD",
  CMB Polarization Experiment Workshop, Chicago, 1 July 2009, html

• "New results on CMB Polarization from BICEP and QUaD",
  KICP Friday Lunch Seminar, 5 June 2009. html

• "New CMB Polarization Results From QUaD",
  Northwestern University Astrophysics Seminar, 7 April 2009. html

• "Viewing the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World",
  University of Minnesota Physics, 5 March 2009. html

• "Viewing the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World",
  IIT Physics Colloquium, Chicago, 25 February 2009. html

• "New CMB Polarization Results From QUaD",
  University of Victoria, Canada, 26 November 2008.

• "New CMB Polarization Results From QUaD",
  CITA Seminar, Toronto Canada, 30 October 2008.

• "New CMB Polarization Results From QUaD",
  Perimeter Institute, Waterloo Canada, 23 September 2008, html

• "New CMB Polarization Results From QUaD",
  Gravity Group Seminar, Princeton, 19 September 2008, html

• "Suitability of On Axis Reflector Designs for Space",
  Inflation Probe Technology Workshop, Bolder, 28 August 2008, html

• "Analysis of QUaD Data",
  Cosmo08, Madison, 26 August 2008, html

• "Survey of CMB Polarization Experiments",
  IUCAA Workshop, Pune India, 4 August 2008, pdf

• "New CMB Polarization Results From QUaD",
  IUCAA Workshop, Pune India, 2 August 2008, html

• "Systematics in QUaD",
  Inflation Probe Systematics Workshop, Annapolis Maryland, 28 July 2008, html (also see proceedings paper below)

• "New CMB Polarization Results From QUaD",
  KICP Colloquium, University of Chicago, 21 May 2008, html

• "CMB Polarization Measurements with QUaD",
  Aspen CMB Meeting, 31 Jan 2008, html, pdf

• "CMB Polarization Measurements with QUaD",
  Cosmic Cartography, Chicago, 3 December 2007, html

• "QUaD - Polarization of the CMB",
  ObsCos Seminar, Caltech, 16 October 2007, html

• "QUaD - Polarization of the CMB",
  MIT Astrophysics Colloquium, 2 October 2007, html

• "Measuring the CMB from the South Pole",
  Cavendish Astrophysics Seminar, University of Cambridge, 22 Sept 2006. html

• "QUaD - a CMB Polarimeter",
  Physics Grad Student Seminar, UofC, 26 May 2006. Identical to EFI talk below.

• "QUaD - a CMB Polarimeter",
  EFI Faculty Lunch, UofC, 4 April 2006. html

• "QUaD - a CMB Polarimeter",
  Irvine CMB Meeting, Irvine, 24 March 2006. html (also see proceedings paper below)

• "Surveys for Clusters of Galaxies using the SZ Effect",
  KIPAC Seminar, SLAC, 16 March 2006. html

• "Surveys for clusters using the SZ effect",
  Ringberg Cluster Meeting, Germany, 27 October 2005. html

• "What we are learning from the CMB",
  NWU Astrophysics Seminar, 18 October 2005. html

• "The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA)",
  Kona Cluster Meeting, Hawaii, 2 Mar 2005. html

• "QUAD: a Next Generation CMB Polarimeter",
  Astronomy and Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Chicago, 10 Nov 2004. html

• "CMB and the Golden Age of Cosmology",
  Alan Watson Symposium, University of Leeds UK, 23 July 2004. html

• "The SZ Array (SZA) Project - Status and Prospects",
  CfCP SZ Meeting, University of Chicago, 18 Sept 2003. html

• "The SZ Array Project - Status and Prospects",
  Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, 14 May 2003. html

• "Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background at the South Pole with DASI",
  HEP Seminars, Brookhaven National Lab and Cornell, 3 and 4 April 2003. html

• "Probing the Nature of the Universe Using the CMB",
  Astronomy Colloquium, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, 4 October 2001. html

• "Probing the Nature of the Universe Using the CMB",
  Physics Colloquium, Iowa State University, 1 October 2001. html

• "Results from DASI: Interferometric Observations of the First Three Acoustic Peaks",
  A New Era in Cosmology, Durham, UK, 12 September 2001. html

• "Probing the Nature of the Universe Using the CMB",
  Physics Colloquium, University of Leeds, UK, 10 September 2001. html

• "The DASI CMB Anisotropy Experiment"
  Rencontre de Blois, Blois, France, 21 June 2001. html

• "Probing the Nature of the Universe Using the CMB",
  Astrophysics Lunch Talk, Columbia University, 20 March 2001. (Very similar to UC talk below.)

• "Measuring 10¹⁵ eV Cosmic Rays through the Air Showers They Produce",
  Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar, Columbia University, March 2001. ps

• "Probing the Nature of the Universe Using the CMB",
  Astronomy and Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Chicago, 12 March 2001. html

• "Probing the Nature of the Universe Using the CMB",
  Physics Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz, February 27 2001. (Very similar to UC talk above.)

• "Measuring 10¹⁵ eV Cosmic Rays through the Air Showers They Produce",
  SCIPP Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, Feb 2001. ps

• "Interferometric Observations of the CMB from the South Pole with DASI",
  URSI meeting, Bolder, January 10 2001. pdf

• "Interferometric Observations of the CMB from the South Pole with DASI",
  Astrophysics Seminar, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 2000. pdf

• "Interpreting the Data from BLANCA",
  Workshop on the High Energy Composition of Cosmic Rays, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, June 2000. ps

• "Imaging the Cosmic Microwave Background with DASI",
  EFI Mini-Symposium on Antarctic Research, University of Chicago, May 2000. pdf

• "Measuring 10¹⁵ eV Cosmic Rays through the Air Showers They Produce",
  Kellogg Laboratory Seminar, CalTech, May 2000. ps

• "How to Measure Cosmic Ray Composition through Air Showers: Interpreting the Data from BLANCA/CASA/MIA",
  HEP Seminar, University of Chicago, May 2000. ps

• "Some Problems are Just Hard: Capabilities and Limitations of Air Shower Experiments",
  LASR Seminar, Chicago, March 1999. ps

• "Auger Detector Design",
  Presentation to SAGENAP Committee, Washington DC, April 1998. ps

• "The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and the Auger Project",
  Physics Department Colloquium, University of Wisconsin at Madison, March 1998. ps

• "The Auger Project", Aspen Winter Conference on Particle Physics, Jan 1998. html

• "Experimental Techniques and Extensive Air Shower Dynamics",
  Lecture Series, School on Cosmic Ray Physics, Hanoi Vietnam, Dec 1997.

• "Simulated performance of the Auger Observatory Hybrid Detectors",
  Presentation to SAGENAP Committee, Washington DC, Nov 1997. ps

Selected Conference Proceedings

[Only those which I wrote or contributed to other than just through their being repetitions of already published work.]

• "Systematics in the QUaD Experiment",
  Inflation Probe Systematics Workshop, Annapolis Maryland, July 2008, pdf

• "Irvine CMB Meeting",
  Irvine CA, March 2006.
  "The QUaD experiment", C. Pryke for the QUaD Collaboration, p.984-992. pdf, ADS
  New Astronomy Reviews, 2006, Volume 50, Issue 11-12.

• "Proceedings of the 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference",
  Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, August 1999 (ed. D. Kieda, M. Salamon, & B. Dingus).
  • "Composition Results at the Knee from CASA-BLANCA",
    L.F. Fortson, J.W. Fowler, C.H. Jui, D. Kieda, R.A. Ong, C.L. Pryke, P. Sommers, vol3, p125. ps
  • "A Detector Simulation of the BLANCA Air Cherenkov Experiment",
    L.F. Fortson, J.W. Fowler, R.A. Ong, C.L. Pryke, vol5, p332. ps
  • "CORSIKA Air Shower Simulations for the BLANCA Air Cherenkov Experiment",
    L.F. Fortson, J.W. Fowler, R.A. Ong, C.L. Pryke, vol5, p336. ps

• "10th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions",
  LNGS, Assergi, Italy, July 1998.
  "Some Effects of First Proton-Air Interactions on Development of Giant Air Showers", C. Pryke, L. Voyvodic.
  Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 75A (1999) 365.

• "Workshop on Observing Giant Cosmic Ray Air Showers from >10²⁰ eV Particles from Space",
  College Park, Maryland, USA, November 1997 (Ed. J.F. Krizmanic, J.F. Ormes, R.E. Streitmatter).
  "Auger: What, Why and How?", C. Pryke, p312. ps
  AIP Conference Proceedings 433 (1998) ISBN 1-56396-788-X. (Also GAP-98-006)

• "Proceedings of the 25th International Cosmic Ray Conference",
  Durban, South Africa, July 1997 (ed. M.S. Potgieter, B.C. Raubenheimer, D.J. van der Walt).
  • "Measuring the Cosmic Ray Composition at the Knee with BLANCA",
    L.F. Fortson, J.W. Fowler, C.H. Jui, D.B. Kieda, E.C. Loh, R.A. Ong, C.L.S. Pryke, P. Sommers, vol4, p49. ps
  • "Simulated Performance Of The Auger Observatory Water Cherenkov Arrays",
    C.L. Pryke, vol5, p209. ps (Also GAP-97-039)
  • "Simulated Performance Of The Auger Observatory Hybrid Detectors",
    B.R. Dawson, C.L. Pryke, vol5, p213.
  • "Shower Characteristics of the Auger Prototype Water Cherenkov Detector Observed at Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA)",
    N. Sakaki, T. Kutter, C. Pryke, M. Nagano, vol5, p217.
  • "Development of Water Cerenkov Detectors at Fermilab for the Pierre Auger Project",
    P.O. Mazur, M.A. Cummings, T.F. Droege, C. Hojvat, H. Kautzky, P.M. Mantcsh, C. Pryke, D. Ravignani, A. Shih, L. Voyvodic, vol5 p225.

• "Very High Energy Phenomema in the Universe",
  Les Arcs, France, January 1997 (ed. Y Giraud-Heraud, J. Tran Thanh Van).
  "Chemical Composition Studies With A Hybrid Detector", C. Pryke, p239. ps
  Editions Frontieres (1997) ISBN 2-86332-217-6. (Also GAP-97-022)

• "Proceedings of International Symposium on Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays: Astrophysics and Future Observatories",
  ICRR, Tanashi, Tokyo, Japan, September 1996 (Ed. M. Nagano).
  • "Simulations of the proposed Auger water Cerenkov ground array",
    C. Pryke, p286. ps
  • "Performance simulations of a 10 m² water Cerenkov detector and comparison with experiment",
    C. Pryke, p407. ps

Outreach Activities

• "Viewing the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World",
  Second grade class presentation, U of C Lab School, 15 May 2009. Follow up to on-going class project which involved taking to letters and drawings from the kids to the the SPT winterovers at South Pole.

• "Viewing the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World",
  Science Chicago event, Adler Planetarium Space Visualization Lab, 17 Jan 2009.

• "The South Pole and the Baby Universe",
  First grade class presentation, U of C Lab School, 10 Jan 2008.

• "The Biggest Map in the Universe: Superlative Mapping at the Bottom of the Globe",
  Café Scientifique presentation, Map Room (bar), 17 December 2007.

• "Current map of the Early Universe: CMB Observations",
  KICP Cosmology Short Course for Planetarium Staff, University of Chicago, 8 December 2007, html, pdf

• "Journey Through the Universe",
  Interviewed by Kolb and Turner as part of live event at Art Institute of Chicago, 5 December 2007.

• "The History of the Universe and the Return of Einstein's Biggest Blunder",
  Great Lakes Planetarium Society, 25 October 2006, Identical to Leeds talk below.

• "The History of the Universe and the Return of Einstein's Biggest Blunder",
  University of Chicago Emeritus Club, 17 October 2006, Identical to Leeds talk below.

• "The History of the Universe and the Return of Einstein's Biggest Blunder",
  University of Chicago "Beyond Einstein" Alumni Weekend, 28 January 2006, Identical to Leeds talk below.

• "The History of the Universe and the Return of Einstein's Biggest Blunder",
  South Pole Sunday Science Lecture, 4 December 2005, html

• "CMB experiments at the South Pole",
  Organized and appeared in Beyond Einstein Webcast segment from South Pole, 1 December 2005,
  CERN site. Then click "CERN, Geneva" at lower left, number 4 on green bar in middle and "The three top mysteries..." just to left of that to access CMB at South Pole segment.

• "The History of the Universe and the Return of Einstein's Biggest Blunder",
  Bolton Public Lecture at University of Leeds, 1 November 2005, html

• "A Grand Tour of Modern Cosmology",
  KICP Cosmology Short Course for Planetarium Staff, University of Chicago, 23 September 2005, html

• "The Adventure of Modern Cosmology, Part I - Introduction and the CMB",
  Center for Cosmological Physics Public Lecture Course, Adler Planetarium, 11 March 2004, html

• "A Grand Tour of Modern Cosmology",
  CfCP Cosmology Short Course for Planetarium Staff, University of Chicago, 26 September 2003, html

• Supervised REU student Cristina Tcheyan working on SZA instrumentation June-Aug 2003.

• Worked with Noella D'Cruz to create new set of public web pages on SZA project.

• "Sketching the Biggest Picture - The Adventure of Experimental Cosmology",
  Compton Lecture Series, University of Chicago, 6 April - 15 June 2002 (10 lectures). html

• Antarctica Day - Adler Palentarium. Demos etc.

• "Seeing Sound Waves in the Early Universe with DASI",
  Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, 5 June 2001. html

Auger Project Technical Notes

• "Ground Particles in MOCCA and CORSIKA"
  C. Pryke, GAP-98-036. ps

• "Longitudinal Profiles in MOCCA and CORSIKA"
  C. Pryke, GAP-98-035. ps

• "Asymmetry of Air Showers at Ground Level"
  C. Pryke, GAP-98-034. ps

• "Self calibration of the water Cerenkov tanks: Simulation"
  C. Pryke, GAP-96-026. ps

• "Should the top surface of the water tank lining be black?"
  C. Pryke, GAP-97-015. ps

• "Measurements of R1408 photomultiplier performance"
  C. Pryke and T. Kutter, GAP-96-041. ps

• "Optimum latitude for the Auger Observatories to achieve all sky coverage"
  C. Pryke, GAP-96-031 ps

• "A case for MOCCA shower simulation runs at 10^-7 thinning level"
  C. Pryke, GAP-96-023 ps

• "Geometrical design studies for water Cerenkov detectors via simulation"
  C. Pryke, GAP-96-008. ps

PhD Thesis

• "Instrumentation development and experimental design for a next generation detector of the highest energy cosmic rays"
  C. Pryke, PhD Thesis, Univeristy of Leeds, 1996. ps