Dr Norman Gray

  • Principal Engineer, EduTech (Science & Engineering College IT Services)
  • Lecturer (School of Physics & Astronomy)

telephone: 01413307111
email: Norman.Gray@glasgow.ac.uk

Physics & Astronomy, Kelvin Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202

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Personal webpage: https://nxg.me.uk

Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy (50%) Principal Engineer (educational technology), COSE (50%)

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Number of items: 69.

2022

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2022) A Student's Guide to Special Relativity. Series: Student's Guides. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108995634 (doi: 10.1017/9781108999588)

2021

Rots, Arnold, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Derrière, Sébastien (2021) Units in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Project Report. Zenodo. (doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.5083151).

2020

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, O'Donnell, Ruaridh, MacSporran, Ross, Oxburgh, Stephen and Courtial, Johannes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-7972 (2020) Relativistic photography with a wide aperture. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision, 37(1), pp. 123-134. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.37.000123)

2019

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2019) A Student's Guide to General Relativity. Cambridge University Press. (doi: 10.1017/9781316869659)

2016

Courtial, Johannes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-7972, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, O'Donnell, Ruaridh, MacSporran, Ross, Oxburgh, Stephen, Hendry, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-5405 and Cowie, Euan N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2208-0713 (2016) Photography at relativistic speeds. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 9948, 994808. (doi: 10.1117/12.2237850)

2015

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2015) RDF, the semantic web, Jordan, Jordan and Jordan. In: Moss, Michael, Endicott-Popovsky, Barbara and Dupuis, Marc J. (eds.) s Digital Different?: How Information Creation, Capture, Preservation and Discovery are Being Transformed. Facet Publishing: London. ISBN 9781856048545

Jenness, T. et al. (2015) Learning from 25 years of the extensible N-Dimensional Data Format. Astronomy and Computing, 12, pp. 146-161. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2014.11.001)

Thomas, B. et al. (2015) Learning from FITS: limitations in use in modern astronomical research. Astronomy and Computing, 12, pp. 133-145. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2015.01.009)

2014

Oxburgh, Stephen, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Hendry, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-5405 and Courtial, Johannes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-7972 (2014) Lorentz-transformation and Galileo-transformation Windows. In: Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XVII, San Diego, CA, USA, 17-21 Aug 2014, 91931K. (doi: 10.1117/12.2061415)

Demleitner, Markus, Derrière, Sébastien, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Louys, Mireille and Ochsenbein, François (2014) Units in the VO. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Thomas, B. et al. (2014) Significant Problems in FITS Limit Its Use in Modern Astronomical Research. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIII, Waikoloa Beach HI, USA, 29 Sept - 3 Oct 2013, p. 351. ISBN 781583818541

2013

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Labrosse, Nicolas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4638-157X, Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Draper, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9564-9317, Given, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4450-381X and Barr, Niall ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5302-4936 (2013) Tagging and linking lecture audio recordings: goals and practice. In: Enhancement and Innovation in Higher Education Conference, Glasgow, UK, 11-13 Jun 2013, pp. 452-458.

Accomazzi, A., Budavári, T., Fluke, C., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Mann, R.G., O’Mullane, W., Wicenec, A. and Wise, M. (2013) Astronomy and computing: a new journal for the astronomical computing community. Astronomy and Computing, 1, pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2012.10.001)

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Erdmann, C., Accomazzi, A., Soles, J., McCann, G., Cassar, M. and Biemesderfer, C. (2013) Creation and maintenance of a unified astronomy thesaurus. ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts, 221,

Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, R., Jones, R., Lambert, S. and Matthews, B. (2013) Data management and preservation planning for big science. International Journal of Digital Curation, 8(1), pp. 29-41. (doi: 10.2218/ijdc.v8i1.247)

2012

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during ligo science run 6 and virgo science runs 2 and 3. Astrophysical Journal, 760(1), p. 12. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/12)

Bicarregui, Juan, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, Rob, Jones, Roger, Lambert, Simon and Matthews, Brian (2012) RF6 Pecha Kucha: MaRDI-Gross: guidance for big-science DMP planning. [Audio]

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Carozzi, Tobia and Woan, Graham ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0381-0394 (2012) Managing Research Data in Big Science. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122007. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122007)

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2012) URI fragments in IVOA specifications. Project Report. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review D, 85(8), Art. 082002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.082002)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D, 85(10), p. 102004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122001)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 85(2), Art. 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.022001)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 541, A155. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218860)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, A124. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118219)

Accomazzi, A., Derriere, S., Biemesderfer, C. and Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2012) Why don't we already have an integrated framework for the publication and preservation of all data products? In: ASP 2012 Meeting: Communicating Science, Tucson, AZ, USA, 4-8 Aug 2012,

Bicarregui, Juan, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, Rob, Jones, Roger, Lambert, Simon and Matthews, Brian (2012) DMP Planning for Big Science Projects. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED.

Bicarregui, Juan, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, Rob, Lambert, Simon, Jones, Roger and Matthews, Brian (2012) Supporting bespoke DMP in big science. Project Report. JISC, Science & Technology Facilities Council, University of Glasgow, Lancaster University.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2012) Review of; K. Treimer, Web 2.0 Tools and Strategies for Archives and Local History Collections. Records Management Journal, 22(1), pp. 81-83. [Book Review]

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Carozzi, T.D. and Woan, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0381-0394 (2012) Managing Research Data: Gravitational Waves. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Jones, R.W.L., Bicarregui, J.C., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, R.C.W., Lambert, S.C. and Matthews, B.M. (2012) MaRDI-Gross: data management and preservation planning for large projects. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 396(3), 032059. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/396/3/032059)

2011

Seaman, R. et al. (2011) Sky Event Reporting Metadata Version 2.0. Project Report. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Abadie, J. et al. (2011) A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. Nature Physics, 7(12), pp. 962-965. (doi: 10.1038/nphys2083)

Derriere, S., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Mann, R., Preite Martinez, A., McDowell, J., McGlynn, T., Ochsenbein, F., Osuna, P., Rixon, G. and Williams, R. (2011) An IVOA Standard for Unified Content Descriptors: Version 1.1. Other. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Mann, R.G,, Morris, D., Holliman, M. and Noddle, K. (2011) The AstroDAbis tagging service: tags and cross-matches for remote catalogues. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference (ADASS XXIII), Paris, France, 6-10 Nov 2011,

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Mann, R.G. (2011) A journal for the astronomical computing community? In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX (ADASSXX). Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 442. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 655-658.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Woan, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0381-0394 (2011) Digital preservation and astronomy: lessons for funders and the funded. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX (ADASSXX). Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 442. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 13-16.

Preite Martinez, A. et al. (2011) The UCD1+ Controlled Vocabulary Version 1.23. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

2010

Gray, A., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Hall, C. and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2010) Finding the right term: retrieving and exploring semantic concepts in astronomical vocabularies. Information Processing and Management, 46(4), pp. 470-478. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.004)

Chalmers, Stuart, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 and Gray, Alasdair (2010) Collaborative Editing and Linking of Astronomy Vocabularies Using Semantic Mediawiki. In: 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki-2010), Crete Island, Greece, 31 May 2010, pp. 74-78.

Graham, M., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Burke, D. (2010) Practical semantic astronomy. In: American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. American Astronomical Society, p. 578.

Hessman, F.V. and Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2010) Vocabularies and semantics for VOEvent. In: Williams, R., Emery Bunn, S. and Seaman, R. (eds.) Hotwiring the Transient Universe. UNSPECIFIED.

2009

Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Lusted, J. (2009) Semantic security: specification and enforcement of semantic policies for security-driven collaborations. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 147, pp. 201-211. (doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-027-8-201)

Gray, Alasdair J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2009) Searching and exploring controlled vocabularies. In: Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retreival Workshop (ESAIR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 09 Feb 2009, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781605584300 (doi: 10.1145/1506250.1506252)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2009) Can RDB2RDF tools feasibly expose large science archives for data integration? Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5554, pp. 491-505. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_37)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2009) Vocabularies in the VO. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 179-182. ISBN 9781583817025

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Linde, T. and Andrews, K. (2009) SKUA - retrofitting semantics. In: Auer, S., Bizer, C. and Aastrand Grimnes, G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web at ESWC 2009, Heraklion, Greece. CEUR Workshop proceedings.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Linde, T. and Andrews, K. (2009) The SKUA project and the semantic web. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Series: ASP conference series, 411. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 175-178. ISBN 9781583817025

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T. and Lusted, J. (2009) Advanced grid authorisation using semantic technologies - AGAST. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, 7-9 Dec 2009,

2008

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Sinnott, R.O. (2008) The AGAST project investigates semantic technologies. D-Lib Magazine, 14(11/12), (doi: 10.1045/november2008-inbrief)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2008) Accessing existing distributed science archives as RDF models. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 Sep 2008,

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2008) Finding data resources in a virtual observatory using SKOS vocabularies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5071, pp. 189-192. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70504-8_19)

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2008) The fact and future of semantic astronomy. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVII. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 742. ISBN 9781583816585

2006

Delmotte, N. et al. (2006) IVOA Recommendation: Maintenance of the List of UCD Words Version 1.20. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

2005

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2005) Review Essay: Readers, Readers, Writers and Engineers, Knowledge, Power and Learning, Learning, Space and Identity. Policy Futures in Education, 3(2), pp. 234-238. (doi: 10.2304/pfie.2005.3.2.10)[Book Review]

Derriere, S., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Mann, R., Preite Martinez, A., McDowell, J., McGlynn, T., Ochsenbein, F., Osuna, P., Rixon, G. and Williams, R. (2005) An IVOA Standard for Unified Content Descriptors: Version 1.10. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Draper, P.W., Allan, A., Berry, D.S., Currie, M.J., Giaretta, D., Rankin, S., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Taylor, M.B. (2005) Starlink software developments. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV. Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 347. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 22.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2005) Readers, readers, writers and engineers. Policy Futures in Education, 3(2), pp. 234-238.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Jenness, T., Allan, A., Berry, D.S., Currie, M.J., Draper, P.W., Taylor, M.B. and Cavanagh, B. (2005) Porting the starlink software collection to GNU autotools. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV. Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 347. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 119-123.

2002

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2002) Absolute positioning with textpos. TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group, 23(3-4), pp. 341-344.

2001

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2001) Automatic reduction of elliptic integrals using Carlson's relations. Mathematics of Computation, 71(237), pp. 311-319. (doi: 10.1090/S0025-5718-01-01333-3)

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Coleman, Iain J. (2001) Source reconstruction as an inverse problem. In: Menzies, J.W. and Sackett, Penny D. (eds.) Microlensing 2000: a New Era of Microlensing Astrophysics: Proceedings of a meeting held at Cape Town, South Africa, 21-25 February 2000. Series: Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series (239). Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 204-212. ISBN 9781583810767

1998

Hendry, M.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-5405, Coleman, I.J., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Newsam, A.M. and Simmons, J.F.L. (1998) Microlensing of extended stellar sources. New Astronomy Reviews, 42(2), pp. 125-128. (doi: 10.1016/S1387-6473(98)00033-5)

Coleman, I.J., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Simmons, J.F.L. (1998) Inversion of polarimetric data from eclipsing binaries. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 131(1), pp. 187-194. (doi: 10.1051/aas:1998261)

1996

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Brown, J.C. (1996) Prominence and flare fine structure from cross-field thermal conduction. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 307(3), pp. 955-960.

1994

Brown, John C. and Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (1994) Spatial fragmentation of solar flare plasma and beams. Space Science Reviews, 68, pp. 93-96. (doi: 10.1007/BF00749121)

1991

Broadhurst, D.J., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Schilcher, K. (1991) Gauge-invariant on-shellZ 2 in QED, QCD and the effective field theory of a static quark. Zeitschrift für Physik C, 52(1), pp. 111-122. (doi: 10.1007/BF01412333)

1990

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Broadhurst, D. J., Grafe, W. and Schilcher, K. (1990) Three-loop relation of quark MS and pole masses. Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields, 48(4), pp. 673-679. (doi: 10.1007/BF01614703)

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Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, O'Donnell, Ruaridh, MacSporran, Ross, Oxburgh, Stephen and Courtial, Johannes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-7972 (2020) Relativistic photography with a wide aperture. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision, 37(1), pp. 123-134. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.37.000123)

Courtial, Johannes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-7972, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, O'Donnell, Ruaridh, MacSporran, Ross, Oxburgh, Stephen, Hendry, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-5405 and Cowie, Euan N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2208-0713 (2016) Photography at relativistic speeds. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 9948, 994808. (doi: 10.1117/12.2237850)

Jenness, T. et al. (2015) Learning from 25 years of the extensible N-Dimensional Data Format. Astronomy and Computing, 12, pp. 146-161. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2014.11.001)

Thomas, B. et al. (2015) Learning from FITS: limitations in use in modern astronomical research. Astronomy and Computing, 12, pp. 133-145. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2015.01.009)

Accomazzi, A., Budavári, T., Fluke, C., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Mann, R.G., O’Mullane, W., Wicenec, A. and Wise, M. (2013) Astronomy and computing: a new journal for the astronomical computing community. Astronomy and Computing, 1, pp. 1-4. (doi: 10.1016/j.ascom.2012.10.001)

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Erdmann, C., Accomazzi, A., Soles, J., McCann, G., Cassar, M. and Biemesderfer, C. (2013) Creation and maintenance of a unified astronomy thesaurus. ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts, 221,

Bicarregui, J., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, R., Jones, R., Lambert, S. and Matthews, B. (2013) Data management and preservation planning for big science. International Journal of Digital Curation, 8(1), pp. 29-41. (doi: 10.2218/ijdc.v8i1.247)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during ligo science run 6 and virgo science runs 2 and 3. Astrophysical Journal, 760(1), p. 12. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/12)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122007. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122007)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review D, 85(8), Art. 082002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.082002)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D, 85(10), p. 102004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122001)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 85(2), Art. 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.022001)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 541, A155. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218860)

Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, A124. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118219)

Jones, R.W.L., Bicarregui, J.C., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, R.C.W., Lambert, S.C. and Matthews, B.M. (2012) MaRDI-Gross: data management and preservation planning for large projects. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 396(3), 032059. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/396/3/032059)

Abadie, J. et al. (2011) A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. Nature Physics, 7(12), pp. 962-965. (doi: 10.1038/nphys2083)

Gray, A., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Hall, C. and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2010) Finding the right term: retrieving and exploring semantic concepts in astronomical vocabularies. Information Processing and Management, 46(4), pp. 470-478. (doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.004)

Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Lusted, J. (2009) Semantic security: specification and enforcement of semantic policies for security-driven collaborations. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 147, pp. 201-211. (doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-027-8-201)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2009) Can RDB2RDF tools feasibly expose large science archives for data integration? Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5554, pp. 491-505. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_37)

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Sinnott, R.O. (2008) The AGAST project investigates semantic technologies. D-Lib Magazine, 14(11/12), (doi: 10.1045/november2008-inbrief)

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2008) Finding data resources in a virtual observatory using SKOS vocabularies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5071, pp. 189-192. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70504-8_19)

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2005) Readers, readers, writers and engineers. Policy Futures in Education, 3(2), pp. 234-238.

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2002) Absolute positioning with textpos. TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group, 23(3-4), pp. 341-344.

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2001) Automatic reduction of elliptic integrals using Carlson's relations. Mathematics of Computation, 71(237), pp. 311-319. (doi: 10.1090/S0025-5718-01-01333-3)

Hendry, M.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-5405, Coleman, I.J., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Newsam, A.M. and Simmons, J.F.L. (1998) Microlensing of extended stellar sources. New Astronomy Reviews, 42(2), pp. 125-128. (doi: 10.1016/S1387-6473(98)00033-5)

Coleman, I.J., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Simmons, J.F.L. (1998) Inversion of polarimetric data from eclipsing binaries. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 131(1), pp. 187-194. (doi: 10.1051/aas:1998261)

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Brown, J.C. (1996) Prominence and flare fine structure from cross-field thermal conduction. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 307(3), pp. 955-960.

Brown, John C. and Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (1994) Spatial fragmentation of solar flare plasma and beams. Space Science Reviews, 68, pp. 93-96. (doi: 10.1007/BF00749121)

Broadhurst, D.J., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Schilcher, K. (1991) Gauge-invariant on-shellZ 2 in QED, QCD and the effective field theory of a static quark. Zeitschrift für Physik C, 52(1), pp. 111-122. (doi: 10.1007/BF01412333)

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Broadhurst, D. J., Grafe, W. and Schilcher, K. (1990) Three-loop relation of quark MS and pole masses. Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields, 48(4), pp. 673-679. (doi: 10.1007/BF01614703)

Books

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2022) A Student's Guide to Special Relativity. Series: Student's Guides. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108995634 (doi: 10.1017/9781108999588)

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2019) A Student's Guide to General Relativity. Cambridge University Press. (doi: 10.1017/9781316869659)

Book Sections

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2015) RDF, the semantic web, Jordan, Jordan and Jordan. In: Moss, Michael, Endicott-Popovsky, Barbara and Dupuis, Marc J. (eds.) s Digital Different?: How Information Creation, Capture, Preservation and Discovery are Being Transformed. Facet Publishing: London. ISBN 9781856048545

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Mann, R.G. (2011) A journal for the astronomical computing community? In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX (ADASSXX). Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 442. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 655-658.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Woan, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0381-0394 (2011) Digital preservation and astronomy: lessons for funders and the funded. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX (ADASSXX). Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 442. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 13-16.

Graham, M., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Burke, D. (2010) Practical semantic astronomy. In: American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. American Astronomical Society, p. 578.

Hessman, F.V. and Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2010) Vocabularies and semantics for VOEvent. In: Williams, R., Emery Bunn, S. and Seaman, R. (eds.) Hotwiring the Transient Universe. UNSPECIFIED.

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2009) Vocabularies in the VO. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 179-182. ISBN 9781583817025

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Linde, T. and Andrews, K. (2009) SKUA - retrofitting semantics. In: Auer, S., Bizer, C. and Aastrand Grimnes, G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web at ESWC 2009, Heraklion, Greece. CEUR Workshop proceedings.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Linde, T. and Andrews, K. (2009) The SKUA project and the semantic web. In: Bohlender, D.A., Durand, D. and Dowler, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems Conference (ADASS XVIII) Quebec, Canada. Series: ASP conference series, 411. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 175-178. ISBN 9781583817025

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2008) The fact and future of semantic astronomy. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVII. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 742. ISBN 9781583816585

Draper, P.W., Allan, A., Berry, D.S., Currie, M.J., Giaretta, D., Rankin, S., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Taylor, M.B. (2005) Starlink software developments. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV. Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 347. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 22.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Jenness, T., Allan, A., Berry, D.S., Currie, M.J., Draper, P.W., Taylor, M.B. and Cavanagh, B. (2005) Porting the starlink software collection to GNU autotools. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV. Series: Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series, 347. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 119-123.

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Coleman, Iain J. (2001) Source reconstruction as an inverse problem. In: Menzies, J.W. and Sackett, Penny D. (eds.) Microlensing 2000: a New Era of Microlensing Astrophysics: Proceedings of a meeting held at Cape Town, South Africa, 21-25 February 2000. Series: Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series (239). Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 204-212. ISBN 9781583810767

Book Reviews

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2012) Review of; K. Treimer, Web 2.0 Tools and Strategies for Archives and Local History Collections. Records Management Journal, 22(1), pp. 81-83. [Book Review]

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2005) Review Essay: Readers, Readers, Writers and Engineers, Knowledge, Power and Learning, Learning, Space and Identity. Policy Futures in Education, 3(2), pp. 234-238. (doi: 10.2304/pfie.2005.3.2.10)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Rots, Arnold, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Derrière, Sébastien (2021) Units in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Project Report. Zenodo. (doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.5083151).

Demleitner, Markus, Derrière, Sébastien, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Louys, Mireille and Ochsenbein, François (2014) Units in the VO. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Carozzi, Tobia and Woan, Graham ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0381-0394 (2012) Managing Research Data in Big Science. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2012) URI fragments in IVOA specifications. Project Report. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Bicarregui, Juan, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, Rob, Jones, Roger, Lambert, Simon and Matthews, Brian (2012) DMP Planning for Big Science Projects. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED.

Bicarregui, Juan, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, Rob, Lambert, Simon, Jones, Roger and Matthews, Brian (2012) Supporting bespoke DMP in big science. Project Report. JISC, Science & Technology Facilities Council, University of Glasgow, Lancaster University.

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Carozzi, T.D. and Woan, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0381-0394 (2012) Managing Research Data: Gravitational Waves. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Seaman, R. et al. (2011) Sky Event Reporting Metadata Version 2.0. Project Report. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Derriere, S., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Mann, R., Preite Martinez, A., McDowell, J., McGlynn, T., Ochsenbein, F., Osuna, P., Rixon, G. and Williams, R. (2011) An IVOA Standard for Unified Content Descriptors: Version 1.1. Other. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Preite Martinez, A. et al. (2011) The UCD1+ Controlled Vocabulary Version 1.23. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Delmotte, N. et al. (2006) IVOA Recommendation: Maintenance of the List of UCD Words Version 1.20. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Derriere, S., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Mann, R., Preite Martinez, A., McDowell, J., McGlynn, T., Ochsenbein, F., Osuna, P., Rixon, G. and Williams, R. (2005) An IVOA Standard for Unified Content Descriptors: Version 1.10. Working Paper. International Virtual Observatory Alliance.

Conference Proceedings

Oxburgh, Stephen, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Hendry, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-5405 and Courtial, Johannes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-7972 (2014) Lorentz-transformation and Galileo-transformation Windows. In: Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XVII, San Diego, CA, USA, 17-21 Aug 2014, 91931K. (doi: 10.1117/12.2061415)

Thomas, B. et al. (2014) Significant Problems in FITS Limit Its Use in Modern Astronomical Research. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIII, Waikoloa Beach HI, USA, 29 Sept - 3 Oct 2013, p. 351. ISBN 781583818541

Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Labrosse, Nicolas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4638-157X, Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Draper, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9564-9317, Given, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4450-381X and Barr, Niall ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5302-4936 (2013) Tagging and linking lecture audio recordings: goals and practice. In: Enhancement and Innovation in Higher Education Conference, Glasgow, UK, 11-13 Jun 2013, pp. 452-458.

Accomazzi, A., Derriere, S., Biemesderfer, C. and Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 (2012) Why don't we already have an integrated framework for the publication and preservation of all data products? In: ASP 2012 Meeting: Communicating Science, Tucson, AZ, USA, 4-8 Aug 2012,

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Mann, R.G,, Morris, D., Holliman, M. and Noddle, K. (2011) The AstroDAbis tagging service: tags and cross-matches for remote catalogues. In: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference (ADASS XXIII), Paris, France, 6-10 Nov 2011,

Chalmers, Stuart, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 and Gray, Alasdair (2010) Collaborative Editing and Linking of Astronomy Vocabularies Using Semantic Mediawiki. In: 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki-2010), Crete Island, Greece, 31 May 2010, pp. 74-78.

Gray, Alasdair J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2009) Searching and exploring controlled vocabularies. In: Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retreival Workshop (ESAIR 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 09 Feb 2009, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781605584300 (doi: 10.1145/1506250.1506252)

Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T. and Lusted, J. (2009) Advanced grid authorisation using semantic technologies - AGAST. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, 7-9 Dec 2009,

Gray, A.J.G., Gray, N. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202 and Ounis, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2008) Accessing existing distributed science archives as RDF models. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 Sep 2008,

Audio

Bicarregui, Juan, Gray, Norman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-9202, Henderson, Rob, Jones, Roger, Lambert, Simon and Matthews, Brian (2012) RF6 Pecha Kucha: MaRDI-Gross: guidance for big-science DMP planning. [Audio]

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Teaching

Tutorials and Supervisions

  • Astronomy 2: Supervisions (S1) ASTRO2001
  • Astronomy 2: Supervisions (S2) ASTRO2001

Projects (additional)

  • Physics 4M Literature Project Report Marking x3 PHYS5047P

Laboratories

  • Physics 3 Laboratory: IT (lead) PHYS4009

Lectures

  • ExCos1X: The Sun and its Radiation ASTRO1003
  • General Relativity and Gravitation I (B) ASTRO5001

Dr Norman Gray