Duncan’s research has spanned string theoryand cosmology, focal-plane instrumentationfor the Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera (SLAC), and detection statisticsfor primordial black holes. His 2025 PhD at UC Santa Cruz introduced theWeighted Overlapping Outlier Detection statistic: a local consistency test for survey photometry.
Introduced the Weighted Overlapping Outlier Detection statistic, a local consistency test for survey photometry, and a Monte Carlo method that reduces computational requirements from months on a supercomputer to minutes on a laptop.
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