Home Page of Craig Markwardt

Who I am

I have just graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, studying astrophysics under Professor Hakki Ögelman. In my thesis, I study the interaction between the Vela pulsar and its surroundings.

If you would like to find out more about me or my work, I suggest that you download my:

• Curriculum Vitae (or as postscript cv.ps)
• Publication List (or as postscript publist.ps)
• Research Statement (or as postscript pastres.ps)
• Or contact me personally.

Other Pages

• The current e-mail Diplomacy map (maintained by William Lee).
• A library of useful IDL Programs.
• Patches to ESO MIDAS for Linux and other machines with 24-bit and 16-bit X windows displays.
• Solution of Maxwell's equations in cylindrical coordinates for a magnetic flux loop.
• Trend Analysis of Full Moons and Vernal Equinoxes.
• My personal blog has some techie stuff.
• The Visual Derivatives page (a finance page that is not currently operational).

Current Scientific Work

Conference Proceedings

"New Views of the Vela Pulsar Jet"

C. B. Markwardt and H. B. Ögelman, in proceedings of NATO ASI, "The Many Lives of Neutron Stars," October, 1996, on Lipari, Italy. In press.

• The proceedings (nato96.ps)

"ASCA X-ray Observations of the Vela Pulsar Jet"

Hakki Ögelman and Craig Markwardt, in proceedings of "Pulsars: Problems & Progress," January 1996, in Sydney, Australia. S. Johnston, M. A. Walker, and M. Bailes, eds., ASP Conference Series Vol. 105.

• The proceedings (sydney96.ps)

Publications

"The ASCA spectrum of the Vela Pulsar Jet"

C. B. Markwardt and H. B. Ögelman 1997, Astrophysical Journal, Letters, 480, L13-L16.

• As a postscript document (145 kb), with figures and tables.
• On the LANL preprint server, astro-ph/9702098.
• In the Electronic Astrophysical Journal, vol. 480, p L13.

"An X-ray Jet from the Vela Pulsar"

C. B. Markwardt and H. Ögelman 1995, 375, 40.

• The text of the document (Postscript, 70kb).
• Figure 1 a GIF image (120kb).

Web Studies

• A study of the Vela supernova remnant from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey.
• A study of the Vela pulsar compact nebula, comparing X-ray and radio.

Hobbies

I am an avid follower of the stock, options, and futures markets. My interest lies in the high-frequency behavior of the markets, on time scales of minutes, and especially in the efficiency of the arbitrage linkage between cash and derivative pricing. As an example, I take the US stock market, which can be characterized by the S&P 100 and S&P 500 indices. In addition to the cash index, Chicago markets also trade index options, index futures, and options on index futures, all of which are priced independently in a competitive market. I am looking for short-term discrepancies and patterns in such markets, with the hope of finding a statistically significant degree of forecastability.

Web Studies

• A chart of the stock market for August 28, 1996, comparing cash and futures values.
• A curious observation regarding irregularities in the Eurodollar futures "term structure."

Humorous

A collection of my most embarrassing pictures. I have to stay humble somehow!

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