Education

• Rice University Houston, TXPh.D. Physics, 2016 -- 2019
• Rice University Houston, TXM.S. Physics, 2013 -- 2016
• Baylor University Waco, TXB.S. Astrophysics, 2009 -- 2013

Papers

Refereed Publications

• Static and dynamic solar coronal loops with cross-sectional area variations
  P. J. Cargill, S. J. Bradshaw, J. A. Klimchuk, W. T. Barnes, MNRAS 2021
• Understanding Heating in Active Region Cores through Machine Learning II. Classifying Observations
  W. T. Barnes, S. J. Bradshaw, N. M. Viall, ApJ 2021
• Forecasting the Remaining Duration of an Ongoing Solar Flare
  J. W. Reep, W. T. Barnes, SpWea 2021
• aiapy: A Python Package for Analyzing Solar EUV Image Data from AIA
  Will T. Barnes, Mark C. M. Cheung, Monica G. Bobra, Paul F. Boerner, Georgios Chintzoglou, Drew Leonard, Stuart J. Mumford, Nicholas Padmanabhan, Albert Y. Shih, Nina Shirman, David Stansby, Paul J. Wright, JOSS 2020
• Nanoflare Diagnostics from Magnetohydrodynamic Heating Profiles
  K. J. Knizhnik, W. T. Barnes, J. W. Reep, V. M. Uritsky, ApJ 2020
• SunPy: A Python Package for Solar Physics
  Stuart J. Mumford, Nabil Freij, Steven Christe, Jack Ireland, Florian Mayer, V. Keith Hughitt, Albert Y. Shih, Daniel F. Ryan, Simon Liedtke, David Pérez-Suárez, et al. (including Will Barnes), JOSS 2020
• The SunPy Project: Open Source Development and Status of the Version 1.0 Core Package
  The SunPy Community, Will T. Barnes, Monica G. Bobra, Steven D. Christe, Nabil Freij, Laura A. Hayes, Jack Ireland, Stuart Mumford, David Pérez-Suárez, Daniel F. Ryan, Albert Y. Shih, et al., ApJ 2020
• Solar Active Region Heating Diagnostics from High Temperature Emission using the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)
  P. S. Athiray, Amy R. Winebarger, Will T. Barnes, Stephen J. Bradshaw, Sabrina Savage, Harry P. Warren, Ken Kobayashi, Patrick Champey, Leon Golub, Lindsay Glesener, ApJ 2019
• Understanding Heating in Active Region Cores through Machine Learning I. Numerical Modeling and Predicted Observables
  W. T. Barnes, S. J. Bradshaw, N. M. Viall, ApJ 2019
• Inference of Heating Properties from Hot Non-flaring Plasmas in Active Region Cores II. Nanoflare Trains
  W. T. Barnes, P. J. Cargill, S. J. Bradshaw, ApJ 2016
• Inference of Heating Properties from Hot Non-flaring Plasmas in Active Region Cores I. Single Nanoflares
  W. T. Barnes, P. J. Cargill, S. J. Bradshaw, ApJ 2016

Conference Proceedings

• ChiantiPy: A Python Package for Astrophysical Spectroscopy
  W. T. Barnes, K. P. Dere, 16th SciPy Conference 2017
• Dust Grain Growth in a Protoplanetary Disk: Effects of Location on Charge and Size
  W. T. Barnes, L. S. Matthews, T. W. Hyde, 44th LPSC 2013

Other Non-refereed Publications

• aiapy: A SunPy affiliated package for analyzing data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly
  W. T. Barnes, M. C. M. Cheung, SunPy Blog 2022
• The Ongoing Development and Support of Atomic Physics in Solar and Heliospheric Science
  Y. J. Rivera, W. T. Barnes, A. Higginson, E. Landi, J. C. Raymond, J. W. Reep, Heliophysics 2050 White Paper 2020
• Science Platforms for Heliophysics Data Analysis
  M. G. Bobra, W. T. Barnes, M. C. M. Cheung, L. A. Hayes, J. Ireland, M. Janvier, M. S. F. Kirk, J. P. Mason, S. J. Mumford, P. J. Wright, Heliophysics 2050 White Paper 2020
• Toward A Sustainable Software Development Model for Heliophysics
  W. T. Barnes, J. Juno, J. W. Reep, J. Ireland, P. J. Wright, S. A. Spitzer, B. L. Alterman, D. Stansby, E. Lichko, Heliophysics 2050 White Paper 2020
• Modeling Coronal Loops in 3D with sunpy.coordinates
  W. T. Barnes, SunPy Blog 2018

Presentations

Conference Talks

• Predicting Nanoflare Heating Frequency in Active Region 11158 through Loop Hydrodynamics, Forward Modeling, and Machine Learning Third Meeting of the Parker Solar Probe Scholars
  9 -- 10 November 2021, Virtual
• Seeing the Trees through a Random Forest: Details of Active Region Heating Revealed through Forward Modeling and Classification Machine Learning in Heliophysics
  16 -- 20 September 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Constraining the Frequency of Energy Deposition through Quantitative Comparisons of Models and Observations (invited) Coronal Loops Workshop IX
  11 -- 14 June 2019, St Andrews, UK
• Understanding Heating Properties of Active Region Loops through Forward Modeling and Machine Learning 2018 SDO Science Workshop
  29 October -- 2 November 2018, Ghent, Belgium
• Timelag Analysis of Simulated Active Region Cores Heated by Nanoflares Triennial Earth-Sun Summit
  21 -- 24 May 2018, Leesburg, VA
• A Complete fiasco - The Difficulties of Dealing with Atomic Data and a Possible Pythonic Solution Python in Astronomy 2018
  30 April -- 4 May 2018, New York City, NY
• ChiantiPy: a Python package for Astrophysical Spectroscopy 16th Python in Science Conference
  10 -- 16 July 2017, Austin, TX
• Constraining Nanoflare Heating Frequency with a Global Active Region Model Coronal Loops Workshop VIII
  27 -- 30 June 2017, Palermo, Italy
• Hot Non-flaring Plasmas in Active Region Cores Heated by Single Nanoflares AAS Solar Physics Division Meeting
  31 May -- 3 June 2016, Boulder, CO
• Dust Grain Charging in a Protoplanetary Disk Texas Undergraduate Astronomy Research Symposium
  14 September 2012, College Station, TX

Seminars

• Seeing the Trees through a Random Forest: Details of Active Region Heating Revealed through Forward Modeling and Classification Stanford Solar Group Science Meeting
  26 June 2019, Stanford, CA
• Seeing the Trees through a Random Forest: Details of Active Region Heating Revealed through Forward Modeling and Classification Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Seminar
  20 June 2019, Palo Alto, CA
• Understanding Heating Frequency in Active Region Loops through Forward Modeling and Machine Learning Space Physics Seminar Series
  19 November 2018, Houston, TX
• Investigating Heating Frequency in Active Region Cores through Timelag Analysis of Forward Modeled Emission (invited) NRL Solar and Heliospheric Physics Branch Seminar
  11 July 2018, Washington, D.C.
• A Framework for Forward Modeling Solar Active Regions Space Physics Seminar Series
  27 February 2017, Houston, TX
• Impacts of Two-fluid Effects on Emission from Impulsively Heated Coronal Loops Space Physics Seminar Series
  9 November 2015, Houston, TX

Workshops

• Analyzing Multi-viewpoint Observations with the SunPy Ecosystem Tutorial Day of the Hinode-14 / IRIS-11 Joint Science Meeting
  29 October 2021, Virtual
• Introduction to SunPy and the Python in Heliophysics Community Workshops at the 238th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
  4 June 2021, Virtual
• Collaborative Development of Python Tools for Field-Aligned Hydrodynamic Simulations Interrogating Field-Aligned Solar Flare Models (ISSI Team Led by G. Kerr and V. Polito)
  27 -- 31 January 2020, Bern, Switzerland
• fiasco: a Python Interface to the CHIANTI Atomic Database Heliophysics Community Python Working Group Meeting
  13 -- 15 November 2018, Boulder, CO

Outreach

• Why is the Sun So Hot? A Current Perspective on Coronal Heating North Houston Astronomy Club Late Summer Gathering
  24 August 2018, Conroe, TX

Posters

• Observations and Modeling of Long, Cool, and Overdense Loops in Active Region 11575 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
  13 -- 17 December 2021, Virtual
• The Ongoing Development and Support of Atomic Physics in Solar and Heliospheric Science Heliophysics 2050 Workshop
  3 -- 7 May 2021, Virtual
• Understanding Heating Properties in Hot and Warm Active Region Loops through Hydrodynamics and Forward Modeling American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
  1 -- 17 December 2020, Virtual
• The Sun at Scale: Interactive Analysis of High Resolution EUV Imaging Data on HPC Platforms with Dask American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
  9 -- 13 December 2019, San Francisco, CA
• Using Synthetic and Observed Timelags to Constrain Nanoflare Heating Frequency in Active Region Cores Solar Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) Workshop
  30 July -- 3 August 2018, Cocoa Beach, FL
• Timelag Analysis of Global Hydrodynamic Simulations of Active Regions in the Solar Corona Rice Data Science Conference
  9 -- 10 October 2017, Houston, TX
• Modeling Observable Signatures of Nanoflare Heating Frequency in Active Region Cores Solar Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) Workshop
  24 -- 28 July 2017, Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, CA
• Understanding the Impact of Nanoflare Heating Frequency on the Observed Emission Measure Distribution Solar Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) Workshop
  11 -- 15 July 2016, Santa Fe, NM
• Effects of Ion Heating on Emission Measure of Coronal Loops in Active Region Cores Coronal Loops Workshop VII
  21 -- 23 July 2015, Cambridge, UK
• Nonnegative Matrix Factorization as a Method for Studying Coronal Heating Triennial Earth-Sun Summit
  26 -- 30 April 2015, Indianapolis, IN
• Dust Grain Growth in a Protoplanetary Disk: Effects of Location on Charge and Size 44th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
  18 -- 22 March 2013, The Woodlands, TX