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Revision as of 09:34, 14 August 2022
Mark Galassi | |
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| Born | 1965-01-08 (age 59) |
| Alma mater | Reed College Stony Brook University |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Known for | GNU Scientific Library • Gamma-ray bursts • Institute for Computing in Research |
| Awards | Los Alamos medal for community relations (inaugural, 2021) Ten Who Made a Difference in Santa Fe |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics, Computer Science |
| Institutions | Tektronix,Virtual Corporation,Los Alamos Laboratory |
| Thesis | Lattice Geometrodynamics (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Rocek |
Mark Galassi is a physicist, computer scientist, and contributor to the Free and open-source software movement. He was born in Manhattan, grew up in France and Italy, and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Education
Galassi studied at the Liceo classico Giuseppe Parini[1][circular reference], graduating in 1983.
He completed his BA in physics at Reed College in 1986.[2]
He then completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1992 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook[3] under Martin Roček[4].
Work and research
Galassi works in the Space Science and Applications group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research scientist.
In Los Alamos he has worked in:
- Gamma-ray bursts: High_Energy_Transient_Explorer_1 and HETE_2 satellites, the Raptor telescope suite[5][6], the Swift satellite.
- Muon tomography: Cosmic-ray muon tomography to detect high-Z materials.[7][8]
- Nuclear nonproliferation: Scientific methods to address the spread of nuclear materials and weapons.[9]
- Machine learning: The Genie feature extraction system.[10]
In the 1980s he also worked for Tektronix on the 11000 series oscilloscope, Cygnus Solutions (now part of Red Hat) working on Guile and eCos.[11]
Free/open-source contributions
Galassi has been involved in the Free and open-source software movement since 1984 He designed the GNU Scientific Library together with James Theiler[12]. He was also an early contributor to GNOME[13], and designed and led development of the Dominion world simulation game[14].
He has served on the board of directors of the Software Freedom Conservancy [15] from its inception until the present time. He also was chair of the board until 2022.[16]
Educational initiatives
Galassi has been training students since the 1980s,[17][18] teaching them research tools using Free/open-source software.
After decades of developing this pipeline, in 2019, he conceived of and co-founded the Institute for Computing in Research[19], a non-profit which trains high school students to do research, deeply rooted in free/open-source software. The Institute, founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2019, offers a research internship modeled after the Los Alamos internship program. It has since spread to Portland, Oregon in 2021[20] and to Austin, Texas in 2022.[21]
In 2021 Galassi was awarded the inaugural Los Alamos medal for community relations[22] and the Santa Fe New Mexican "Ten Who Made a Difference" award,[23] both for the creation of the student pipeline that culminates in the Institute for Computing in Research.
References
- ^ it:Liceo classico Giuseppe Parini
- ^ "Theses - Physics - Reed College".
- ^ "People at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics".
- ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project - Martin Rocek".
- ^ "Real-Time Detection of Optical Transients with RAPTOR".
- ^ https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03515
- ^ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rick_Chartrand/publication/242511120_COSMIC-RAY_MUON_TOMOGRAPHY_AND_ITS_APPLICATION_TO_THE_DETECTION_OF_HIGH-Z_MATERIALS/links/00b7d5298dcfca1507000000.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://www.nature.com/articles/422277a
- ^ https://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.818735
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-04-23. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/5.1/en/os/i386/gnome/docs/gnome-intro/index.html
- ^ https://zenodo.org/record/3818202
- ^ https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1998-January/author.html
- ^ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Dominion
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-09-18. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/dec/27/matcher-interview-mark-galassi/
- ^ https://simplystatistics.org/posts/2012-08-17-interview-with-c-titus-brown-computational-biologist/
- ^ http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2016-lessons-from-gerry.html
- ^ https://computinginresearch.org/
- ^ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/aug/03/icr-portland/
- ^ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/jul/21/icr-austin/
- ^ https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/connections/2021-october/community-relations-medal
- ^ https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/10who/through-chess-to-computing-program-mark-galassi-helps-santa-fe-youth-with-their-next-move/article_48d0c2f8-3288-11ec-a78a-1fb4165aafef.html
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