Larry Smarr

Larry Smarr 1998

Larry Smarr (born October 16, 1948 in Columbia (Missouri) ) is an American astrophysicist and computer scientist.

Smarr studied physics at the University of Missouri at Columbia (bachelor's and master's degrees in 1970) and Stanford University (master's degree in 1972), and received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975 , with a dissertation on numerical relativity (collision black holes). He was then at Princeton University (1974/75), Yale University (1978/79) and Harvard University (1976 to 1979) as well as at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , before becoming Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979 has been. He was there significantly involved in the establishment of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (with a proposal to establish such centers in 1983) and its first director from 1985. He was significantly involved in the networking of the supercomputer centers in the NSFnet and in 1997 became director of the National Computational Science Alliance. In 2000 he became a professor at the University of California, San Diego , and a fellow of the San Diego Supercomputing Center. He proposed the establishment of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and became its director.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering . 1980 to 1984 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1982/83 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and from 1983 a consultant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory .

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1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004