Mark Galassi Explained

Mark Galassi
Birth Place:Manhattan, New York
Fields:Astrophysics, Computer Science
Workplaces:Tektronix, Virtual Corporation, Los Alamos Laboratory
Alma Mater:Reed College
Stony Brook University
Thesis Title:Lattice Geometrodynamics
Thesis Year:1992
Doctoral Advisor:Martin Rocek
Known For:GNU Scientific LibraryGamma-ray burstsInstitute for Computing in Research
Occupation:Scientist
Awards:Los Alamos medal for community relations (inaugural, 2021)
Ten Who Made a Difference in Santa Fe

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, graduating in 1983.

He completed his BA in physics at Reed College in 1986.[1] He has credited various aspects of the college for launching his career, including learning to write software from fellow student Keith Packard and others who taught informal classes in the Reed College Paideia classes.[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:

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 in research methods, with emphasis on using only free/open-source software tools.

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.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Theses - Physics - Reed College. www.reed.edu. 6 December 2022.
  2. Web site: How was your experience at Reed College? Did you like it or not so much? What sets Reed College apart from other colleges? .
  3. Web site: People at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics.
  4. Web site: Mathematics Genealogy Project - Martin Rocek.
  5. Book: Astronomical Data Analysis II. Real-Time Detection of Optical Transients with RAPTOR . 2002 . 10.1117/12.461102 . astro-ph/0210008 . Borozdin . Konstantin N. . Brumby . Steven P. . Galassi . Mark C. . McGowan . Katherine . Starr . Daniel . Vestrand . Thomas . White . Robert . Wozniak . Przemek . Wren . James A. . 4847 . 344 . 15597117 .
  6. A link between prompt optical and prompt γ-ray emission in γ-ray bursts . 10.1038/nature03515 . 2005 . Vestrand . W. T. . Wozniak . P. R. . Wren . J. A. . Fenimore . E. E. . Sakamoto . T. . White . R. R. . Casperson . D. . Davis . H. . Evans . S. . Galassi . M. . McGowan . K. E. . Schier . J. A. . Asa . J. W. . Barthelmy . S. D. . Cummings . J. R. . Gehrels . N. . Hullinger . D. . Krimm . H. A. . Markwardt . C. B. . McLean . K. . Palmer . D. . Parsons . A. . Tueller . J. . Nature . 435 . 7039 . 178–180 . 15889084 . astro-ph/0503521 . 2005Natur.435..178V . 4410853 .
  7. 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 Researchgate
  8. Radiographic imaging with cosmic-ray muons . 10.1038/422277a . 2003 . Borozdin . Konstantin N. . Hogan . Gary E. . Morris . Christopher . Priedhorsky . William C. . Saunders . Alexander . Schultz . Larry J. . Teasdale . Margaret E. . . 422 . 6929 . 277 . 12646911 . 47248176 . free .
  9. Book: https://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.818735 . 10.1117/12.818735 . The Raytheon-SORDS trimodal imager . Non-Intrusive Inspection Technologies II . 2009 . Blackburn . Brandon W . Hynes . Michael V. . Toolin . Maurice . Harris . Bernard . McElroy . John . Wallace . Mark S. . Schultz . Larry J. . Galassi . Mark . Hoover . Andrew . Mocko . Michal . Palmer . David . Tornga . Shawn . Wakeford . Daniel . Andrews . H. R. . Clifford . E. T. H. . Li . Liqian . Bray . Nick . Locklin . Darren . Lanza . Richard . Horn . Berthold . Wehe . David . 7310 . 731003 .
  10. Web site: GENIE Home . 2017-10-25 . 2017-04-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170423183131/http://genie.lanl.gov/ . dead .
  11. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/5.1/en/os/i386/gnome/docs/gnome-intro/index.html Introduction to GNOME
  12. GNU Scientific Library - Design document . 10.5281/zenodo.3818202 . 2005 . Galassi . Mark . Theiler . James . Gough . Brian .
  13. Web site: Gnome-list 1998-January Archive by Author .
  14. Web site: Dominion - Free Software Directory .
  15. Web site: Officers - Software Freedom Conservancy . 2022-08-13 . 2019-09-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190918013325/https://sfconservancy.org/about/officers/ . dead .
  16. Web site: Matcher Interview - Mark Galassi .
  17. Web site: Simply Statistics: Interview with C. Titus Brown - Computational biologist and open access champion .
  18. Web site: Lessons on doing science from my father, Gerry Brown .
  19. Web site: Institute for Computing in Research – exploring the use of advanced computing in research and scholarship. 6 December 2022.
  20. Web site: The Institute for Computing in Research Announces Portland Cohort .
  21. Web site: The Institute for Computing in Research announces 6 students to inaugural Austin cohort .
  22. Web site: Inaugural Laboratory Community Relations Medal goes to dedicated education volunteers .
  23. Web site: Through chess-to-computing program, Mark Galassi helps Santa Fe youth with their next move .

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