Teaching High School Students Research Computing - Andrea Bruno and Mark Galassi

Andrea Bruno and Mark Galassi will discuss the Institute for Computing in Research, a pipeline that trains youth to do research and hires high school students to work full time on research internships. Mark co-founded the institute and both mentor students in it. The Institute is rooted in the benefits of software freedom.

Attending

Open to anyone, technical or not, whether a free software expert or newbie.
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Speaker Bios

Mark Galassi is an astrophysicist and computer scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  He has worked in general relativity, and then on the HETE, HETE-2 and Swift satellites, as well as in Los Alamos’s nuclear non-proliferation effort and many other areas of space physics.  Passionate about free/open-source software since 1984, he has contributed to the GNU project since then - most notably he designed and led the implementation of the GNU Scientific Library, and has consistently pressed for the use of free/open-source software in scientific research.  He has served on the board of the Software Freedom Conservancy since its inception, chairing it for much of its life.

Raised in Italy studying classics, Mark then got his undergraduate degree in Physics from Reed College (1987), and his PhD in mathematical and computational physics from Stony Brook University (1992).  He has been in Los Alamos ever since, except for a two-year sabbatical working for Cygnus (the first free/open-source software company, now part of Red Hat).

Andrea Bruno is a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on large-scale simulation. Her background is in economics with an interest in agent-based modeling and spatial analysis. She has mentored students at the Institute for Computing in Research throughout their economics projects, one examining the youth unemployment rate following recessions and the other studying how severe weather events impact the cost of construction labor.

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