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Kirk Borne's GMU Homepage Courses Taught: http://classweb.gmu.edu/kborne/courses.html COS Seminars: http://classweb.gmu.edu/kborne/cos-seminars.htm |
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Kirk Borne's GMU Homepage Courses Taught: http://classweb.gmu.edu/kborne/courses.html COS Seminars: http://classweb.gmu.edu/kborne/cos-seminars.htm |
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Affiliation: George Mason University
Department: Dept of Computational & Data Sciences, College of Science
Phone: (703) 993-8402
FAX: (703) 993-9300
E-mail Address: kborne (at) gmu.edu
Physical Address: Research Building 1 (RB1), Room 357 4400 University Drive MS 6A2 Fairfax, VA 22030
Current Position: Associate Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Areas of Large-Database Astronomy and Astrophysics Specialization: Scientific Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Observational and Theoretical Astrophysics Optical and High-Energy Astronomy Space-based Astronomical Research Computational and Numerical Simulation Research Distributed Grid Computing Science Information Systems and Scientific Databases Archive and Data Processing Systems Management User Interface Design, Development, and Management On-Line Science Data Services Archive, Research, and Scientific User Support Consulting for Technical and Scientific Services Education and Public Outreach Public Speaking Science Project Management Proposal Development
Education: B.S. in Physics from Louisiana State University (1975) M.S. in Astrophysics from Caltech (1980) Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Caltech (1983)
Experience: 2003-present Associate Professor, Dept of Computational and Data Sciences, GMU 2005-2007 Program Manager, NASA-GSFC SSDOO Contract, QSS Group Inc. 2003-2005 Associate Professor, School of Computational Sciences, GMU 2003-present Associate Consultant, Science Systems Consulting 2002-present Adjunct Associate Professor, UMUC Graduate School, Database Systems Technologies Program 2002-2003 Founder and Co-Director for Space Sciences, IST@R (Institute for Science & Technology @ Raytheon) 1999 Sabbatical Visitor, STScI 1995-2002 Astrophysics Department Manager, Raytheon ITSS in the NASA-GSFC Space Science Data Operations Office and the Astrophysics Data Facility / Astronomical Data Center 1992-1995 NASA ST-DADS Project Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute 1992-1995 NASA StarView Project Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute 1990-1995 Associate Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute 1987-1990 Assistant Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute 1985-1987 Research Associate, Space Telescope Science Institute 1983-1985 Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington 1981-1983 Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Astronomy, U. Michigan 1978-1980 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Caltech 1975-1978 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, Caltech
Research Observational and Theoretical Astrophysics Interests: Dynamics and Evolution of Galaxies National Virtual Observatory: Science & Information Technologies Groups and Clusters of Galaxies Interacting and Merging Galaxies Star Formation and Nuclear Activity in Galaxies Galaxy Surveys Infrared-Luminous Galaxies Computational and Numerical Simulation Research Scientific Information Systems Applied Information Science Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Databases Science Communications; Science Education/Public Outreach
Affiliations and 2007-present Committee on Communications, Community Service: American Astronomical Society (AAS) 2006-present Galaxies Collaboration Team, and Data Mining Research Team, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project 2005-present Data Products Working Group, Data Management Team, LSST Project 2005-present Education/Public Outreach Team, LSST Project 2003-2006 AAS Committee on Employment (Chairperson, 2006) 2002-present Speaker, Maryland Business Roundtable for Education, Achievement Counts Program Speakers Bureau 2001-present Senior Personnel, National Virtual Observatory Project 2001-present Vice Chair, IAU Working Group on Publishing 2000-present Member, IAU Working Group on Designations 2003 Exhibits Co-Chair, KDD-2003 Conference 2003 Panel Chair, "The Increasing Role of Data Mining", Data Mining Technologies Conference 2002 Panel Chair, "XML for Science Data Systems", NASA Science Data Processing Workshop 2002 Panel Member, "Data Challenges of the Future", NASA Science Data Processing Workshop 2000-2002 Member, NASA Astrophysics Data Centers Executive Council (ADEC) 1999-2002 Member, Publications Committee of the ASP 1999 Contributor, Far-IR and Submm Astronomy Working Group, "Charting the Winds that Change the Universe" 1999 Panel Chairman, Extragalactic Panel, NASA Workshop on Submillimeter Space Astronomy in the Next Millennium 1998-2000 Committee Member, AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society 1995 Member, NASA HEASARC User Group 1995 Deputy Editor, Publications of the ASP
Some Recent Presentations: "Data-Driven Discovery through e-Science Technologies" [4.5 MByte] (JPL SMC-IT Conference, 19 July 2006) "The Future of Large Astronomy Telescope Projects" [17.5 MByte] (Shore Leave Convention 28, 9 July 2006) "Scientific Data Mining: Digging for Nuggets" [7 MByte] (NASA-Goddard Brownbag Seminar, 5 July 2006) "Recent Advances in Data Mining and Applications for Heliophysics" [6 MByte] (NASA-Goddard LSSP Seminar, 9 June 2006) "A Paradigm for Space Science Informatics" [1.1 MByte] (AGU Conference, 26 May 2006) "Discovery Informatics for Large Database Astronomy" [1.8 MByte] (INTERFACE 2006 Conference, 25 May 2006) "Automated Wildfire Detection through Artificial Neural Netorks" [0.3 MByte] (NASA Data Mining Workshop, 23 May 2006) "Project AstroData" [1.3 MByte] (DLESE Data Services Workshop, 15 May 2006) "Using Data in the Classroom" [1.1 MByte] (AAS Conference, 9 Jan 2006) "LSST Public Lecture Slides" [0.9 MByte] (LSST All-Hands Meeting, 5 Dec 2005) "Astronomy Data, NVO, and LSST: Using Data in the Classroom" [12 MByte] (JHU, 20 Oct 2005) "A Brief History of Astronomy Leading to the Hubble Space Telescope" [14.5 MByte] (Shore Leave Convention 27, 10 July 2005)
Selected Publications listed at the Astrophysics Data System abstract service Publications: Publications listed at the ArXiv.org astro-ph preprint service
