Mark Hereld

Argonne National Laboratory office: (630) 252-4170

Mathematics and Computer Science home: (773) 493-7904

> 9700 S. Cass Ave., Bldg. #221 FAX: (630) 252-5986
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> Argonne, IL 60439 e-mail: <hereld@mcs.anl.gov>

Professional Preparation

Ph.D. 1984 California Institute of Technology

Physics, minor in Computer Science

M.S. 1980 California Institute of Technology

*Physics*

B.S. 1978 University of California at Berkeley

*Engineering Physics, minor in Computer Science*

Academic and Professional Appointments

1998-\*\* Experimental Systems Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory

1998-\*\* Visiting Scholar, The University of Chicago

1996-98 Visiting Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

1994-98 Senior Scientist, The University of Chicago

1988-94 Senior Research Associate, The University of Chicago

1984-88 Postdoctoral Research Associate, The University of Chicago

1983-84 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Caltech

1981-82 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Caltech

1980-83 Graduate Research Associate, Caltech

1978-80 Graduate Research Assistant, Caltech

Related Publications

\"The South Pole near infrared sky brightness\", H.T. Nguyen, Bernard J.
Rauscher, Scott A. Severson, Mark Hereld, D. A. Harper, R.F.
Loewenstein, F. Mrozek, and R.J. Pernic 1996, *P.A.S.P.* **108**, 718.

\"The optical and near-infrared colors of galaxies I: The photometric
data\", Matthew Bershady, Mark Hereld, Richard G. Kron, David C. Koo,
Jeffrey A. Munn, and Steven R. Majewski 1994, *Astronomical Journal*
**108**, 870.

\"GRIM - A near-infrared grism spectrometer and imager\", Mark Hereld,
Bernard J. Rauscher, D.A. Harper, and Robert J. Pernic 1990, in *SPIE
Vol. 1235 - Instrumentation in Astronomy VII, Tucson, Arizona*, 11-17
February 1990 ed. David L. Crawford, p.43.

\"HgCdTe focal plane arrays for low background astronomical
applications\", Mark Hereld and D.A. Harper 1986, in *SPIE Vol. 627 -
Instrumentation in Astronomy VI (March 1986), Tuscon, Arizona*, ed. D.L.
Crawford, p.446.

\"Gravitational wave detectors using laser interferometers and optical
cavities: 1. Ideas, principles and prospects\" R.W.P. Drever, A. Munley,
J. Hough, S.-A. Lee, R. Spero, S.E. Whitcomb, H. Ward, G. Ford, M.
Hereld, N. Robertson, I. Kerr, J. Pugh, G. Newton, B. Meers, E. Brooks
and Y. Gursel, 1983, in *Quantum Optics, Experimental Gravity and
Measurement Theory*, eds. Pierre Meystere and Marlan O. Scully (Plenum
Publishing, 1983), pp. 503-514.

Other Significant Publications

\"The Stellar Populations of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies\" by Eric
F. Bell, Richard G. Bower, Roelof S. de Jong, Mark Hereld and Bernard J.
Rauscher: 1999, *MNRAS*, 302, 55L

"Near Infrared Halo Emission in the Edge-on Spiral Galaxy ESO\~240-G11",
Bernard J. Rauscher, James P. Lloyd, David Barnaby, Doyal A. Harper,
Mark Hereld, Robert F. Loewenstein, Scott A. Severson, and Fred Mrozek
1998, *ApJ*, **506**, 116

\"Molecular hydrogen in the IRAS 03282+3035 stellar jet\", John Bally,
David Devine, Mark Hereld, and Bernard J. Rauscher 1993, *Ap.J.Letters*
**418**, L75.

\"Sub-arcsecond near infrared imaging of ultraluminous IRAS galaxies\",
S.R. Majewski, M. Hereld, D.C. Koo, G.D. Illingworth, and T.M. Heckman
1993, *Ap.J*. **402**, 125.

\"A search for gravitational radiation from PSR 1937+214\" M. Hereld,
Doctoral thesis, California Institute of Technology, 1984.

Synergistic Activities

I specialize in developing technologies for scientific measurement at
the extremes: smallest displacements (gravity wave detection), faintest
light signature (studies of very faint galaxies), harshest environments
(infrared survey telescope at the South Pole), largest datasets
(Chicago-Argonne Terabyte Storage project), fastest computations (hybrid
technology petaflop computer design study), and highest resolution
display systems (tiled display systems). To this end, I've developed
hardware, software, experimental techniques, and integrated systems. I
am currently working on technologies that enable high performance
visualization and interactive virtual reality systems: a design study
for a petaflop computer, a distributed terabyte storage system, large
format high resolution display systems, distributed and parallel
rendering methods, and a framework for distributed collaborations. In
the past, I have built gravity wave detectors, designed infrared imaging
instruments, developed and deployed robust telescope and detection
systems to the South Pole.

-   Development of near infrared detector systems for astrophysics --
    image processing hardware and software, signal electronics, detector
    systems, electromechanical design.

-   Development of telescope and instrumentation for harsh environments:
    South Pole winter operations.

-   Optical system design -- multiwavelength systems, high performance
    imaging, kinematic design.

-   Tiled display technologies -- ActiveMural, μMural, and other large
    area, high resolution systems.

-   Large distributed storage systems -- CATS (Chicago-Argonne Terabyte
    Store).

Recent Collaborators

(Argonne National Laboratory) Rick Stevens, Terry Disz, Bill Gropp, Mike
Papka

(also collaborators on the current proposal)

(STScI/Johns Hopkins) Bernard J. Rauscher

(U. Durham) Eric F. Bell, Richard Bowers, Roelof S. de Jong

(UCSC) Scott A. Severson

(UCB) James P. Lloyd

(U of C) David Barnaby, Doyal A. Harper, Robert F. Loewenstein, Fred
Mrozek, Robert J. Pernic

(JPL) H. T. Nguyen

(University of Delaware) G. Gao, Nelson Amaral

(JPL/Caltech) Loring Craymer, Herb Siegel, Thomas Sterling

(U. Michigan) Phil Merkey

(Notre Dame) Peter Kogge, Jay Brockman, Vince Freeh

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors

My thesis advisors were: Stan Whitcomb and Ron Drever, both of Caltech.

My postdoctoral sponsors were: Al Harper and Don York, both of The
University of Chicago.

Thesis Advisor to, and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor of...

Scott A. Severson (University of California at Santa Cruz/Lick
Observatory, CA)

Bernard J. Rauscher (Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD)

Hien T. Nguyen (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA)

I've advised three graduate students and sponsored two postdoctoral
scholars.