Birthplace (Spatial and Temporal)
New York City (NYC), New York
12 October 1955 04:27 EST (JD=2450212.00178)
Home Town
"da Bronx". (The only NYC borough attached to the mainland of the USA.)
High School
Bronx High School of Science (class of 1972)
College (Undergraduate)
New York Institute of Technology (class of 1976; B.S., Physics)
College (Graduate)
University of Florida
(class of 1985; Ph.D., Astronomy)
Outside Interests
* Eclipse Chasing (now that IS an "outside" interest)
* Caving (hmmm... I guess this is an "inside" interest)
* Photography
* Classical Music
* Cooking
* Introducing Egg Creams to folks in remote corners of the globe
General Scientific Interest
* The low-luminosity end of the stellar mass function
* Stellar evolution
* Formation and stability of stellar and planetary systems
* Circumstellar and Protoplanetary Disks, Circumstellar Material
* Brown Dwarfs, EGPs and the transition from stars to planets in the mass-spectrum
* Stellar Populations
* Binary Stars
Past Major Scientific Areas
* Determination of stellar diameters and duplicity by lunar occultations
* Numerical Modeling of Stellar Structures and Evolution
* White Dwarf Stars
* Wolf-Rayet Stars
* Eclipsing & Interacting Binary Stars
* Asteroids
Spouse: Karla Yrs Rahman-Schneider
Child: Maia* Alice Rose
Schneider
* 20 Tauri, in the Pleadies, V=3.86, sp=B7III
"...and queenly Maia...by the will of Zeus illustrious...
", Aratus, 3 B.C.
Personal Biography
Glenn Schneider is the University of Arizona's instrument scientist for the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. NICMOS is a second generation instrument which was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope during it's second servicing mission in February of 1997. He is also an umbraphile, literally a "shadow lover", but properly applied one who is addicted to the glory and majesty of total solar eclipses as is clearly attested to by his eclipse-chasing history.
Glenn has been writing application programs, almost exclusively in APL, for 30 years. He firmly believes that anyone doing any sort of numerical modeling, analysis, or programming (except for process control applications) in any other language is just wasting his/her valuable time. (In APL the expression of a problem is it's solution - but enough proselytizing). Despite this, he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty with machine languages and assembly codes. He has worked on platforms ranging from 1-MHz 8-bit processors such as the Rockwell AIM-65 (6502 uP), to a Cray YM/P. He is of the unpopular opinion that UNIX is a passing fad, and that VMS will outlive the cockroach. Though his favorite platform, by far, is the Apple Macintosh running MacOS. For eleven years he has been distributing astronomy (and other) software applications (written, transparently to user's, in APL of course) for Macintosh computers through a small family-run business, sofTouch APpLications, which now exists in cyberspace at the URL: http://balder.prohosting.com/stouch/
Two of his favorite recollections are:
1) Navigating a DC-10, using a Macintosh PowerBook, for a center-line intercept to observe the total solar eclipse of 1992.
2) Arguing with a colleague of similar theological bent, when he was working at the South Pole in December of 1984 as to when they should start celebrating Hanukkah (since the sun would not set for another 3 months).
As always he wishes everyone: "Clear skies, and good seeing!"
