Michael Milligan
Assistant Director for Application Development Services
UMN Email:
milligan@umn.edu
Office:
548 Walter Library
Phone:
(612) 624-2390
Expertise:
Areas of particular interest include:
- Interactive supercomputing -- novel workflows and software tools for visualization, data exploration, and iterative development using supercomputing resources
- Python -- scientific computing, visualization, parallelization, data wrangling and informatics, reproducibility, and collaboration techniques
- Software sustainability -- collaborative tools, software packaging, licensing considerations, open source best practices
- Astronomy and astrophysics -- image processing, "big data" astronomy and survey science, simulation and modelling
- GIS and spatial computing -- Michael has led MSI's collaboration with U-Spatial to develop HPC capabilities for geospatial applications
Education:
- PhD, Astrophysics, University of Minnesota, 2011
- BA, Physics with Mathematics minor, University of Chicago, 2002