Welcome to my little corner

This part refers to another professional side of my career I have been exploring for the past years. This section includes web-design and Data Science Project links. I like the challenges of finding hidden correlations on a large set of data. I believe, my background gives me an advantage on this task and find exciting the benefits that can be extracted from the almost unexplored world of big data. I think, we are at the precise moment where the computational power is big enough to deal with the increasingly acquisition of data. I would be a pity, not to be there to find new applications for this power.

For more details please check my Github repository Data Science Projects and Data_challenges and my blog about DATA SCIENCE

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As part of my work at Berkeley Lab, I have created a couple of web-pages for a conference and for my group. I also created and maintained two Electronic log servers to keep track of the data and information generated within our group.

Courses I have taken in the past

• The Data Scientist’s Toolbox (Johns Hopkins University)

• R Programming (Johns Hopkins University)

• An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1) (Rice University)

• An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 2) (Rice University)

• Getting and Cleaning Data(Johns Hopkins University)

• Exploratory Data Analysis(Johns Hopkins University)

• Reproducible Research(Johns Hopkins University)

• Statistical Inference(Johns Hopkins University)

• Regression Models (Johns Hopkins University)

• Practical Machine Learning (Johns Hopkins University)

• Developing Data Products (Johns Hopkins University)

• MITx:6.00.1x Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python(MIT)

These courses I am currently enrolled

1. Machine Learning (Stanford Univeristy)

2. Data Science and Machine Learning Essentials (Duke University)

3. Data Analysis and Statistical Inference (Johns Hopkins University)

4. An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching (Vanderbilt University)

I have many hobbies, among them are traveling, photography, computing, guitar, and billiards. Here, you will see sample of them.

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Achievements

2008

• Local Tournament: 2th Position (out of 6)

• Qualified forregional championship

• Qualified to Single National Tournament. Benalmadena (Spain)

2009

• Local Tournament: 10th Position (out of 20)

• Regional Tournament: 14th Position (out of 57)

2010

• Local Tournament: 2nd Position (out of 20)

• Regional Tournament: 9th Position (out of 65)

• Qualified to Nationals. Lugo 2010 (Spain)

2011

• 8-Ball Team. 1st Place. Fall Session (Mountain View)

2012

• 8-Ball Team. 2nd Place. Spring Session. (Mountain View)

• 8-Ball Team. 2nd Place. Summer Session.

• 8-Ball Regional Singles Qualifiers: 1st Place.

• Qualified to play APA 8-ball National Singles Championship in Las Vegas (April 2012)

2014

• 9-Ball 1st. Place Top Gun Tournament. Fall Session (San Francisco)

• 8-Ball Team Division Team Champion. Summer Session

• 8-Ball Team Division Champions. Fall Session

• 9-Ball Team Division Champion. Fall Session

• Qualfied for Fall 2014 9-Ball Tri-Cup

• Qualified for Summer 2014 8-Ball Tri-Cup Tournament

• Qualified for Spring 2014 8-Ball Tri Cup

2015

• 8-Ball Team Division Champions. Spring Session

• Qualified for 2015 8-Ball City Championship (San Francisco)

• Qualified for 2015 9-Ball City Championship

• Qualified for Spring 2015 8-Ball Tri Cup (San Francisco)

• Qualified for Spring 2015 9-Ball Tri Cup

2016

• 8-Ball Team. 2nd Place. Summer Session.

• Graduate Student award "Science and Society Conference", Berkeley, 2012

• Ph.D. Fellowship (FPI) awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Research & Innovation (Spain). 2006-2010

• Graduate Fellowship awarded by Spanish Ministry of Education (Spain). 2001-2005.

• ESA Education Office sponsored the attendance to the "54th. International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Congress", Bremen (Germany), 2003

My Google Scholar Profile

2020

• Predicting power plant equipment life using machine learning. M Gascon, N Kumar, R Ghosh. Journal of Energy Resources Technology 142 (7)

• Systematic reduction of the proton-removal cross section in neutron-rich medium-mass. Physics Letters B 811, 135962

• Systematic Investigation of Nucleon Knockout around 132Sn. Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions. 010048.

2019

• Neutron-rich fragments produced by in-flight fission of U238. Physical Review C 99 (5), 054606

2017

• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) for Wind Turbines. Nikhil Kumar, David Rogers, Thomas D. Burnett, Eric Sullivan, Martin Gascon. POWER-ICOPE2017 2 (08), 3045-3051

2016

• Impact of Large-Scale Wind & Solar Integration on Existing Fossil Generation in United States. N Kumar, M Gascon, MC Liu, FG Faham, P Besuner. 15th wind Integration workshop, International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems as well as on Transmission Networks for Offshore Wind Power Plants

2015

• Structure and scintillation of Eu 2+-activated calcium bromide iodide. Journal of Luminescence 159, pp. 274-279

• T z=− 1→ 0 β decays of Ni 54, Fe 50, Cr 46, and Ti 42 and comparison with mirror (He 3, t) measurements. Physical Review C 91 (1), 014301

2014

• Scintillation properties of CsBa2I5 activated with monovalent ions Tl+, Na+ and In+. Journal of Luminescence 156, 63-68

• Luminescence and scintillation properties of Ce 3+-activated Cs2NaGdCl6, Cs3GdCl6, Cs2NaGdBr6 and Cs3GdBr6, Journal of Luminescence 153, 64-72

• CALIFA, a Dedicated Calorimeter for the R3B/FAIR. Nuclear Data Sheets 120, 99-101

2013

• CALIFA Barrel prototype detector characterisation. Nuclear Instruments and Methods A. Vol. 729, pp. 77-84

• Characterization of a CsI (Tl) array coupled to avalanche photodiodes for the Barrel of the CALIFA calorimeter at the NEPTUN tagged gamma beam facility. Journal of Instrumentation 8 (10), P10004

• Characterization of light output and scintillation emission in CsI(Tl), NaI(Tl), and LaBr3(Ce) under isostatic pressure. Radiation Measurements 56, 70-75

• Nonproportionality and Scintillation Responses of LSO: Ce From 4.3 to 300 K. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on 60 (2), 993-999

• An apparatus for studying scintillator properties at high isostatic pressures. Review of Scientific Instruments 84 (1), 015109

2012

• One-neutron knockout from 51–55 Sc. The European Physical Journal A 48 (12), 1-10

• Nonproportionality and Scintillation Studies of Eu:SrI2 from 295 to 4.3K, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 59 (5), 2052-2056

• Gamma-ray measurements in the one-neutron knockout of 17C, 19N, 21O and 25F. The European Physical Journal A 48 (7), 1-7

• Production of neutron-rich nuclei in fragmentation reactions of projectiles at relativistic energies. Physics Letters B 703 (5), 552-556

2011

• Structure of 22N and the N=14 subshell. Physical Review C 83 (6), 064313

• Characterization of gamma detectors by means of tagged photons at NEPTUN. Instr. Related to Nucl. Sci. & Tech. (S46) Vol. 43. Is 49. R. 43124705

• One-neutron knockout from light neutron-rich nuclei at relativistic energies. Physical Review C 82 (2), 024305

2010

• Test of LAAPDs coupled to CsI(Tl) crystals for the CALIFA R3B/FAIR Calorimeter. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on 57 (3), 1465-1469

• One-neutron knockout from 24–28Ne isotopes. Physics Letters B 687 (1), 26-30

• Investigating the radial distributions of medium-mass nuclei. Nuclear Physics A 834 (1), 467c-469c

• One-neutron knockout of n-rich Ne isotopes at relativistic energies. Nuclear Physics A 834 (1), 485c-487c

• Characterization of photon detectors HPGe, LaBr 3, and CsI (Tl) at NEPTUN. Instr. Related to Nucl. Sci. & Tech. (S46) Vol. 41. Is 47. R. 41126705

• Progress in the design of the CALIFA/R 3 B detector. GSI Scientific Report 2010. PHN-NUSTAR-NR-23

• Energy dependence of 238U fission yields investigated in inverse kinematics. EPJ Web of Conferences 2, 07003

2009

• Exploring Nuclear Radii from Total Interaction Cross Sections of Medium Mass Nuclei. AIP Conference Proceedings 1165, 114

• Exploring nuclear radii from total interaction cross sections of medium-mass nuclei. Nuclear Structure and Dynamics 2009.

• Production of medium-mass neutron-rich nuclei in 238U fission. EURISOL-11-25-2009-0017

• Structure of 55Ti from relativistic one-neutron knockout. Physics Letters B 675 (1), 22-27

• Overview of the CALIFA CsI (Tl) crystals and LAAPDs characterization. FAIR-EXPERIMENTS-23. GSI SCIENTIFIC REPORT 2009

• Design studies and first crystal tests for the R3B calorimeter. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B. Vol 256. Is 19 pp. 4616-4620

• One-Neutron-Knockout Reactions on Scandium Isotopes. Nustar-Experiments 14. GSI Scientific Report 2009.

2008

• Characterization of large frustum CsI(Tl) crystals for the R3B calorimeter. Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS'08. IEEE, 1649-1654

• Production of medium-mass neutron rich nuclei from fragmentation of fission residues around Sn. Presented at the Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics

• Optimization of energy resolution obtained with CsI(Tl) crystals for the R3B Calorimeter. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on 55 (3), 1259-1262

• Probing the single particle structure around 54Ca with one‐neutron knock‐out. Frontiers in Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions: Finutar 2, 2012.

2007

• R&D on scintillating crystals for the R3B Calorimeter. Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS'07. IEEE 3, 2041-2044

• CALIF a Calorimeter for in-flight detection of γ-rays and light charged particles for the R3B@ FAIR experiment. STD. Scientific Report 2007

• Design and simulation of a calorimeter/spectrometer for the R3B setup: the CALIFA BARREL.

• Founding member of the Association for the Social Promotion of the Space Research and Development (APSIDE).
  http://sseti.unizar.es/web/nosotros.html




• Member of the Student Space Exploration & Technology Initiative (SSeti) (European Space Agency).
  http://sseti.net/




• Founding member of the University Press ‘The Wall of Science’. 2001.




• Educator of the scientific program for high-schools ‘The Circus of Science’. 2001-2004.




• Educator of the Universitary Program “Informatic Tools for Professors and Students”. 2001-2003

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Peer Review-Publications Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.




• Radiation Measurements.

ARGENTINOS ENTRE LAS ESTRELLAS. Dos argentinos que trascienden: Martín Gascón, reciente doctorado en física nuclear, de Tandil hacia el mundo (pasó por España y va a Stanford) para estudiar las estrellas. Ref: http://www.noticiasdelcosmos.com/2011/01/argentinos-entre-las-estrellas.html
UNA MENTE BRILLANTE Martín Gascón se doctoró en Física Nuclear hace un mes en España. Y en febrero se desempeñara como investigador en la universidad Norteamericana de Stanford. De paso por Tandil, ,de donde se fue hace 15 años dialogo con la Vidriera sobre su pasión por la fisica, sus estudios en Europa y su futuro. Una mente brillante. De Tandil, por el mundo. Newspaper: El Eco de Tandil.