I've received multiple requests for a post specifically dedicated to Terry Wallace. His name often comes up on the blog, so I did a little unscientific research to put things in perspective.Using the Google query site:lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com Wallace returned 301 results. Editing the query for a few common names here is what I found:
- Anastasio 1120
- Wallace 301
- D'Agostino 285
- Bodman 197
- Marquez 162
- Seestrom 82
- Neu 78
- Chandler 31
So for whoever requested it, here it is. The official Terry Wallace post.
Photo looks like the south end of a north-facing horse!
ReplyDeleteYeah, he is relishing in the number of people he has lied to, screwed over, and retaliated against to get to where he is now -a position that he is completely incompetent to hold.
ReplyDeleteGee Ma, look at me now!! I did amount to something after all!
It amazes me how such an incompetent back-stabbing twit can keep a position like this for as long as he has - momma or no mamma. Heck, he even surrounds himself with second-rate talent, which is the first big no-no for a successful leader. Alas ...
ReplyDeleteMaking fun of his looks or his relationship with his mother is not going to effect any change. More likely it will generate sympathy for him and discredit his critics.
ReplyDeleteTry to give specifics about the lies, retaliation, incompetence, and whatever else there is. Assume the person reading your comment does not know anything about Terry Wallace. Let your comment inform them.
Lots of people have their favorite stories about Terry Wallace. My particular beef with him comes from various comments he has made during his presentations.
ReplyDeleteIf you listen very carefully, it becomes apparent that Wallace appears to want to "roll over" the current scientific workforce with replacements using cheap post docs and low-benefit new hires. He talks about this with various catch phrases like "creating the proper scientific work force for our future", "right-sizing", etc.
What irks me most about this is that here we have a poor manager, out of touch with the troops and hired because of his political connections, who appears to have plans to re-create the LANL research work force in his own distorted image. Not a good idea! IMHO, Wallace is a large part of the destruction of good science at LANL over the last few years. He's far from being world class and many of the much better scientists who work under him realize this all too clearly.
The word "phony" comes to my mind.
ReplyDeleteYou get a better trajectory, i.e. higher figures, if you include in your query:
ReplyDelete(1) Mike, Mikey, Mike Anastasio, Michael R. Anastasio for Dr. Michael R. Anastasio.
(2) Terry for Dr. Terry Wallace.
(3) Tom, Tom D´Agostino, Top Dog for NNSA Administrator Thomas P. D´Agostino.
(4) And don´t forget to query for Nuclear weapons, RRW, Nuclear Weapons Complex, NWC, RIF, RIFFED, SSP, WFO, Directed Energy Weapons/EMP Weapons, Missile Defense, National security, National Labs, Dr. C. Paul Robinson, SNL, Sandia, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, Rechtel, DOE, DOE/NNSA, NNSA. UC, LLNL, LANS, and LANL.
Terry has called women to their face that the reason they did not get a job was because they are brittle. Nice and classy...
ReplyDeleteI have been in his office and he promised me his full support. I left his office and he refused to ever meet with me again and declared that he never made a promise. I hear that I am not the only person this has happened to.
ReplyDeleteAt least his tie matches his shirt, unlike some scientist whose shoes don't match.
ReplyDeleteYou dressed him very well that day, Jeanette.
ReplyDelete"I hear that I am not the only person this has happened to.
ReplyDelete11/11/08 7:20 PM"
Yep the same story.
Does anybody think that Terry might read this?
ReplyDeleteKeep voting for Jeanette Wallace for your State Representative! It's the voters fault.
ReplyDeleteAt least his tie matches his shirt, unlike some scientist whose shoes don't match.
ReplyDeleteSure, I only handle aqua regia in my best John Lobb shoes and Armani suit because scientific discoveries are guaranteed when dressed for perfection...
Does anybody think that Terry might read this? 11/12/08 6:39 AM
ReplyDeleteWallace strikes me as an insecure type of guy, so yeah, he'll probably be reading this post. Blog away.
As Frank asked for, some more facts for those of us who do not interact with him would be much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteGracias.
"Keep voting for Jeanette Wallace for your State Representative! It's the voters fault. - 11/12/08 8:05 AM"
ReplyDeleteHow can it be the voters' fault if there is no competition. Jeanette will continue to keep her seat until a candidate runs an opposing campaign or until she runs long on age.
Well, let's see he is the PADSTE but as a visitor sitting in the audience for the Fellows Prize for Research and Leadership, I could not help but notice NO TERRY. Why is that? Is there something I am missing? He is the PAD for Science but does not support one of the biggest scientific achievements this lab offers? WHat gives?
ReplyDeleteFacts? Facts??!!!?? On this blog? You must be new here.
ReplyDeleteAre his teeth real?
ReplyDeleteHere's what I've witnessed. Terry has a habit of getting people to take on new positions that he creates to fulfill his "visions" and promises the TSM they'll be funded for the work he wishes them to perform. He then largely reneges on the funding promises and the poor TSM is left to their own resources to drum up funds to cover for Terry Work. This, of course, puts the TSM into the untenable position of having committed charge code fraud, and we all know how LANS' CFO has been warning everyone about that issue.
ReplyDeleteTo 11/12/08 8:02 PM: Look at who the recipients are and you will have your questions answered.
ReplyDeleteTerry sells that Lab short - when Wolfgang Runde, the national isotope program manager came up with a request to cut LANL funding by a few hundred K$, Terry just rolled over. Why didn't he tell Runde, who is a LANL employee, that a program manager's job is to bring the bucks home - not to lobby LANL for cuts!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wimp!
I never thought that the day would come i'd say something good about Bill Press. At least he was a scientist, and when he heard that good scientists were planning to leave, he'd work with them to find a way to keep them on. Contrary to Terry, who is happy to see good scientists leave, presumably because that will save money!
ReplyDelete7:54 PM, where have you been for the last two months! Wallace hates Doc Aq and has made it clear to several levels of management.
ReplyDeleteComments about Terry not caring about the scientific brain drain occurring at LANL are all too true. He really does seem to believe that the work can be done much cheaper by simply getting rid of most of the current research staff and bringing in a bunch of cheap post docs. When you see the design of his Science Complex with its use of tiny cubicles for offices it all begins to make sense.
ReplyDeleteWhat an idiot! Don't plan on any long term research career at LANL if Terry continues to stay at the helm.
Just listen to the recent all-hands meeting with Wallace -- the recording is readily available for your enjoyment! It's actually scary how dangerously delusional and clueless this guy sounds. You'd never know from his talk that science at LANL is in a severe crisis. On the contrary, things are going great -- somehow, funding for science significantly increased in the last two years, lots of new projects have been funded, huge teams are making huge breakthroughs using huge computers, and on and on. What about the best people leaving in droves? "We'll just hire new ones." Maybe something about the state of T-division, which has been devastated by a catastrophic reorg., carried out by a documented plagiarist [aka div leader]? Not a word. Perhaps some thoughts on how to stop "science priorities" from getting completely reshuffled every year, by shortsighted, schizophrenic management chasing fads of the minute? Nothing. Things are apparently going great, and Wallace is just in awe of himself, having accomplished all this.
ReplyDeleteAfter listening to the recording, I can tell you folks: with that guy in charge, there ain't much hope for things to improve.
"Maybe something about the state of T-division, which has been devastated by a catastrophic reorg., carried out by a documented plagiarist [aka div leader]?"
ReplyDeleteWhat!!!???? You have got to be kidding right? Is this true about the the div leader? Something like this could cause a scandal that
has merit. Scary stuff.
12:51 AM wrote ..."Things are apparently going great, and Wallace is just in awe of himself..."
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In today's LA Monitor, Terry is quoted as saying that "science at LANL is flourishing and we're in a better time now than perhaps any time in the past." He is either a pathological liar or living in a fantasy world. Terry get out and talk to the scientists, and you would understand why the best and brightest are rapidly leaving or have already left. Declining morale, obscenely high cost of business, disconnected management, no leadership (especially not from Terry), crumbling mice-infested facilities, old equipment and a blood-sucking LLC draining all possibility of a future in basic science for the laboratory. And Terry thinks this is the best of times? In case you were wondering, this is why staff neither trust nor listen to anything Terry has to say.
ReplyDeleteFrom 12:21 AM - funding for science significantly increased in the last two years, lots of new projects have been funded, huge teams are making huge breakthroughs using huge computers, and on and on.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. I am in C-IIAC and my understanding is that all of the new hires are not getting this funding, not even the "strategic hires". In fact, if you look on Oracle you find out that Mary Neu has managed to get funding for her former postdoc (Gaunt) and others (May) from the Seaborg Institute or from Neu husband's or R. DelSesto (MPA-MC via Kevin Ott) LDRD projects. Yeah, LANS management! Nothin' like the friends and family plan!
6:35 Pm - the only people who have access like that to Oracle are group leaders and above type managers. That kind of gives you a way.
ReplyDelete>"Maybe something about the state of T-
ReplyDelete>division, which has been devastated by
>a catastrophic reorg., carried out by
>a documented plagiarist [aka div
>leader]?"
>What!!!???? You have got to be kidding
>right? Is this true about the the div
>leader? Something like this could
>cause a scandal that has merit. Scary
>stuff.
OK, here we go: look up
[1] A. Redondo, Density-matrix formulation of ab initio methods of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, Phys. Rev. A 39, 4366 (1989);
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v39/i9/p4366_1
and
[2] J. Cioslowski and M. Levy, Comment on ‘‘Density-matrix formulation of ab initio methods of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics’’, Phys. Rev. A 40, 6727 (1989);
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v40/i11/p6727_1
Here's the abstract in its entirety:
"Most of the results of the recent paper by A. Redondo [Phys. Rev. A 39, 4366 (1989)] are both well-known and well documented in literature. Parts of the first-order density matrix history are briefly reviewed."
And, no, at LANL copying most of the equations in your paper from a textbook does not "cause a scandal". Terry Wallace actually makes you a division leader.
Clueless Terry makes me think of that famous clip of Jim Cramer (the CNBC stock guru) going ballastic on TV last year over the Fed's inaction. It's the video clip were Cramer screams into the camera...
ReplyDelete"They have no idea, no idea, no idea at all about what's really going on!!!"
Market Meltdown - YouTube:
www.youtube.com/
watch?v=SWksEJQEYVU
Just as the Feds at the time had no idea about the serious cracks in the US financial system, Terry seems to have no idea about the serious cracks currently appearing in science at LANL.
It's interesting that the Monitor's recent article praising Terry so profusely should come out shortly after this blog post was created.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Jeannette must have given a call to the local newspaper and told them to write up something extra special for her boy, Terry.
Ref: 11/14/08 10:53 PM
ReplyDeleteSee Density-matrix formulation of ab initio methods of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and Comment on "Density-matrix formulation of ab initio methods of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics".
Last sentence: "Finally, most of the equations in Redondo's paper can be found in the classical monography by Davidson[6]"
from 11:07 PM - It's interesting that the Monitor's recent article praising Terry so profusely should come out shortly after this blog post was created.
ReplyDeleteYeah, sure sounds like "insecure Terry" needed to see something good about himself in print. I do wonder why there hasn't been any investigation into Terry's unethical and corrupt behavior and mistreatment of people and his discrimination against women.
"Last sentence: "Finally, most of the equations in Redondo's paper can be found in the classical monography by Davidson[6]"
ReplyDelete11/15/08 12:03 AM"
This is giving me a very sick feeling. If this is what it appears to be, and it it certainly does, than perhaps we should reevaluate the need for having any science at LANL. If a science divison leader is guilty of this kind of misconduct than how can you trust any science out of that division? How can anyone trust any science out of LANL in general. Very sad.
Dear 11:26. It is not a misconduct to rediscover an already known result and to submit it for publication. Usually, when the editor and referees of a journal (Phys. Rev. in this instance) are competent, it just does not get published as original research.
ReplyDeleteAll this incident shows, is that Phys. Rev. is a second tier journal.
"Dear 11:26. It is not a misconduct to rediscover an already known result and to submit it for publication. Usually, when the editor and referees of a journal (Phys. Rev. in this instance) are competent, it just does not get published as original research.
ReplyDeleteAll this incident shows, is that Phys. Rev. is a second tier journal."
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Of course you published this response to "Comment on ‘‘Density-matrix formulation of ab initio methods of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics’’. Surely you didn't wait almost 20 years to respond to it on a blog, first tier though it may be.
A citatation for your response please?
11/15/08 8:28 PM,
ReplyDeleteThanks! I should point out though that this is currently the only LANL blog. Kinda makes it hard to be second tier.
"Dear 11:26. It is not a misconduct to rediscover an already known result and to submit it for publication."
ReplyDeleteWhat makes me worried is that it is not rediscovered. The tone of the comment is enough to make one think. No matter what it is is really bad.
Can't say I know anyone that this has ever happened to before. If not misconduct than gross incompetence on the part of the author? It did say that the work was in the "the classical monography by Davidson[6]" Not obscure.
"it just does not get published as original research."
Now this is a very curious statement by Mr 1:38pm. What would it get published as in Phys Rev A?
non-orginal reseach?
Tony Redondo is on a first name basis with both Terry Wallace and Mike Anastasio, as witnessed in all-hands/all-managers meetings.
ReplyDeleteThat makes him automatically suspect, in my book.
12:01 PM - oh come on, I would call Terry and Mike by their first names - I have a PhD just like them.
ReplyDeleteThe posters here are correct. Redondo's case = clear-cut plagiarism. Simple homework: read his "paper" & the "Comment" then follow refs therein.
ReplyDeleteAt any half-decent institution, this sort of gross misconduct would've meant the end of one's scientific career. Not at LANL though where up is down and down is up. The guy stopped doing science, moved into management and years later was made Theoretical Division Leader!
Ask yourself: how can a plagiarist become a leader of a premier division at a major natl lab? The story of corruption actually goes deep here and makes for an interesting investigation. (Hint: Bishop really wanted to install a yes man to do dirty work for him. Redondo fit the bill perfectly: dumb and loyal. Bishop and Terry W. knew very well that Redondo had scientific fraud in his past, but hid that info from the committee. )
This kind of rotten culture permeates LANL. A good investigative journalist only needs to dig a bit -- it's a treasure trove.
6:13 PM, Terry and Mikey call Tony by *his* first name. As opposed to us peons who are just "hey you" in the eyes of senior management.
ReplyDeleteYou can really tell who the brown-nosers are by how much Mikey and Terry's eyes light up when they raise their hands during Q&A.
Terry Wallace and Alan Bishop are really one in the same. Alan quietly works the back channels with his cronies, while Terry is the public face. Together they have taken parochialism to a new level at LANL. Look at any new initiative that Terry and Alan conjure up, and it only favors their old divisions and directorates. In a time where LANL needs to be forward looking and pro-active into moving towards new science and engineering areas, Terry and Alan keep the focus on their own stovepipes -- for example Materials Research -- fine, but is this a National Lab challenge? Watch as the other better managed labs put LANL to shame by moving into alternative energy, large scale economic systems analysis, etc. Alan Bishop appoints weak and non-threatening (to his roost) managers around him, while he quietly works the back channel, and BTW "encourages" anyone in T Division who writes any paper to put his name on it. This is sort of a "rule of thumb" in T Division. Solution: Bring Terry, Bishop, and Redondo out into the full limelight -- the news. Lets see what "national challenges" they can respond to, versus them simply stating "we are the science lab", "we do great science", it is what you do, not what you say...
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