Stéphane Dumas (1970–2016) was a Canadian physicist who, together with his colleague
Yvan Dutil, has created a noise-resistant coding system for messages aimed at communicating with extraterrestrial civilization. This system was used in the creation of messages beamed towards close stars from the
Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope in Ukraine in 1999 and 2003.
Stéphane Dumas completed bachelor's degree in physics at the
Université Laval
(; English: ''Laval University)'' is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university traces its roots to the Séminaire de Québec, founded by François de Montmorency-Laval in 1663, making it the oldest institutio ...
in 1992. He also completed a master's degree in physics at the same institution in 2009. The topic of is dissertation was the detection by diffuse reflectance in infrared of
endolith
An endolith or endolithic is an organism ( archaeon, bacterium, fungus, lichen, algae, sponge, or amoeba) that is able to acquire the necessary resources for growth in the inner part of a rock, mineral, coral, animal shells, or in the pores betw ...
ic colony. The objective was to be able to detect life inside rock in a non-destructive way, since in
Mars analogue environment, half of the biomass lay in its hidden form. His supervisors were Gilles Joncas and
Yvan Dutil. This was the first master's degree in astrobiology at the Université Laval and one of the first in Québec.
In addition to his participation the
Cosmic Call project, he was an active member of the
IAA SETI Committee. He has been involved in many public debates on the risk related to
active SETI, especially with
David Brin
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo Award, Hugo, . More recently, he has been carried some research on history of SETI. Also, he has worked with
Claudio Maccone
Claudio Maccone (born 6 February 1948, in Torino (Turin), Italy)
is an Italian SETI astronomer, space scientist and mathematician.
Career
He obtained two degrees from the University of Turin: in physics in 1972 and in mathematics in 1974.
He ...
on the application of the
Karhunen–Loève transform (KLT) for SETI observations. He also wrote Guest Editorials for The SETI League website and has long served as a SETI League volunteer Regional Coordinator. He was also the president of the Quebec Centre of the
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) is a national, non-profit, charitable organization devoted to the advancement of astronomy and related sciences. At present, there are 30 local branches of the Society, called Centres, in towns an ...
from 2006 to 2013.
For the most of his career, he has worked as a computer scientist at the RDDC Valcartier on weapons effect simulation.
He suddenly died in his home, on 9 June 2016, apparently as an indirect consequence of influenza.
Stéphane Dumas (1970 – 2016)
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Bibliography
''SETI''
Lincos with Dr. Yvan Dutil
Lexique du Cosmic Call
Error Correction Scheme in Active Seti
Social Choice and Equity Theories: Seeking to Common Good as a Common Ground
External links
ResearchGate Personal page
Academia.edu Personal page
References
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1970 births
2016 deaths
21st-century Canadian astronomers
Interstellar messages
Université Laval alumni