Steve Rallis was born in Bennington, Vermont, in 1942. He was an undergraduate at Harvard, receiving his BA in 1964. From there he moved to MIT where he was a student of Bert Kostant, receiving his Ph.D. in 1968. His early work was on invariant theory. After graduating from MIT, Rallis spent two years at the IAS in Princeton and two years at SUNY StonyBrook, followed by a number of visiting positions at Strasbourg, Texas, Notre Dame, and Princeton. Along the way, the primary focus of Steve's research shifted to the theory of automorphic forms and representation theory, but always keeping invariant theory as one of his powerful techniques. In 1970 Steve married Michele Kaufmann, who had received her Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard in the same year that Steve graduated from MIT. In 1977 he became a visiting assistant professor at Ohio State University. He became a tenure-track assistant professor the following year and moved up through the ranks, staying at OSU throughout the rest of his career. But he always kept a busy traveling schedule, making regular visits to both Strasbourg and Israel, where he had active collaborations for many years. He became professor emeritus at OSU in 2008 and passed away in 2012.
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