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Billy D. Jones
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I am a theoretical physicist interested in the beautiful connection between mathematics and the physical world in which we live.
Here is a summary of our current knowledge as of ~2011 from the point of view of theoretical physics
(pdf, ppt). In a perfect world the theoretical and
experimental views would match; amazingly enough they match quite well in our world too.
If you ever wondered what a theoretical physicist might work on, read on and you'll get a slight flavor.
Research Interests
Acoustics and Tracking
Acoustics and tracking problems mostly in the undersea environment.
- Placement and ping sequence optimization of multistatic active coherent buoy fields
- Seabed inversion with coherent sources
- Parallel algorithm development for speedup on multicore processors
- Wavelets and ambient noise (pdf)
- Geoacoustic inversion with natural sources---ambient noise inversion
(preprint html, abstract html, proceedings pdf)
- Shallow-water acoustics, TRIUMF theory group seminar, (html, pdf)
- Particle filters in the bearings-only tracking problem, APL-UW EIS group, (html, pdf)
Renormalization Group
Ab initio fluids with renormalization group methods.
Renormalization studies in quantum theory.
Reading
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An aside on language: Einstein's 1905 photoelectric paper, paragraphs 2-4
(pdf, ppt)
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Physicist skills that industry wants, Ohio State nuclear theory group, (html, pdf)
Code
Experience
Physicist IV, APL-UW, August 2008 to the present
Senior Acoustics Engineer, Alaska Native Technologies, LLC, 2005-2008
Physicist, Applied Mathematics, Inc., 1999-2004
Postdoctoral Research Associate, TRIUMF, University of British Columbia, 1997-1999
Research Assistant, Ohio State University, Department of Physics, 1993-1997
Graduate Fellow, Ohio State University, Department of Physics, 1992-1993
Education
Ohio State University, Ph.D., Physics, 1997 (GPA: 3.92)
Colorado School of Mines, B.S., Engineering Physics, 1992, High Scholastic Honors (GPA: 3.83)
Short list
- Similarity renormalization group
(Glazek and Wilson, Perry, Furnstahl, et al. [1993,
1994, 1994b,
1998, 1999])
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Flow equations for Hamiltonians (Wegner, Kehrein, et al.
[1994, 2001])
- An Introduction to quantum field theory (Peskin and Schroeder)
- Quantum field theory in a nutshell (A. Zee)
- SPIRES HEP literature database
- arXiv server
- HEP Institutions on the web
- PDG website
- TRIUMF at University of British Columbia
- Physics Department at UBC
- INT at University of Washington
- Physics Department at University of Washington
- Physics Department at the Ohio State University
- Physics Department at Colorado School of Mines
- Physics Department at University of Colorado at Boulder
- Wavelet methods for time series analysis (Percival and Walden)
- A wavelet tour of signal processing: The sparse way, 3rd ed. (S. Mallat)
- Wavelab and reproducible research (D. Donoho et al.)
- Knuth's art
- Colour theory for painters by Paul Centore (colour geometry: pdf)
- Nice recruiter in the Seattle area (Ben Schrenzel)
Most important
last modified 2011-11-21