Billy D. Jones Born 2440036 JD

I am a theoretical physicist interested in the beautiful connection between mathematics and the physical world in which we live. If you ever wondered what a theoretical physicist might work on, you can check out my CV. Otherwise, just read on and you'll get a slight flavor.

Interests

Basic research

• Tactical development in the undersea environment with emphasis on acoustic signal processing and tracking
• Denoising, compression, and classification applications with nonlinear wavelet filters
• Parallel algorithm development for speedup on multicore processors
• Geoacoustic inversion with natural sources

• Wavelets and ambient noise (EIS brief, pdf)
• Surface noise inversion (preprint 11-Apr-2008 html, abstract 12-Nov-2008 html, Miami '08 proceedings manuscript pdf)
• Shallow-water acoustics, TRIUMF theory group seminar, 25-Oct-2005 (html, pdf)
• Particle filters in the bearings-only tracking problem, APL-UW EIS group, 9-Jun-2004 (html, pdf)
• Physicist skills that industry wants, Ohio State nuclear theory group, 29-May-2003 (html, pdf)
• Older but still relevant reading (qft)

• A python 1d median filter: medfilt.py

From 1-Jun-1999 to 15-Dec-2004 I tuned my analytic and computing skills working as a physicist with AMI. My skills broadened immensely upon entering the IT workforce. It turned me into a general problem solver with each day bringing a new puzzle to solve in one form or another. I performed general analysis as a consultant with AMI and worked on medium-sized (20-100 thousand lines of source code) software projects customized for the client at hand.

From 1997-1999 I was a postdoc with the theory group at TRIUMF. TRIUMF is located on the beautiful campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. My research interests include hadronic physics, quantum field theory, lattice field theory, high-performance computing, and complex systems. Here is a list of my publications from the SPIRES-SLAC database.

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
Research Associate, TRIUMF, University of British Columbia, 1997-1999
Research Assistant, Ohio State University, Department of Physics, 1992-1997

Education

Ohio State University, Ph.D., Physics, 1997
Colorado School of Mines, B.S., Engineering Physics, 1992

My short list

Similarity renormalization group (Glazek, Wilson, Perry, et al.)

SRG also goes by "flow equations" in Wegner's group: Flow equations (Wegner, Kehrein, et al.)

An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder

QFT in a nutshell (A. Zee)

Wavelet methods for time series analysis (Percival and Walden)

Wavelet tour, 3rd ed. (S. Mallat)

Wavelab and reproducible research (D. Donoho)

Knuth's art

A wonderful recruiter in the Seattle area (newly formed)

• SPIRES HEP Literature Database
• Cornell (formerly Los Alamos) preprint archive
• HEP Institutions on the Web
• Particle Data Group website
• TRIUMF
• Physics Department at UBC
• Institute for Nuclear Theory and Physics Department at the University of Washington
• Physics Department at the Ohio State University
• Physics Department at the Colorado School of Mines
• Physics Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Most important

• Saeko and Billy on their wedding day
• Saeko and Billy at Niagara Falls (American side)
• My hometown
• Saeko's hometown
• Japanese culture

Contact information

hits since 1-Nov-2005 (including self-hits and revisits)

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