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. 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

• 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)

• Similarity flow of a neutral scalar coupled to a fixed source (tex, pdf)
• Ph.D. and postdoctoral research interests and publications

• An aside on language: Einstein's 1905 photoelectric paper, paragraphs 2-4 (pdf, ppt)
• Physicist skills that industry wants, Ohio State nuclear theory group, (html, pdf)

• Radius of the earth as a function of latitude and longitude: earth_radius.py
• A python 1d median filter: medfilt.py

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])
• 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

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