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 in industry might work on, you can check out my CV or skills list. Otherwise, just read on and you'll get a slight flavor.

Interests

Tactical development in the undersea environment with emphasis on ocean acoustic modeling; signal processing algorithm development on autonomous underwater vehicles for acoustic detection, classification, localization, and tracking; geoacoustic inversion with natural sources; and field theory applications in physical environments.

• Surface noise inversion preprint, 11-Apr-2008 (abstract, PDF)
• TRIUMF theory group seminar, 25-Oct-2005

From 1-Jun-1999 to 15-Dec-2004 I tuned my analytic and computing skills working as an analyst with AMI. My skills broadened immensely upon entering the high-tech work environment: 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

Senior Physicist, APL-UW, 1-Aug-2008 to the present
Senior Acoustics Engineer, Alaska Native Technologies LLC, 11-Feb-2005 to 20-Jun-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

QFT in a nutshell (A. Zee)

Japanese culture

Knuth's art

Write great code (Randall Hyde)

A wonderful recruiter in the Seattle area

• SPIRES HEP Literature Database
• Cornell (formerly Los Alamos) preprint archive
• HEP Institutions on the Web
• Particle Data Group website
• An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder
• TRIUMF
• Physics Department at UBC
• Institute for Nuclear Theory and Physics Department at the University of Washington
• Physics Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder
• Physics Department at the Ohio State University
• Physics Department at the Colorado School of Mines

Pictures

• Saeko and Billy on their wedding day
• Saeko and Billy at Niagara Falls (American side)

Contact information

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

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