Ben Jones

A mathematician who sometimes calls himself a computer scientist.

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ORCID:0000-0001-7810-7770

Papers and Preprints

  1. Benjamin Jones and Guowei Wei, "Persistent Directed Flag Laplacian," Foundations of Data Science (accepted). arXiv:2312.02099 [math.AT].
  2. S. Ahmed Ullah, X. Yang, Ben Jones, S. Zhao, W. Geng, and G. Wei, "Bridging Eulerian and Lagrangian Poisson-Boltzmann solvers by ESES," Journal of Computational Chemistry. 2023, 1. (doi)
  3. Benjamin Jones, S. Ahmed Ullah, S. Wang, and S. Zhao, "Adaptive pseudo-time methods for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation with Eulerian solvent excluded surface", Communications in Information & Systems, 21(1), 85-123, (2021). (arxiv) (doi)

Contributed Talks

  1. SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24), Atlanta, GA. Minisymposium on Exploring the Intersection of Topological and Geometric Data Analysis with Biological Applications. "Persistent Directed Flag Laplacian," October 2024.
  2. 4th Workshop on Computational Persistence (ComPer), Graz University of Technology (by zoom). "Efficient Computation of Persistent Laplacians," September 2024.
  3. Mathematical Biosciences Workshop, Penn State University. "Persistent Directed Flag Laplacian," August 2024.

Seminar Talks

  1. MSU Student Geometry and Topology Seminar. "Combinatorial and Persistent Laplacians: from Graphs to TDA," October 2024.
  2. MSU Operator Algebras Reading Seminar. "The story of how Vaughan Jones used operator algebras to spark a revolution in topology," March 2024.
  3. University of Alabama Applied Math Seminar, Tuscaloosa, AL. "Adaptive Pseudo-Time Methods for the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation with Eulerian Solvent Excluded Surface," December 2020.
    4. ## Master's thesis * **B. Jones**. "Adaptive pseudo-time methods for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation with Eulerian solvent excluded surface," (2021). Master's thesis at The University of Alabama. Committee: *Shan Zhao (chair), Xiaoyan Hong, Mojdeh Rasoulzadeh, and Wei Zhu.*