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, 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)

  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: doi.org/10.1002/jcc.27239.

  3. Benjamin Jones and Guowei Wei, “Persistent Directed Flag Laplacian,” arXiv:2312.02099 [math.AT], 2023. Submitted.

Talks

  1. Computer-Based Honors Live, Tuscaloosa, AL. “Improving Effectiveness of Time Splitting Methods for Electrostatic Analysis of Solvated Biomolecules,” December 2017.
  2. Computer-Based Honors Live, Tuscaloosa, AL. “Improving Effectiveness of Time Splitting Methods for Electrostatic Analysis of Solvated Biomolecules,” December 2018.
  3. 13th Undergraduate Math Conference, Knoxville, TN. “Numerical algorithms for electrostatic analysis of solvated biomolecules,” April 2019.
  4. University of Alabama Applied Math Seminar, Tuscaloosa, AL. “Adaptive Pseudo-Time Methods for the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation with Eulerian Solvent Excluded Surface,” December 2020.

Posters

  1. Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL. “Improving Effectiveness of Time Splitting Methods for Electrostatic Analysis of Solvated Biomolecules,” March 2018. Top Work in Progress for Natural Sciences.
  2. Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL. “Improving the Stability of Numerical Algorithms for Electrostatic Analysis of Solvated Biomolecules,” March 2019.
  3. NSF-CBMS Conference: Mathematical Molecular Bioscience and Biophysics, Tuscaloosa, AL. “Comparing the Stability Impact of the Eulerian Solvent Excluded Surface and the MSMS Surface on Numerical Algorithms for Electrostatic Analysis of Solvated Biomolecules,” May 2019.
  4. Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology Symposium, Atlanta, GA, “Comparing the Effectiveness of ESES and MSMS for Solving the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation,” February 2020.

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.