Lester Ingber

Lester Ingber

Physicist with interdisciplinary expertise and interests

Location
Ashland, Oregon (Medford, Oregon Area)
Industry
Information Technology and Services

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Lester Ingber's Overview

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Education
  • University of California, San Diego
  • Niels Bohr Institute
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Brooklyn Technical High School (BTHS)

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Lester Ingber's Summary

http://www.linkedin.com/in/ingber has 30,000 Direct (Degree 1) Connections. (30,000 is the max presently permitted by LinkedIn.)

Since 1965, I have published over 100 papers and books in the disciplines of: theoretical nuclear physics, neuroscience, finance, general optimization, combat analysis, karate, and education.

http://www.ingber.com contains papers and code on topics:

ASA: Adaptive Simulated Annealing, Optimization, Importance Sampling, Nonlinear Systems, Stochastic Systems.
COMBAT: Statistical Mechanics of Combat and Simulations.
KARATE: The Art and Science of Karate, Applications to Learning.
MARKETS: Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets, Options, Risk, Portfolios, Trading.
NEOCORTEX: Statistical Mechanics of Neocortical Interactions, Applications to Memory, EEG, Intelligent Systems.
NUCLEAR: Nucleons, Nuclear Matter, Riemannian Interactions.
PATH-INTEGRAL: Path Integrals in Stochastic Systems with Nonlinear Diffussion.

More information is at the LinkedIn LIR Products page http://www.linkedin.com/company/lester-ingber-research-lir-/products

Specialties

My projects have been in theoretical nuclear physics, statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions (short-term memory and EEG correlates, AI), statistical mechanics of combat (baselining simulations to training), and statistical mechanics of financial markets (options, bond futures, risk management, and trading systems).

I have developed algorithms for nonlinear stochastic systems, including ASA/VFSR & PATHINT/PATHTREE, a full suite of options code, and copula risk management.

Lester Ingber's Experience

Editor-in-Chief

Research Publisher

February 2012 – Present (4 months) Santa Clara, CA

I am EiC of three journals for Research Publisher:
http://researchpub.org/interdiscipline.html


Current Progress Journal with associated e-conferences, on various selected topics:
http://researchpub.org/journal/cpj/cpj.html
CPJ Call For Papers: http://tiny.cc/cfp_cpj

Graduate Journal of Research with associated e-conferences:
http://researchpub.org/journal/gjr/gjr.html

Undergraduate Journal of Research with associated e-conferences:
http://researchpub.org/journal/ujr/ujr.html

GJR & UJR Call For Papers: http://tiny.cc/cfp_gjr_ujr


See the Call For Editors:
http://url.ingber.com/rp_editors

All three Journals have a standard review process. As with other RP Journals, quick reviews and publications are expected. For the Current Progress Journal, the same high standards of research as for other RP journals apply. For the Graduate Journal of Research, the promise of expected results, not necessarily completed research, is expected. For the Undergraduate Journal of Research, "interesting" and "novel" approaches to research are expected. For the Graduate and Undergraduate Journals, first authors must be enrolled in their schools, and all correspondence are conducted through their school address. Audio/video of the Conferences are addenda to their associated papers.

Partner

Pion Capital

June 2011 – Present (1 year) Round Rock, Texas

Pion Capital is a hedge-fund Partnership of Caltech Alumni (http://pioncapital.com). I helped this early-stage start-up by representing them as a Partner to vendors to get good pricing for datafeeds and co-location of their systems, and by building interfaces for such feeds. I benchmarked some of my own TRD trading systems in their formats. I work on various administrative and R&D projects.

Physicist

Lester Ingber Research (LIR) (Sole Proprietorship)

Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry

1989 – Present (23 years)

See the LIR page http://www.linkedin.com/company/lester-ingber-research-lir-/products

I have worked through LIR intermittently between various positions in academia, government and business, as described in http://www.ingber.com/ingber_CV.pdf .

Some recent work includes:

My Statistical Mechanics of Neocortical Interactions (SMNI) work since 1981 has detailed short-term memory and local generators of EEG. In a Mathematical Biosciences 2010 publication, http://www.ingber.com/smni10_multiple_scales.pdf , PATHINT was used to evolve probability distributions of columnar activity with explicit oscillatory firings, and integrate such mesoscopic processes with global brain EEG activity. "Columnar electromagnetic influences on short-term memory at multiple scales" is in http://www.ingber.com/smni11_stm_scales.pdf .

Ideas by Statistical Mechanics (ISM), http://www.ingber.com/smni06_ism.pdf , is a generic program to model evolution and propagation of ideas/patterns throughout populations subjected to endogenous and exogenous interactions, published in Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (2008), and J Integrated Systems Design and Process Science, Special Issue: Biologically Inspired Computing (2007).

Tools have been developed to price complex projects as financial options with alternative schedules and strategies, in Real Options for Project Schedules (ROPS), http://www.ingber.com/markets07_rops.pdf , published in invited paper in International J. Science, Technology & Management (2010). Risk management codes have been developed in Trading in Risk Dimensions (TRD) in http://www.ingber.com/markets_trd.pdf , published in Handbook of Trading, McGraw-Hill (2010).

Director R&D

DUNN Capital Management

January 2002 – July 2003 (1 year 7 months)

I developed copula risk-management algorithms, and helped with analysis of other trading-related projects.

Director R&D

DRW Trading

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry

1997 – December 2001 (4 years)

I led teams developing multi-factor nonlinear stochastic models of markets, directly applied to options, bond futures, and various trading systems.

I formulated "volatility of volatility" of markets and, using Eurodollars as an example, I developed PATHINT to explicitly calculate all Greeks for options, based on my 2-variable price-volatility model.

Research Professor of Mathematics

George Washington University (GWU)

Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry

1989 – 1990 (1 year)

Research

Professor of Physics

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency (CAA)

Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Military industry

1989 – 1989 (less than a year)

Research

Senior Research Associate

National Research Council (NRC)

1989 – 1989 (less than a year)

Research

Professor of Physics

Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)

Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

1986 – 1989 (3 years)

http://www.ingber.com/combat93_c3sci.pdf summarizes a series of papers started in 1985, which led to the baselining of JANUS(T) simulation to National Training Center (NTC) data. I was Principal Investigator (PI) of an Army contract, leading a team of scientists and officers to develop mathematical comparisons of Janus computer combat simulations with exercise data from NTC, developing a testable theory of combat successfully baselined to empirical data.

Consultant

ANSER

Nonprofit; 501-1000 employees; Defense & Space industry

1986 – 1988 (2 years)

Research

Senior Research Associate

National Research Council (NRC)

1985 – 1986 (1 year)

Research

Research Associate, Physics

UC San Diego (UCSD)

1980 – 1986 (6 years)

Research with Physics Department and Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences (IPAPS)

President

Physical Studies Institute (PSI)

1970 – 1986 (16 years)

PSI, a CA nonprofit corporation, via UCSD/IPAPS agency account 1970-1986: Published research in physics, neuroscience, and finance. Paper in 1981 led to Physical Review's (premier physics journal's) first paper on the brain in 1983. Paper in 1984 led to Physical Review's first paper in finance in 1990.

Institute for Study of Attention (ISA) (educational branch of PSI) alternative school 1970-1978: Founded, funded, directed, instructed, and managed instructors in over 30 courses (see ``Attention, physics and teaching,'' http://www.ingber.com/smni81_attention.pdf). ISA karate classes 1970-1986: Instructed thousands of students and wrote three karate texts.

Conservatory of Ballet Arts Company (CBAC) from 1976-1985 was another branch of PSI directed by Louise Ingber (http://louise.ingber.com).

Research Associate, Music

UC San Diego (UCSD)

1972 – 1974 (2 years)

Research with Music Department with Pauline Oliveros

Director Learning To Learn

UC San Diego (UCSD) Extension

1973 – 1973 (less than a year)

See ``Editorial: Learning to learn,'' http://www.ingber.com/smni72_learning.pdf

Asst Professor of Physics

State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook

1969 – 1970 (1 year)

Research and Teaching

National Science Foundation Postdoc Fellow

UC Los Angeles (UCLA)

1968 – 1969 (1 year)

Research

Sensei

Japan Karate Association (JKA)/All America Karate Federation (AAKF)

January 1968 – December 1968 (1 year)

I was the first graduate of the Japan Karate Association (JKA)/All America Karate Federation (AAKF) Sensei/Instructor's School, taught by Hidetaka Nishiyama in 1968. My thesis was Physics of Karate Techniques.

National Science Foundation Postdoc Fellow

UC Berkeley (UCB)

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry

1967 – 1968 (1 year)

Research

Consultant

RAND Corporation

Nonprofit; 1001-5000 employees; Think Tanks industry

1965 – 1966 (1 year)

I worked with friend and colleague Hal T. Yura on Collective Interactions Between Light and Matter.

Reader, Mathematical Physics (graduate level)

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry

1961 – 1962 (1 year)

I graded homeworks and exams.

Research Assistant Metallurgy

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry

1960 – 1961 (1 year)

I conducted experiments in metallurgy.

Reader, Algebra (undergraduate level)

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry

1960 – 1961 (1 year)

I graded homeworks and exams.

Lester Ingber's Projects

  • How I Think

    • January 1943 to Present
    Team Members: Lester Ingber

    Every since I got my skull cracked open by a spoon during an argument over a red truck when I was about two years old, I've had problems holding on to chains of thought. I quickly learned to compensate by "thinking" in overlapping patterns, so that whenever such a lapse occurs, I just about always can quickly reconstruct my chain of thought. At a certain age, like mine at 70, these are often described as "senior moments," but I have had these moments all my life. I think this has turned into a asset, making me very creative in all my endeavors, as I uncover new patterns of information relying on such processes more than most people do, instead of having to be led by logic.

Lester Ingber's Publications

  • http://www.ingber.com/ingber.ref.html

    Authors: Lester Ingber

    Over 100 publications in several formats, including several disciplines:

    ASA: Adaptive Simulated Annealing, Optimization, Importance Sampling, Nonlinear Systems, Stochastic Systems.
    COMBAT: Statistical Mechanics of Combat and Simulations.
    KARATE: The Art and Science of Karate, Applications to Learning.
    MARKETS: Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets, Bond Futures, Options, Risk, Portfolios, Trading.
    NEOCORTEX: Statistical Mechanics of Neocortical Interactions, Applications to Memory, EEG, Intelligent Systems.
    NUCLEAR: Nucleons, Nuclear Matter, Riemannian Interactions.
    PATH-INTEGRAL: Path Integrals in Stochastic Systems with Nonlinear Diffusion.

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  • Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA)

    • Lester Ingber Research
    • 1989
    Authors: Lester Ingber

    I maintain and and update my ASA code, originally Very Fast Simulated Reannealing (VFSR) until 1993, available at no charge from my archive http://www.ingber.com (mirrored at http://alumni.caltech.edu/~ingber). Mirrors of the ASA code are at http://asa-caltech.sourceforge.net and https://code.google.com/p/adaptive-simulated-annealing .

  • Karate Texts and Videos

    • Lester Ingber
    • 1982
    Authors: Lester Ingber

    http://www.youtube.com/user/ingber#p/p has videos of a series of karate seminars that developed material for my book Elements of Advanced Karate http://www.ingber.com/karate85_book.html . I have two other books there as well, The Karate Instructor's Handbook http://www.ingber.com/karate76_book.html and Karate: Kinematics and Dynamics http://www.ingber.com/karate81_book.html , together with a running karate correspondence on http://www.ingber.com/karate.html .

  • Extended Reviews

    • 2010
    Authors: Lester Ingber

    In addition to being a reviewer for about 50 scientific journals for about the same number of years, sometimes I do extended reviews, e.g., working with colleagues who are writing books. Some recent books containing acknowledgments for such collaboration are:

    Paul L. Nunez, "Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality" (Oxford U Press, London, 2010).

    Emeric Arus, "Martial Arts Biomechanics: A Scientific Compendium of Human Movement and the Mechanical Principles of Martial Arts" (to be published).

  • Papers In Preparation

    • 2011
    Authors: Lester Ingber

    P.L. Nunez, R. Srinivasan, and L. Ingber, ``Theoretical and experimental electrophysiology in human neocortex: Multiscale correlates of conscious experience,'' in Multiscale Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics, edited by M. Pesenson (Wiley, New York, 2012), p. (In Preparation).

Lester Ingber's Education

University of California, San Diego

PhD, Theoretical Nuclear Physics

1962 – 1966

Influential Professors:

Keith Brueckner: Thesis advisor, "One-Meson-Exchange Potentials and Properties of Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering and of Nuclear Matter". See summary paper http://www.ingber.com/nuclear68_forces.pdf .

Bernd Matthias: Friend and Colleague.

Maria Goeppert Mayer: Offered much encouragement and motivation to work in her discipline.

Activities and Societies: President, Organization Of Organizations. Founder, Karate Club/Classes. Karate Instructor: Hidetaka Nishiyama.

Niels Bohr Institute

Nuclear Physics

1964 – 1964

California Institute of Technology

B.S., Physics

1958 – 1962

Activities and Societies: Kelman Scholar, 4 years. Captain, Caltech Karate Club. Karate Instructors: Tsutomu Ohshima and Hidetaka Nishiyama.

Brooklyn Technical High School (BTHS)

Diploma, college prep

1954 – 1958

Activities and Societies: Chief Justice, Student Court. New York State Merit Scholar. Senior Project: Electroluminescence, special award from American Institute of Physics. I am the Manager of the Brooklyn Technical High School LinkedIn Group, for alumni and frirends of BTHS. Go to http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/53791 to join.

Lester Ingber's Additional Information

Websites:
Interests:

100+ publications -> ASA: Adaptive Simulated Annealing, Optimization. COMBAT: Statistical Mechanics of Combat and Simulations. KARATE: The Art and Science of Karate (8th Dan), Applications to Learning. MARKETS: Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets. NEOCORTEX: Statistical Mechanics of Neocortical Interactions. NUCLEAR: Nuclear Physics. PATH-INTEGRAL: Path Integrals in Nonlinear Stochastic Systems. Reviewer, Scientific Journals (40+)

Groups and Associations:

Academia.edu Amer Inst Physics Amer Physical Society Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Emergency Medical Technician (CA 1978) GARP.com Mensa PRMIA.org RoundTableGroup.com Scholarpedia.org TechCast.org, Expert All-America Karate Federation (AAKF)/Japan Karate Assoc (JKA) 1960-1970 Founded/Instructed Karate Classes/Clubs: Caltech, UCSD, UCB, Stanford, UCLA, SUNY SB, PSI, NPS 1958-1985 Amer. JKA Karate Associations (AJKA), Director of Scientific Studies, 1989-1991 Manager, Brooklyn Technical High School Group, http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/53791

Honors and Awards:

Brooklyn Technical HS 1955-1958: Justice -> Chief Justice, Student Court.
Honorable Mention, New York Science Exam 1957.
New York State Merit Scholar 1958.
Caltech, Kelman Scholar 1958-1962.
Sigma Pi Sigma, Physics Honor Society 1961-.
Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society 1963-.
UCSD, President, Organization of Organizations 1965.
Security Clearances: Secret -> Top Secret/SCI/CNWDI 1965-1966, 1986-1990.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Postdoctoral Fellow, UCB & UCLA 1967-1969.
Japan Karate Association (JKA), First Westerner to receive Instructor's degree, Thesis: Physics of Karate Techniques 1968.
UCSD Honorary Researcher: Music Department 1972-1974.
National Research Council (NRC), Senior Research Assoc, NPS & NOSC 1985-1986 & 1989.
U.S. Senior Executive Service (SES) 1988; Selected as JTC3A/DCA Asst Director (declined).
Mensa 2008-.

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