Dr. Kerry N. Jones

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Ball State University
Sciences and Humanities
Mathematical Sciences
ProfessorAppointed: 2003
Pocket Soft, Inc.
Chief Technical OfficerAppointed: 1984
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Mailing Address

Department of Mathematical Sciences
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana 47306
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (765) 285-8640
Fax: (765) 285-1721
kjones@bsu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Rice University, Mathematics, 1990.

Expertise and Research Interests

Low-dimensional topology and geometry, especially the topology and geometry of 3-dimensional manifolds and orbifolds. Particular interest in arithmetic hyperbolic 3-dimensional manifolds and orbifolds

Combinatorial Group Theory, especially automatic and negatively curved groups

Computational aspects of the two above areas, especially computational aspects of arithmetic Kleinian groups and automatic groups

Computer Science, especially file-compression and file-differencing algorithms

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Algorithms, Computer and Information Sciences, Geometry, Mathematics, Topology.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Spanish: (Functional, Functional, Functional)
French: (Functional, Basic, Basic)

Memberships

American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America

Previous Positions

1990-1993, Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences, Mathematics

Patents

System for Finding Differences between two Computer Files and Updating the Computer Files, Patent Number: 6,526,574, 2003, Industry-owned, United States.

Publications

  • Chinburg, T.C., Friedman, E.C., Jones, K.N. and Reid, A.W., The smallest volume arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa, 30, 1-40, 2001
  • Jones, K.N. and Reid, A.W., Vol3 and other exceptional hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 129(7), 2175-2185, 2000
  • Jones, K.N. and Reid, A.W., Minimal index torsion-free subroups of Kleinian groups, Math. Annalen, 310, 235-250, 1998
  • Jones, K.N. and Reid, A.W., Geodesic intersections in arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Duke Mathematical Journal, 89(1), 75-86, 1997
  • Jones, K.N. and Reid, A.W., Non-simple geodesics in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 116, 339-351, 1994
  • Jones, K.N., Geometric structures on branched covers over universal links, Contemp. Math., 164, 47-57, 1994
  • Jones, K.N., A norm on the fundamental group of non-Haken 3-manifolds, Proc. Amer. Math. Society, 120(1), 305-309, 1994
  • Jones, K.N., The structure of closed nonpositively curved Euclidean cone 3-manifolds, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 163(2), 297-313, 1994
  • Jones, K.N., Injectively immersed tori in branched covers over the figure eight knot, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc., 36, 231-259, 1993
  • Jones, K.N. and Umbach, D.E., A few methods for fitting circles to data, IEEE Trans. Info. and Meas.

Profile Details

Last Updated: 1/27/2004

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