Professor Lester Ingber
Lester Ingber,
Ph.D. has published over 100 papers and books in theoretical
physics, neuroscience, finance, optimization, combat analysis, karate, and
education. As CEO of Physical Studies Institute LLC (PSI) in Hillsboro OR
he
develops and consults on projects.
Lester earned his diploma from Brooklyn Technical High School in
1958, his B.S. in physics from Caltech in 1962, and his Ph.D. in theoretical
nuclear physics from UC San Diego in 1967 while studying at the Niels Bohr
Institute in Copenhagen and consulting at RAND in Santa Monica CA.
He has held positions in academia, government, and industry:
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and UC Los
Angeles; Assistant Professor in physics at SUNY at Stony Brook; Research
Physicist in the Physics department and in the Institute for Pure and
Applied Physical Sciences at UC San Diego; Research Associate at UC San
Diego in the Music department; and was twice Senior Research Associate of the
National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences; Professor of
Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey CA and the US Army
Concepts Analysis Agency in Bethesda MD.
Lester was Research Professor of Mathematics
at The George Washington University in DC; Director of Research and
Development at trading firm DRW Trading in Chicago IL and hedge fund DUNN
Capital Management in Stuart FL; Editor-in-Chief at Research Publisher for
the Current Progress Journal (timely topics in science), Graduate Journal of
Research, and the Undergraduate Journal of Research, and associated
e-conferences for these three journals.
His work includes being Partner in Pion Capital, a
hedge-fund partnership of Caltech alumni; Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of
Applied Mathematics, Computational Science and Systems Engineering; and PI of supercomputer physics
projects at XSEDE.org and StonyBrook.edu.
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