David Wolf


Post-Secondary Education

University of Texas Austin
Doctor of Philosophy
Physics

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Bachelor of Science
Mathematics/Physics


Teaching Experience

2019 to 2024 Summer Lecture Series, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas

Introduction to Quantum Computing

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

2018 -- Summer Lecture Series, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas

Introduction to Quantum Computing

2005 -- Present. Adjunct Professor of Physics, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas

Conceptual Physics I

Conceptual Physics II

General Physics I

General Physics II

Engineering Physics II

Applied Physics

2006 -- 2007 AY Adjunct Professor of Physics, Huston Tillotson University, Austin, Texas

Physical Science

College Physics I

College Physics II

1996 - Adjunct Professor of Mathematics

2010 -- Present. Academic Learning Specialist, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas

NRG - Fall 2010

RVS - Fall 2010


Professional Publications

Base Compositional Structure of Genomes, J.W. Fickett, D.C. Torney, and D.R. Wolf, Genomics, 13, 1056--1064, 1992.

Elastic scattering of N-, L-, and S-type polarized 794 MeV protons from an ND3 target polarized in the S-L plane, Phys. Rev. C 45, 22, 1992.

Estimating Functions of Probability Distributions from a Finite Set of Samples, Part 1: Bayes Estimators and the Shannon Entropy, David H. Wolpert and David R. Wolf, Phys.Rev. E 52, 6841, 1995.

Estimating Functions of Distributions from A Finite Set of Samples, Part 2: Bayes Estimators for Mutual Information, Chi-Squared, Covariance and other Statistics, David R. Wolf and David H. Wolpert, LANL LA-UR-93-833.

Alpha, Evidence, and the Entropic Prior, C.E.M. Strauss, D.H. Wolpert and David .R. Wolf in Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, ed. Ali Mohammed-Djafari, pp. 113-120, 1992.

An object-oriented optimization system, G. S. Cunningham, K. M. Hanson, G. R. Jennings, Jr., and D. R. Wolf, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Vol. III, pp. 826-830, 1994.

Tomographic reconstruction based on flexible geometric models, K. M. Hanson, G. S. Cunningham, G. R. Jennings, Jr., and D. R. Wolf, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Vol. II, pp. 145-147, 1994.

An object-oriented implementation of a graphical-programming system, Gregory S. Cunningham, Kenneth M. Hanson, George R. Jennings, Jr., and David R. Wolf, in Proc. SPIE 2167, pp. 914-923, 1994.

An Interactive Tool for Bayesian Inference, G. S. Cunningham, K. M. Hanson, G. R. Jennings, Jr., and D. R. Wolf in Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, D. O. Thompson and D. E. Chimenti, Eds., 14A, p. 747, Plenum, New York, 1995.

Estimators for the Cauchy distribution, Kenneth M. Hanson and David R. Wolf, in Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, G. Heidbreder, ed., pp. 255-263, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1996.

Mutual Information as a Bayesian Measure of Independence, David R. Wolf, 1994.

Posterior Moments of the Cauchy Distribution, David R. Wolf in Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, Van den Linden et. al., eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998.

A Bayesian Reflection on Surfaces, David R. Wolf, Presented: Bayesian Statistics, Valencia, Spain, 1998 and Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, Garching, Germany, 1998, Published Entropy, Vol.1, Issue 4, 69-98, 1999.

Maximally Informative Statistics, David R. Wolf and Edward I. George, Presented Bayesian Statistics 6, Valencia, 1998. Invited publication Monograph on Bayesian Methods in the Sciences, Rev. R. Acad. Sci. Exacta. Fisica. Nat. Vol. 93, No. 3, pp. 381--386, 1999.

Sanchez-Ramirez, J., Wolf, David R., Torres-Verdín, C., Mendoza, A., and Wang, G. L., 2010, Synthetic and field examples of the Bayesian stochastic inversion of gamma-ray, density, and resistivity logs. SPWA 51st Ann. Logging Symposium, Perth, Australia, June 19-23.

Alexander Jacoby, Maurice Curran, David R. Wolf, James K. Freericks, Proving the existence of bound states for attractive potentials in 1-d and 2-d without calculus. European Journal of Physics, 2019 Eur. J. Phys. 40 045404



Published: September 11, 2024