{"id":7,"date":"2016-04-12T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/rfrieden\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2016-05-19T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T22:30:10","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/rfrieden\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#consulting\">Consulting<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"#accomp\">Major Accomplishments<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"#affiliation\">Professional Society Affiliations, Listings<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"#research\">Areas of Current Research<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"#courses\">Courses Developed and Formerly Taught at the Optical Sciences Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the faculty homepage for Dr. B. Roy Frieden. On this site you will find Professor Dr. Frieden\u2019s College of Optical Sciences\u00a0course\u00a0information.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"consulting\">Consulting<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Moffitt Cancer Center: Mathematical Oncology Group, 2008-date<\/li>\n<li>NASA Second-Generation Space Telescope, Product Integrity Team: 2001-2004<\/li>\n<li>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, research on achieving sustainable technology: 2000-2010<\/li>\n<li>Vaytec Corporation: 1993<\/li>\n<li>Siemens Corporate Research: 1992<\/li>\n<li>Martin-Marietta Corporation: 1991<\/li>\n<li>Los Alamos National Laboratory: 1989<\/li>\n<li>Analytics, Inc. (Pa.): 1988-1990<\/li>\n<li>Jet Propulsion Laboratory: 1987-1990<\/li>\n<li>Sandia National Laboratories: 1987-1989<\/li>\n<li>Mission Research Corporation: 1987<\/li>\n<li>Dupont de Nemours, Inc.: 1986<\/li>\n<li>Pacific-Sierra Corporation: 1986<\/li>\n<li>Ball Aerospace: 1985<\/li>\n<li>Grumman Aerospace Corporation: 1983<\/li>\n<li>National Academy of Sciences: 1981<\/li>\n<li>Aberdeen Proving Ground: 1980-1990<\/li>\n<li>Aerospace Corporation: 1980-1990<\/li>\n<li>Army Research Office, Workshop on Resolution: 1981<\/li>\n<li>DFVLR, West Germany: 1980<\/li>\n<li>Kitt Peak National Observatory: 1979-1981<\/li>\n<li>Philco-Ford Corporation: 1973-1977<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"accomp\">Major Accomplishments:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Initiated field of laser beam shaping (1965)<\/li>\n<li>Invented concept of the three-dimensional optical transfer function (1967)<\/li>\n<li>Invented an \u201cextrapolating pupil\u201d, a pupil coating function that acts in real-time to extrapolate its aperture size, in principle producing unlimited resolution (1969)<\/li>\n<li>Invented maximum entropy (MaxEnt) image restoration (1972)<\/li>\n<li>Developing EPI (Extreme Physical Information) principle for finding the probability laws governing unknown physical systems (1989-present)<\/li>\n<li>Based upon use of EPI, showed that in situ breast cancer should grow with time t as simply t<sup>g<\/sup>, with g the Fibonacci golden mean 1.618\u2026 (2002)<\/li>\n<li>Based upon use of EPI, predicted that Fisher information, like Boltzmann entropy, changes monotonically with the time, giving a Fisher-based expression of the 2nd law of thermodynamics (1990).<\/li>\n<li>Derived analytical expressions for the Weinberg-Salam angle and Cabibbo angle of particle physics (2002)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"affiliation\">Professional Society Affiliations, Listings:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Editor, Journal of the Optical Society of America (1979-83)<\/li>\n<li>American Physical Society<\/li>\n<li>Optical Society of America, Fellow<\/li>\n<li>American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow<\/li>\n<li>SPIE, Fellow<\/li>\n<li>Pi Mu Epsilon<\/li>\n<li>Sigma Xi<\/li>\n<li>Listed in American Men of Science, Who\u2019s Who in the West, Who\u2019s Who in Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"research\">Areas of Current Research:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Estimating the probability density functions, and physics, of unknown systems by the use of EPI (Extreme Physical Information)<\/li>\n<li>Modeling in-situ human cancer growth by the use of EPI ; developing procedures for growth suppression<\/li>\n<li>Modeling ecological systems by the use of Fisher information, for the purpose of achieving sustainable technology<\/li>\n<li>Estimating the monetary valuation of financial securities by the use of EPI<\/li>\n<li>Development of algorithms for restoring images \u2013 deconvolution and blind deconvolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"courses\">Courses Developed and Formerly Taught at the Optical Sciences Center<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Information theory in optics<\/li>\n<li>Methods of image restoration and enhancement<\/li>\n<li>Probability and statistics in optics<\/li>\n<li>Optical properties of the atmosphere and oceans<\/li>\n<li>Estimation methods in optics<\/li>\n<li>Statistical properties of light<\/li>\n<li>Information and the foundations of physics (jointly in physics curriculum)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consulting |\u00a0Major Accomplishments\u00a0|\u00a0Professional Society Affiliations, Listings |\u00a0Areas of Current Research |\u00a0Courses Developed and Formerly Taught at the Optical Sciences Center Welcome to the faculty homepage for Dr. B. 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