Trevor Healy Jones

Contact Information:

Mailing Address: Department of Mathematics
Bishop's University
2600 College
Sherbrooke, Quebec J1M 1Z7
(819) 822-9600 x2828 (office)
E-mail Address: trevor dot jones at ubishops dot ca

Education:

B.Sc.H. (Mathematics), 1993, Acadia University. (transcript)
M.Sc. (Mathematics), 1996, Dalhousie University. (transcript: thesis)
Ph.D. (Mathematics), 2008, University of New Brunswick (transcript: thesis)

Positions Held

07/12 - present: Senior Instructor, Bishop's University
08/10 - 05/12: Senior Instructor, University of New Brunswick, Saint John
08/08 - 06/10: Instructor, University of New Brunswick
07/05 - 06/06: Lecturer, University of New Brunswick, Saint John

Publications

Articles:
  1. T. H. Jones, and N. B. Willms, A critique of Hubbert's model for peak oil, FACETS, vol. 3 (2018), no. 1, pp. 260-274, [pdf]
  2. G. M. L. Gladwell, T. H. Jones, and N. B. Willms, A Test Matrix for an Inverse Eigenvalue Problem, Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 2014, Article ID 515082, 6 pages, 2014. doi:10.1155/2014/515082 [pdf]
  3. Trevor H. Jones, Heat Kernel for Open Manifolds, Differential Geometry and its Applications, 28 (2010), pp. 518-522. [pdf]
Theses:
  1. Ph.D. (Mathematics), 2008, The Heat Kernel on Noncompact Riemann Surfaces, [pdf]
  2. M.Sc. (Mathematics), 1996, Radicals of Extended Smash Products of Group-Graded Rings, [pdf]

Supervision

Undergraduate Research:
  1. (co-supervised with Dr. N. B. Willms) Courtney Drew, Summer 2017, Funded by ISM, Peak Oil: A summary of Models and Predictions, [pdf]
  2. (co-supervised with Dr. N. B. Willms) Jacob Courtemanche, Summer 2015, Funding by ISM, The Future of Oil, [pdf]
  3. (co-supervised with Dr. N. B. Willms) Alexander De Serre Rothney, Summer 2013, Funding by ISM, Eigenvalues of a Special Tridiagonal Matrix, [pdf]

Work Experience:

Bishop's University
2012-- 61 sections / 19 distinct courses details
University of New Brunswick, Saint John
2005--2012 33 sections / 13 distinct courses details
University of New Brunswick
1997--2010 22 sections / 11 distinct courses details
Mount Allison University
1997--2000 8 sections / 3 distinct courses details
Atlantic Baptist University
1997--1999 6 sections / 3 distinct courses details

Presentations:

  1. June 2010, "Heat Kernel for open Manifolds", CMS Summer Meeting
  2. April 2009, "Green's Functions for Open Manifolds", UNB, Pure Math Seminar
  3. October 2005, "The Heat Kernel for the Hyperbolic Plane", APICS, Faculty Contributed Talks
  4. April 10, 2003, "Calculating Unusual Betti Numbers", Inter-Campus Seminar Day
  5. December 10, 2002, "Calculating Unusual Betti Numbers", CMS Winter Meeting
  6. October 24, 2002, "Towards a Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for Non-compact Surfaces", UNB
  7. July 2002, "Tiling H^2", UNB
  8. March 2002, "Riemann Surfaces", UNB
  9. February 7, 2002, "Introduction to Topological K-Theory", UNB
  10. * June 21, 2001, "Path Integrals and the Free Particle", UNB
  11. * April 15, 2001, "The Cauchy Integral Formula", UNB
  12. * January 18, 2001, "Trilinear Coordinates", UNB
  13. * October 19, 2000, "Operators on Hilbert Space", UNB
  14. October 1994, "Group-Graded Rings and the Smash Product", APICS
  15. * 1993, "Public Key Cryptography", Acadia
"*" indicates a presentation required for credit

Conferences

  1. 2014: 26th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, Participant
  2. 2013: CMS Summer Meeting, Dalhousie University, Participant
  3. 2013: Theory Canada 8, Bishop's University, Participant
  4. 2013: Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Williams College, Participant
  5. 2011: Science Atlantic, St. Francis Xavier University, Participant
  6. 2010: APICS, St, Mary's University, Participant
  7. 2010: CMS Summer Meeting, University of New Brunswick, Session Organizer and Presented Paper
  8. 2005: APICS, Acadia University, Presented Paper
  9. 2003: Canadian Operator Algebra Synposium, Participant
  10. 2002: CMS Winter Meeting, University of Ottawa, Presented Paper
  11. 1994: APICS, Acadia University, Presented Paper
  12. 1992: APICS, University of Prince Edward Island, Participant

Other Academic Activities:

2021: Acting Department Chair for Mathematics, Bishop's University (Fall term)
2020: Member of Ad Hoc search committee for Dean of Science
2014--2018: Department Chair for Mathematics, Bishop's University
2010: Session organizer for CMS Summer Meeeting
2007: Reviewed Textbook for Pearson
2004-05: System administrator for Linux and Windows computer lab, UNB
2004-05: Organized a gradute student seminar series.
2004-05: Systems administrator for Linux computer lab.
2003: Was involved with Dr. D. Kucerovsky in planning the 2003 Canadian Operator Algebra Symposium.
2001, 04-05: Helped grade the Maritime Mathematics Competition
2001-04: Counselor at UNB-Esso-CMS Math Camp

Awards:

09/00-08/01: UNB, Board of Governors Award
09/93-08/95: Dalhousie, NSERC PGS-A
05/93: Acadia, University Scholar
09/91: Acadia, Dean's List