Curriculum Vitae

Joseph E. McEwen

Education

• Ph.D. Physics, The Ohio State University, 2016
• M.Sc. Physics, Long Beach State University, 2010
• B.Sc. Physics, San Francisco State University, 2007

Research

Ph.D. thesis in theoretical and computational cosmology. M.Sc. thesis in the nuclear few body problem and computational physics. Current interests: statistical learning and information theory, urban analytics and economics, fluid dynamics, geometric mechanics, dynamical systems, using mathematics and science to influence policy

Professional experience

• Mar. 2017 - Sept. 2017: Postdoctoral Scientist
  • Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine
  • Research in information theory, statistical mechanics of dynamical systems
• Fall 2016 - Spring 2017: Lecturer
  • The Ohio State University
  • Instructor for introductory physics recitations and laboratories
• Fall 2013 - Summer 2016: Graduate Research Associate
  • The Ohio State University
  • research in Cosmology, author/coauthor on seven publications
  • research group that included members of the the physics and astronomy departments at The Ohio State University
  • research in lattice quantum chromodynamics (summer 2011)
• Fall 2011 - Spring 2010: Graduate Research Associate
  • Long Beach State University
  • research in nuclear few body problem, author/coauthor on three publications

Leadership

• Journal Club Moderator, Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Columbus, OH Jan. 2014 -May. 2016

  Moderator for weekly journal club devoted to cosmology. Duties included presenting selected cosmology papers, hosting outside visitors, organizing special events.

• Journal Club Organizer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Jan. 2014 -May. 2016

  Moderator and founder of a journal club devoted to geometry and topology in physics. Duties included presenting selected topics in differential geometry, organizing weekly speakers, recruiting new members.

• Graduate Mentor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 2015-2026

  Served as a mentor for two incoming physics graduate students. Provided general advice with class selection, finding a research group, and navigating Columbus OH.

• Elected Officer for Physics and Astronomy Club, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 2006-2006

  Elected officer for Physics and Astronomy Club. Helped organize monthly meetings and student events. Provided assistance maintaining physics and astronomy student services (e.g., the snack bar and study room)

Service

• Fall 2017 - current, Downtown Emergency Service Center, Seattle, WA
• 2014-2016, volunteer for Science Day at Innis Elementary, Columbus, OH
• 2007, volunteer for Reading to Kids program of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• 2004, volunteer tutor and teen mentor for Berkeley YMCA, Berkeley, CA

Recognitions

• 2010 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Long Beach State University, Long Beach, CA
• 2009 Outstanding Teaching Award, American Association of Physics Teachers, Long Beach State University, Long Beach, CA

Publications

• Forecasting Super-Sample Covariance in Future Weak Lensing Surveys with SuperSCRAM

  Mathew C. Digman, Joseph E. McEwen, and Christopher M. Hirata, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Volume 2019, October 2019: arXiv: 1904.12071

• The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: First measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

  Metin Ata et. al.:arXiv: 1705.06373, accepted in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

• FAST-PT II: an algorithm to calculate convolution integrals of general tensor quantities in cosmological perturbation theory

  Xiao Fang, Jonathan A. Blazek, Joseph E. McEwen, Christoper M. Hirata: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 02, article id. 030 (2017): arXiv: 1609

• Constraining the Baryon-Dark Matter Relative Velocity with the Large-Scale 3-Point Correlation Function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS Galaxies

  Zachary Selpian, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jonathan A. Blazek, Joel R. Brownstein, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Héctor Gil-Marín, Shirley Ho, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Joseph E. McEwen, Will J. Percival, Ashely J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Hee-Jong Seo, Anže Slosar, Mariana Vargas-Magaña: arXiv: 1607.06098

• FAST-PT: a novel algorithm to calculate convolution integrals in cosmological perturbation theory

  Joseph E. McEwen, Xiao Fang, Christoper M. Hirata, Jonathan A. Blazek: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 09, article id. 015 (2016).,arXiv: 1603.04826

• The effects of assembly bias on the inference of matter clustering from galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering

  Joseph E. McEwen, David H. Weinberg :Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, April, 2018, arXiv: 1601.02693

• Stream velocities and the baryon acoustic oscillation scale

  Jonathan A. Blazek, Joseph E. McEwen, Christopher M. Hirata: Physical Review Letters, Volume 116, Issue 12, id.121303, selected as Editor’s suggestion , arXiv: 1510.03554

• The Photon Underproduction Crisis

  Juna Kollmeier, David H. Weinberg, Benjamin E. Oppenheimer, Francesco Haardt, Neal Katz, Davé Romell, Mark Fardal, Piero Madau, Charles Danforth, Amanda B. Ford, Joseph E. McEwen :The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 789, Issue 2, article id. L32, 5 pp. (2014), arXiv: 1404.2933v1

• The α − α fishbone potential revisited

  J. P. Day, Joseph E. McEwen, M. Elhanagy, E. Smith, R. Woodhouse, Z. Papp : Physical Review C 84, 034001 6-September 2011, arXiv: 1105.6050

• Treatment of confinement in the Faddeev approach to three-quark problems

  Joseph E. McEwen, J. Day, A. Gonzalez, Z. Papp, W. Plessas :Few Body Syst. 47:225-236, 2010, arXiv: 1001.4062

• Two-body problems with confining potentials” Joseph Day, Joseph E. McEwen, Zoltan Papp

  Joseph Day, Joseph E. McEwen, Zoltan Papp : Few Body Syst.47:17-23,2010, arXiv: 0905.3482v1