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Work

My main areas of expertise are numerical software development and data visualisation.

My email address is bjg@network-theory.co.uk.

Location: Surrey, England.

Office telephone 01483 338 264 (or +44 1483 338 264 outside the UK).

(Useful info: my surname is pronounced 'goff').

Publishing and Books

I publish free software manuals through my company Network Theory Ltd.

I am an author of the following books:

• M. Galassi et al, GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual (3rd Ed.), ISBN 0954612078.
• B. Gough, An Introduction to GCC, ISBN 0954161734.

GNU Scientific Library

From 2001-2012 I was the maintainer of the GNU Scientific Library:

• GNU Scientific Library Homepage, http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

The GNU Scientific Library is a general-purpose numerical library written in C. It is included in most commercial GNU/Linux distributions and has been widely used in scientific research (it was adopted as a standard numerical library at CERN).

My digital signature keys (for verifying software releases): original GPG key (64069D5C) and new GPG key (80821FEA)

Background

Previously, I worked in the theoretical physics groups at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA). My research involved large-scale numerical simulations for high-energy physics.

Historical interest

My PhD thesis,

• "Calculation of Rare B Decays in Lattice QCD", Brian Gough, 1994 PDF (860k),

Scientific papers,

• "The Light Quark Masses from Lattice Gauge Theory", Brian J. Gough, George M. Hockney, Aida X. El-Khadra, Andreas S. Kronfeld, Paul B. Mackenzie, Bart P. Mertens, Tetsuya Onogi, and James N. Simone Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997) 1622-1625, hep-ph/9610223 (PDF)

• "Light Quark Masses with an O(a) Improved Action", Brian J. Gough, George M. Hockney, Aida X. El-Khadra, Andreas S. Kronfeld, Paul B. Mackenzie, Bart P. Mertens, Tetsuya Onogi, and James N. Simone Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 53 (1997) 289-291, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, St. Louis, 1996, hep-lat/9609014 (PDF)

• "Lattice study of the decay $B \to \rho l \nu$: Model independent determination of $|V_{ub}|$", UKQCD Collaboration, J.M. Flynn, J. Nieves (Southampton), K.C. Bowler, N.M. Hazel, D.S. Henty, H. Hoeber, R.D. Kenway, D.G. Richards (Edinburgh), B.J. Gough (Fermilab), H.P. Shanahan (Glasgow), L.P. Lellouch (Marseille, CPT) Nucl. Phys. B 461 (1996) 327-349, hep-ph/9506398 (PDF)

• "Effects of Improvement: $f_\pi$ and $m_q$", B.J. Gough, T. Onogi, J.N. Simone Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 47 (1996) 333-336, Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Melbourne, 1995, hep-lat/9510009 (PDF)

• "Form Factors for $B \to \pi l \nu$ and $B \to K^* \gamma$ on the lattice", UKQCD Collaboration, D.R. Burford, H.D. Duong, J.M. Flynn, J. Nieves (Southampton), B.J. Gough (Fermilab), N.M. Hazel (Edinburgh), H.P. Shanahan (Glasgow) Nucl. Phys. B 447 (1995) 425, hep-lat/9503002 (PDF)

• "Update on the lattice calculation of $B \to K^* \gamma$", UKQCD Collaboration, presented by B.J. Gough, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 42 (1995) 409-411, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Bielefeld, 1994, hep-lat/9411086 (PDF)

• "Lattice calculation of the branching ratio for some of the exclusive modes of $b \to s \gamma$", UKQCD Collaboration, K.C. Bowler, D.S. Henty, N.M. Hazel, H.Hoeber, R.D. Kenway, D.G. Richards, H.P. Shanahan, J.N. Simone (Edinburgh), J.M. Flynn, B.J. Gough (Southampton) Phys. Rev. D 51 (1995) 4955, hep-lat/9407013 (PDF)

• "Lattice calculation of the penguin diagram decay $B \to K^* \gamma$", UKQCD Collaboration, K.C. Bowler, D.S. Henty, N.M. Hazel, H.Hoeber, R.D. Kenway, D.G. Richards, H.P. Shanahan, J.N. Simone (Edinburgh), J.M. Flynn, B.J. Gough (Southampton) Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 (1994) 1398-1401, hep-lat/9311004 (PDF)

• "$ B \to K^* \gamma$: Penguins on the Lattice", UKQCD Collaboration, presented by H. Shanahan Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 34 (1994) 474, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Dallas, 1993 hep-lat/9311039 (PDF)

A tutorial article on Mixed-Radix Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) that I wrote while working on the FFT routines for the GNU Scientific Library,

• "FFT Algorithms", Brian Gough 1997 PDF (240k)

An article I wrote for Computers in Physics back in 1996,

• First Conference on Freely Distributable Software - A Physicist's Report PDF (116k),

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