Quality Control Assistant

JON KARL SIGURDSSON

**** **** ******, ***** *******, CA 93101 *******@*****.***, http://www.jonksig.com, 805-***-****

EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student / Research Assistant

Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara September 2007 - present

Developing mathematical and computational approaches to problems relevant to the physics of soft

materials and related biological applications. My past work includes coarse-grained modeling and

simulations of lipid bilayer membranes, investigations of diffusing pro teins within fluctuating lipid

bilayers, and contributions to the development of new stochastic methods for chemical kinetics in

biological systems. I am presently a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics working

with Paul J. Atzberger. See the publications below for more detail.

Risk Management Researcher

Landsbankinn hf. (one of Iceland’s major banks) December 2006 - August 2007

Implemented prizing tools for derivatives with main focus on models incorporating stochastic

volatility.

Quality Control Optimization

Icelandic Export Center Ltd. Summers 2002 - 2006

Invented and implemented a SQL based database for quality control in a shrimp factory. Also, lead

optimization of the quality control for the production line.

Fishing Guide

Haffjardara River Summers 2002-2006

Educated guests about the river and the surroundings at a premier salmon fishing river in Iceland.

Provided a high quality service to enhance their experience of the river.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara (expected) 2013

M.S. Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara 2010

B.S. Mathematics University of Iceland, Reykjavik 2006

SKILLS

Programming: C, Matlab, Python, Code development in Linux environment

TEACHING

Teaching Assistant at UCSB during 2007-2012 and taught Math Circle at UCSB in 2010-2011. Teaching

Assistant during my undergraduate studies at University of Iceland 2004-2005.

TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

Talks and poster presentations at several conferences including: SIAM Conference of Computational

Science and Engineering in 2013, Mathematical Biology Seminar at University of Utah in 2012, APS March

Meeting 2012, KITP Conference: Modeling Soft Matter in 2012, South California Simulations in Science

Conference in 2012, 12th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium in 2011 .

PUBLICATIONS

Jon K. Sigurdsson, Frank L.H. Brown and Paul J. Atzberger, Hybrid Continuum-Particle Method for Fluctuating Lipid

Bilayer Membranes with Diffusing Protein Inclusions, Journal of Computational Physics, 252 (2013), pp. 65 -85.

Yaohong Wang, Jon Karl Sigurdsson, Erik Brandt, and Paul J. Atzberger, Dynamic implicit-solvent coarse-grained

models of lipid bilayer membranes: Fluctuating hydrodynamics thermostat, Physical Review E, 88 (2013), pp. 023301 –.

Ava J. Mauro, Jon K. Sigurdsson, Justin Shrake, Paul J. Atzberger, Samuel A. Isaacson, First-Passage Kinetic Monte

Carlo Methods for Reaction-Drift-Diffusion Processes, (submitted) (2013).

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