B. Roy Frieden

Professor Emeritus of Optical Sciences

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Education

  • Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1966

  • M.S., University of Pennsylvania

  • B.S., Brooklyn College

Employment

  • The University of Arizona: Optical Sciences; Assistant Professor, 1966–1968; Associate Professor, 1968–1974; Professor, 1974–2002; Professor Emeritus, 2002–present

  • Consulting: NASA Second-generation Telescope Product-integrity Team, 2002–date; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2000–date; Northrop-Grumman, 1997; VayTek, Inc., 1993; Martin-Marietta, 1991; Analytics, 1988–1990; DuPont, 1986; Mission Research, 1986; Jet Propulsion Lab, 1985–1988; Sandia National Labs, 1985–1986; Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1983–1985 and 1987–1989; Aerospace Corporation, 1983-1986

  • Microwave Research Institute, Florence, Italy: Visiting Professor, 1973

  • University of Groningen, the Netherlands: Visiting Professor, 1983

Awards, Honors and Major Accomplishments

  • Initiated field of laser beam shaping, 1965

  • Invented concept of three-dimensional optical transfer function, 1967

  • Invented the diffraction-unlimited pupil, 1969

  • Invented maximum entropy image restoration, 1972

  • Successfully modeled the growth of in situ cancer, 2002

  • Generated nearly all known, and some new, laws of classical-, statistical-, quantum-, and particle physics on the basis of information theory, 1989–present

  • Derived analytical expressions for the Weinberg-Salam angle and Cabibbo angle of particle physics, 2002

  • Optical Society of America, Fellow

  • Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Fellow

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow

  • Office of Naval Research, ASEE Certificates of Recognition for Research, 1990–1993

  • Honorable Mention, Gravity Research Foundations Essay Contest, 1997

Current Research

  • Estimating the probability density functions of unknown physical systems by the use of Fisher information

  • Modeling in situ human cancer growth; developing approaches to growth suppression

  • Modeling ecological systems for the purpose of attaining a sustainable technology

  • Digital methods of enhancing and restoring images.

  • Deconvolution

  • Blind deconvolution

  • Enhanced imagery through atmospheric turbulence

Recent Papers

  • B.R. Frieden and R.J. Hawkins, “Quantifying system order for full and partial coarse graining,” Phys. Rev. E 82, 066117, 1-8 (2010)
  • R.J. Hawkins, M. Aoki and B.R. Frieden, “Asymmetric information and macroeconomic dynamics,” Physica A 389, 3565-3571 (2010)
  • B.R. Frieden and B.H. Soffer, “Weighted Fisher informations, their derivation and use,” Physics Letts. A 374, 3895-3898 (2010)
  • R.A. Gatenby and B.R. Frieden, “Coulomb Interactions between Cytoplasmic Electric Fields and Phosphorylated Messenger Proteins Optimize Information Flow in Cells,” PLoS ONE 5(8): e12084. doi:10.1371/journal.pone (2010)
  • B.R. Frieden and B.H. Soffer, "De Broglie's wave hypothesis from Fisher information," Physica A 388, 1315-1330 (2009).
  • B. Roy Frieden, “Extreme physical information (EPI) as a principle of universal stability,” Chap. 15 in Information Theory and Statistical Learning, F. Emmert-Streib and M. Dehmer eds. (Springer-Verlag, New York, 2008)
  • M. Yolles, B.R. Frieden, G. Kemp, "Toward a formal theory of socioculture: a yin-yang information-based theory of social change," Kybernetes 37:7, 850-909 (2008).  (Highly Commended Winner of the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009).
  • R.A. Gatenby and B.R. Frieden, “Inducing catastrophe in malignant growth,” J. Math. Med. Biol. 25, 267-283 (2008)

  • A.T. Karunanithi, H. Cabezas, B.R. Frieden, C.W. Pawlowski, "Detection and Assessment of Ecosystem Regime Shifts from Fisher Information," Ecology and Society 13, (1): 22 (2008).

  • B.R. Frieden, "Information-based uncertainty for a photon," Opt. Comm. 271, 71-72 (2007).

  • B.R. Frieden, S. Luo, A. Plastino, “Physics and Information,” Physics Today, October (2007).

  • B.R. Frieden and B.H. Soffer, "Information-theoretic significance of the Wigner distribution," Phys. Rev. A 74, 052108, 1-8 (2006).

  • B.R. Frieden and R.A. Gatenby, "Power laws of complex systems from extreme physical information," Phys. Rev. E 72, 036101, 1-10 (2005).

  • R.J. Hawkins, B.R. Frieden and J.L. D'Anna, "Ab initio yield curve dynamics," Phys.Lett A 344, 317-323 (2005).

  • M. Yolles and B.R. Frieden, "A Metahistorical information theory of social change: the theory," J. Organizational Transf. & Social Change 2, 29-62; "an application," 63-77 (2005).

  • R.A. Gatenby and B.R. Frieden, "The role of non-genomic information in maintaining thermodynamic stability in living systems", Math. Biosci. and Eng. 2, 43-51 (2005)

  • R.A. Gatenby and B.R. Frieden, "Information dynamics in carcinogenesis and tumor growth", Mutat. Res. 568, 259-273 (2004)

  • R.J. Hawkins and B.R. Frieden, "Fisher Information and Equilibrium Distributions in Econophysics", Phys. Lett. A 322, 126 (2004)

  • S.P. Flego, B.R. Frieden, A. and A.R. Plastino, B.H. Soffer, “Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and Fisher information: Sound wave propagation in a dilute gas,” Phys. Rev. E 68, 016105 (2003)

  • B.R. Frieden, “Probability and Statistics,” in Optical Engineer’s Desk Reference, ed. W.L. Wolfe (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2003)

  • B.R. Frieden, A. Plastino and B.H. Soffer, "A Schroedinger Link Between Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and Fisher information", Phys. Rev. E 66, 046128-1 (2002).

  • B.R. Frieden and B.H. Soffer, "Black Holes and Optimum Coding", Phys. Lett. A 304, 4 Nov., 1 (2002).

  • B.R. Frieden, "Relations Between Parameters of a Decoherent System and Fisher Information", Phys. Rev. A66, 022107-1 (2002).

  • R.A. Gatenby and B.R. Frieden, "Application of Information Theory and Extreme Physical Information to Carcinogenesis," Cancer Research 62, 4675 (2002).

  • B.R. Frieden, A. Plastino and B.H. Soffer, "Population Genetics from an Information Perspective," J. Theor.Biol. 208, 49 (2001).

  • B.R. Frieden and A. Plastino, "Higgs Mass Generation from the Standpoint of Information," Phys. Lett. A 278, 299 (2001).

  • B.R. Frieden and A. Plastino, "Alternative Classical Trajectories Compatible with Quantum Mechanics," Phys. Lett. A 287, 325 (2001).

  • B.R. Frieden and A. Plastino, "Composite Fermion Particles and Fisher Information," Phys. Lett. A 272,326 (2000).

Books

  • B.R. Frieden and R.A. Gatenby, eds., "Exploratory Data Analysis Using Fisher Information" (Springer-Verlag, London, 2007).

  • B.R. Frieden, "Science from Fisher Information" (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

  • B.R. Frieden, "Physics from Fisher Information" (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

  • B.R. Frieden, "Probability, Statistical Optics and Data Testing" (Springer-Verlag, 1983; 2nd ed. 1991; 3rd ed. 2001).

  • B.R. Frieden, ed., "The Computer in Optical Research," Vol. 41 of Topics in Applied Physics, (Springer-Verlag, 1980).