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Work

My main area of expertise:

• Numerical programming and algorithms

  I am one of the developers of the GNU Scientific Library (a general-purpose numerical library). This library is included in most commercial GNU/Linux distributions and is widely used in scientific research (it has been adopted as a standard numerical library at CERN).

If you have any questions my email address is bjg@network-theory.co.uk.

Location: Surrey, England.

Office telephone 0117 3179309 (or +44 117 3179309 outside the UK).

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

GNU Scientific Library

I am the current maintainer of the GNU Scientific Library:

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

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

I have a blog for GNU related notes (occasionally updated). For general GNU news see planet.gnu.org.

Publishing

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

The money raised from sales of the books supports the development of more free software and documentation. This includes my own work on GSL and specific donations to other projects (details).

Books

Two books I am an author of:

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

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.

Free Software

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Talk at Free Software Foundation Meeting 2009

• GNU Hackers' Meeting - communication in the GNU Project

Meeting report, GHM 2008 - a conference for GNU hackers.

• GNU Hackers Meeting 2008

Historical interest

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

• First Conference on Freely Distributable Software - A Physicist's Report PDF (116k), Gzipped Postscript (100k)

My PhD thesis,

• "Calculation of Rare B Decays in Lattice QCD", Brian Gough, 1994 PDF (860k), Gzipped Postscript (700k)

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), Gzipped Postscript (142k)

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)

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