© 2020 Ransom Stephens
Ransom’s Press Kit
Contact
• Ransom is represented by Laurie McLean, Partner, Fuse Literary. • To book Ransom: • To request a review copy, specify the title and purpose: • Ransom’s direct email is ransom at ransomstephens dot com
Mission
New perspectives and big ideas served up simply but
not simplified and always (always!) seasoned with
laughter.
Ransom’s Code:
• Keep promises • Be fair, not petty • Find a way to laugh at everything • Appreciate paradise when you find it • Don’t insist on being “right,” insist on being accurate • Value results over process but require that the process bring peace and joy • Curate your world to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio The ACLU and Nature Conservancy are given 2.5% of all book and speech profitsAbout Ransom:
Ransom Stephens, PhD, brings a physicist’s comprehensive understanding of how things work to everything he does. His career began in experimental particle physics at national laboratories and universities across the United States and Europe. As a graduate student he discovered a new type of matter, and as a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, he was on the team that discovered the top quark. He left a tenured professorship to join a wireless-web startup as Director of Advanced Technology. When it flamed out, he took a position at Keysight Technologies (then Agilent) as an Applied Electrodynamics Physicist and led a tech commando team to the solutions of problems at the intersection of science and technology. He is now a self-employed novelist, science writer and speaker. The author of five novels, a book on Neuroscience, and over 400 articles on topics ranging from quantum physics to parenting teenagers to high bandwidth networking. He lives in Ashland, Oregon where he works in a forested lair. Ransom prefers beer to wine, tea to coffee, and dogs to cats. He is married to a spectacular nurse and is enormously proud of his daughter who lives in Holland.
Curriculum Vitae:
Professional
Ransom’s Notes - 2005 to present • Physicist, novelist, science writer, speaker o Author: ▪ high concept fiction ▪ popular science o Working with SOCAN (Southern Oregon Climate Action Now) to address climate change o Founder & Moderator of the Pacific Crest Writers Workshop o 2005-2017 - Litquake, Literary Event Producer • 2005-2024 Ransom’s Notes: Signal Integrity Sage o Instructor at Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education o Taught advanced topics in electrodynamics in 3-day intensives to electrical engineers at companies in Japan, Asia, Europe, and the USA. o Innovation & creativity consultant o Contributing Editor to EDN ▪ Measure of Things - column ▪ Eye on the Standards - column o Creator of educational content (aka, ”technical marketing”) for various companies mostly in the test & measurement industry ▪ Electrodynamics of continuous media (aka., advanced topics in physics for electrical engineers) o Consultant in statistical data analysis and advanced optimization techniques ▪ i.e., “Big Data” and “AI/ML” 2000-2005 • Applied Electrodynamics Scientist, Keysight (then Agilent) Technologies o Led a team of engineers to the solution of a pivotal timing noise problem in electronics design o Performed two 35-city speaking tours across the US and Europe o Invented the best, fastest, and cheapest technique for high-speed receiver testing o Contributor to standards committees: PCIe, OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum), FBDIMM 1999-2000 • Director of Advanced Tech, Enhanced Messaging Systems (a wireless web startup) o Led development of a new wireless-web broadcast information delivery technology o Solved a long-standing satellite positioning problem 1990-2000 Professor / Research Scientist • Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington o ATLAS experiment, CERN, Switzerland Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire ▪ Led the US physics simulation team o D-Zero experiment Fermi National Accelerator Lab ▪ Collaborated on the discovery of the top quark ▪ Led the future Quantum Chromodynamics research group ▪ Led the off-site physics simulation group o SDC experiment, Superconducting Super Collider o Created a new Computational Science curriculum and Bachelors Degree program • CLEO Experiment, Cornell University o Made the world’s most accurate measurements of b u quark decaysEducation
• PhD Experimental Particle Physics, UC Santa Barbara o Dissertation, analysis of gg(*)--> p+p-p0p0 with the TPC/Two-gamma experiment at SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) ▪ Discovered a quark-gluon resonance, the R(1525) • BS Physics, UC San Diego and University of Birmingham, EnglandAwards
• Five time winner of the DesignCon Best Paper Award • Winner of the Jim Williams Contributor of the Year ACE award for articles, papers, seminars, and keynote speeches that advance the understanding of electrodynamics in engineering • Named the James Chadwick Scholar of the Ettore Majorana International School of Sub-Nuclear Physics, Erice, Sicily, ItalyPatents
• "Method, computer program product, test signal and test device for testing a data-transferring arrangement comprising a transmitter, channel and receiver," US Patent 0267056A1 • Two techniques for distinguishing timing noise from different causes: US Patents #7,191,080 and #7,149,638 • Pending: New technique for stressed-receiver tolerance testing using Crest Factor Emulation
© 2020 Ransom Stephens
Ransom’s Press Kit
Contact
• Ransom is represented by Laurie McLean, Partner, Fuse Literary. • To book Ransom: • To request a review copy, specify the title and purpose: • Ransom’s direct email is ransom at ransomstephens dot com
Mission
New perspectives and big ideas served up simply but
not simplified and always (always!) seasoned with
laughter.
Ransom’s Code:
• Keep promises • Be fair, not petty • Find a way to laugh at everything • Appreciate paradise when you find it • Don’t insist on being “right,” insist on being accurate • Value results over process but require that the process bring peace and joy • Curate your world to maintain a high signal-to- noise ratio The ACLU and Nature Conservancy are given 2.5% of all book and speech profitsAbout Ransom:
Ransom Stephens, PhD, brings a physicist’s comprehensive understanding of how things work to everything he does. His career began in experimental particle physics at national laboratories and universities across the United States and Europe. As a graduate student he discovered a new type of matter, and as a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, he was on the team that discovered the top quark. He left a tenured professorship to join a wireless-web startup as Director of Advanced Technology. When it flamed out, he took a position at Keysight Technologies (then Agilent) as an Applied Electrodynamics Physicist and led a tech commando team to the solutions of problems at the intersection of science and technology. He is now a self-employed novelist, science writer and speaker. The author of five novels, a book on Neuroscience, and over 400 articles on topics ranging from quantum physics to parenting teenagers to high bandwidth networking. He lives in Ashland, Oregon where he works in a forested lair. Ransom prefers beer to wine, tea to coffee, and dogs to cats. He is married to a spectacular nurse and is enormously proud of his daughter who lives in Holland.
Curriculum Vitae:
