Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae for Stephen J. Summers

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., physics, Harvard University
  • M.A., physics, Harvard University
  • B.Sc. (magna cum laude), physics, West Virginia University

Professional Appointments

  • Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, August 1998 – present
  • Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, January 1989 – August 1998
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, July 1985 – June 1989
  • Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Osnabrück, Germany, April 1980 – March 1985
  • Research Associate, Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Marseille, France, April 1979 – March 1980
  • Research and teaching assistant, Department of Mathematics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland, October 1977 – March 1979
  • Research assistant and teaching fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University, June 1973 – September 1977

Visiting Appointments

  • Research Fellow, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, September – October, 1997
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome, Italy, June-July, 1996
  • Gauss Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Germany, May-July, 1994
  • Research Fellow, Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Marseille, France, July – December 1988
  • Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Mathematics, King’s College, London, England, June and July 1985, May 1986
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Université de Provence, Marseille, France, May 1985

 

Invited External Lectures – Most recent:

Scientific Congresses and Conferences

  • Two invited addresses at the Workshop “Quantum Field Theory”, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 14-15, 2011
  • Invited address at the Symposium “Algebraic Quantum Field Theory – the First Fifty Years”, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, July 30, 2009
  • Invited address at the Workshop on Local Quantum Physics, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, June 26, 2009
  • Invited address at the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, “PSA2008”, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6, 2008
  • Invited address at the Symposium “Deep Beauty: Mathematical Innovation and the Search for an Underlying Intelligibility of the Quantum World”, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, October 4, 2007
  • Invited address at the East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, October 1, 2006
  • Invited address at the SouthEast Analysis Meeting XXII, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 3, 2006
  • Invited address at the European Science Foundation Scientific Network conference “Philosophical and Foundational Issues in Quantum Theory”, Budapest, Hungary, September 4, 2005
  • Invited address at the Workshop “Foundations and Constructive Aspects of Quantum Field Theory”, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam-Golm, Germany, July 8, 2005
  • Invited address at the Symposium “Perspectives in Quantum Field Theory”, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, June 4, 2004
  • Invited address at the Workshop “Foundations and Constructive Aspects of Quantum Field Theory”, 2nd Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg and DESY, Hamburg, Germany, July 13, 2001
  • Invited address at the Workshop “John von Neumann, the Mathematical Physicist”, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, June 11, 2001
  • Invited address at the Workshop on Local Quantum Physics, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, October 1, 1997
  • Invited address at the Conference on Operator Algebras and Quantum Field Theory, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, July 4, 1996
  • Invited address at the Symposium on Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Constructive Field Theory, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, August 29, 1995
  • Invited address at the 11th Congress of the International Association of Mathematical Physics – Satellite Conference on the General Theory of Quantized Fields, Paris, France, July 26, 1994
  • Invited address at the 10th Congress of the International Association for Mathematical Physics, Leipzig, Germany, August 7, 1991
  • Invited series of three lectures at the Sixth International Workshop on Quantum Probability and Applications, Trento, Italy, December 4-8, 1989
  • Invited address at Fifth International Quantum Probability Workshop, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, September 30, 1988
  • Invited address at Conference on C*-Algebras and Applications, Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Marseille, France, April, 1980

Seminars and Colloquia

  • Seminar for Quantum Field Theory and Mathematical Physics, 2nd Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg and DESY, Hamburg, Germany, July 14, 2009
  • Seminar for Foundations of Physics, Laboratoire des Recherches sur les Sciences de la Matiere, Paris, France, July 7, 2009
  • Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, June 30, 2009
  • Seminar for Quantum Field Theory, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, August 13, 2007
  • Seminar for Mathematical Physics, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, July 6, 2005
  • Seminar on Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, June 22, 2005
  • Seminar for Mathematical Physics, Institute for Mathematical Physics, University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, June 7, 2004
  • Seminar on Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, May 26, 2004
  • Seminar on Quantum Field Theory, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, July 25, 2002
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, July 11, 2001
  • Lecture Series, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 18 – 21, 2001
  • Special Seminar, Department of Physics, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 15, 2001
  • Seminar on Operator Algebras, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome, I, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, May 21, 2001
  • Seminar on Operator Algebras, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome, II, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, May 18, 2001
  • Special Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 6, 2000
  • Special Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 5, 2000
  • Special Seminar, Department of Physics, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, May 24, 2000
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, September 8, 1997
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, June 9, 1995
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, July 14, 1994
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, Free University, Berlin, Germany, July 5, 1994
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, 2nd Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg and DESY, Hamburg, Germany, June 29, 1994
  • Colloquium, Department of Physics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, June 8, 1994
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, May 19, 1994
  • Theoretical Physics Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, May 17, 1994
  • Seminar, Forum for Theoretical Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, December 22, 1993
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, 2nd Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg and DESY, Hamburg, Germany, August 25, 1993
  • Working Seminar, Department of Physics, Free University, Berlin, Germany, August 4, 6, 10, 12, 1993
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Osnabrück, Germany, July 30, 1993
  • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, Free University, Berlin, Germany, July 7, 1992
  • Research Seminar, Sonderforschungsbereich “Differential Geometry and Quantum Physics”, Technical University, Berlin, Germany, June 26, 1992
  • Research Seminar, Sonderforschungsbereich “Differential Geometry and Quantum Physics”, Free University, Berlin, Germany, June 23, 1992

Other invited lectures and addresses given at:

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland; Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Marseille, France; Universities of : SUNY at Buffalo, Rochester, Harvard, West Virginia, Florida, Lausanne (Switzerland), Frankfurt (Germany), Bielefeld (Germany), Bochum (Germany), Osnabrück (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland).

 

Further professional service

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, published by Elsevier, Ltd. in 2006.
  • Referee for: National Science Foundation; Templeton Foundation; Communications in Mathematical Physics; Journal of Mathematical Physics; Letters in Mathematical Physics; Reviews in Mathematical Physics; Annales Henri Poincaré; Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré; Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry; Physical Review (A and D); Physical Review Letters; Physics Letters; Annals of Physics; JHEP (Journal of High Energy Physics); Journal of Physics A; International Journal of Quantum Information; Foundations of Physics; Foundations of Physics Letters; Classical and Quantum Gravity; Philosophy of Science; Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics; British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Mathematische Nachrichten; Houston Journal of Mathematics; Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications; Lecture Notes in Mathematics
  • Reviewer for: Mathematical Reviews, Physics Today, Zentralblatt für Mathematik
  • Consultant for Master’s Program of the Department of Mathematics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Co-organizer (with James Brooks, Michael Jury and Scott McCullough) of the SouthEast Analysis Meeting XXII, Gainesville, Florida, March 2-5, 2006.
  • Organizer of Special Session on Quantum Field Theory and Functional Analysis at the SouthEast Analysis Meeting XXII, Gainesville, Florida, March 2-5, 2006.
  • Co-organizer (with James Brooks) of Special Session on Noncommutative Measure Theory at the SouthEast Analysis Meeting XXII, Gainesville, Florida, March 2-5, 2006.
  • Co-organizer (with P. Ehrlich) of Special Session on Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Tampa, Florida, March 22-23, 1991

Last updated on January 18, 2013