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Curriculum Vitae for Stephen J. Summers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Academic Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  • Ph.D., physics, Harvard University<\/li>\n
  • M.A., physics, Harvard University<\/li>\n
  • B.Sc. (magna cum laude), physics, West Virginia University<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Professional Appointments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    • Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, August 1998 – present<\/li>\n
    • Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, January 1989 – August 1998<\/li>\n
    • Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, July 1985 – June 1989<\/li>\n
    • Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Osnabr\u00fcck, Germany, April 1980 – March 1985<\/li>\n
    • Research Associate, Centre de Physique Th\u00e9orique, CNRS, Marseille, France, April 1979 – March 1980<\/li>\n
    • Research and teaching assistant, Department of Mathematics, Eidgen\u00f6ssische Technische Hochschule, Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, October 1977 – March 1979<\/li>\n
    • Research assistant and teaching fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University, June 1973 – September 1977<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Visiting Appointments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
      • Research Fellow, Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, September – October, 1997<\/li>\n
      • Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome, Italy, June-July, 1996<\/li>\n
      • Gauss Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, May-July, 1994<\/li>\n
      • Research Fellow, Centre de Physique Th\u00e9orique, CNRS, Marseille, France, July – December 1988<\/li>\n
      • Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Mathematics, King’s College, London, England, June and July 1985, May 1986<\/li>\n
      • Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Universit\u00e9 de Provence, Marseille, France, May 1985<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

        Invited External Lectures – Most recent:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

        Scientific Congresses and Conferences<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
        • Two invited addresses at the Workshop “Quantum Field Theory”, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 14-15, 2011<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the Symposium “Algebraic Quantum Field Theory – the First Fifty Years”, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, July 30, 2009<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the Workshop on Local Quantum Physics, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, June 26, 2009<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, “PSA2008”, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6, 2008<\/li>\n
        • 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<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, October 1, 2006<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the SouthEast Analysis Meeting XXII, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 3, 2006<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the European Science Foundation Scientific Network conference “Philosophical and Foundational Issues in Quantum Theory”, Budapest, Hungary, September 4, 2005<\/li>\n
        • 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<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the Symposium “Perspectives in Quantum Field Theory”, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, June 4, 2004<\/li>\n
        • 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<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the Workshop “John von Neumann, the Mathematical Physicist”, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, June 11, 2001<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the Workshop on Local Quantum Physics, Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, October 1, 1997<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the Conference on Operator Algebras and Quantum Field Theory, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, July 4, 1996<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the Symposium on Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Constructive Field Theory, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, August 29, 1995<\/li>\n
        • 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<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at the 10th Congress of the International Association for Mathematical Physics, Leipzig, Germany, August 7, 1991<\/li>\n
        • Invited series of three lectures at the Sixth International Workshop on Quantum Probability and Applications, Trento, Italy, December 4-8, 1989<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at Fifth International Quantum Probability Workshop, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, September 30, 1988<\/li>\n
        • Invited address at Conference on C*-Algebras and Applications, Centre de Physique Th\u00e9orique, CNRS, Marseille, France, April, 1980<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Seminars and Colloquia<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
          • Seminar for Quantum Field Theory and Mathematical Physics, 2nd Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg and DESY, Hamburg, Germany, July 14, 2009<\/li>\n
          • Seminar for Foundations of Physics, Laboratoire des Recherches sur les Sciences de la Matiere, Paris, France, July 7, 2009<\/li>\n
          • Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, June 30, 2009<\/li>\n
          • Seminar for Quantum Field Theory, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, August 13, 2007<\/li>\n
          • Seminar for Mathematical Physics, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, July 6, 2005<\/li>\n
          • Seminar on Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, June 22, 2005<\/li>\n
          • Seminar for Mathematical Physics, Institute for Mathematical Physics, University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, June 7, 2004<\/li>\n
          • Seminar on Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, May 26, 2004<\/li>\n
          • Seminar on Quantum Field Theory, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, July 25, 2002<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, July 11, 2001<\/li>\n
          • Lecture Series, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 18 – 21, 2001<\/li>\n
          • Special Seminar, Department of Physics, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 15, 2001<\/li>\n
          • Seminar on Operator Algebras, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome, I, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, May 21, 2001<\/li>\n
          • Seminar on Operator Algebras, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome, II, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, May 18, 2001<\/li>\n
          • Special Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 6, 2000<\/li>\n
          • Special Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 5, 2000<\/li>\n
          • Special Seminar, Department of Physics, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, May 24, 2000<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, September 8, 1997<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Osnabr\u00fcck, Osnabr\u00fcck, Germany, June 9, 1995<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, July 14, 1994<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, Free University, Berlin, Germany, July 5, 1994<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, 2nd Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg and DESY, Hamburg, Germany, June 29, 1994<\/li>\n
          • Colloquium, Department of Physics, University of W\u00fcrzburg, W\u00fcrzburg, Germany, June 8, 1994<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Osnabr\u00fcck, Osnabr\u00fcck, Germany, May 19, 1994<\/li>\n
          • Theoretical Physics Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, May 17, 1994<\/li>\n
          • Seminar, Forum for Theoretical Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, December 22, 1993<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, 2nd Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg and DESY, Hamburg, Germany, August 25, 1993<\/li>\n
          • Working Seminar, Department of Physics, Free University, Berlin, Germany, August 4, 6, 10, 12, 1993<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Osnabr\u00fcck, Germany, July 30, 1993<\/li>\n
          • Mathematical Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, Free University, Berlin, Germany, July 7, 1992<\/li>\n
          • Research Seminar, Sonderforschungsbereich “Differential Geometry and Quantum Physics”, Technical University, Berlin, Germany, June 26, 1992<\/li>\n
          • Research Seminar, Sonderforschungsbereich “Differential Geometry and Quantum Physics”, Free University, Berlin, Germany, June 23, 1992<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            Other invited lectures and addresses given at:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

            CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; Ecole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale, Lausanne, Switzerland; Eidgen\u00f6ssische Technische Hochschule, Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland; Centre de Physique Th\u00e9orique, CNRS, Marseille, France; Universities of : SUNY at Buffalo, Rochester, Harvard, West Virginia, Florida, Lausanne (Switzerland), Frankfurt (Germany), Bielefeld (Germany), Bochum (Germany), Osnabr\u00fcck (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

            Further professional service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
            • Member of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics<\/i>, published by Elsevier, Ltd. in 2006.<\/li>\n
            • 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 Poincar\u00e9; Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincar\u00e9; 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<\/li>\n
            • Reviewer for: Mathematical Reviews, Physics Today, Zentralblatt f\u00fcr Mathematik<\/li>\n
            • Consultant for Master’s Program of the Department of Mathematics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand<\/li>\n
            • Co-organizer (with James Brooks, Michael Jury and Scott McCullough) of the SouthEast Analysis Meeting XXII, Gainesville, Florida, March 2-5, 2006.<\/li>\n
            • Organizer of Special Session on Quantum Field Theory and Functional Analysis at the SouthEast Analysis Meeting XXII, Gainesville, Florida, March 2-5, 2006.<\/li>\n
            • Co-organizer (with James Brooks) of Special Session on Noncommutative Measure Theory at the SouthEast Analysis Meeting XXII, Gainesville, Florida, March 2-5, 2006.<\/li>\n
            • 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<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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