Stephen Fulling
  • Retired
Research Areas
  • Applied Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Research
  • Functional Analysis
  • Geometry & Topology
  • Partial Differential Equations & Mathematical Physics

Biography

Effective Spring 2022, I am retired from teaching.

Professional Interests (Selected Publications available)

  • Quantum field theory in curved space-time
  • Quantum vacuum energy
  • Quantum graphs
  • Semiclassical approximations in quantum mechanics
  • Eigenfunction expansions
  • Asymptotic analysis of differential equations
  • Applications of pseudodifferential operators
  • Symbolic computation (computer algebra)
  • Quantum computation
  • Applications of group theory, graph theory, and number theory to the foregoing
  • Literate programming
  • Upper-level undergraduate mathematics education for engineers and scientists
  • Freshman mathematics education in an integrated engineering curriculum
  • Editor-in-chief, Discourses in Mathematics and Its Applications

 

Education

  • A.B., Physics, Harvard College, 1967
  • M.A. and Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University, 1969 and 1972

 

Full curriculum vitae
Oral history interview, AIP Niels Bohr Library, 2021

Research Interests

  • Mathematical Physics

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. Princeton University, 1972
  • M.A. Princeton University, 1969
  • A.B. Harvard College, 1967