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