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