Arlie O. Petters

Professor of Mathematics, Physics, and Business Administration

Phone Numbers and Email:: 919-660-2812 (Office); 919-660-2821 (Fax); petters@math.duke.edu
Mailing Address:: Duke University
Department of Mathematics
Durham, NC 27708-0320

Ph.D. MIT, 1991 (Mathematics)
Ph.D. thesis advisors: Bertram Kostant (MIT) and David Spergel (Princeton University)
Ph.D. thesis title: Singularities in Gravitational Microlensing
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY,1988-1991 (Exchange Scholar; in absentia from MIT)
MIT, 1986-1988 (Department of Mathematics);
B.A./M.A. HUNTER COLLEGE - C.U.N.Y.,1986 (Mathematics and Physics)
M.A. thesis title: The Mathematical Theory of General Relativity

Professor of Mathematics, Physics, and Business Administration, DUKE UNIVERSITY
(2008 - present)
Professor of Mathematics and Physics, DUKE UNIVERSITY
(2003 - 2008)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor of Physics, MIT
(2003 - 2004)
President and Founder, PETTERS RESEARCH INSTITUTE - BELIZE
(2005 - present)
William and Sue Gross Associate Professor of Mathematics, DUKE UNIVERSITY
(1998 - 2003)
Director of Undergraduate Studies, DUKE UNIVERSITY, Department of Mathematics
(fall, 2002)
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
(1993 - 1998)
Co-Director of Graduate Studies, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Department of Mathematics
(1996 - 1998)
Instructor of Pure Mathematics, MIT, Department of Mathematics (1991 - August, 1993)
Member of Technical Staff, BELL LABS, Murray Hill, New Jersey (summers of 1986-1990)
Visiting Professor:
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (2007)
MIT, Department of Physics (2003 - 2004)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Department of Astronomy/Center for Astrophysics (2002)
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Mathematical Institute (1995)
MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FUR ASTROPHYSIK, Garching, Germany (1994)

Named by the Queen of England to Membership in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2008)
Honorary Doctor of Science, Hunter College of the City University of New York (2008)
Award for Service to the Educational Development of Belize (2007)
by Friends in Support of the Diocese of Belize, New York
Portrait Inductee, National Academy of Sciences' Portrait Gallery of Distinguished African-American Scientists (2006)
On Permanent display at the National Academies Keck Center, Washington, DC
Mathematical Innovations Grant Award --- National Science Foundation (2004-2008)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor of Physics, MIT (2003-2004)
Blackwell-Tapia Prize in Mathematical Science (2002)
Inductee, Hall of Fame --- Hunter College, C.U.N.Y. (1999)
Bass Fellow, Duke University (1998-present)
Faculty Early Career Grant Award --- National Science Foundation (1998-2003)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1998-2002)
Belizeans in Solidarity Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement (1996)
Sigma Xi (Elected 1991, MIT Chapter)
Bell Labs Cooperative Research Fellowship (1986-1991)
Harold Hoey, Jr. Scholarship in Mathematics (1986)
Rainer Sachs Scholarship in Mathematics (1986)
Joseph A. Gillet Memorial Prize in Physics (1986)
Gillet Alumni Prize in Physics (1986)
Minority Access to Research Careers Fellowship (1983-1985)

Research Interests
Mathematics: Differential Geometry, Singularities, Probability Theory, Mathematical Physics
Physics: Gravitational Lensing, General Relativity, Astrophysics, Cosmology
Business Administration: Mathematical Finance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Science and Technology
(Developing World, see Curriculum Vitae)
Books
Research Papers
Research Grants
Students and Postdocs
Talks