ARLIE O. PETTERS

TALKS

• North Park University, Arts \& Sciences Campus Theme Lecture Series (Chicago, Illinois, October 2, 2008).
  
• Johnson C. Smith University, Lyceum Lecture Series (Charlotte, North Carolina, September 24, 2008).
  
• Hunter College-CUNY, Science 200 Lecture Series (New York, New York, September 10, 2008).
  
• Francis Marion University, Department of Mathematics Conference (Florence, South Carolina, April 11, 2008).
  
• Princeton University, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (Princeton, New Jersy, November 22, 2007).
  
• Francis Marion University, Department of Mathematics Conference (Florence, South Carolina, March 30, 2007).
  
• NASA Goddard Space Center and University of Maryland-College Park, 2007 Eyes on the Sky Colloquium Series (College Park, Maryland, March 8, 2007).
  
• University of North Carolina --- Chapel Hill, Twelfth Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 20, 2006).
  
• Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 22, 2006).
  
• Duke University, Einstein Week Lecture -- Celebration of the 100th Birthday of Relativity Theory, (Durham, North Carolina, September 6, 2005).
  
• University of Texas at Arlington, MAA Invited Address, 85th Meeting of the Texas Section of the MAA (Arlington-Texas, April 15, 2005).
  
• Arizona State University, Mathematics Awareness Month -- Mathematics and the Cosmos, Department of Mathematics (Tempe-Arizona, April 13, 2005).
  
• Emory University, Southeastern Geometry Seminar, Department of Mathematics (Atlanta, March 16, 2005).
  
• Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques, -- Workshop on Applications of Singularity Theory (Luminy-Marseille, France, February 11, 2005).
  
• University of Michigan -- Math Colloquium (Ann Arbor, April 20, 2004).
  
• University of Miami -- Math-Physics Colloquium (Miami, April 8, 2004).
  
• Purdue University -- Math-Physics Colloquium (Lafayette, March 30, 2004).
  
• Duke University -- Physics Colloquium (Durham, March 3, 2004).
  
• University of Massachusetts -- Lowell, Physics Colloquium (Lowell, October 29, 2003).
  
• SACNAS Conference, Keynote Address (Albuquerque, October 4, 2003).
  
• MIT, Faculty Lunch Seminar Series (Cambridge, May 1, 2003).
  
• Rice University, President's Lecture Series by Diverse Scholars (Houston, March 21, 2003).
  
• Harvard University, Mather House Lecture Series (Cambridge, February 20, 2003).
  
• Spelman College, NSBP Conference (Atlanta, February 14, 2003).
  
• MSRI, Blackwell-Tapia Prize Lecture (Berkeley, November 2, 2002).
  
• Cornell University, TAM-IGERT Colloquium (Ithaca, February 16, 2001).
  
• UCLA, NAM/MAA David Blackwell Invited Address: Mathfest 2000 (Los Angeles, August 5, 2000).
  
• Univesity of Texas - Dallas, Math-Physics Seminar (Dallas, June 30, 2000).
  
• Boston University, Conference: Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goals (Boston, July 26, 1999).
  
• Stanford University, Math-Physics Colloquium (Palo Alto, California, April 6, 1998).
  
• Brown University, Math-Applied Math-Physics Colloquium (Providence, Rhode Island, March 16, 1998).
  
• Columbia University, Math Colloquium (New York, February 24, 1998).
  
• Duke University, Math-Physics Colloquium (Durham, North Carolina, January 9, 1998).
  
• Cairo University, Math-Physics Colloquium (Egypt, June 30, 1997).
  
• Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (Jerusalem, Israel, June 23, 1997).
  
• Virginia State University, Math-Physics Colloquium, Guest Speaker for Black-History Month (Petersburg, Virginia, February 11, 1997).
  
• National Security Agency, Fourth Invitational Mathematics Meeting, (Fort G. Meade, Maryland, November 17, 1996).
  
• Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts (Athens, Greece, July 10, 1996).
  
• Princeton University, Math Colloquium (Princeton, New Jersey, November 29, 1995).
  
• National Academy of Sciences, Seventh Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Science, Irvine, November 2, 1995.
  
• University of Bristol, Michael Berry's Research Group, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory (United Kingdom, August 29, 1995).
  
• International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (Florence, Italy, August 6, 1995).
  
• Oxford University, Roger Penrose's Relativity Group, Mathematical Institute (United Kingdom, August 18, 1995).
  
• MSRI, First Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (Berkeley, June 21, 1995).
  
• Caltech, Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar, Roger Blandford's Research Group (Pasadena, California, April 20, 1995).
  
• Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar (Meudon, France, March 21, 1995).
  
• University of Minnesota, Math Seminar, The Geometry Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 3, 1994).
  
• Max-Planck Institut fur Astrophysik, Gravitational Lensing Seminar (Garching, Germany, June 15, 1994).
  
• Brandeis University, Math Conference in Honor of Harold Levine's Retirement (Waltham, Massachusetts, April 29, 1994).
  
• Princeton University, Math Seminar (Princeton, New Jersey, March 1, 1994).
  
• Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies, Math Seminar (Murray Hill, New Jersey, February 21, 1994).
  
• Brown University, Joint L.C.D.S. and Math/Physics Seminar (Providence, Rhode Island, October 26, 1992).
  
• Northeastern University, Math Colloquium (Boston, Massachusetts, May 22, 1992).
  
• Brandeis University, Special Math Lecture (Waltham, Massachusetts, April 16, 1992).
  
• Howard University, Math Colloquium (Washington, D.C., April 10, 1992).
  
• University of Massachusetts, Ronald E. McNair Program Seminar Series (Boston, Massachusetts, February 22, 1992.
  
• MIT, Math Seminar (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991).
  
• York College - CUNY, Physics Colloquium (Queens, New York, 1990).
  
• Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies, Math Colloquium (Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1988).
  
• NIH Conference (Washington, D.C., 1986).
  

Conference-Workshop Organizer and Session Chair

• Probability and its Lensing Applications Workshop, Organizer, Petters Research Institute, (Dangriga, Belize, December 16 - 22, 2008).
• Magnification Profile of Elliptic Umbilics Workshop, Organizer, Petters Research Institute, (Dangriga, Belize, August 4 - 8, 2008).
• Singularities and Magnification Cross Sections Workshop, Organizer, Petters Research Institute, (Dangriga, Belize, March 7 - 11, 2008).
• Geometric and Stochastic Lensing Workshop, Co-Organizer, Petters Research Institute, (Dangriga, Belize, January 5 - 12, 2007).
• Blackwell-Tapia 2006 Conference, Co-Organizer, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, November 3 - 4, 2006).
• Einstein Week --- Centennial Celebration of Relativity Theory, Co-Organizer, Departments of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University (Durham, September 5 - 10, 2005).
• Tenth Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Session Chair, MSRI and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories (Berkeley, June 22 - 25, 2004).
• Seventh Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, co-Organizer, Duke University (Durham-North Carolina, June 22 - 25, 2001).
• Gravitational-Lenses Session, The Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Session Chair (La Sapienza, Rome, July 4, 2000).
• Gravitational-Lenses Session, The Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Session Chair, Hebrew University ( Jerusalem, Israel, June 23, 1997).
  
• Gravitational-Lenses Session, The Seventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (Session Chair, Stanford University, July 24, 1994).