Professional Data for THOMAS L. CURTRIGHT AWARDS AND HONORS American Physical Society Fellow,• APS Jesse Beams Award, ARCS Foundation Fel- low, FQXi Membership, McCormick Research Fellow, NSF Graduate Fellow, O. M. Stewart Scholar, BK, ME, , University of Miami Cooper Fellow, University of Miami Provost’s Scholarship Award, University of Miami Senate Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award. RESEARCH SUMMARY 2017-2018• String bits. 2016-2018 Worm holes and galileons. 2013-2016 Branched Hamiltonians; spin expansions and products. 2012-2013 Naked singularities; umbral calculus; QMPS. 2009-2012 Functional methods and flow equations; galileons; strings. 2007-2010 Quasi-hermitian Hamiltonians; n-Lie algebras; super-Landau models. A. Curriculum Vitae 2004-2006 Nonrelativistic branes and biorthogonal quan- tum systems. CONTACT INFORMATION Address: Department 2002-2003 Superintegrability, Nambu mechanics, and fluid of• Physics, University of Miami, P. O. Box 248046, Coral dynamics. Gables, FL 33124-8046; Telephone 305-284-7138; Email: 2001-2002 Areal theory and superintegrability. [email protected]; URL: http://curtright.com 1999-2000 Deformation quantization; duality and time. PERSONAL DATA Born in 1948, near Paris, Missouri. • 1997-99 Phase-space deformations and duality. Married, with three daughters. 1997 Membranes and integrability. ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1995-96 Supersymmetry and duality. • [1] Professor of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 1993-94 Chiral models and duality. FL 33124, August 1988 – present. 1992 Super-Yangians. [2] Clark Way Harrison Visiting Professor, Washington 1991 Functional analysis of Liouville field theory. University, St Louis, Missouri, August – December 2017. 1989-90 Quantum Lie algebras. [3] Scientific Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1987-89 Supermembranes and other superimmersions. – November 2010; June – December 1987. 1986-87 Extrinsic curvature in strings and superstrings. [4] Alan Richards Fellow in Mathematics, University of 1986 String model partition functions; Torsion, strings, Durham, UK, 31 May – 9 July 2007. and nonlinear supersymmetry. [5] Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 1984-85 Torsion, supersymmetry, and renormalization of 08540, January – July 2006; January – May 1990. -models. [6] Visiting Scientist, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT, 1982-84 Conformal invariance, Liouville QFT, and strings. Cambridge, MA 02139, April – May 1996. 1981-82 Higher dimensional theories and radiative correc- [7] Visiting Associate Professor of Physics, Yale University, tions using transverse rotation group representation indices. New Haven, CT 06511, January – June 1987. 1981 Nonlocal algebras and Ward identities; charge renor- [8] Visiting Associate Professor of Physics, Institute for malization due to any spin. Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony 1979-80 Integrability of -models; -models with N=2 and Brook, NY 11794, September 1986 – January 1987. N=4 supersymmetry; generalized gauge fields; dual graviton. [9] Associate Professor of Physics (with tenure), University 1979 Anomaly-free SU(8) grand unified models. of Florida, Gainesville, September 1985 – August 1988. 1978-79 Gauge fields with supersymmetry and any spin. [10] DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator and Assistant 1977-78 N=4 supercurrent multiplet; dimensionally regu- Professor of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL larized hyperspherical expansions and dispersion relations. 32611, September 1980 – August 1985. 1976-77 Supercurrent anomalies. [11] Robert R. McCormick Fellow, The Enrico Fermi In- 1974-76 Vacuum stability; radiatively induced supersym- stitute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, July 1978 metry breaking; dimensional regularization of supersymmet- – August 1980. ric theories; renormalization schemes with exact one-loop [12] Research Fellow, University of California, Irvine, CA functions. 92717, September 1976 – June 1978. 1972-74 Field operator formulation of the parton model; factorization of single hadron distributions; non-standard EDUCATION Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Califor- neutrino production. nia• Institute of Technology, 1977 (thesis supervised by R. P. Feynman); B.S. and M.S. in Physics, University of Missouri B. Grant Support – Columbia, 1970 (advised by B. DeFacio, J. Huang, and 2018 FQXi “Physics of the Observer”Grant from Silicon K. Lee). Valley• Community Foundation, FQXi-MGA-1811 1 2017 FQXi “Physics of the Observer”Grant from Silicon D. Seminars, Conferences, and Visits (since 1997) • Valley Community Foundation, FQXi-MGB-1625 Co-organizer and participant, Miami 2018, 13-19 Dec 2015-1988 NSF Awards PHY- 1214521, 0937580, • • 2018. 0855386, 0802988, 0555603, 0303550, 0073390, 9870101, Co-organizer, participant, and talk “Kinky Galileons”, 9507829, 9209978, 9007517, 8703390 BASIC• 2018 workshop on solitons and instantons, 1-14 July Julian Schwinger Foundation Grants JSF 08100000 and • 2018. JSF 06090000 Seminar, “Green functions and wormholes for begin- NATO Advanced Research Workshop Grant, 1990-1991. ners”,• University of Missouri - Columbia, 6 June 2018. • 1988-1981 DOE support at the University of Florida (in- • Co-organizer, participant, and talk, BASIC 2018, 13-18 cluding Outstanding Junior Investigator Award) May• 2018. C. Recent Research Papers (last five years) Co-organizer, participant, and talk, Miami 2017, 13-19 • “Grounded Hyperspheres as Squashed Wormholes”with Dec 2017. • Colloquium, “P ~ase Space”, Washington University, H Alshal, arXiv:1806.03762 [physics.class-ph] • “The Conducting Ring Viewed as a Wormhole”with H Saint Louis, Missouri, 6 December 2017. • Co-organizer, The Great American Solar Eclipse Physics Alshal, P Baral, S Huang, J Liu, K Tamang, X Zhang, Y • Zhang, arXiv:1805.11147 [physics.class-ph] Conference, 19-21 Aug 2017. “Sincopation”with C Bender, in preparation. Seminar, Fontbonne University, St Louis, 12 May 2017. • • Seminar, IFT, U of Florida, Gainesville, 7 April 2017. “Spin generating functions and asymptotics” with S • Subedi,• in preparation. Co-organizer, participant, and two talks, BASIC 2017, • “Conducting Ellipsoids in Uniform Motion”with Z Cao, 12-18 Mar 2017. S Huang,• J S Sarmiento, S Subedi, D A Tarrence, and T R Co-organizer and participant, Miami 2016, 14-20 Dec • Thapaliya, in preparation. 2016. “A Galileon Primer” with H. Alshal and D. B. Fairlie, Seminar, “Spin products”, Fontbonne University, St • in• revision. Louis, 6 September 2016. “Introduction to BASIC 2017 and a Big Bang in a Little Participant and invited speaker, R D Field Symposium, • Room”with• E. Guendelman, Bulg. J. Phys. 45 (2018) 81-84. U of Florida, Gainesville, 29 April 2016. “The BASICs of Branched Hamiltonians”Bulg. J. Phys. Co-organizer, participant, and two talks, BASIC 2016, • 45• (2018) 102-113 7-12 Jan 2016. “Extrinsic Curvature, Polyakov, Weyl, and Einstein” Co-organizer and participant, Miami 2015, 16-22 Dec • Bulg.• J. Phys. 45 (2018) 173-179 2015. “Color Characters for White Hot String Bits” with S Participant and seminar, “Galileons and Gravity”, • Raha• and C B Thorn, Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) 086021, STARS 2015, Havana, Cuba, 10-13 May 2015. arXiv:1708.03342 [hep-th] Co-organizer and seminar, “Rotations as Spin Matrix • “Spin Multiplicities”with T. S. Van Kortryk, and C. K. Polynomials”, Miami 2014, 17-22 Dec 2014. Zachos,• Phys. Lett. A381 (2017) 422-427, arXiv:1607.05849 Seminar, “Galileons and Gravity”,University of Gronin- • [hep-th] gen, 20 May 2014. “Charged line segments and ellipsoidal equipotentials” Participant, Solvay Institute Workshop “Fast is Beauti- • with• N M Aden, X Chen, M J Haddad, S Karayev, D ful: Supersymmetry and Strings in a Null Frame”14-15 May B Khadka, and J Li, Euro. J. Phys. 37 (2016) 035201, 2014, ULB, Brussels. arXiv:1601.04047 [physics.class-ph] Seminar, “Galileons and Gravity”, College of William • “Elementary results for the fundamental representation and Mary, 15 April 2014. of• SU(3)” with C. K. Zachos, Rep. Math. Phys. 76 (2015) Participant, “50 Years of Quarks and Color”, University • 401-404, arXiv:1508.00868 [math.RT] of Maryland —College Park, 11-12 April 2014. “More on Rotations as Spin Matrix Polynomials” J. Visiting Scientist, Argonne National Lab., 13-18 March • Math.• Phys. 56 (2015) 091703, arXiv:1506.04648 [math-ph] 2014. “On Rotations as Spin Matrix Polynomials” with T.S. Co-organizer and participant, Miami 2013, 12-18 Dec • Van• Kortryk, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48 (2015) 025202, 2013 arXiv:1408.0767 [math-ph] Participant, “Quark 50”, Caltech, 9-10 Dec 2013. • “A compact formula for rotations as spin matrix poly- Seminar, “Branched Hamiltonians and Supersymmetry”, nomials• ” with D. B. Fairlie and C. K. Zachos, SIGMA 10 Wigner• Research Centre for Physics, 12 Nov 2013. (2014) 084, arXiv:1402.3541 [math-ph] Participant, “Wigner 111”, Hungarian Academy of Sci- A Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase ences,• Budapest, 11-13 Nov 2013. Space• , with D. B. Fairlie and C. K. Zachos, World Scientific Seminar, “Galileons and Gravity”, Washington Univer- and Imperial College Press, ISBN: 978-981-4520-43-0. sity,• St Louis, 17 Oct 2013. “Branched Hamiltonians and Supersymmetry” with C. Seminar, “Galileons and Gravity”, University of Iowa, K.• Zachos, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 47 (2014) 145201, 26• July 2013. arXiv:1311.6147 [math-ph] Visiting Scientist, Argonne National Lab., July 2013. “Umbral Vade Mecum” with C. K. Zachos, Front. • Seminar, “Five Talks with Myron”, Bander Symposium, Physics• 1 (2013) 15, arXiv:1304.0429 [math-ph] University• of California - Irvine,