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The application of modern mathematical methods to
the solution of physical problems is fascinating
and rewarding. Thus, while the major thrust of my research
program is the development of physical theory, I also engage in the
development of mathematical methods as they apply to nuclear and other
subfields of physics.
The physical problems that intrigue me concern
the ways in which the particles of many-body quantum systems interact
to produce a variety of highly correlated collective phenomena. I am
particularly concerned with developing a microscopic theory of the
collective dynamics that take place in nuclear vibrations and rotations
and with
understanding the nature of the phase transitions that take place with
variation of a control
parameter.
The atomic nucleus can be viewed as a fluid of
nuclear matter, as a gas of interacting neutrons and protons or, at the
subnuclear level, as a system of quarks and gluons. Thus, as in other
areas of physics, one seeks hierarchies of models and, for a complete
understanding, one needs to know how each model relates to the next
more microscopic model. By such means one learns how interesting
physical phenomena emerge from the interactions and correlated dynamics
of its elementary constituents.
My students, colleagues, and I have shown, for
example, that the properties of a powerful hydrodynamic model of the
nucleus, which exhibits vibrational and rotational dynamics with a
variety of possible quantum fluid flows, can be embedded in
many-nucleon quantum mechanics. The model can then be derived using the
mathematical techniques of analysis by changing the neutron and proton
variables to collective and intrinsic variables. It can be understood
in geometrical terms, by factoring the multi-dimensional many-nucleon
space into products of collective and intrinsic submanifolds, and also
by algebraic methods that focus on the symmetries of the model and the
expression of its algebra of observables in terms of many-nucleon
observables.
It is clear that the above strategy for research
has far-reaching applications to many areas of physics that have yet to
be explored.
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1903-388 Bloor St. East
Toronto, ON
Canada M4W 3W9
Office
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
60 St. George Street
Toronto, ON
Canada M5S 1A7
Phone
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+1-416-967-0413 home
Fax
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E-mail
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Date of birth
Feb. 4, 1936
Citizenship
British and Canadian
Degrees — back to top
B.A. 1959 Cambridge University Mathematics &
physics
B.A. 1959 Oxford University
M.A. 1962 Oxford University
D. Phil. 1962 Oxford University Experimental nuclear physics
Employment — back to top
Royal Air Force: Lecturer in electronics at an
R.A.F. Radio School 1955-56
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen: Ford Foundation Fellow 1962-63
AERE Harwell: U.K.A.E.A. Fellow 1963-66
IAEA Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Visiting Lecturer Oct.-
Nov. 1966
University of Rochester: Research Associate 1966-68
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Associate Professor
1968-74
Professor 1974-98
Associate Dean, Physical Sciences, School of Graduate Studies 1984-87
Professor Emeritus 1998- |
Chairman IUPAP Commission for Mathematical
Physics 1999-2002
Honours — back to top
Ford Foundation Fellow, 1962-63
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Fellow l963-66
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 1970-72
Rutherford Memorial Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Canada 1983
Erskine Fellow 1984
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada 1986 –
Fellow, Trinity College, University of Toronto 1989 –
Isaac Walton Killam Senior Research Fellow 1990-92
CAP/CRM Medal and Prize for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 1999
Graduate
Students — back to top
20 M.Sc. students and 19 Ph.D. students graduated
or in progress.
Professional
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Member, Canadian Association of Physicists.
Member, International Association of Mathematical Physicists.
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada.
Professional
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- 1970-71 Chairman, Theoretical Physics
Division, C.A.P.
- 1970-71 Member, Steering Committee for
Laurence Report on Support of Physics Research in Universities
- 1972 Director, Mont Tremblant International
Summer School
- 1972-73 Member, Organizing committee for NATO
Advanced Institute on Relativity, Banff, Alberta
- 1979-82 Member, NSERC Nuclear Physics Grants
Selection Committee
- 1982 Member, International Organizing
Committee for the International Symposium on “Time-Dependent
Hartree-Fock and Beyond” at Bad-Honnef, Germany.
- 1983 Member, Special NSERC Committee to
evaluate the Major Installation Grant application “Upgrading of
Saskatchewan Acceleration Laboratory”.
- 1983-86 Member, Editorial Board, Physical
Review C.
- 1984 Director, Summer Institute in Theoretical
Physics (8-28 July, Kingston, Ont.).
- 1986 Member, International Advisory Committee
for the Conference on “Nuclear Structure, Reactions and
Symmetries”,
Dubrovnik, May 1986.
- 1986-92 Member, CAP Committee on Summer
Institutes
- 1986- Review writer for ‘Mathematical
Reviews’
- 1987-8 Member, International Advisory
Committee for the XVII’th International Colloquium on Group
Theoretical
Methods in Physics.
- 1988-89 Director, Summer Institute in
Theoretical Physics (June 26-July 7, 1989, Kingston, Ont.)
- 1988-93 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of
Physics G.
- 1990 Co-Director, 1990 Summer Institute on
Theoretical Physics.
- 1991 Member, International Advisory Committee,
Conference on Group Theory and Special Symmetries in Nuclear Physics,
Sept. 19-21, 1991.
- 1992-93 Deputy Editor, Journal of Physics G.
- 1992-93 Member, Selection Committee for the
Foreign Government Awards and Government of Canada Awards Program.
- 1994-95 International Advisory Committee for
the 1995 Wigner Symposium, Guadalajara, Mexico.
- 1995-96 International Advisory Committee for
the conference “Nuclear Dynamics at Long and Short
Distances,” 8 - 12
April, 1996 at Angra dos Reis, Brazil.
- 1996 -1999 Elected Member, IUPAP Commission
for Mathematical Physics.
- 1998 Director of the Symposium “Impacts
of
Nuclear Physics” (Toronto, Nov. 23-24).
- 1999-2002 Elected Chairman, IUPAP Commission
for Mathematical Physics.
- 1999-2001 Member, Selection Committee for the
Rutherford Memorial Medal of the R.S.C.
- 2002 Chairman, Selection Committee for the
Rutherford Memorial Medal of the R.S.C.
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