Robert T. Jantzen: Curriculum Vitae

STATISTICS:

Born in 1952

PRESENT POSITION (since 1983)

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085-1699 USA

E-Mail: robert.jantzen@villanova.edu

Tel: (610)519-7335 Fax: (610)519-6928

Web: www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Physics, University of California at Berkeley, 12/78;
thesis title: Gauge Invariant Perturbation Theory in Spatially Homogeneous Cosmology
(thesis advisor: Abraham Taub)

A.B. in Physics (with highest honors), Princeton University, 9/74
Senior thesis with Remo Ruffini, Junior thesis with Rosanna Cester (wife of Tullio Regge)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard College Observatory, Center for Astrophysics,
Cambridge, MA, 8/81-7/83 (with D. Eardley: NSF grant no. PHY-80-07351)

Visiting Researcher
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Munich, 10/80-6/81
(with J. Ehlers, B. Schmidt, M. Walker)

NATO Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Rome, 9/79-8/80 (with R. Ruffini)

Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 9/78-9/79
(with J.W. York, Jr.)

Summer Research Assistant
U.C. Berkeley, 7/78-9/78 (with J.E. Marsden, NSF grant)

Research Assistant
U.C. Berkeley, 9/76-6/78 (with A.H. Taub, NSF grant no. MCS-76-21525)

Dupont Graduate Fellowship
U.C. Berkeley, 9/74-8/76

HONORS:

Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley, 6/78

Shuichi Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics, Princeton, 6/74

Member of Honor Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, invited to join Sigma Xi  but did not pay 6/74
Outstanding Faculty Research Award from Villanova University 5/11

MEMBERSHIPS:

American Physical Society (APS)

International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (GRG)

TeX Users Group (TUG)
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Lie groups and differential geometry: applications to physics

Classical general relativity:

Spatially homogeneous and self-similar spacetimes and mathematical cosmology

Spacetime splitting approaches, observer-measurement interpretation
of spacetimes, gravitoelectromagnetism

CONFERENCES:

Co-organizer of Marcel Grossmann Meetings on General Relativity
MG9 (2000) -- MG15 (2018)
Participated in Marcel Grossmann Meetings on General Relativity:
MG2 (1979) -- MG15 (2018)
Participated in General Relativity and Gravitation Meetings:
GR8 (1978) -- GR14 (1995), GR17 (2004)

PUBLICATIONS:
      See the online listing (1978--present):
      http://www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen//research/ [simple list]