Robert T. Jantzen: Curriculum Vitae

STATISTICS:

Born in 1952 in New York State

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:

Halmos-Ford Award from the MAA, 2013
Outstanding Faculty Research Award from Villanova University, 2012
Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley, 1978

Shuichi Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics, Princeton, 1974

Member of Honor Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, invited to join Sigma Xi  but did not pay, 1974

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 triennial 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]
      [About 150 proceedings and journal articles]