Professor Arlie O. Petters

Benjamin Powell Professor

Ph.D. MIT, 1991 (Mathematics)
Ph.D. thesis advisors: Bertram Kostant (MIT) and David Spergel (Princeton University)
Ph.D. thesis title: Singularities in Gravitational Microlensing
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, 1988-1991 (Exchange Scholar; in absentia from MIT)
MIT, 1986-1988 (Department of Mathematics);
B.A./M.A. HUNTER COLLEGE - C.U.N.Y., 1986 (Mathematics and Physics)
M.A. thesis title: The Mathematical Theory of General Relativity

Dean of Academic Affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Duke University (2016-present)
Chairman, Council of Science Advisers to the Prime Minister of Belize (2010-2013)
Benjamin Powell Professor of Mathematics, DUKE UNIVERSITY (2009-present)
Professor of Economics, DUKE UNIVERSITY (2016-present)
Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, DUKE UNIVERSITY (2008-2017)
Professor of Mathematics and Physics, DUKE UNIVERSITY (2003-present)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor of Physics, MIT (2003-2004)
President and Founder, PETTERS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Belize (2005-present)
William and Sue Gross Associate Professor of Mathematics, DUKE UNIVERSITY (1998-2003)
Director of Undergraduate Studies, DUKE UNIVERSITY, Department of Mathematics
(fall 2002)
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (1993-1998)
Co-Director of Graduate Studies, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Department of Mathematics (1996-1998)
Instructor of Pure Mathematics, MIT, Department of Mathematics (1991-1993)
Member of Technical Staff, BELL LABS, Murray Hill, New Jersey (summers of 1986-1990)
Visiting Professor:
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (2007)
MIT, Department of Physics (2003-2004)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Department of Astronomy/Center for Astrophysics (2002)
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Mathematical Institute (1995)
MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FUR ASTROPHYSIK, Garching, Germany (1994)