Present positions:

Researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
and Adjunct Professor of Physics , University of Waterlo

• B.A. Hampshire College, June 1975
  Concentration: physics and philosophy
  Advisor: Herbert Bernstein
• A.M. Harvard University,  March 1978.
• Phd. Harvard University, June 1979, in  theoretical physics.
  Advisors: Sidney Coleman and Stanley Deser
  Dissertation: "Studies in quantum gravity"

• Sept.-Dec. 1979, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, member
• Jan. 1980-Aug. 1981, Institute for Theoretical Physics,UC Santa Barbara, CA, postdoc
• Sept. 1981-July 1983, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, member
• Aug. 1983-Dec. 1984, Enrico Fermi Institute, U.  of Chicago, postdoc
• July1984-June 1988, Yale University, ast.  professor
• July 1988-April 1991, Syracuse University, assoc prof
• May 1991-July 1993, Syracuse University, professor
• August 1993-Dec 2001, Pennsylvania State University, professor
  Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry
• Sept 2001-present, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, researcher
• Sept. 2001-present, University of Waterloo, Physics Department, adjunct prof.

• July-Aug. 1980, Nuffield workshop ,Mathematical Institute, Oxford University
• November 1980, Center for Relativity Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX
• Nov. `81 & March `82, Special year visitor Department of Physics, Univ. of Maryland
• Jan-August 1986, Visiting Research Physicist, ITP, Santa Barbara
• Summer '88, '91 & '92, Visiting Scientist,  Trento University, Italy
• May-June 1989, Visiting Scientist,  University of Rome, Italy
• April  1993, Visiting  Member,  ITP, Santa Barbara
• May 1994, Visiting  Scientist, Newton Institute, Cambridge University
  
• June 1994, 1995, 1996, Visiting Lecturer, SISSA, Trieste Italy
  
• Jan-May 1995, Member, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
• May 1996, Visiting Scientist, Rockefeller University
• May 1997, Darwin  Seminar  Visitor, London School of Economics
• April-June 99, Visiting Member,  ITP Santa Barbara
• Oct 99-Sept  01, Visiting  Professor of Physics, Imperial College
• May 2000, String  Theory group, Rutgers University
• 1997-2001 Bios Fellow, Bios Group, Santa Fe, NM
• 1998- , Member, NASA Astrobiology Institute
• 1998- , Associate, Center for the Philosophy of Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Papers:

129 papers on, theoretical physics, cosmology, philosophy of physics
4374   total citations (from  SPIRES, April 2006)

1. The Life of the Cosmos, 1997  Oxford University Press (in the USA), Weidenfeld and Nicolson (in the United Kingdom), plus  translations in  Italian,  German, Polish, Japanese, Spanish, Portugese. 
2. Three Roads to Quantum Gravity ,  2001  Weidenfeld and Nicolson (UK) and Basic Books, (New York), , contribution to the Science Masters Series, plus translations in Italian, German, Spanish, Portugese, Chinese, Japanese,  and other langauges.
3. The Trouble with Physics, Houghton Mifflin, in press, publication Sept 2006.

1985, Research Corporation,  $5,283
1985-8, NSF to Yale University, with Professor Moncrief,  $120,000 per year.
1988-93, NSF to Syracuse University, with Professors Ashtekar and Penrose, $ 215,,000 per year
1988-93 NSF, U.S.-Italy Cooperative Research grant, with Prof. Ashtekar  $18,000
1993-6, NSF to Pennsylvania State University, with Professors Ashtek and  Penrose, 1993-7, $ 249,000 per year
1996-2001, NSF to Pennsylvania State University, with Professors Ashteka and Penrose, $ 320,000 per year
2005-2010, NSERC Discovery grant  $30,000/year
1997-1999, Gifts of the Jesse Phillips Foundation, $240,000
2000-2002, Gifts of the Jesse Phillips Foundation  $300,000/year

• 1993  Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University
• Gravity Research Foundation:
  first award, 1986 (With Mark Bowick and L.C.R. Wijewardhana)
  second award, 1985 (With Louis Crane) and 1983
• NSF travel fellowships, August 1982 and July 1983
• Nuffield travel fellowships, July  Dec. 1980, March 1984
• NATO travel fellowship, July 1976

• April-June 1984, Compton Lectures, Enrico Fermi Institute "Einstein's Revenge", ten lectures on quantum theory, general  and relativity
• Jan. 1993, "The Reality Club", NYC,"The problems of cosmology"
• April 21 1994, The 1994 Sister Mary Charles Weschler Lecture, Mercyhurst College Why is the universe hospitable to life?
• January 1995, Columbia University, Graduate School of Art, Lecture in the Art and Human Knowledge series
• Dec.  3 1996, Why is the universe hospitable to life?   Collegium Budapest.
• May 12, 1997, The End of Science?  Debate with John Horgan and Roger Penrose, London England.
• May 27 1997, Why is the universe hospitable to life?   Royal Museum, Edinborough
• May 31 1997        Why is the universe hospitable to life?   Hay Literary Festival, Wales
• June 24 1997        The Life of the Cosmos, American Museum of Natural History, NYC
• June 26, 1997, The Life of the Cosmos, Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.
• July 3, 1997, The Life of the Cosmos, University of Cincinnati, public lecture
• Nov. 15, 1997, The Life of the Cosmos, Austin College, Dallas Texas, 
• Nov. 19, 1997, Debate on science and the humanities, Rutgers University
  
• April 28, 1998&, Remarks on the future of cosmology, Bard College Symposium
• May 18, 1998, Complexity and fundamental physics  Santa Fe Institute 
• Oct. 5-10,1998        Science Week lecturer in Holland, sponsored by Stadium Generale, public lectures in Groningen, Twente and Maastricht
  
• April 3, 1999, Time: the present moment,  debate with Jaron Lanier, UU Event, NYC
• April 9, 2000, Edinborough Science Festival,   sermon in Edinburough cathedral for opening ceremony and evening lecture: A  Revolution in Time
  Public Lectures (cont)
• June  3, 2000, Hay on Wye Literary Festival, debate with Paul Davies and Martin Rees
• Jan 30, 2001    Institute for Contemprary Arts, London, debate with the sculptor Mark Quinn in the series Flesh, not Meat
• April 17, 2001    Edinborough Science Festival, evening lecture, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
• March 6, 2002, First  contact, York Univ. Symposium, broadcast on CBC
• Feb  2003         Nerenberg Lecture,  Univ of Western Ontario, Art, science and democracy
• Feb 26, 2003,          Space-time-democracy,  TED   conference, Monteray, CA
• May 24, 2003, Science, Art and Democracy, Subtle Technologies conference, Toronto
• June 3, 2003,How does Science Work, Perimeter Institute Public Lecture
• June 20, 2003, Science. Art  and Democracy, IDEA CITY, Toronto
• March 9, 2005, Panel on Einstein, York University and Quirks and Quarks
• May 2, 2005, Panel on Einstein, PI public lecture and Rodgers cable
• May 19 2005, Harvard Smithsonian Public Lecture What is space? What is time?
• May 22 2005, QUPON Public lecture, Vienna Austria, The unfinished revolution: Finishing what Einstein started
• Nov 9 2005, Science, Technology Awareness Network Conference, Keynote Address, Science and Democracy
• Nov 12 2005, Urania Berlin, Public talk, The unfinished revolution: Finishing what Einstein started
• Nov 30 2005, Kosmopolis 05: The Third Culture in Barcelona “The new humanism , Symposium with Marc D. Hauser, Lee Smolin, Robert Trivers, Eduard Punset, John Brockman

Jeff Hersh  (Yale, 1986), medical school
Jorge De Lyra (Yale, 1987) Professor, University of  Sao Paolo
Paul Renteln  (Harvard,1988), Professor,  California  State University,  San Bernadino
Viqar Husain (Yale, 1990)   assistant professor, Univesity of New Brunswick.
Bernd Bruegmann (Syracuse,1992) Permanent Staff, Albert Einstein Institute
Madhavan Varadarajan (Syracuse,1994)  Permanent Staff, Raman Institute
Seth Major  (Penn State, 1997)  Assistant ProfessorHamilton  College
Eli Hawkins (Penn State,1999)  Math Ph.D. program, Penn Stateа SISSA, postdoc
Daniel Cartin,  (2000)  World Scientific, editor
Sameer Gupta (2000)  Silicon Valley, consultant
Yi Ling, (2002) Institute for Theoretical Physics, Beijing.
Artem Starodubtsev (Univ. of Waterloo)   а University of Utrecht

Mohammad Ansari  (University of Waterloo) 
Yidun Wan, (University of Waterloo)

• At Yale University:

Victor Szczyrba,  consultant, IBM

• At Syracuse University:

Jerzy Lewandowski, Professor , Warsaw University
Jorma Luoko,   Lecturer, Nottingham
Don Marolf,    Assistant Professor, Syracuse
Jorge Pullin,   Assoc. Prof. Penn State
Joseph Samuel,   Permanent Staff, Raman Institute
Kristen Schleich,  Assistant Professor, University of British  Columbia
Charles Torre, Professor, Utah State University
Don Witt,  senior research position, University of British Columbia

• At Penn State:

Roumen Borissov,  Senior Scientist,  Bios Group, President, Bios-Eastern Europe
Surya Das,   postdoc Winnipeg
Laurant Freidel, permanent staff, CRNS, Leon + PI
Amit Gosh, postdoc, Penn State
Viqar Husain,  assistant professor, Winnipeg
Renata Loll, Associate Professor, University of Utrecht and Spinoza Institute
Eric Martinez,   unknown
Fotini Markopoulou, postdoc, AEI,  Potsdam-> Long term researcher PI.
Roberto DePierti, postdoc, Marseille, France  and  Parma, Italy
Raymond Putzio,  Visiting  Assistant Professor, Univ. of Southern Mississipi
Mike Reisenberger, Professor, Univ. of Montevideo
Chopin Soo, permanent staff, the Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan
Thomas Thiemann, long term researcher, PI + AEI
Steve Weinstein, Asst Prof Philosopjy,  U Waterloo

• At Imperial College:

Ntina Savvidy,   Antony Valentini а visiting member, PI

• At Perimeter Institute:

27 postdocs hired so far.

Steven Hawking's Universe (BBC, August 1997 and PBS, November, 1997),
A garden of cosmological speculation  with Charles Jenks (Border TV, 1997),
Noorderlight de levende kosmos, (a documentary about my work) Dutch TV,  May 1998.
La Vita Artificialle   French TV, 1998
Visionaries,  for Canadian television and PBS,   1999 
The National CBC,   April 2005

NPR, All  things considered, April 29, 1997
BBC radio 4, Start of the Week, May 19, 1997
BBC World Service, Discovery with Martin Redfern, May 15, 1997
BBC Radio Scotland, with Louise Dalziel, May 27, 1997
BBC Radio Scotland, The Usual Suspects, May 28, 1997
BBC radio 4, The Afternoon Shift, June 2, 1997
BBC Radio Wales Scope, June 3, 1997
BBC Radio 3, Afternoon Arts program, June 3, 1997
New York and Company with Lenny Lopes,  WNYC, New August 13, 1997
WFMU, New Jersey, Dorian Devins  August 18, 1997
US Radio Daily with  Gary Nowland, Sept. 2, 1997
NPR, Wisonsin Public Radio with Steve Paulson, Sept. 3, 1997
NPR radio, Dallas Texas , Nov. 17, 1997
BBC, program on evolution, May 1998
Time at the turn of the century, with Melvyn Bragg,   Dec 30, 1999
BBC Radio 4, In our time, with Melvyn Bragg,  Feb 22, 01, Three Roads
NPR  interview, August 1 , 2001
New York and Company with Lenny Lopes,  WNYC, August 8, 2001
CBC  Quirks and Quarks,  on Einstein, March 2005
BBC  4  Theories of everything, March 2005

New York Times Magazine, July 13, 1997 by Dennis Overbye
New Scientist, May 24 1997 by David Concar
The Cronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 1997 by Vincent Kiernan
The Philadelphia Enquirer, August 11, 1997     by Fay Flam
The Guardian, "Five to Watch" January 1, 1997
Scotland on Sunday, May 18, 1997, by Geraldine Murray
The Age, Melbourne, Australia, August 30, 1997 by Peter Spinks
The Center Daily Times, May 11, 1997 by Caroline Terenzini
Brooklyn Magazine, Nov. 1997
Muy Interesante Madrid, Nov. 1997.
Non Satis Scire, May 1998
Science News, July 1998, by Ivor Peterson
U.S. News & World Report July 20, 1998 by Gregg Easterbrook
La Repubblica, 9 Oct 1998 by Franco Prattico
(Other profiles appeared in Italian  and Polish in 1999)
Discover Magazine (April 1993)
Omni Magazine (February 1993)
Scientific American (August 1992, Science and the Citizen)
New Scientist (Feb. 1, 1992 by John Gribbins)
Physics World (February 1992 by Werner Israel)
The Washington Post (by Amitaba Sen)
The Independent of London (June 11, 1990, by Paul Davies)
San Fransisco Examiner (March 3, 1991)   
Nature (1996) , by John Maynard Smith and Eors Samarthy.

New York Times Book Review,  July 27, 1997, p. 26 by George Johnson
The Washington Post, Sunday bookworld June 15, 1997, by Curt Suplee
The Sunday Times books section, May 18, 1997, p. 5 by John Gribbin
The Sunday Times Bookshop, Richard Dawkins "What they're reading"
Discover July 1997 by Tim Folger
Nature,   June 12, 1997, p. 671 by George Ellis
Lingua Franca, June/July 1997 by Jim Holt
New Statesman, June 6, 1997 p. 48 by John Maddox
Independent on Sunday, May 4, 1997, p. 23 by John Gribbin
The Independent weekend section, June 21, 1997, p.7 by Peter Tallack
The Guardian, June 19, 1997, p. 11 by Tim Radford
The Times Higher Education Supplement 15 Aug. 1997, p. 20 by Martin Ince
The Philadelphia Inquirer Books, May 25, 1997 by Eric Chaisson
The Scotsman, May 27, 1997 by Martin Hannan
The Scotsman, June 2, 1997, p. 13. by Christopher Lambton
Prospect, May 1997, p. 35 by John Gribbin
Publishing News 14 March 1997
Science, 1 August 1997, vol. 227 p. 644 by Joseph Silk
New Scientist, 19 July 1997 p. 46 by Tony Hay
Literary Review, August 1997, p. 49
Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 1997
Physics World, Dec. 1997 by Bernard Carr
London Review of Books, 1 Jan, 1998, by John Leslie, p. 18.
Times Literary Supplement, 2 Jan. 1998, by Michael Redhead, p.5.
First Things_, August/September 1998  Peter J. Leithart
Postmodern Culture,  Physics Today, J. of Philosophy of Science, all 1998

The Guardian , Feb 17, 2001,  by Mark Buchanan 's
Physics World, December 2000,  by  Michael Duff
The Independent, January 25,  2001,  by  John  Gribbin
New Scientist, Feb 3, 2001,  by  Robert Matthew 
Nature, March  6, 2001 by David Lindly
Physics Today, March 2002, by Jorge Pullin
Scientific American, August 2001, by Chet Reymo
American Scientist, Jan-Feb, 2002, by Paul Renteln