C. J. Pethick

C. J. Pethick

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    Christopher Pethick
     
    Date of birth: 22 February, 1942.
     
    Citizenship:  U. K.
     
    Education:   B. A., Oxford University, 1962.  M. A. and D. Phil, Oxford
    University, 1965.
     
     Present position:  
     Emeritus Professor of Physics, Nordita, University of Copenhagen, and University of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign 
     
     Previous Positions:
    Research Fellow, Magdalen College,  Oxford, 1965-1970.
    Research Associate, University of Illinois, 1966-1968.
    Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, 1968-1969.
    Associate Professor, University of Illinois, 1970-1973.
    Visiting Professor, Nordita, 1970 and 1974.
    Professor of Physics, University of Illinois, 1973-1995.
    Director, Nordita, 1989-1995.
    Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois, 1995-1998.
     
     Visiting Positions:
    Visiting researcher at the L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics,
    Moscow, 1973-1974.
    Visiting scientist at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, 1995.
     
     Membership of Boards (partial list):
    Member of the Board of the European Institute for Theoretical Studies in
    Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*), Trento, 1992-1997.
    Associate Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics, 1996-1999.
    Member of the National Advisory Committee for the Institute for Nuclear Theory,
    Seattle, USA, 1997-1999.
    Member of Editorial Board, Physical Review A, 2004-2010
     
     Membership of Organizing Committees (most recent):
    Programme on ``Quantum Gases" at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical
    Physics, Santa Barbara, Spring 2004.
    International Nuclear Physics Conference, INPC 2004,
    Gothenburg, Sweden, 27 June - 2 July 2004.
    Workshop on neutron stars, ECT*, Trento, Italy, September 2005.
    Workshop on ``Strongly correlated Fermi gases", Copenhagen, June 2006.
    Workshop on ``The interface between quark-gluon plasma physics and
    cold-atom physics", ECT*, Trento, March 2007.
    Workshop on ``Ultracold Atoms and Quark-Gluon Plasmas", NBIA and Nordita, Copenhagen, 16 June - 4 July 2008.
    Doctoral Training Programme on ``Strongly correlated quantum systems", ECT*, Trento, 29 March - 19 June 2009.
    CompSchool 2009: Summer School on ``Stellar Collapse, Compact Objects, Supernovae, and Gamma-Ray Bursts", Copenhagen, 17-21 August 2009.
    Workshop on ``Microphysics in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics, mboxMICRA2009", Copenhagen, 24-28 August 2009.
    Workshop on ``The physics of strongly interacting matter: neutron stars, cold atomic gases and related systems?, ECT*, Trento, Italy, April 22-26, 2024.   
     
     Honors and Awards;
    A. P. Sloan Fellow, 1970-1972.
    Foreign Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1977.
    Fellow, American Physical Society, 1985
    Foreign Member, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, 2003.
    Lars Onsager Prize of the American Physical Society, for work in quantum liquids, together with G. Baym and T.-L. Ho, 2008.
    Hans Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society, for work in astrophysics and nuclear physics, 2011.
    Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013.
    Eugene Feenberg Medal for many-body theory, 2015.
    Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society, 2016. 
     
     Research interests:
    Theoretical physics, especially many-body problems in physics and astrophysics.
     
     

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