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About Arlie Petters
- Arlie Oswald Petters, MBE (born February 8, 1964) is a Belizean-American mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor of Mathematics and a Professor Physics and Economics at Duke University.
- Petters is a founder of mathematical astronomy, focusing on problems connected to the interplay of gravity and light and employing tools from astrophysics, cosmology, general relativity, high energy physics, differential geometry, singularities, and probability theory.
- His monograph "Singularity Theory and Gravitational Lensing" is the first to develop a mathematical theory of gravitational lensing.
- Petters is also the dean of academic affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and associate vice provost for undergraduate education at Duke University.
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