Belizean-American mathematical physicist and academic

Arlie Petters

Arlie Oswald Petters, MBE is a Belizean-American mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor of mathematics and a professor of physics and economics at Duke University. Petters became the provost at New York University Abu Dhabi effective September 1, 2020. Petters's research is focused 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" developed a mathematical theory of gravitational lensing.

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1964

February 8

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421 Constantius III becomes co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.

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The world in 1964

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april 1 The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
april 11 Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
april 13 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
april 17 Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29+1⁄2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.

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Carolina Kostner 1987– Italian figure skater Daniel Bernoulli 1700–1782 Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1782) Demchugdongrub 1902– Mongol prince and politician, head of state of Mengjiang (died 1966) Henry Czerny 1959– Canadian actor Jagjit Singh 1941–2011 Indian singer-songwriter (died 2011) James Dean 1931–1955 American actor (died 1955) Jim Neidhart 1955–2018 American wrestler (born 1955) Khorloogiin Choibalsan 1895– Prime Minister of Mongolia (died 1952) Kirk Muller 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach

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