Dr. Stanley Deser

Curator and author

Prof. Stanley Deser

Figure 1: Prof. Stanley Deser

1953–55, 1988, 1993: Member, Institute for Advanced Study
1954: Research Associate, University of California, Radiation Laboratory
1955–57: Member, Niels Bohr Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen
1957–58: Lecturer, Harvard University
1958–65: Associate Professor, Brandeis University
1961–62, 1976, 1980–81, 1994: Visiting Scientist, CERN, Geneva
1964–70: Co-Director and Co-Editor, Brandeis Summer Institutes in Theoretical Physics
1965–80: Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
1980– Ancell Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
1966–67: Visiting Professor, Institut Henri Poincare of the Sorbonne
1969–71, 1976–77: Chairman, Physics Department, Brandeis University
1971–72: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Paris – Orsay
1977: Fellow, All Souls Oxford
1984–85: Co-Director, Field Theory Program, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
1987–88: Visiting Professor, Boston University
2005– Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology

National Academy of Sciences, USA
American Academy of Arts & Science
Foreign member, Torino Academy of Science, Italy.
Dannie Heineman Prize with R. Arnowitt and C. W. Misner
Guggenheim & Fulbright Fellow
Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Stockholm Univ and Chalmers Institute of Technology
Festschrift: “Deserfest,” World Pub (2006). J T Liu, M J Duff, K S Stelle and R P Woodard, eds.

ADM
SUGRA in 1976 (with Zumino)
Topologically massive 3D theories 1982 (with Jackiw)
3D Einstein with Jackiw and 't Hooft,
More recently a series on partially massive gauge theories in (A) dS (with Waldron)