Dr Chris Fewster

MA, PhD (Cantab)

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Research Interests

Mathematical issues in quantum and gravitational physics. Quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Algebraic quantum field theory.

Selected Recent Publications

Bostelmann H, Cadamuro D, Fewster CJ. Submitted. Quantum Energy Inequality for the Massive Ising Model.

Fewster CJ. In Press. Endomorphisms and automorphisms of locally covariant quantum field theories. Reviews in Mathematical Physics.

Fewster CJ, Hunt DS. 2013. Quantization of linearized gravity in cosmological vacuum spacetimes. Reviews in Mathematical Physics. 25(2):1330003[44pp].

Fewster CJ, Verch R. 2012. Dynamical locality and covariance: What makes a physical theory the same in all spacetimes? Annales Henri Poincare. 13:1675-1709.

Fewster CJ, Verch R. 2012. Dynamical locality of the free scalar field. Annales Henri Poincare. 13(7):1675-1709.

Fewster CJ. 2012. Lectures on quantum energy inequalities.

Fewster CJ, Verch R. 2012. On a Recent Construction of "Vacuum-like" Quantum Field States in Curved Spacetime. Class. Quantum Grav.. 29:205017(20pp).

Fewster CJ. 2012. On the notion of "the same physics in all spacetimes". Quantum Field Theory and Gravity. Conceptual and mathematical advances in the search for a unified framework..

Fewster CJ, Ford LH, Roman TA. 2012. Probability distributions for quantum stress tensors in four dimensions. Phys Rev D. 85(12):125038[20pp].

Fewster CJ, Galloway GJ. 2011. Singularity theorems from weakened energy conditions. (Featured in IOP Select) Class. Quantum Grav.. 28:125009[18pp].

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PhD Students

Current students: Matthew Ferguson and Benjamin Lang (both working on locally covariant quantum field theory).

Past students: Simon Dawson ("Bounds on negative energy densities in quantum field theories on flat and curved space-times"), Calvin Smith ("Energy conditions in quantum field theory"), Lutz Osterbrink ("Averaged energy inequalities for the non-minimally coupled scalar field"), Ko Sanders ("Aspects of locally covariant quantum field theory"), David Hunt ("The Quantization of Linear Gravitational Perturbations and the Hadamard Condition").

Teaching

Year: 2013/14
Title	Course category	Term
Differential Equations	2nd year	Autumn
Introduction to Quantum Field Theory	Masters	Spring

Year: 2012/13
Title	Course category	Term
Introduction to Quantum Field Theory	Masters	Spring
Classical Mechanics	2nd year	Spring Summer

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Administration

Ongoing posts

Elected Member of Senate (August 2012 - July 2015)
Departmental Research Impact Development Manager (October 2012 -)
Member of the Departmental Research Committee (January 2011 - )
Secretary of the Mathematics/Education Executive Committee

Recently held posts

September 2009 - August 2011 Chair, Board of Examiners in Mathematics
October 2008 - August 2011 Member of the departmental Graduate School Committee
August 2007 - July 2008 and August 2009 - July 2012 Elected member of Senate
January 2006 - July 2008 Chair of the University Standing Committee on Assessment, and member (ex officio) of the University Teaching Committee and the Board for Graduate Schools
August 2005 - July 2006 Member of the Standing Committee on Assessment
October 2004 - September 2010 Member of the departmental Modularisation Review working group
October 2003 - September 2010 Member of the departmental Special Circumstances Committee
August 2002 - July 2005 Member of University Teaching Committee

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