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

Fewster, CJ. Submitted. Endomorphisms and automorphisms of locally covariant quantum field theories.

Fewster, CJ, Hunt DS. Submitted. Quantization of linearized gravity in cosmological vacuum spacetimes.

Fewster, CJ, Verch R. In Press. Dynamical locality and covariance: What makes a physical theory the same in all spacetimes? Annales Henri Poincare.

Fewster, CJ, Verch R. In Press. Dynamical locality of the free scalar field. Annales Henri Poincare.

Fewster, CJ. In Press. 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.. :400pp.

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

Fewster, CJ, Ford LH, Roman TA. 2010. Probability distributions of smeared quantum stress tensors. Physical Review D. 81:121901(R)[5pp].

Bostelmann, H, Fewster CJ. 2009. Quantum Inequalities from Operator Product Expansions. Commun. Math. Phys.. 292:761-795. Abstract

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Teaching

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

Year: 2011/12
Title	Course category	Term
Classical Mechanics	2nd year	Spring Summer
Integral Transforms	3rd year	Spring

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Administration

Ongoing posts

Elected Member of Senate (August 2009 - July 2012)
Member of the Departmental Research Committee
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 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

Department of Mathematics