Academic Degrees

Ph.D. in Mathematics (History & Philosophy of Math, Physics, Astronomy)
University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
M.Sc. in Applied Physics (Concentration: Mathematical Physics)
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2000 (ceremony 2001).
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Concentration: Fluids; Minor: Philosophy)
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1997.

Additional Academic Training

Successfully completed National Science Foundation Chautauqua Course at Harvard University entitled Radio Astronomy in the Undergraduate Classroom.

Employment History

Saint Anselm College Assistant Professor, 2004 - Present
Simmons College, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2002 - Present; Lecturer, 2001-
Boston, MA 2002; Physics Department
Teach introductory physics courses and labs, teach new introductory materials science course, develop new course curricula, develop and implement new mission for the Simmons Center for Learning and Teaching, consult on outside education grants with EDC, Inc. of Newton, MA, and with the Boston Public Schools Science Department, perform regular research.

University of Maine at Machias Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2002 - Present
Machias, ME   Teach online courses in science and mathematics including
the history of mathematics and introductory astronomy.

Heartwood College of Art Adjunct Lecturer, 2001 - Present
Kennebunk, ME   Teach basic mathematics course every two years.

New England Institute of Adjunct Lecturer, 2001 - 2002; General Education Department
Art & Communications  Teach introductory courses in astronomy, physics, and
Brookline, MA environmental science.
Suffolk University  Senior Lecturer, Fall 2001; Mathematics and Computer Science
Boston, MA Department
Taught two sections of a one-semester Calculus course.

University of New Hampshire Research Fellow, Summer 2001; CATSAT Program, Space
Durham, NH Science Center
Provided scientific support to the CATSAT satellite program in relation to program's mission to study the X-ray spectrum of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).

United States Naval Academy Adjunct Instructor, Spring 2001; Department of Physics
Annapolis, MD Taught introductory physics course.

Durham Research, Inc.  President, 1999 - 2001
Crofton, MD   Founded, owned, and operated educational outreach company
with mission of bringing new technology and curriculum packages into middle and high school classrooms; developed curricula; managed National Science Foundation grant to implement outreach program with the International Space Station.

SAIC, Inc. Scientific Programmer/Instrument Engineer, 1997 - 2000
Washington, DC (metro) Provided scientific, instrument, and engineering support for contracts with NASA SeaWiFS satellite at Goddard Space Flight Center, the National Centers for Environmental Prediction at the National Weather Service, NASA Aeronautics, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Honors & Awards

Invited to write more than fifteen short biographies for the upcoming anthology Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers edited by Thomas Hockey.

National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award winner, fiscal year 2000 ($100,000).

American Physical Society Virtual Pressroom feature. Strange Numbers for Strange Times: British Cosmology in the 1930s.  April 2001 meeting of the APS.  Available at http://www.aps.org/meet/APR01/baps/vpr/layc13-001.html .

Publications and Presentations

Durham, I.T. 2003 (forthcoming).  Eddington and Uncertainty.  Physics in Perspective.

Durham, I.T. 2003. Numerology and the Cosmos: Alternative Cosmologies in 1930s Britain. Cubo: Matematica Educacion, 5, 1.

Durham, I.T. 2002. The Uncertain Sir Arthur Eddington. Bulletin of the American Physical Society 48 (April).

Durham, I.T. 2001. Cosmonumerology, cosmophysics, and the large numbers hypothesis: British cosmology in the 1930s. Bulletin of the American Physical Society 46 (April).

Durham, I.T. 2001. Sir Ralph Fowler. University of St. Andrews MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Available at http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Fowler.html .

Durham, I.T. 2001. Oskar Klein. University of St. Andrews MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Available at http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Klein_Oskar.html .

Durham, I.T. 2001. A Historical Perspective on the Topology and Physics of Hyperspace. LANL physics/0011042.  Available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0011042 .

Durham, I.T., A.S. Durham. 2000. Distance Learning Programs to Inspire Students in the Sciences. Bulletin of the Joint Meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers, New England Sections, 2001 (Spring).

Durham, I.T., A.S. Durham, J.A. Pawelczyk, L.B. Brod, and T.F. Durham. 1999. Corporate Sponsored Education Initiatives On Board the ISS. AIP Conference Proceedings 458.

Positions:

Postgraduate student, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of St. Andrews, 2000 - Present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Simmons College, 2001 - Present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maine at Machias, 2002 - Present
Lecturer, Mathematics, Heartwood College of Art, 2001 - Present

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I have a paper on Sir Arthur Eddington's work on the concept of uncertainty coming out this year in Physics in Perspective. A preprint of it can be found here in PDF format. I am currently studying Eddington's work with the concept of exclusion. Both this and the work on uncertainty constitute the first part of Eddington's monumental tomb Fundamental Theory. I also contribute sometimes to St. Andrews' MacTutor for which I have written a biography of Sir Ralph Fowler and Oskar Klein. I have some more biographies on tap for a collection of biographies due out next year and edited by a professor at Iowa State.

The picture of me above was taken on the upstairs landing in my former house. The pictures over my shoulder are of General George Fisher and his wife Lucinda South Fisher who were my great-great-great-great grandparents. They lived near Ithaca, New York, which is the home of Cornell University. George was a dentist (his father, Leonard, was the first dentist in New York City), merchant, Brigadier-General (18th Infantry), Mason, State Assembly Member (1835), and Judge (1840). He was born in 1782 and died in 1872. I do not know much about his wife but do know that they had 10 children.

As you can tell, I am a bit of a history buff, and being a mathematical physicist, it was only logical to combine the two, hence my pursuit of a doctorate in the History of Mathematics!!