Curriculum Vitae
Piet Hut

Date of Birth: Sept. 26, 1952
Place of Birth: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
M.Sc.: University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1977
Ph.D.: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1981

Positions

Professor, 1985 - present, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Assistant Professor, 1984 - 1985, Astronomy Department, Univ. of California, Berkeley.
Long term member, 1981 - 1984, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Research assistant, 1978 - 1981, Astronomical Institute, Univ. of Amsterdam.
Research assistant, 1977 - 1978, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Utrecht.

Publications

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Honors, Functions, Memberships

1984 - 1990

Chair of I.A.U. Symposium 113 on Dynamics of Star Clusters (I.A.S., 1984); editor of the proceedings (w. Dr. J.J. Goodman).

Sloan Foundation Fellowship: 1985 - 1987.

Senior Visiting Fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto University: June 1985 - Sept. 1985

Trustee of John von Neumann Supercomputer Center, 1985 - 1990.

Chair of Workshop on the Use of Supercomputers in Stellar Dynamics (I.A.S., 1986); editor of the proceedings (w. Dr. S.L.W. McMillan).

Editor, Springer-Verlag Series in computational physics, 1986 - 1991.

Visiting Scientist in Computer Science, Mass. Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA, July 1986 & Oct. 1987.

Member of the Peer Review Board of the Illinois and Pittsburgh Supercomputer Centers, 1988 - 1991.

Senior Visiting Fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo University: Apr. 1989 - Jan. 1990.

Visiting Researcher, Institute for Supercomputing Research, Tokyo, Japan, July - Aug. 1989; Dec. 1990; Aug. 1991; Jan. 1992.

Visiting Scientist, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Feb. - Apr. 1990.

Member of the Review Panel for the MIDAS image processing system, ESO, M\"unchen, April 2-3, 1990.

1991 - 1995

Visiting Scholar in Applied Mathematics, Mass. Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA, part-time during July 1992 - May 1993.

Research Affiliate for the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Mass. Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA, part-time during July 1992 - June 1993.

Senior Visiting Fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Kyoto University: June 1993 - Aug. 1993.

Member of the Visiting Committee for the Evaluation of the Faculty of Science of Kyoto University, July - Aug. 1993.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee in the Program on Dense Stellar Systems at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara, CA, and participant during the period Nov. 1993 - Dec. 1993.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the workshop on N-Body Simulations of Star Clusters and planetary Systems, Lake Tahoe, California, June 6-9, 1994.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for I.A.U. Symposium 165, Compact Stars in Binaries, The Hague, Holland, Aug. 15-19, 1994.

Recipient (w. Dr. Roger Shepard) of two one-year Sloan Foundation Fellowships to study the Limits of Scientific Knowledge, 1994 - 1996.

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the conference Some Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics, at IAS in Princeton, April 27-29, 1995.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference on The Origins, Evolution, and Destinies of Binary Stars in Clusters, Calgary, Canada, June 19-23, 1995.

Editor of the proceedings (w. Dr. J. Makino), and member of the Scientific Organizing Committee, for I.A.U. Symposium 174 on Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters (Tokyo, Aug. 1995).

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the electronic Journal `New Astronomy', 1995 - present.

Organizer (w. Dr. Frank Summers) of the workshop A Special Purpose Computer for Stellar Dynamics: GRAPE, The Next Generation, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, Dec. 1995).

1996 - 1997

Senior Visiting Fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo University: Jan. 1996.

Organizer (w. James Hartle and Joseph Traub) of the workshop Fundamental Sources of Unpredictability, at the Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, March 1996); co-editor of the proceedings.

Recipient (as part of the GRAPE team) of a NSF/NASA/DARPA/NSA Petaflops Point Design Studies award, at the Petaflops Architecture Workshop (Caltech, April 1996).

Elected as Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 1996.

Nominator for the MacArthur Foundation, 1996/7.

Elected as Member of the Lindisfarne Association, June 1997.

Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the Workshop Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics: Models, Applications, and Enabling Technologies, at the Institute for Advanced Studies, June 1997.

Organizer (w. Tarthang Tulku and Jack Petranker) of a workshop on Dialogues with Time and Space, at Odiyan, CA, Aug. 15-17, 1997.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference on International Symposium on Supercomputing - New Horizon of Computational Science, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 1-3, 1997.

Chair and organizer of the session on Modeling Modeling, during the New England Complex Systems Institute International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, Sept. 21-26, 1997.

Research Associate to the Department of Astronomy at the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, in New York city, Sept. 1997 - present.

Invited participant at the Sixth Mind and Life Conference, a five-day dialogue between five physicists and the Dalai Lama, held at Dharamsala, India, Oct. 27-31, 1997.

President of the Kira Institute, Inc., Dec. 1997 - present.

1998 - 1999

Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the workshop on Developments in N-body Simulation, Amsterdam, Holland, Jan. 19-20, 1998.

Advisor for the programme in Foundations of Biology, at the University of Leiden, Holland, Feb. 1998 - 2000.

Member of the oversight committee for the Meta science and religion listserv and news service, 1998 - 2002.

Visiting Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan, May through July, 1998.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1998 - present.

Member of the organizing committee and faculty of the Kira Summer School on Values in a World of Fact, Amherst, MA, August 2-15, 1998.

Chair of the Roundtable on ``The Role of the Subject in Science'', held at the State of the World Forum, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 26-31, 1988.

Co-chair (w. Jun Makino) for the workshop on The GRAPE Users Community, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 27-28, 1999.

Co-chair (w. Jun Makino) of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the symposium on Astrophysics on the GRAPE, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 28-29, 1999.

Co-chair (w. Kawai Hayao) for the Symposium Ambiguity brought into Focus, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan, March 5-7, 1999.

Member of the Advisory Committee for the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona at Tucson, 1999 - 2002.

Special Advisor for Science, for NECSI Japan, Tokyo, the Japan branch of the New England Complex Studies Institute, 1999 - 2000.

Member of the organizing committee and faculty of the Kira Summer School on Values in a World of Fact, Amherst, MA, July 25 - August 7, 1999.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for ICCP5, the 5th International Conference on Computational Physics, Kanazawa, Japan, Oct. 11-13, 1999.

Member of the Science Advisory Board of the radio program Science Matters, Nov. 1999 - 2001.

Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Columbia University, and Associate Member of the Columbia University Seminars, Dec. 1999 - 2006.

2000 - 2001

Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2000.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference on Dynamics of Star Clusters and the Milky Way, Heidelberg, Germany, March 20-24, 2000.

Member of the International Advisory Council of the Foreign Policy Association, New York, 2000 - 2003.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference on Stellar Collisions, New York City, USA, May 31 - July 2, 2000.

Member of the organizing committee and faculty of the Kira Summer School and Conference on Ways of Knowing, Amherst, MA, July 30 - August 12, 2000.

Member of the Husserl Circle, 2001 - present.

Co-organizer (w. David De Young, George Djorgovski and Alex Szalay) of the workshop on The Virtual Observatory - Integration with Theoretical Modeling and Visualization Issues, National Optical Astronomy Observatory Tucson, March 20-21, 2001.

Co-organizer (w. David De Young) of the workshop on The Role of Simulations in the National Virtual Observatory, at the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado, June 4-5, 2001.

Co-chair (w. Jun Makino) of the Scientific Organizing Committee for IAU symposium 208 on Astrophysical Supercomputing using Particles, Tokyo, Japan, July 10-13, 2001.

Member of the organizing committee and faculty of the Kira Summer School and Conference on Ways of Knowing, Amherst, MA, July 29 - August 11, 2001.

Presenter of the inaugural lecture for a colloquium on Science and Philosophy, organized under the joint sponsorship of the Philosophy and Physics departments at Seattle University; Seattle, Washington, October 18, 2001.

Co-organizer (w. Ed Lu) of the workshop on Deflecting Asteroids, at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, October 20, 2001.

Member of the Science Working Group of the National Virtual Observatory initiative, 2001 - 2003.

2002 - 2003

Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, sponsored by the Danish National Research Foundation, 2002 - 2006.

Member of the Advisory Board of Technoetic Arts, published by Intellect Books, 2002 - present, a peer-reviewed journal presenting ideas, projects and practices arising from the confluence of art, science, technology and consciousness research.

Co-chair (w. Michael Shara) of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the workshop on Integrating Stellar Evolution and Stellar Dynamics, at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, June 17-21, 2002.

Member of the organizing committee and faculty of the Kira Summer School and Conference on Ways of Knowing, Amherst, MA, July 29 - August 5, 2002.

Member of an Advisory Panel for the third space show in the Rose Center of the American Museum of Natural History, in New York city, Sept. 2002.

Secretary and Member of the Board of the B612 Foundation, Sept. 2002 - present.

Co-organizer (w. Simon Portegies Zwart) of the second workshop on MOdeling DEnse STellar systems, MODEST-2, Amsterdam, Holland, Dec. 16-17, 2002.

Contributor to the course "Computational Science" of the University of the Air in Japan, which will be broadcast twice a year, 2003-2007.

Co-organizer (w. Russell Schweickart) of the B612's Founder's meeting II at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, March 14-15, 2003.

Co-organizer (w. Rosemary Mardling) of the third workshop on MOdeling DEnse STellar systems, MODEST-3, Melbourne, Australia, July 9-11, 2003.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for Joint Discussion 11, on Dynamics and Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems at the General Assembly meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Sydney, 18 July, 2003.

Visiting Scholar at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan: November 2003 - January 2004.

Member of the Panel Discussion in the Symposium on Interdisciplinary Studies on Consciousness, at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 10, 2003.

2004 - 2005

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the fourth workshop on MOdeling DEnse STellar systems, MODEST-4, Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 12-14, 2004.

Member of the Advisory Board of the Santa Barbara Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness, January 2004 - present.

CNRS Visiting Fellowship at the University of Strasbourg, France: March - April, 2004.

Instructor and co-organizer for the School on Numerical N-Body Dynamics, March 19-22, Strasbourg, France.

Visiting Scholar at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan: May - June, 2004.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for a conference on N-Body problems in Astrophysics, organized by the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, April 18-22, 2005.

Asteroid 17031 Piethut was named after me, in December 2004. It has a diameter of several miles and moves around the sun in an orbit with a semimajor axis of 2.4 AU, an eccentricity of 0.12 and an inclination of 8 degrees.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for a conference on Few-Body Problem: Theory and Computer simulations, at the University of Turku, Turku, Finland, June 4-9, 2005.

Member of the Advisory Committee for the Okayama Institute for Quantum Physics, Okayama, Japan, April 2004 - present.

Organizer of the MODEST-5d workshop Visualization of Simulations in Dense Stellar Systems, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, April 7, 2005.

Visiting Scholar at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan: June - July, 2005.

Instructor and co-organizer for the Summer School on Direct N-Body Simulations, July 24-30, Amsterdam, Holland.

Organizer of the MODEST-6b workshop Black Magic & White Elephants: Performance and Transparency in Computational Stellar Dynamics, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, Sept. 15-16, 2005.

2006 - 2007

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the MODEST-6d workshop on Framework Workshop on Modeling Dense Stellar Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 27-28, 2006.

President of WoK, Inc., an initiative to explore Ways of Knowing, June 2006 - present.

Member of the Recommendation Committee (Comité van Aanbeveling) for the National Mental Sports Center Amsterdam (Nationaal Denksportcentrum Amsterdam), 2006 - present.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for IAU Joint Discussion 14 on Modeling Dense Stellar Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, August 22-23, 2006.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the MODEST-7c workshop on Multi-scale Multi-physics Frameworks, Philadelphia, PA, September 15, 2006.

Visiting Scholar at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan: October 2006 - January 2007.

Member of FQXi, The Foundational Questions Institute, which funds research into foundational questions in physics and cosmology, December 2006 - present.

Co-Chair of the Evaluation Committee for the 4D2U visualization project at the National Astronomical Observatory Japan, December, 2006.

Member of the Mind and Reality Seminar at Columbia University, 2007 - present.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Antimatters, 2007 - present.

Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the MODEST-7a, A Software Framework for Simulationg Stellar Systems, August 20-31, 2007, at the University of Split, in Split, Croatia.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for IAU symposium 246 on Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, Capri, Italy, September 5-9, 2007.

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for AstroGPU 2007, on General Purpose Computation on GPUs in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Princeton, NJ, USA, November 9-10, 2007.