Carl Bender

Title:	Professor of Physics
Degree:	PHD, Harvard University MA, Harvard University BA, Cornell University
Dept:	Physics
Office:	Compton Hall 360
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1105 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-6216
E-mail:	cmb@wustl.edu

Courses
Theoretical Physics, Methods of Theoretical Physics II, Variational Calculus

Research Interests
Professor Bender's major research efforts in recent years have fallen into six main categories: (1) developing a new technique for obtaining nonperturbative information about a quantum field theory by expanding the Green's functions as series in powers of D, the dimension of space-time, (2) discovering a new and promising kind of continuum field-theoretic perturbation expansion called the delta expansion, (3) inventing methods for finding the analytical solution of operator differential equations, (4) studying strong-coupling and lattice approximations in quantum field theory, (5) originating the field of large-order behavior of perturbation theory, and (6) miscellaneous research projects. In all six areas he has applied sophisticated analytical and numerical techniques.

Selected Publications:

• Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Coauthored with S.A. Orszag, McGraw-Hill, 1978