# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arlie-petters
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:29:10.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arlie-petters"
name: "Arlie Petters"
slug: "arlie-petters"
description: "Arlie Oswald Petters, MBE is a Belizean-American mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor of mathematics and a professor of physics and economics at Duke University. Petters became the provost at New York University Abu Dhabi effective September 1, 2020. Petters's research is focused on problems connected to the interplay of gravity and light and employing tools from astrophysics, cosmology, general relativity, high energy physics, differential geometry, singularities, and probability theory. His monograph \"Singularity Theory and Gravitational Lensing\" developed a mathematical theory of gravitational lensing. Petters was also the dean of academic affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and associate vice provost for undergraduate education at Duke University (2016-2019)."
tagline: "Belizean-American mathematical physicist"
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birthDate: "1964-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump