F. David Peat - Curriculum Vitae

1960 -- BSc. Liverpool University
1962 -- MSc. Liverpool University
1964 -- PhD Liverpool University
1965-67 -- Assistant Professor, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1967-1975 -- Research Scientist, National Research Council of Canada
1971-72 -- Sabbatical study with David Bohm, Dept Phys., Birkbeck College, London and Roger Penrose, Dept Maths., Birkbeck College, London
1975-present -- Independent Researcher, Writer, and Consultant Organizations
1990-1992 -- Chairman, Division of Theoretical Physics, Canadian Institute of Physics
Fellow: World Academy of Art and Science Acted as a Consultant for the National Gallery of Canada for concept development and research for the 1995 Escher Exhibit
Faculty at Antioch New England Graduate School giving an annual series of seminars in New England and at Assisi, Italy on "The Confluence of Matter and Spirit"
Acted as consultant for The Fetzer Institute and the Nathan Cummings Foundation
1987 Canada Council: Drama Grant
1989-93: Fetzer Foundation: Travel Grant
1990 Canada Council: Non-Fiction Writing Grant

"Registering Memory: Madelon Hoykaas and Elsa Stansfield": Catalogue Essay for Retrospective and CD Rom, Frans Halsmuseum/Verweyhal, Haarlem, March 1997
"Realizing Sensation: The Art of David Andrew": Agnes Etherington Gallery, Kingston, Canada 1996
"New Lamps for Old": Catalogue Essay for Todd Watts exhibition, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, (1994)

Member of the Foresight Group a think-tank of the Science Council of CanadaArtificial
"The National Research Council in the year 2016", for the Science Council of Canada
Canada-Japan Complementarity Study. Consultant for the Science Council of Canada
Computers in a Science Centre. Consultant for the Science Council of Canada
Computers in Education. Report for the Science Council of Canada
Artificial Intelligence. Reports for the Science Council of Canada and for the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research
Research in the Neurosciences. Report for the Science Council of Canada
Health in the Year 2010. Canadian Department of Health and Welfare. Position paper and chairing a two day meeting.this consisted of a research paper, leading a two-day workshop of Medical Officers of Health

Mathematics and Architecture: Lecture course given to the Department of Architecture, Carleton University. 1986
Science Journalism: Course given to the School of Journalism, Carleton University. 1984-85
Man and The Universe: Course given for several years at Carleton University's Department of Continuing Education. 1975-78
Systems Theory and Non-Linearity in the Physical World
Lecture course given at Johns Hopkins University as Distinguished Visiting Scientist. 1974
Introductory Quantum Theory: Queen's University 1965-67
Advanced topics in Quantum Theory: Queen's University 1965-67

CBC-TV Switchback- Annual appearance on 1 January as scientist and futurist.
1989- January 5. Appearance on CBC-TV Halifax as scientist answering children's questions.
Appearances on CTV's Lifetime program commenting on scientific topics in the news.
Various one-off appearances on television and radio in Ottawa and Toronto as a science commentator.
Author of the learning package to accompany TV-Ontario's Artificial Intelligence: Fulfilling the Dream.
CBOT-TV Newsday: 1981-82 Science Editor and resident science expert for the news program. During that period I presented a series of short features on science, medicine and technology, often drawing upon local sources such as NRC, the museums and universities.
1984-85 Various appearances on CJOH-TV Morning Magazine as a resident scientific expert explaining "How Things Work".
Developed concept and story line for a program on electrical power transmission CBC The Nature of Things.
Concept development for a film on Symmetry, NFB.

CBC- Ideas:-Over thirty scripts for the CBC Ideas series and have acted as on-air host for several of them. These include, in 1976, a highly successful series Physics and Beyond which consisted of twenty one hour programs. This series has also been distributed, in an edited form on five LP's (E-1214-18), through the CBC Spoken-Word Transcription service. In this form they were broadcast throughout the US on their PBS stations.
Other broadcast scripts for Ideas included Symmetry, Science and Language, New Theories of Matter and Physics, and a five part series on Meditation and the Brain.
Scripts and narration for a series of Science Times for the World Service of the CBC.
A series on Murder and Forensic Science for CBO's "All in a Day".
For the CBC Spoken-Word Transcription service, the script of a one hour documentary Unwinding Isaac Newton and a one hour play, Whatever Happened to Joachim Fruitmann? which appeared on two discs E-1270.

For CKCU a number of plays including Ionesco's The Lesson, Pinter's Review Sketches, Tom Stoppard's I'll be Glad if you'll be Frank, and Artist Descending a Staircase, several appearances on radio stations in Ottawa and Toronto as a commentator on science.
For CHEZ-FM, James Saunder's Games.

Communications was produced at the York Street Theatre, Ottawa, the Edmonton Theatre Festival, the Manotik Fringe Festival, City of Ottawa Festival of Spring as well as at Dinner Theatre in several cities.
Directed Bernard Shaw's "A Village Wooing", the Manotik Fringe Festival, 1992.
Directing "Love Letters" for the 1993 Manotik Theatre Festival.