Gregory W. Moore
Gregory Winthrop Moore (* 1961 ) is an American theoretical and mathematical physicist who deals with string theory and quantum field theory.
Moore studied for a bachelor's degree at Princeton University and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1985 with Sidney Coleman ( Geometrical Aspects of Anomalies ). He is a professor at Rutgers University .
Among other things, he dealt with the connections of string theory (extreme) black holes to number theory and automorphic forms (and to other areas of string theory such as perturbation theory and cosmology), topological field theories (with applications to topological invariants), branes, two-dimensional quantum gravity, conformal Field theories (also with application to anyons ) and string field theory . He works closely with mathematicians.
For example, he applied the attractor mechanism (after Renata Kallosh , Andrew Strominger , Sergio Ferrara ) from the theory of supersymmetric black holes to the compactification of superstrings and showed that certain arithmetic Calabi-Yau manifolds are distinguished.
From 1986 to 1989, 1999, 2002, 2006 and 2012 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study , where he worked with Edward Witten , among others . In 1994 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich (Two dimensional Yang-Mills theory and topological field theory). In 2011 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society , and in 2020 he was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences . For 2014 he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and the Leonard Eisenbud Prize , and for 2015 the Dirac Medal of the ICTP.
Fonts
- with Luis Álvarez-Gaumé , Cumrun Vafa Theta Functions, Modular Invariance, and Strings , Comm. Math. Phys., Volume 106, 1986, p. 1
- Modular forms and Two-Loop String Physics , Phys. Lett. B, Volume 176, 1986, p. 369
- with Alvarez-Gaume, Jean-Benoît Bost , Philip Nelson , Vafa Bosonization in Arbitrary Genus , Phys. Lett. B, Volume 178, 1986, p. 41
- with Alvarez-Gaume, Bost, Nelson, Vafa Bosonization on higher genus Riemann surfaces , Commun. Math. Phys., Vol. 112, 1987, p. 503
- with Joe Harris , P. Nelson, Isadore M. Singer Modular forms and the cosmological constant , Phys. Lett. B, Volume 178, 1986, p. 167 (Errata Phys. Lett. B 201, 1988, p. 579)
- Atkin- Lehner Symmetry , Nucl. Phys. B, vol. 293, 1987, p. 139
- with G. Anderson Rationality in Conformal Field Theory , Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 117, 1988, p. 441
- with Nathan Seiberg Naturality in Conformal Field Theory , Nuclear Physics, B 313, 1989, p. 16
- with Seiberg Classical and Quantum Conformal Field Theory , Commun. Math. Phys., Vol. 123, 1989, p. 177
- with Seiberg Taming the Conformal Zoo , Phys. Lett. B, Volume 220, 1989, p. 422
- with Stefan Cordes, S. Ramgoolam Lectures on 2 dimensional Yang-Mills-theory, equivariant cohomology and topological field theories , Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl, Vol. 41, 1995, pp. 184-244
- with Paul Ginsparg Lectures on 2 dimensional gravity and 2 dimensional string theory , TASI 1992, Arxiv
- D-branes and K-theory in 2 dimensional topological field theory , Preprint 2006, Clay Math. Inst. Lectures
- Les Houches Lectures on Strings and Arithmetic, 2004 , in Pierre Cartier a. a. Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics and Geometry , Volume 2, Springer Verlag 2007
- Arithmetic and Attractors 1998
- K-theory from a physicists perspective, 2003
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Moore, Gregory W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, Gregory Winthrop (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theoretical and mathematical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |