Gregory W. Moore is an American

United States

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 theoretical physicist who specializes in mathematical physics and string theory

String theory

String theory is an active research framework in particle physics that attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity. It is a contender for a theory of everything , a manner of describing the known fundamental forces and matter in a mathematically complete system...

. Moore is a professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

 and a member of the University's High Energy Theory group.

Moore's research has focused on: D-branes on Calabi-Yau manifold

Calabi-Yau manifold

A Calabi-Yau manifold is a special type of manifold that shows up in certain branches of mathematics such as algebraic geometry, as well as in theoretical physics...

s and BPS state counting; relations to Borcherds products, automorphic forms, black-hole entropy, and wall-crossing

Wall-crossing

In algebraic geometry and string theory, the phenomenon of wall-crossing describes the discontinuous change of a certain quantity, such as an integer geometric invariant, an index or a space of BPS state, across a codimension one wall in a space of stability conditions, a so-called wall of marginal...

; applications of the theory of automorphic forms to conformal field theory

Conformal field theory

A conformal field theory is a quantum field theory that is invariant under conformal transformations...

, string compactification, black hole entropy counting, and the AdS/CFT correspondence

AdS/CFT correspondence

In physics, the AdS/CFT correspondence , sometimes called the Maldacena duality, is the conjectured equivalence between a string theory and gravity defined on one space, and a quantum field theory without gravity defined on the conformal boundary of this space, whose dimension is lower by one or more...

; potential relation between string theory and number theory

Number theory

Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers. Number theorists study prime numbers as well...

; effective low energy supergravity

Supergravity

In theoretical physics, supergravity is a field theory that combines the principles of supersymmetry and general relativity. Together, these imply that, in supergravity, the supersymmetry is a local symmetry...

 theories in string compactification and the computation of nonperturbative stringy effects in effective supergravities; topological field theories, and applications to invariants of manifolds; string cosmology

String cosmology

String cosmology is a relatively new field that tries to apply equations of string theory to solve the questions of early cosmology. A related area of study is brane cosmology ....

 and string field theory

String field theory

String field theory is a formalism in string theory in which the dynamics of relativistic strings is reformulated in the language of quantum field theory...

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Moore won a 2007 Essays on Gravitation Award from the Gravity Research Foundation for his essay, joint with Frederik Denef, How Many Black Holes Fit on the Head of a Pin?

Moore is a member of the Advisory Board for the upcoming Springer's  Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics.

External links

• List of Publications on SPIRES
• Greg Moore's homepage, Rutgers University
  Rutgers University
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...