Prof. Richard P Woodard

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

In development

• Lorentz symmetry
• Ralf Lehnert

• Topology in Quantum Field Theory
• Don Witt

Curator and author

• Ostrogradsky's theorem on Hamiltonian instability
• (2015) Richard P Woodard

Articles sponsored or reviewed

• Quantum gravity as a low energy effective field theory
• (2017) John F Donoghue

• Unruh effect
• (2014) Stephen A. Fulling, George E. A. Matsas

• Heat kernel expansion in the background field formalism
• (2015) Andrei O. Barvinsky

Editor of the quantum gravity section of the Encyclopedia of Space-time and gravitation

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Education

• PhD: Harvard (1984) Invariant Formulation of and Radiative Corrections in Quantum Gravity Advisers: Sidney Coleman and Stanley Deser
• AM: Harvard (1979)
• BS: CWRU (1977)

Awards

• Highest Honors (CWRU)
• Philip E. Bliss Prize
• Lubrizol Prize in Physics
• NSF graduate Fellowship
• 1993 Physics Teacher-of-the-Year
• Outstanding Referee of APS
• 2011 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Teacher-of-the-Year
• Fellow of the American Physical Society

Current position

Professor of Physics, University of Florida (since 2003)

Noticeable previous positions and professional experiences

• Postdoc: UT Austin 1983-85
• Postdoc: UCSB 1985-7
• Research Assistant Professor: Brown 1987-9
• Assistant Professor: UF 1989-94
• Associate Professor: UF 1994-2003

Research

Research interests

• Quantum gravity
• Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
• Inflationary cosmology
• Modified gravity

Selected publications

• A Gravitational Mechanism for Cosmological Screening (with Nick Tsamis) Int. Journal of Modern Physics D20 (2011) 2847, arXiv:1103.5134.
• How Far Are We from the Quantum Theory of Gravity? Reports on Progress in Physics 72 (2009) 126002, arXiv:0907.4238.
• Avoiding Dark Energy with 1/R Modifications of Gravity Lecture Notes in Physics 720 (2007) 403, astro-ph/0601672.
• Nonlocal Cosmology (with Stanley Deser) Physical Review Letters 99 (2007) 111301, arXiv:0706.2151.
• Stochastic Quantum Gravitational Inflation (with Nick Tsamis) Nuclear Physics B724 (2005) 295, gr-qc/0505115.
• The Fermion Self-Energy during Inflation (with Shun-Pei Miao) Classical & Quantum Gravity 23 (2006) 1721, gr-qc/0511140.
• Vacuum Polarization and photon mass generation in inflation (with Tomislav Prokopec) American Journal of Physics 72 (2004) 60, astro-ph/0303358.
• Quantum Gravity Slows Inflation (with Nick Tsamis) Nuclear Physics B474 (1996) 235, hep-ph/9602315.
• The Structure of Perturbative Quantum Gravity On A de Sitter Background (with Nick Tsamis) Communications in Mathematical Physics 162 (1994) 217.
• Physical Green's Functions in Quantum Gravity (with Nick Tsamis) Annals of Physics 215 (1992) 96.
• Nonlocal Yang-Mills (with Gary Kleppe) Nuclear Physics B388 (1992) 81.
• The Problem Of Nonlocality In String Theory (with David Eliezer) Nuclear Physics B325 (1989) 389.

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