Research Interests

Hong Liu's research interests involve string theory, quantum gravity, and theoretical elementary particle physics.

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Biographical Sketch

Hong Liu received his B.S. in 1993 from the University of Science and Technology of China and his Ph.D. in 1997 from Case Western Reserve University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College, London, fom 1997-99, and recently completed a five-year research associate position at Rutgers University, begun in 1999.

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Selected Publications

"UV Finite Brane Decay," Joanna Karczmarek, Hong Liu, Juan Maldacena and Andrew Strominger, hep-th/0306132.

"Closed Strings from Decaying D-branes,'' Neil Lambert, Hong Liu and Juan Maldacena, hep-th/0303139.

"Strings in a Time-dependent Orbifold,'' Hong Liu, Gregory Moore and Nathan Seiberg, J. High Energy Phys. 06 (2002) 045; hep-th/0204168.

"Open String Star as a Continuous Moyal Product,'' Michael Douglas, Hong Liu, Gregory Moore and Barton Zwiebach, J. High Energy Phys. 04, (2002) 022; hep-th/0202087.

"*-Trek: The One-Loop N=4 Noncommutative SYM Action," Hong Liu and Jeremy Michelson, Nucl. Phys. B 614 (2001) 279, hep-th/0008205."D=4 Super-Yang-Mills, D=5 Gauged Supergravity and D=4 Conformal Supergravity'', Hong Liu and Arkady Tseytlin, Nucl. Phys. B533 (1998) 88, hep-th/9804083.

"Sweeping Away the Monopole Problem," Gia Dvali, Hong Liu and Tanmay Vachaspati, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 2281-2284, hep-ph/9710301.

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