Research Interests

Professor McGreevy is working on string theory, both as a still-enigmatic object of study, and as a short-distance completion of models of physics which include gravity. Some areas of inquiry for which such a UV completion is useful are:

• the resolution of singularities and the ability of the topology of spacetime to change;
• models of cosmological inflation;
• mechanisms for supersymmetry breaking and its mediation;
• and many other ideas about physics beyond the Standard Model.

He also likes most other kinds of theoretical physics.

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Biographical Sketch

John McGreevy is from Staten Island, New York. A graduate of Stuyvesant High School and Brown University, he did his thesis work at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford. Before joining the MIT physics department in July 2006, he was a Dicke Fellow at Princeton and a research scientist at Stanford.

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Selected Publications

"Invasion of the Giant Gravitons from Anti-de Sitter Space," J. McGreevy, L. Susskind and N. Toumbas, arXiv:hep-th/0003075.

"Strings from Tachyons: the c=1 matrix reloaded," J. McGreevy and H. Verlinde, arXiv:hep-th/0304224.

"The Large-N Matrix Harmonic Oscillator as a String Theory," N. Itzhaki and J. McGreevy, arXiv:hep-th/0408180.

"Things Fall Apart: Topology Change from Winding Tachyons," A. Adams, X. Liu, J. McGreevy, A. Saltman and E. Silverstein, arXiv:hep-th/0502021.

"The Tachyon at the End of the Universe," J. McGreevy and E. Silverstein, arXiv:hep-th/0506130.

"N-flation," S. Dimopoulos, S. Kachru, J. McGreevy and J. Wacker, arXiv:hep-th/0507205.

All papers for John McGreevy on SPIRES.

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