Faculty

HONG LIU
Associate Professor

HONG LIU, Associate Professor of Physics

Name: Hong Liu

Title(s): Associate Professor of Physics

Email: hong_liu@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 253-4853

Assistant: Joyce Berggren (617) 253-4827

Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 6-313
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Area of Physics

Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics

Education:

  • B.Sc. 1993, UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
  • Ph.D. 1997, CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

Research Interests

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

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.

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.

    Last updated: 04.01.2013