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Brian Greene
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Brian Greene, February 28, 2012
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Brian Randolph Greene
February 9, 1963 (age 57) New York City, U.S.
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Magdalen College, Oxford (PhD) |
| Known for | String theory The Elegant Universe The Fabric of the Cosmos The Hidden Reality |
| Spouse(s) | Tracy Day |
| Awards | Andrew Gemant Award (2003) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Cornell University Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Graham G. Ross James Binney |
Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely, relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point.
Greene has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Hidden Reality, and related PBS television specials. He also appeared on The Big Bang Theory episode "The Herb Garden Germination", as well as the films Frequency and The Last Mimzy. He is currently a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Greene was also the narrator for the U.S. version of the preschool television series, Maisy.
- Black hole condensation and the unification of string vacua
- Bouncing and cyclic string gas cosmologies
- Brane gases in the early universe: thermodynamics and cosmology
- Brane-World Motion in Compact Dimensions
- Bubble Universe Dynamics After Free Passage
- A bulk inflaton from large-volume extra dimensions
- Conifolds and Tunneling in the String Landscape
- Cosmological Moduli Dynamics
- Dark Energy and Stabilization of Extra Dimensions
- Decoupling in an expanding universe: backreaction barely constrains short distance effects in the CMB
- Dynamical Decompactification and Three Large Dimensions
- An Effect of α′ Corrections on Racetrack Inflation
- A generic estimate of trans-Planckian modifications to the primordial power spectrum in inflation
- Extracting New Physics from the CMB
- Families of Quintic Calabi–Yau 3–Folds with Discrete Symmetries
- On the Hagedorn Behaviour of PP-wave Strings and N = 4 SYM Theory at Finite R-Charge Density
- Kink Collisions in Curved Field Space
- The Origin of the Universe as Revealed Through the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Random Field Theories in The Mirror Quintic Moduli Space
- Exploring Spiral Inflation in String Theory
- String Windings in the Early Universe
- On three dimensions as the preferred dimensionality of space via the Brandenberger-Vafa mechanism
- Tumbling through a landscape: Evidence of instabilities in high-dimensional moduli spaces
- Universal Correction to the Inflationary Vacuum
- Warped Vacuum Statistics