Biography
Educational Background
Ph.D. Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA
M.A. Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA
B.A. Physis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA
Research Interests
Representation Theory, Deformation Theory and Contractions of Lie Groups and Lie
Algebras, Quantum Groups and Superalgebras, Symmetries of Elementary Particles,
Conformal Relativity and Chronogeometry, Casimir Effect, Foundations of Special and
General Relativity.
Selected Recent Publications
Moylan, P. (2013) Casimir Energies for Spheres in n-dimensional
Minkowski Space and Generalized Bernoulli Polynomials.
Journal of Physics Conf. Ser.411 (2013) 012012, 411.
Moylan, P. (2013) Generalized Bernoulli Polynomials
and the Casimir Effect in the Einstein Universe. in Lie Theory and Its
Applications in Physics. 36, V.K. Dobrev (Ed.) pp. 7. Japan: Springer-Verlag
(Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, Vol. 36)
Moylan, P. (2012) Models of Contractions. J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 343 012083, 343.
Teaching Interests and courses taught
Classical Mechanics, Classical Electromagnetism, General and Special Relativity,
Quantum Mechanics, Functional Analysis, Representation Theory
Major awards, grants, patents, other honors
MIT Mathematics Department: 1998-99 (research work with Bertram Kostant)
J.W. Fulbright Grant: 1995-96 (research and teaching at Czech Technical
University in Prague)
National Academy of Sciences (USA) Grant: 1987 (research work with V.K.
Dobrev at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BG)
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Grant: 1984-85 (research work at Max
Planck Institute for Physics & Astrophysics, Werner Heisenberg
Institute, Munich, Germany)