James Moffat is a
mathematician. He was a
boffin in the 1982
Falklands war
The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial de ...
. He wrote ''Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare'', which has 275
scholarly citations.
Moffat is currently Professor of Physics at the
University of Aberdeen, where he studies
quantum gravity
Quantum gravity (QG) is a field of theoretical physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics; it deals with environments in which neither gravitational nor quantum effects can be ignored, such as in the vi ...
. He has published 135 articles. He is a recipient of the Napier Medal in Mathematics and the President’s Medal of the ORS; the 'nobel medal in analytics'. He is also a Fellow of OR, a
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and a
Chartered Mathematician Chartered Mathematician (CMath) is a professional qualification in Mathematics awarded to professional practising mathematicians by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in the United Kingdom.
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. His contributions to the literature cited 560 times include new theories for
Loop Quantum Gravity
Loop quantum gravity (LQG) is a theory of quantum gravity, which aims to merge quantum mechanics and general relativity, incorporating matter of the Standard Model into the framework established for the pure quantum gravity case. It is an attem ...
based on the Mathematics of
Operator Algebras.
Moffat was an early writer on the topic of the ''Agile Organization''.
, generally, had been discussed before, but agility, specifically in the context of military organizations, was a new field in 2005.
Selected publications
Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare citation count of 275
The Agile Organization: From Informal Networks to Complex Effects and Agility citation count of 138
Command And Control In The Information Age: Representing Its Impact citation count of 60
References
1948 births
Living people
British mathematicians
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
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