Bio

Professor Brown received his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin in 1985, and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Vienna, Austria, The University of Texas, and the University of North Carolina. He came to NCSU in 1992 as a visiting professor in the physics and mathematics departments. He was appointed to a regular faculty position in 1995. Dr. Brown’s research area is general relativity.

Publications

• Encounter between an extended hyperelastic body and a Schwarzschild black hole with quadrupole-order effects , Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2026)
• Introduction to Scientific Computation , WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks (2025)
• Extended body dynamics in general relativity: Hyperelastic models , Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2023)
• Singular Lagrangians and the Dirac–Bergmann algorithm in classical mechanics , American Journal of Physics (2023)
• Generalized geodesic deviation in de Sitter spacetime , Classical and Quantum Gravity (2022)
• Singular Lagrangians, Constrained Hamiltonian Systems and Gauge Invariance: An Example of the Dirac–Bergmann Algorithm , Universe (2022)
• Elasticity theory in general relativity , Classical and Quantum Gravity (2021)
• Continuous body dynamics and the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations , Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2017)
• Numerical simulations with a first-order BSSN formulation of Einstein’s field equations , Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology (2012)
• Action principle for the generalized harmonic formulation of general relativity , Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology (2011)