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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida

Richard Woodard

PhD Harvard University (1984)

rwoodard@ufl.edu
Office: 2065 NPB
352.392.8744

Research Group: Institute for Fundamental Theory

Research Focus

Research interests includes particle physics, inflationary cosmology and quantum gravity.

Selected Publications

“Comments on Entire Functions of the Derivative Operator,” R. P. Woodard, UF preprint UFIFT-QG-26-04, arXiv:2602.16190.

“Cancellation of one-parameter graviton gauge dependence in the effective scalar field equation in de Sitter,” D. Glavan, S. P. Miao, T. Prokopec and R. P. Woodard, University of Florida preprint UFIFT-QG-26-03, accepted for publication in the Journal of High Energy Physics, arXiv:2602.07908.

“Quantum Cosmology in Accelerating Spacetimes II,” S. P. Miao, N. C. Tsamis and R. P. Woodard, University of Florida preprint UFIFT-QG-26-02, arXiv:2601.12887.

“Sub-Leading Logarithms for Scalar Potential Models on de Sitter,” S. P. Miao, N. C. Tsamis and R. P. Woodard, University of Florida preprint UFIFT-QG-26-01, arXiv:2601.09309.

“A Nonlocal Realization of MOND that Interpolates from Cosmology to Gravitationally Bound Systems,” C. Deffayet and R. P. Woodard, University of Florida preprint UFIFT-QG-25-05, accepted for publication in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, arXiv:2512.10513.

“Quantum Cosmology in Accelerating Spacetimes,” S. P. Miao, N. C. Tsamis and R. P. Woodard, Physical Review D112 (2025) 126022, arXiv:2508.17787.

“Leading Logarithm Quantum Gravity II,” S. P. Miao, N. C. Tsamis and R. P. Woodard, Physical Review D112 (2025) 046015, arXiv:2507.04308.

“Recent Developments in Stochastic Inflation,” R. P. Woodard, University of Florida preprint UFIFT-QG-25-02, submitted for publication in a collected work entitled, “Open Issues in Gravitation and Cosmology – Original Contributions, Essays and Recollections in Honor of Alexei Starobinsky,” edited by A. Barvinsky and A. Kamenshchik (Springer Nature, Switzerland), arXiv:2501.15843.

“Resummations for Inflationary Quantum Gravity,” R. P Woodard, International Journal of Modern Physics D34 (2025) 10, 2542002, arXiv:2501.05077.