James Moffat (mathematician)

James Moffat FIMA CMath
Born	1948 Scotland
Spouse	Jaqueline Elizabeth de Leon
Children	Louise, Katherine
Awards	President’s Medal of the ORS; the 'nobel medal in analytics'
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh[1] Newcastle University
Thesis	Groups of Automorphisms of Operator Algebras (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Prof J R Ringrose
Academic work
Discipline	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Aberdeen
Main interests	Quantum gravity

James Moffat FIMA CMath is a mathematician. He was a boffin in the 1982 Falklands War.[2] He wrote Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare,[3] which has 275 scholarly citations.[4]

Moffat is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Aberdeen, where he studies quantum gravity. 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. His contributions to the literature cited 560 times include new theories for Loop Quantum Gravity based on the Mathematics of Operator Algebras.[5]

Moffat was an early writer on the topic of the Agile Organization.[6] Business agility, 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

1. "James Moffat". Linked in. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
2. Ramo, Joshua Cooper (23 March 2009). The Age of the Unthinkable. Little Brown. pp. Chapter 9. james moffat mathematician.
3. Moffat, James (2010). Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare (PDF). Diane Publishing. ISBN 978-1893723115. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
4. "book citation count". Google Scholar. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
5. "Moffat, James". Retrieved 11 September 2017.
6. Atkinson, Simon; Moffat, James (July 2005). The agile organization: from informal networks to complex effects and agility (PDF). Department of Defense. ISBN 1-893723-16-X.