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9 de jul. de 2018 · On July 1, 2018 Professor Cumrun Vafa was officially appointed the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy in the Physics Department at Harvard University. While potentitally misleading, the chair was founded before "Mathematicks and Natural Philosphy" came to be known as "Physics." Thus, the appointment, ...
28 de oct. de 2019 · Cumrun Vafa is the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy in the Physics Department at Harvard University. Born in Iran in 1960, he moved to the USA to study at MIT and later Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He has made several contributions to string theory: he is one of the founders of ...
Harvard professor and 2017 Breakthrough prize winner in Fundamental Physics, Cumrun Vafa joins Brian Greene for a discussion on the past and future of string...
Public Lectures. What is string theory? String theory is an attempt by theoretical physicists to find a unified fundamental theory of nature that merges quantum mechanics with Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. String theory provides a framework to unify everything we know about nature, including all particles and the forces between them ...
Cumrun Vafa ist ein iranisch-amerikanischer Physiker und einer der führenden Stringtheoretiker.
A new book by Prof. Cumrun Vafa, Puzzles to Unravel the Universe, aims to take the reader on a journey to unravel the laws of the universe through fun puzzles. It includes over a hundred puzzles and their solutions, along with discussion on how they relate to deep ideas in physics and math. Examples are drawn from classical physics, such as ...
From the string landscape to parallel universes, Harvard String Theorist Cumrun Vafa explains string theory's predictions and what this means for the possibi...
