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14 de feb. de 2024 · Cumrun Vafa was born in Tehran, Iran on 1 August 1960. [1] He became interested in physics as a young child, specifically how the moon was not falling from the sky, and he later grew his interests in math by high school and was fascinated by how mathematics could predict the movement of objects. [2]
From the string landscape to parallel universes, Harvard String Theorist Cumrun Vafa explains string theory's predictions and what this means for the possibi...
7 de ago. de 2023 · Sobre Cumrun Vafa. Nacido en Irán en 1960, el profesor Vafa se trasladó a los Estados Unidos para su educación superior, donde obtuvo su licenciatura en matemáticas y física del MIT antes de trasladarse a la Universidad de Princeton, donde obtuvo su doctorado en física teórica.
Acknowledging the scientists who blazed intellectual trails before him, Isaac Newton wrote: “If I have seen a little further it was by standing on the should...
29 de oct. de 2018 · Cumrun Vafa, un destacado teórico de cuerdas en la Universidad de Harvard, ha estado mapeando el «territorio pantanoso» prohibido de universos imposibles durante 13 años. Vafa y sus colegas sostienen que los universos con cantidades estables, constantes y positivas de energía de vacío, conocidas como «universos de Sitter», no son posibles.
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 ...
Cumrun Vafa. Affiliation Natural Sciences Mathematics Website Individual Website. Dates at IAS Member. School of Natural Sciences. School of Mathematics. 1/1994 – 4/1994. Spring. Degrees Princeton University. Ph.D. 1985. Update Profile IAS News. Daniel Freedman Among ...
