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Cumrun Vafa. Cumrun Vafa is the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy in the Physics Department at Harvard University, where he does research and teaches theoretical physics since 1985. Born in Iran in 1960, he moved to the US for higher education where he received his B.S. in math and physics from MIT before moving to Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in ...
Cumrun Vafa’s research has involved essentially all these aspects. Together with his colleagues, he has worked on topological strings, trying to elucidate some new mathematics originating from string theory (notably in his work on mirror symmetry) and using these techniques to uncover some of the mysteries of black holes, particularly the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
In this interview, David Zierler, Oral Historian for AIP, interviews Cumrun Vafa, Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics at Harvard. Vafa surveys the current state of the field in string theory, and he recounts his upbringing in Iran and his family’s goal for him to pursue education in the United ...
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11 de nov. de 2022 · Cumrun Vafa (Princeton U.), Edward Witten (Princeton U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study) Apr 1984 - 39 pages. Abstract: We show that QCD with a sufficient number of fermions of zero bare mass has physical massless particles. That result also follows from triangle anomalies, so only our method is novel.
Interviews and discussions by Cumrun Vafa on a variety of topics. Interview of Cumrun Vafa by David Zierler: March 25, 2021, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics
C Vafa. Nuclear Physics B 469 (3), 403-415. , 1996. 1903. 1996. Kodaira-Spencer theory of gravity and exact results for quantum string amplitudes. M Bershadsky, S Cecotti, H Ooguri, C Vafa. Communications in Mathematical Physics 165, 311-427. , 1994.
