Dirac Medal (2008) Eisenbud Prize (2008) Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2016) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2017) Mustafa Prize (2021)
Scientific career
Fields
Theoretical Physics
Institutions
Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Edward Witten
Doctoral students
Freddy Cachazo Andrew Neitzke Eric Zaslow
Cumrun Vafa (Persian: کامران وفا, Persian pronunciation:[kɒːmˈrɒːnvæˈfɒː]; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University.
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CumrunVafa (Persian: کامران وفا, Persian pronunciation: [kɒːmˈrɒːn væˈfɒː]; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the...
footballer Vafa Huseynova (born 1988), Azerbaijani group rhythmic gymnast CumrunVafa (born 1960), Iranian-American physicist Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa (born 1953)...
appeared in papers by theoretical physicists, such as Edward Witten and CumrunVafa, by analogy with Witten's earlier idea of topological quantum field theory...
gravity such as string theory. In a paper from 1996, Andrew Strominger and CumrunVafa showed how to derive the Beckenstein–Hawking formula for certain black...
Santa Barbara. He is the author of over 200 publications. a paper with CumrunVafa that explains the microscopic origin of the black hole entropy, originally...
computer scientist; founder of fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy set theory. CumrunVafa – Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Harvard, Winner of Breakthrough...
the so-called Unruh effect. CumrunVafa: physicist and developer of F-theory, known for Vafa-Witten theorem and Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture. Robert Wald: physicist...
various approaches to quantum gravity. In 1995, Andrew Strominger and CumrunVafa showed that counting the microstates of a specific supersymmetric black...
microstate. The situation changed in 1995 when Andrew Strominger and CumrunVafa calculated the right Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of a supersymmetric black...
Peyman, the inventor of LASIK; Lotfi Asker Zadeh; Vartan Gregorian; CumrunVafa; Babak Hassibi; Nouriel Roubini; Ali Hajimiri; Pardis Sabeti; Vahid Tarokh;...
Russia (1846–1915) Juris Upatnieks – Latvia, United States (born 1936) CumrunVafa – Iran, United States (born 1960) Oriol Valls – (born 1947 in Barcelona...
mechanism). He made notable contributions to string theory duality (with CumrunVafa), the AdS/CFT correspondence (with Eva Silverstein), and to the construction...
original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2018. Andrew Strominger; CumrunVafa (June 1996). "Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy"....
gauge/geometry correspondence with CumrunVafa and is particularly known for proposing the Gopakumar–Vafa duality and Gopakumar–Vafa invariants. Later, his work...
Gaudin 2018 Barry Simon 2017 Carl M. Bender 2016 Andrew Strominger and CumrunVafa 2015 Pierre Ramond 2014 Gregory W. Moore 2013 Michio Jimbo and Tetsuji...
Rahbar and introduced to the medical community. The Vafa-Witten theorem was proposed by CumrunVafa, an Iranian string theorist, and his co-worker Edward...
(polyhedra), David O. Tall (lambda rings), John A. Todd (Stiefel manifolds), CumrunVafa (M-theory), Richard S. Ward (instantons) and Edward Witten (M-theory...
Harvard University, where he completed the Ph.D. under the supervision of CumrunVafa in 2002. Cachazo was a post-doctoral member of the Institute for Advanced...
(1956–) formulated the theory of string gas cosmology, with colleague CumrunVafa, and developed cosmological perturbation theory Bernard J. Carr (1949–)...
(1951–1969) Andrew Gleason (1969–1992) Bertrand Halperin (1992–2018) CumrunVafa (2018–present) Quinquennial catalogue of the officers and graduates of...
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