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Professor Cumrun Vafa awarded Honorary Doctors Appointment at Uppsala University

December 11, 2019

 

Professor Cumrun Vafa has been awarded honorary doctors at Uppsala University. Nine faculties have appointed several honorary doctors in varying fields, including string theory, maternal healthcare, evolutionary biology, the European history of ideas, prostata cancer and preschool pedagogy.

"Professor Cumrun Vafa, of Harvard University in the United States, is an eminent international expert in theoretical and mathematical physics, especially in both the physical and theoretical aspects of string theory. He has made important discoveries in...

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Professor Vafa Discusses F-Theory in Scientific American

March 28, 2019

 

In the Scientific American article "Found: A Quadrillion Ways for String Theory to Make Our Universe," Professor Vafa discusses F-Theory and the standard model:

“It’s very nice work,” says Cumrun Vafa, one of the developers of F-theory, at Harvard University. “The fact you can arrange the geometry and topology to fit with not only Einstein’s equations, but also with the [particle] spectrum that we want, is not trivial. It works out nicely here....”

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Professor Andy Strominger to appear in new documentary "Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe"

March 6, 2019

A new documentary called "Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe" will air for the first time on March 10, 2019 on The Science Channel. The documentary commemorates the one-year anniversary of the passing of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Professor Andrew Strominger, Gwill E. York Professor of Physics at Harvard University, will appear in the documentary along with many other theoretical physicists to discuss the extraordinary influence Hawking had on our understanding of the universe, as well as his connection to Albert Einstein. Follow the link below for more...

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Professor Andrew Strominger Participates in Press Conference to Promote Dr. Stephen Hawking's Final Book Release

October 24, 2018

On October 15, 2018, Professor Andrew Strominger participated in a panel discussion at the launch of the late Dr. Stephen Hawking's final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. The book was published posthumously witht he help of Dr. Hawking's family, friends, and collaborators. Other members of the panel included Dr. Hawking's children Timothy Hawking and Lucy Hawking; Malcolm Perry, close collaborator and fellow Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge; and Fay Dowker, Professor of Theortetical Physics from the Imperial College London. The panel was chaired by...

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Latest work of Professor Cumrum Vafa Implies that Dark Energy's Value Changes

October 17, 2018

 

"Harvard physicist Cumrun Vafa is one of string theory’s strongest proponents. But this summer, other string theorists have been reeling from his latest conjecture, which might invalidate their ideas built on a decade-long assumption that dark energy is constant. Vafa’s work implies that dark energy’s value changes.

A non-constant dark energy is a consequence of Vafa and his collaborators’ attempts to apply string theory to a universe like ours—one where the very vacuum of space appears to have some innate energy. If his conjecture (and string theory itself)...

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