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on 1 August 1960. 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.
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He is also interested in understanding the underlying meaning of string dualities, as well as trying to apply superstring theory to some unsolved questions of elementary particle physics such as the hierarchy problem and the
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Vafa has co-authored and published more than 300 research articles in the fields of string theory, mathematics, and physics, with many other researchers including:
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states of superstring theory, and for expounding the relation between geometry and field theories that arise through string dualities (culminating in the
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Dijkgraaf, Robbert; Vafa, Cumrun (September 2009). "Toda Theories, Matrix Models, Topological Strings, and N=2 Gauge Systems". p. 41.
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Hori, Kentaro; Katz, Sheldon; Klemm, Albrecht; Pandharipande, Rahul; Thomas, Richard; Vafa, Cumrun; Vakil, Ravi; Zaslow, Eric (2003).
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and the relation between geometry and quantum field theories. He is known in the string theory community for his co-discovery with
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in 1985 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Symmetries, inequalities and index theorems", under the supervision of
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for their advancement of string theory and jointly won the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Physics Frontiers Prize.
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theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at
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in Tehran and moved to the United States in 1977 to study at university. He received a
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Dijkgraaf, Robbert; Gopakumar, Rajesh; Ooguri, Hirosi; Vafa, Cumrun (September 2006).
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Overbye, Dennis; Chang, Kenneth; Fleur, Nicholas St; Grady, Denise (2016-12-04).
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Winter School on Mirror Symmetry, Vector Bundles and Lagrangian Submanifolds
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Dijkgraaf, Robbert; Hollands, Lotte; Sulkowski, Piotr; Vafa, Cumrun (2008).
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He is a trustee of Network of Iranians for Knowledge and Innovation (NIKI).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
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Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. I
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After his PhD degree, Vafa became a junior fellow via the
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Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Cumrun Vafa: 2017 Breakthrough Prize Laureate Interview
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Hori, Kentaro; Vafa, Cumrun (2000). "Mirror Symmetry".
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Cumrun Vafa: String Theory. Lex Fridman Podcast #204
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Mirror Symmetry (Clay Mathematics Monographs, V. 1)
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He received his 928: 902:Overbye, Dennis (2004-07-22). 895: 869:Overbye, Dennis (2004-12-07). 862: 837: 784: 767: 742: 520:Journal of High Energy Physics 453:In 2021, Vafa was awarded the 435:In 2016, Vafa was awarded the 1: 703: 550:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/106 375:He has made contributions to 16:Iranian theoretical physicist 2022:Iranian expatriate academics 1454:Sudbury Neutrino Observatory 824:Institute for Advanced Study 796:Institute for Advanced Study 448:National Academy of Sciences 379:and to the understanding of 323:Institute for Advanced Study 242:; born 1 August 1960) is an 7: 1997:Princeton University alumni 1378:Supernova Cosmology Project 688:. Independently published. 409:He is the recipient of the 377:topological string theories 328: 305: 10: 2048: 1977:Harvard University faculty 560:– via Research Gate. 417:, which was won alongside 347:Bekenstein-Hawking entropy 312:Harvard Society of Fellows 2002:American string theorists 1967:Alborz High School alumni 1617: 1270: 1177: 601:– via ResearchGate. 591:10.1142/S0218271806008978 394:In 2017, Vafa, alongside 355:Gopakumar–Vafa conjecture 239:[kɒːmˈrɒːnvæˈfɒː] 216: 194: 182: 172: 162: 155: 127: 97: 73: 65: 37: 28: 21: 639: 258:Cumrun Vafa was born in 254:Early life and education 110:Gopakumar–Vafa invariant 1872:Shankar Balasubramanian 1608:Alexander Zamolodchikov 1540:Peter van Nieuwenhuizen 122:Weak gravity conjecture 2027:Scientists from Tehran 2012:Theoretical physicists 1886:Clifford P. Brangwynne 1719:Emmanuelle Charpentier 607:"Strings on orbifolds" 360:In 1997, he developed 235:Persian pronunciation: 1390:High-Z Supernova Team 1021:Vafa, Cumrun (1998). 774:Vafa, Cumrun (1985). 684:Vafa, Cumrun (2020). 370:cosmological constant 136:Eisenbud Prize (2008) 1829:Virginia Man-Yee Lee 1693:Alexander Varshavsky 1512:Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1410:and contributors to 296:Princeton University 87:Princeton University 1813:Jeffrey M. Friedman 1703:Charles David Allis 1388:and members of the 1376:and members of the 1029:. pp. 537–556. 1023:"Geometric Physics" 936:"Board of Trustees" 850:Scientific American 756:(Video). 1:55. 2018 583:2006IJMPD..15.1581D 542:2008JHEP...02..106D 167:Theoretical Physics 106:Vafa–Witten theorem 1906:Masashi Yanagisawa 1817:Franz-Ulrich Hartl 1747:Stephen J. Elledge 1699:Alim Louis Benabid 1586:Charles H. Bennett 1536:Daniel Z. Freedman 1486:Charles L. Bennett 1450:Arthur B. 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Tehran
Iran
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS
Princeton University
PhD
F-theory
Vafa–Witten theorem
Gopakumar–Vafa invariant
Mirror symmetry
Swampland
Weak gravity conjecture
Dirac Medal
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Mustafa Prize
Theoretical Physics
Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Edward Witten
Freddy Cachazo
Daniel L. Jafferis
Andrew Neitzke
Eric Zaslow
Persian
[kɒːmˈrɒːnvæˈfɒː]
Iranian-American
Harvard University
Tehran

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