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...glance at the map shows why: Azerbaijan is sandwiched between two energy giants--Iran to the south and Russia to the north--allies and old U.S. foes whose reserves will last decades. The U.S. has three interests in Azerbaijan: securing energy, spreading democracy and fighting terrorism. Vafa Guluzadeh, a former adviser to President Heydar Aliyev, whose decade-long rule over Azerbaijan ended in 2003 when he maneuvered his son Ilham's succession, remembers translating a phone call from President Bill Clinton to his boss in 1994. "Clinton said, 'Mr President, we need to diversify the oil pipelines. We need...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted its 225th class of fellows and foreign honorary members on Saturday in Sanders Theatre, with 14 Harvard professors and administrators among the inductees. Cumrun Vafa, Donner professor of science, expressed his happiness to be among this year’s inductees. “It is part of the American tradition of valuing sciences and arts and it is a great honor for me, especially coming from the different background of Iran,” he said. Vafa described the work in string theory for which he was elected...
Donner Professor of Science Cumrun Vafa, who was also honored, wrote in an e-mail that he was “glad to see so many of my colleagues at Harvard elected to AAAS, though given the quality of faculty here, this is not very surprising...
...Cumrun Vafa, Donner Professor of Science...
...latest rage in physics, which attempts to meld relativity and quantum theory--there may be more than three dimensions of space and more than one dimension of time. What does that mean? Even the experts have no clue. "We're trying to understand it," says Harvard theorist Cumrun Vafa. "It's quite mysterious...