Vahe Gurzadyan

Who is Vahe Gurzadyan?

Vahe Gurzadyan is an Armenian mathematical physicist and a professor at Yerevan Physics Institute best known for co-writing "Concentric circles in WMAP data may provide evidence of violent pre-Big-Bang activity" paper with his colleague Roger Penrose, and collaborating on Roger Penrose's recent book Cycles of Time. Gurzadyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1955. He graduated Yerevan State University, Chair of Theoretical Physics. Was postgraduate student at Dept. Theoretical Physics, Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, DSci, in Theoretical and mathematical physics.

Since 1980 Gurzadyan worked as Research Fellow in Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan; he is the head of Cosmology Unit since 1989. In 1989 he lectured on dynamical systems in 4 Universities in Japan. He had visiting positions in several Universities: University of Sussex and since 2001 in ICRA, University of Rome "La Sapienza", ICRANet.

The main topics of his research are: the chaos in non-linear systems, N-body dynamics, stellar dynamics, Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, observational cosmology. He has published 2 monographs, 120 articles, has edited 4 books.