Rodolfo Gambini
Rodolfo Gambini (* 1946 in Montevideo) is a theoretical physicist who deals with quantum gravity. He is a professor at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo.
Gambini studied in Montevideo, was at the University of Paris-Sud (Paris XI) and the Institute Henri Poincaré in Achille Papapetrou PhD ( dissertation topic was the propagation of gravitational waves in elastic media ) and then in 1985 Professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. In 1987, he went after the return of democracy after Uruguay and became a professor in Montevideo.
Gambini is one of the pioneers of loop quantum gravity. In 1986 he led with Antoni Trias loop variable in a Yang-Mills theories. From 1990, he worked closely with the coming from Argentina physicist Jorge Pullin together and is often at this as a visiting scientist at Louisiana State University. For example, they discovered connections with knot theory ( the subject of an early monograph on loop quantum gravity with Pullin ) and showed that the Jones polynomial solution of the quantized Einstein equations in loop quantum gravity is.
With Pullin he said non-classical forms of light propagation from the Schleifenquantengravitaton before.
Gambini also published on lattice gauge theories, foundations of quantum mechanics ( with its own Montevideo interpretation of quantum mechanics) and philosophical questions.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, the Argentine Academy of Sciences and the Latin American Academy of Science. In 2004 he received the Medal of Science from the President of Uruguay and the 2003 Physics Prize of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
2003 to 2008 he headed the state support organization for science of Uruguay ( Pedeciba ).
Writings
- With Pullin A first course in Loop Quantum Gravity, Oxford University Press 2011
- With Pullin Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity, Cambridge University Press 1996