Dr. Vitaly Vanchurin's Home Page

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

Date of birth: January 4th, 1975

Place of birth: Moscow, Russia

Place of residence: Palo Alto, California

Nationality: Russian

Marital status: Married

Children: Antonina, Kosmos and Spartak


Publications from SLAC

"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."
Wernher von Braun


Curriculum Vitae PDF

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
Barry LePatner


Current Position: Stanford University

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
Albert Einstein


Graduate School: Tufts University and Tufts Institute of Cosmology

"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes
less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe."

R. Buckminster Fuller


Undergraduate School: Suffolk University

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain


High School: Special Mathematics School #57

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
Mark Twain


Conference Presentations

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing,
but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen


Cosmic String Network Simulation: flat (27.7 MB) , radiation (27.7 MB) and matter (24.5 MB)

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

Rich Cook


Photo Album

"One picture is worth a thousand words."
Fred R. Barnard
Note: The average word in English Language has 4.3 characters, therefore
an average pictures should be 1000*(1+4.3) Bytes ~ 5.3 KBytes in size.


My email address: vitaly (at) cosmos.phy.tufts.edu

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