Publications from SPIRES
"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
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
My email address: vitaly (at) cosmos.phy.tufts.edu