Miguel Angel Virasoro

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Miguel Angel Virasoro is an Argentinian physicist who did most of his work in Italy. The Virasoro algebra is named after him. Together with G. Parisi and M. Mezard he discovered the Ultrametric organization of low temperature spin glass states.

He was a director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) from 1995 to 2002. He now teaches physical-mathematical models for economy at Università di Roma "La Sapienza".

[edit] Publications

• M. A. Virasoro, Subsidiary conditions and ghosts in dual-resonance models Phys. Rev. , D1 (1970) pp. 2933–2936. This is the paper where the Virasoro algebra was first introduced into string theory.

• M. Mezard, G. Parisi and M.A. Virasoro, Spin Glass Theory and Beyond (Singapore 1988)

[edit] References

• ICTP directors