Rodolfo Gambini
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Rodolfo Gambini is a physicist and of the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo
Montevideo
Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

, Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

 and a visiting professor at the Horace Hearne Institute
Horace Hearne Institute
The Horace Hearne Jr. Institute for Theoretical Physics is at Louisiana State University. The Hearne Institute is funded by a donation of two endowed chairs by Horace Hearne Jr. and the State of Louisiana, as well as additional grants from a variety of national and international granting agencies....

 for Theoretical Physics at the Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...

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He works on loop quantum gravity
Loop quantum gravity
Loop quantum gravity , also known as loop gravity and quantum geometry, is a proposed quantum theory of spacetime which attempts to reconcile the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity...

. He got his Ph.D. in Universite de Paris VI working with Achille Papapetrou. From there he moved to the Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela where he rose through the professorial ranks. It was there that together with fellow physicist Antoni Trias he invented the loop representation for Yang-Mills theories in 1986.

Gambini returned to Uruguay in 1987 after democracy had returned to the country. Gambini has published over 100 scientific articles ranging from philosophy of science and foundations of quantum mechanics to lattice gauge theories to quantum gravity. He was head of the Pedeciba, the main funding agency for basic sciences in Uruguay (2003–2008). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for Advancement of Science, a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, the Latin American Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Exact and Natural Sciences of Argentina. He is the 2003 winner of the Third World Academ of Sciences prize in physics and has received numerous distinctions in Uruguay where he was awarded the 2004 Presidential Medal of Science.

Key publications

  • Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity, with Jorge Pullin
    Jorge Pullin
    Jorge Pullin is the Horace Hearne Chair in theoretical Physics at the Louisiana State University, known for his work on black hole collisions and quantum gravity.-Biography:...

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    • Hardcover 1996, ISBN 0-521-47332-2.
    • Paperback 2000, ISBN 0-521-65475-0.


Gauge dynamics in the C-representation, with Antoni Trias
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986NuPhB.278..436G

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