Miguel Angel Virasoro

For the philosopher see Miguel Ángel Virasoro.

Miguel Angel Virasoro (1940, Argentina) is an Argentine physicist who did most of his work in Italy. The Virasoro algebra is named after him. Together with Giorgio Parisi and Marc Mezard he discovered the Ultrametric organization of low temperature spin glass states in infinite dimensions.

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

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)

References

• ICTP directors

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