Aurélien Barrau
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Aurélien Barrau (19 May 1973 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French astrophysicist, specialized in astroparticle physics, black holes and cosmology. He works in the CNRS Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology (LPSC) and is professor at the Joseph Fourier University (UJF).
He was awarded the 2006 Bogoliubov Prize in theoretical physics, mostly for his researches about quantum black holes and primordial cosmology. He is a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He was awarded the Joseph Fourier University medal in 2010. We was invited both at the "Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques" (France) and at the "Institute for Advanced Study" (Princeton) as a visitor.
He is also involved in philosophy and epistemology.
[edit] External links and sources in english
- Bogoliubov prize awarding, reported in the CERN Courier and on the BLTP website
- CERN Courier popularization article on microscopic black holes
- CERN Courier popularization article on the Multiverse
- Home page of Aurelien Barrau
- IUF page
[edit] Books (in French)
- Forme et Origine de l'Univers, Paris, Dunod, 2010
- Multivers, Paris, La Ville Brûle, 2010
- Relativité Générale, Paris, Dunod, 2011 (with J. Grain)
- Dans quels mondes vivons nous ?, Paris, Galilée, 2011 (with J.-L. Nancy)
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