Horatiu Nastase's Homepage

I will be at the Global Edge Institute
at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
from November 2006.

Hi! And welcome to my homepage. I hope you will

Some background

I was born in Bucharest, Romania and finished high school at the
'Nicolae Balcescu' High School (now  'St. Sava National College' ).
I did my undergraduate studies at the Physics Dept. of the Bucharest 
University, from where I graduated in 1995. The last year I studied
at the Niels Bohr Institute ( NBI ), Copenhagen University , with a
scholarship which continued in the following year. In 1996 I joined
the  Physics Dept.  of  S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook  from which I got
my PhD in May 2000. From  2000  to 2002 I was a postdoc at the    
  Institute for Advanced Studyin Princeton, after which I came to Brown.
My researchand physics interests
       
(string theory in the view              (and in the view of Robbert
of Brian Greene)                              Dijkgraaf)
-for non-experts
-for the experts
-my professional CV
-Some notes
-Online talks
-Math and Physics exams in Romania
 String theory for laymen links
-"The official string theory website" by Patricia Schwarz, John
Schwarz's wife
-"Beyond string theory" Jan Troost's website

My highschool classmates' e-group (in romanian,
of course...).

Some photos

Of my friends (in Stony Brook and in Princeton)

Of me in my travels


 Sam's pictures of our group in Princeton

Pictures from Romania


by comparison: 

Stefan Luchian, "Peisaj cu casa de tara" (Landscape
with village houses), Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu,
Romania

Humor

Here are some jokes sent a few years ago by a friend. They
are a compilation related to physics, mathematics, engineering,
chemistry, etc., a lot of them inside jokes (some of them I don't
understand myself-like the ones related to computers). Enjoy!
-Humor1
-Humor2
-Humor3
-Humor4
-Humor5
-Humor6
-Humor7 
 -Humor8
If you are a string theorist (or at least had some interest in it),
or if you are into Star Trek, check out Warren Siegel 's
homepage. (he is a Proffesor at YITP in Stony Brook)
 If you are a physicist -and likely even if you aren't- you will
 definitely appreciate this page: MC Hawking "Stephen Hawking" 
 (of course not really him...)  gangsta' rapping about everything,
 including physics. Check out the mp3s and the lyrics.

Hobbies

Music

Movies

SciFi

Romanian newspapers and media

-Evenimentul zilei

-Catavencu

-Romanian newspapers and online radio listings

Romanian culture

   

Romanian neolithic art: "Ganditorul "        By comparison, "The Thinker"

(the thinker) and "Femeie Sezand" (sit-    of Auguste Rodin., 1881.

ting woman), of Hamangia culture, app. 

5000 B.C. Romanian Museum of Natio-

nal History

-Detroit Romanian cultural organization (good Romanian overview)

-Biblioteca romaneasca(virtual library and cultural center; links to other cultural sites)

-Editura Teora(technical oriented publishing house)

-Editura Humanitas(humanistic oriented publishing house)

-Prima Pagina(good starting point for links to anything romanian)

-Divertis (The best of Romanian humor- Divertis group-they have some mp3's as well)

Others

-Magazinul Victoria (Romanian virtual shop in USA)

-Romanian Village (a guide to Romanian diaspora)

-Romanian Roots (New England romanian association)
-Gibson wines (Romanian wines in Massachussets :) )

  Homepages of some friends

-Onur's (Onur T. Mentes)

-Natasa's (Natasa Stojic)

-Todd's (Todd Brun)

-Sav's (Savdeep Sethi)

-Sanjaye's (Sanjaye Ramgoolam)
       -old page (at Brown)

-Artur's (Artur Adib)

-Ionut's (my cousin Ionut Grigorescu)

  Princeton links:       -Princeton University

 -High Energy Group at the Physics Dept. of Princeton University

                                     -The Providence Phoenix

                                     -The Providence Journal

                                     -FindRI

Contact me at: nastase@het.brown.edu

Last updated:03/01/05