Public Lecture: Nanoscale Thermal Transport by Vazrik Chiloyan
< 1 min readVazrik Chiloyan was born in Aleppo, Syria and grew up in Watertown, Massachusetts. In 2011 Vazrik graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Physics with a minor in Mathematics. Currently an MIT Energy Initiative Fellow, his visit to AUA included sharing his current research experience, which focuses on improving the theoretical understanding of energy transport between surfaces separated by extremely small gaps in order to better bridge the theories of conduction and radiation.
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