Diego Lucio Rapoport

Diego Lucio Rapoport was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in May 28, 1952.
He is a Jewish Argentinian Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician.
After Obtaining his PhD in mathematical-physics under Prof. Shlomo Sternberg of Harvard and Tel Aviv universities and that of Prof. Yuval Ne’eman of Tel Aviv and Austin-Texas universities, he did postdoctoral work at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana of Mexico City, the Instituto Balseiro of the National Atomic Commission of Argentina at Bariloche, Argentina, the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio.
He became a full professor at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, in 1991
Memberships
Rapoport has been a visiting fellow at the University of Harvard, Denver, International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge, University of Pisa, University of Campinas and the University of Sao Paulo.
He is a senior member of the Telesio - Galilei Academy of Science Advisory Board and head of its Natural Philosophy Department, as well as member of The Alpha Institute of Advanced Study , and of the standing committee of the International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD). He has been a member of the editorial committee of several international mathematics and mathematical-physics journals.
Contributions
His research work has focused in developing a unified geometrical theory of spacetime, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, Brownian motion, non-equilibrium and equilibrium thermodynamics and fluid dynamics, in terms of geometries with torsion. As an example of this approach, closed forms representations for the Navier-Stokes equations on manifolds with and without smooth boundaries were derived from this approach.
Selected Publications
* Diego Rapoport & S. Sternberg, Classical Mechanics without lagrangians nor hamiltoneans, Nuovo Cimento 80A (1984), p. 371-383
* Diego Rapoport & S. Sternberg, On the interactions of spin with torsion, Annals of Physics vol. 158, no.11, (1984), p. 447-475
* Diego Rapoport, On the derivation of the stochastic processes associated to Lie isotopic gauge theory, pags. 359-374, in Hadronic Mechanics and Nonpotential Interactions V, vol, II, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, Univ. of Iowa, August 1990, Hyo Myung (ed.), Nova Science Publs., New York/Budapest, 1992.
* Diego Rapoport, The Riemann-Cartan-Weyl Quantum geometries II : The Cartan stochastic copying method, Fokker-Planck operator and Maxwell-de Rham equations, 2115-2152., International Journal of Theoretical Physics vol. 36, No. 10, 1997
* Diego Rapoport, Stochastic processes in conformal Riemann-Cartan-Weyl gravitation, Intern. Journal of Theoretical Physics vol. 30, no. 11, (1991), 1497-1515.
* Diego Rapoport, Covariant Thermodynamics and the Ergodic Theory of Stochastic and Quantum Flows, in Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures VI,pags. 359-370, Proceedings of the VI th. International Conference on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures, Valparaiso 1995, E. Tirapegui and W. Zeller (edts.), Nonlinear Phenomenae and Complex Systems V, Kluwer Series, Dordrecht/Boston, 2000.
* Diego Rapoport, On the unification of geometric and random structures through torsion fields: Brownian motions, viscous and magnetic fluid-dynamics, Foundations of Physics vol. 35, no.7, pags. 1205-1244, 2005 .
* Diego Rapoport, Cartan-Weyl Dirac and Laplacian operators, Brownian motions, The quantum potential and Scalar Curvature, Dirac-Hestenes equations and supersymmetric systems, Foundations of Physics, vol. 35, no. 8, pags. 1383-1431, 2005
* Diego Rapoport, Random Diffeomorphisms and integration of the classical Navier-Stokes equations, Reports on Mathematical Physics, vol. 49, no. 1, p. 1-27, 2002.
* Diego Rapoport, Stochastic differential geometry approach to viscous fluids and a remarkable pure noise representation, Reports on Mathematical Physics vol. 50, no.2, 211-250, 2002.
* Diego Rapoport, Martingale problem approach to the Navier-Stokes equations on smooth-boundary manifolds and semispace, Random Operators and Stochastic Equations, vol. 11, no.2, 109-150, 2003.
* Diego Rapoport, Random Symplectic Geometry and the realizations of the random representations of the Navier-Stokes equations by ordinary differential equations, Random Operators and Stochastic Equations, vol. 11, no.4, 351-382, 2003.
* Diego Rapoport, Torsion Fields, Cartan-Weyl Space-Time and State-Space Quantum Geometries, their Brownian Motions, and the Time Variables, Foundations of Physics vol. 37, no. 4-5, 813-854, 2007.

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