Bernd Brügmann

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Bernd Brügmann, a German mathematician, physicist, experienced C programmer, and professor and chair for gravitational theory at University of Jena. He holds a M.Sc. in mathematics and Ph.D. in physics from Syracuse University in 1987 and 1993 respectively, where his physics advisor include Abhay Ashtekar. In his Ph.D. thesis Brügmann elaborated on quantum general relativity in the loop representation and Ashtekar variables. Prompted by his work in physics, he has written a Go playing program in 1993, Gobble, playing 9x9 Go with minimal Go knowledge using a Monte Carlo method called simulated annealing.

=Photos= Lars Bremer, Rico Walter and Bernd Brügmann explaining how he executed the very first Monte-Carlo tree search experiment in computer Go

=Selected Publications=
 * Bernd Brügmann (1993). On the Constraints of Quantum General Relativity in the Loop Representation. Ph.D. thesis, Syracuse University
 * Bernd Brügmann (1993). Monte Carlo Go. pdf
 * Bernd Brügmann (1996). On the constraint algegra of quantum gravity in the Loop representation. Nuclear Physics B 474, pdf
 * Bernd Brügmann (2001). Programmieren lernen für Teens. Addison-Wesley (German) » C
 * Bernd Brügmann (2013). A pseudospectral matrix method for time-dependent tensor fields on a spherical shell. Journal of Computational Physics, Vol 235, arXiv:1104.3408v1 (2011)

=External Links=
 * Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut | FSU Jena | Brügmann
 * Gobble by Bernd Brügmann

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