iAmmar: Ammar’s Temporary Autonomous Zone¶

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

—“Our Knowledge of the External World”, by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell is my favorite analytic philosopher, which, coupled to the statements that (a) I love physics and applied mathematics, (b) I am an avid student of the history of religion and religious philosophy, is perhaps all that is needed to deduce everything else about me. For those that are not adepts of such deductive analysis, I offer the further hint that Henry Corbin is my favorite modern religious philosopher-mystic while al-Razi is my favorite medieval philosopher-scientist, the exemplar of robust and independent freethought during the medieval ages.

My work is focused on computational physics, specially as applied to plasma physics and fluid mechanics. I have very broad scientific interests ranging from computational biology, numerical analysis to astrophysics and cosmology.