Samir Varma
Author, Physicist, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Hedge Fund Manager
About
I have a PhD in Theoretical Physics from The University of Texas. The incomparable E.C.G. Sudarshan was my advisor and Nobelist Steven Weinberg was on my dissertation committee. I am the author of The Physics of Free Will: How Determinism Affects Everything from The Future of AI to Traffic to God to Bees. I am working on a second book tentatively titled, I Wish I Had Known That about economics, finance and politics.
In my spare time I enjoy playing guitar and squash. My back won’t let me play golf any more! For computationally irreducible reasons, I have a particular fondness for detective and spy stories, and am obsessed with the music of The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Experience
VS Asset Management, LLC
Founder and Portfolio Manager
2001 – Present
A completely new and unique investment management concept we call Risk Timing™ that participates in the long-term rise in equity markets but without all of the risk of massive market drawdowns.
Palm Energy Systems, LLC
Co-Founder
2016 – Present
We are developing ground mounted transformative solar energy devices that are not only functional, but beautiful and can be placed anywhere. A game-changer in Green Technology.
Chairman and Chief Scientist
2010 – 2022
Applango developed AI algorithms to make call centers, SaaS and telecommunication companies much more efficient.
Media
World XP Podcast, General, https://worldxppodcast.com/2025/02/16/episode-205-samir-varma-author-physicist-entrepreneur-inventor-and-hedge-fund-manager/
Future of Life Institute, About AI, https://futureoflife.org/podcast/we-created-ai-why-dont-we-understand-it-with-samir-varma/
Ben Yeoh Chats, General, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bfysA4b5bU
World XP Podcast, about tariffs, https://worldxppodcast.com/2025/04/21/episode-214-samir-varma-jon-turek-trump-tariff-conversation/
Connecting with coincidence, with Bernard Beitman about meaningful coincidences, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNgxA2qW_zI
World XP Podcast, About Religion, God & Free Will, https://substack.com/inbox/post/162821532
Papers
Strongly Interacting W’s and Z’s and the existence of a heavy fourth generation of fermions, 04/1993, Silas R. Beane, Samir Varma, https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(93)91207\-4 & http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9304233
Quantum scattering theory in the light of an exactly solvable model with rearrangement collisions, 10/1995, Samir Varma, E.C.G. Sudarshan, https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1\ 063/1.531476 & http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9510170
Finite Temperature radiative corrections to Compton scattering, 10/1992, Physical Review D, Samir Varma, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.46.3630
Onset of wavy vortices in the finite length Couette-Taylor problem, 02/1991, Phys. Fluids A 3, 1510 (1991), W.S. Edwards, Silas R. Beane, Samir Varma, http://dx.doi.org/10.1\
063/1.858203
Quantum scattering theory in the light of an exactly solvable model with rearrangement collisions, 10/1993, Samir Varma, PhD Dissertation, https://search.lib.utexas.edu/permalink/01UTAU_INST/be14ds/alma991007806659706011
Inventions
Some of my inventions are:
- Method and system for analysis, display and dissemination of financial information using resampled statistical methods
- System and method for traffic decongestion
- Method and system for analyzing investment information
- Management of information-technology services
- Methods and systems for representing relational information in 3D space
- System and method for software adoption
- System and method for the generation and transfer of a contingently deliverable property right
- System, apparatus and method for analyzing sports information
- Systems and methods using consumer participation in association with an event to effect the allocation of credit to service providers