Sergei Gukov | |
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| Born | April 1977 (age 47) |
| Nationality | Russian-American |
| Alma mater | MIPT,Princeton |
| Known for | quantum topology,string theory, special holonomy manifolds,categorification of quantum group invariants, exact solutions of strongly coupled theories |
| Awards | 1st Prize, USSR Physics Olympiad & Moscow Mathematics Olympiad (1992) Pomeranchuk Award for Young Scientists (2000) Clay Mathematics Institute Long Term Prize Fellowship (2001–2006) Sloan Research Fellowship in Science & Technology (2007) |
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| Fields | mathematics,machine learning,theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Harvard,Caltech,UCSB,IAS,MPIM,Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Witten |
Sergei Gukov (Russian:Серге́й Гу́ков; born 1977) is a professor ofmathematics andtheoretical physics. Gukov graduated fromMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) inMoscow, Russia before obtaining a doctorate in physics fromPrinceton University under the supervision ofEdward Witten.[1]
He held a Long-term Prize fellowship ofClay Mathematics Institute atHarvard University (2001–2006) and during 2007-2008 was a member of the school of mathematics at theInstitute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Since 2007, he has been professor of mathematics and theoretical physics at theCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech). Starting 2010, Gukov was elected as an external scientific member of theMax Planck Society at theMPIM, Bonn.
In 2022 Gukov was appointed as a Senior Professor in the School of Theoretical Physics atDublin Institute for Advanced Studies. There he has organised a number of important conferences includingComputer science for knotty math problems and was lead organiser for‘The Amplituhedron at 10 the first joint conference between the two oldest Institutes for Advanced Studies in the worldInstitute for Advanced Study and DIAS.
Sergei Gukov is a member of the Scientific Board of theAmerican Institute of Mathematics (AIM) and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Quantum Mathematics (QM).[2][3] He has served on numerous other scientific committees and advisory boards. He is editor of the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics,[4] Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications,[5] and Letters in Mathematical Physics.[6]
In 2010, along withAlain Connes, Gukov was invited to deliver the 8thTakagi Lectures, the only named lecture series of theMathematical Society of Japan.[7] In 2019, Gukov was invited to give the Whittemore Lectures at Yale University.[8]
Known for Gukov-Vafa-Witten superpotential, Gukov-Witten surface operators, and Gukov-Pei-Putrov-Vafa (GPPV) invariants. In recent years, he teamed up withBoris Feigin,Hiraku Nakajima and other mathematicians to explore hidden algebraic structures in topology and in quantum field theory.[9]
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