Vyacheslav (Slava) Rychkov | |
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| Born | (1975-05-27)May 27, 1975 (age 49) Samara, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian, Italian, French |
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| Institutions | Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques École Normale Supérieure |
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Vyacheslav Rychkov (calledSlava Rychkov, Russian Вячеслав Рычков, transcription Vyacheslav Rychkov; born 27 May 1975 in Samara, Russia[1]) is a Russian-Italian-French[1] theoretical physicist and mathematician.
In 1996, Rychkov obtained his diploma (B.S.,M.S.) from theMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology.[1] From 1996 to 1998 he studied at theUniversity of Jena.[2] He received his doctorate in mathematics fromPrinceton University, under the supervision ofElias Stein, in 2002[3] with a thesis titled "Estimates for Oscillatory Integral Operators".[4]Alexander Polyakov was his unofficial supervisor.[5] He was a post-doctoral fellow at theUniversity of Amsterdam (2002-2005) and at theScuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he became assistant professor in 2007.[5] In 2009 he became a professor of physics at theUniversity of Paris VI and a member of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at theÉcole Normale Supérieure in Paris.[1] Since 2012 to 2017 he was a staff member of the Department of Theoretical Physics atCERN.[5] He has been aMitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of High Energy Physics at École Normale Supérieure in Paris since 2016[6] and in 2017 he became a permanent professor at theInstitut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.[7]
Slava Rychkov’s research interests mostly concern problems of theoretical physics to which the methods ofquantum field theory andconformal field theory are applicable. He is the deputy director of the international collaboration on the nonperturbative bootstrap[8] financed by theSimons Foundation.
Between 2012 and 2017 he was a Junior Member of l’Institut Universitaire de France.[9]
In 2014 he received theNew Horizons in Physics Prize “For developing new techniques in conformal field theory, reviving the conformal bootstrap program for constraining the spectrum of operators and the structure constants in 3D and 4D CFT’s.”[10]
He was the 2019 laureate of the Grand Prix Mergier-Bourdeix of theFrench Academy of Sciences for his work on theconformal bootstrap.[11]
