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)
Harvard, Caltech, UCSB, IAS, MPIM, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Doctoral advisor
Edward Witten
Sergei Gukov (Russian: Серге́й Гу́ков; born 1977) is a professor of mathematics and theoretical physics. Gukov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in Moscow, Russia before obtaining a doctorate in physics from Princeton University under the supervision of Edward Witten.[1]
He held a Long-term Prize fellowship of Clay Mathematics Institute at Harvard University (2001–2006) and during 2007-2008 was a member of the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Since 2007, he has been professor of mathematics and theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Starting 2010, Gukov was elected as an external scientific member of the Max Planck Society at the MPIM, Bonn.
In 2022 Gukov was appointed as a Senior Professor in the School of Theoretical Physics at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. There he has organised a number of important conferences including Computer 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 world Institute for Advanced Study and DIAS.
Sergei Gukov is a member of the Scientific Board of the American 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 with Alain Connes, Gukov was invited to deliver the 8th Takagi Lectures, the only named lecture series of the Mathematical 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 with Boris Feigin, Hiraku Nakajima and other mathematicians to explore hidden algebraic structures in topology and in quantum field theory.[9]
^Interview at MIPT (in Russian)：https://vk.com/@dgapmipt-pk2020-sergei-gukov
^"Scientific Research Board | American Inst. of Mathematics". Retrieved 2024-02-14.
^Centre for Quantum Mathematics：https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/qm/international+advisory+board
^"Communications in Mathematical Physics". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
^Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications：https://www.worldscientific.com/page/jktr/editorial-board
^"Letters in Mathematical Physics". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
SergeiGukov (Russian: Серге́й Гу́ков; born 1977) is a professor of mathematics and theoretical physics. Gukov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics...
with the surname include: Aleksandr Gukov (born 1972), Belarus swimmer SergeiGukov (born 1977), Russian-American mathematical and theoretical physicist...
researchers including: Robbert Dijkgraaf, Hirosi Ooguri, Mina Aganagic, SergeiGukov, Rajesh Gopakumar, Lotte Hollands, and many others. This is a select...
Sylvester James Gates Michael Green Brian Greene David Gross Steven Gubser SergeiGukov Alan Guth Jeffrey Harvey Petr Hořava Gary Horowitz Tasneem Zehra Husain...
differential forms, a connection which formed the basis of Robbert Dijkgraaf, SergeiGukov, Andrew Neitzke and Cumrun Vafa's 2004 proposal that topological string...
Other theorists were Vadim Knizhnik, Alexei Morozov, Igor Krichever and SergeiGukov in the field of string theory, quantum field theory and mathematical...
three senior professors at present: Tony Dorlas, Denjoe O'Connor and SergeiGukov. Dorlas has worked on a lattice model of a boson gas called the Bose–Hubbard...
Verlinde, Herman Verlinde, Hirosi Ooguri, Gregory Moore, Rajesh Gopakumar, SergeiGukov, Miranda Cheng, and others. This is a select list of these works: Dijkgraaf...
supervised by Robbert Dijkgraaf. Hollands did her postdoctoral research with SergeiGukov at the California Institute of Technology. In 2013, Hollands became a...
Renormalization in Statistical Physics. Cambridge University Press. Gukov, Sergei (2016-01-05). "Counting RG flows". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016...
an editor for the New York Journal of Mathematics. Dunfield, Nathan; Gukov, Sergei; Rasmussen, Jake; The superpolynomial for knot homologies. Experimental...
1016/j.aim.2010.10.014, MR 2764887, S2CID 11791207. Dunfield, Nathan M.; Gukov, Sergei; Rasmussen, Jacob (2006), "The superpolynomial for knot homologies"...
applications. Birkhäuser Boston, MA. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-8176-4718-6. Gukov, Sergei; Saberi, Ingmar (2014). "Lectures on Knot Homology and Quantum Curves"...
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