Sergei Gukov (russian: Серге́й Гу́ков; born 1977) is a professor of
mathematics
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and
theoretical physicist. Gukov graduated from
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in
Moscow, Russia
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before obtaining a doctorate in physics from
Princeton University
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under the supervision of
Edward Witten.
He held a Long-term Prize fellowship of
Clay Mathematics Institute
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at
Harvard University
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(2001-2006) and during 2007-2008 was a member of the school of mathematics at the
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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. 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
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at the
MPIM, Bonn.
Sergei Gukov is a member of the Scientific Board of the
American Institute of Mathematics
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(AIM) and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Quantum Mathematics (QM). He has served on numerous other scientific committees and advisory boards. He is editor of the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics, Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, and Letters in Mathematical Physics.
In 2010, along with
Alain Connes, Gukov was invited to deliver the 8th
Takagi
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Lectures, the only named lecture series of the
Mathematical Society of Japan. In 2019, Gukov was invited to give the Whittemore Lectures at Yale University.
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.
[Talk at String Math 2019:https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=NUyTymRmEJI]
References
External links
Faculty page at CaltechClay Mathematics InstituteInterview at MIPT (in Russian)
1977 births
Living people
California Institute of Technology faculty
Scientists from Moscow
Princeton University alumni
Russian physicists
American string theorists
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
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