Yuri Kovchegov (born 1973) is an American

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Biography

Kovchegov obtained his bachelor's degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1993 and two years later got his master's from

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following by Ph.D. in 1998 at the same place. From 1998 to 1999 he worked at the

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as a postdoc and then became theoretical research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory. From 2000 to 2004 he served as a research assistant professor at the

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and then became

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's assistant professor in 2004 following by a promotion there to the associate professor in 2008. In August 2001 he was awarded ''travel award'' from the

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and on May 21, 2006 he was awarded ''Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize''. He is also a

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at the

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Research

On September 28, 1998 he along with A.H. Mueller used the formula

-\fracG^a_ G^_a

to calculate the production of

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Writings

* with Eugene Levin: Quantum Chromodynamics at High Energy. Cambridge University Press 2012.

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* 1973 births Living people 21st-century American physicists Brookhaven National Laboratory staff Columbia University alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni Ohio State University faculty University of Minnesota faculty University of Washington faculty {{US-physicist-stub