Sergei Gukov (russian: Серге́й Гу́ков; born 1977) is a professor of

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and theoretical physicist. Gukov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in

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before obtaining a doctorate in physics from

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under the supervision of Edward Witten. He held a Long-term Prize fellowship of

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(2001-2006) and during 2007-2008 was a member of the school of mathematics at the

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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

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at the MPIM, Bonn. Sergei Gukov is a member of the Scientific Board of the

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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

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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

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External links

Faculty page at Caltech

Clay Mathematics Institute

Interview 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 {{Russia-physicist-stub