Anton Kapustin
| Anton Kapustin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Anton Nikolayevich Kapustin November 10, 1971 Moscow, Russian SFSR |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Russian-American |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions |
Moscow State University California Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater |
Moscow State University (B.S.), California Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | Topics in Heavy Quark Physics (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Preskill |
Anton Nikolayevich Kapustin is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology and a Permanent Member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University.[1] His interests lie in quantum field theory and string theory. He has also done pioneering work in non-commutative geometry.
Kapustin was born in Moscow, Russia on November 10, 1971. After earning a B.S. in physics from Moscow State University, in 1993, he received his Ph.D. in the same subject from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1997. His graduate adviser at Caltech was John Preskill.
His celebrated recent work with Edward Witten rephrases the geometric version of the Langlands conjecture in terms of certain dualities in supersymmetric gauge theories.
He is the son of the pianist-composer Nikolai Kapustin.
He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Mathematical Physics".[2]
References
- ↑ "Faculty". Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.
- ↑ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.