Sergei Gukov

Sergei Gennadjewitsch Gukow (Russian: Сергей Геннадьевич Гуков, English transcription Sergei Gennodievich Gukov; born April 17, 1977 in Moscow ) is a Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician who deals with string theory and related fields.

Gukow received the 1992 first Prize in Physics Olympiad in Russia and the first prize of the Moscow Mathematical Olympiad. He studied mathematics and physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a baccalaureate degree in 1997 and from Princeton University with a master's degree in physics in 1999 and his doctorate with Edward Witten 2001. Afterwards he was at Harvard University. Since 2004 he is a professor at Caltech and also since 2006 at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In Russia, he was also at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and the ITEP.

In addition to string theory, quantum gravity, M - theory and related fields, he also deals with related mathematical questions, for example, in knot theory.

He was in 1995 a scholarship from the Soros Foundation in physics, 1995-1996 Scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation and 1996/97 the Russian government and 2001-2006 Fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute and 2007 Sloan Fellow. 2000 he received the Pomeranchuk Prize for Young Scientists of the ITEP.

He is a foreign member of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. In 2007 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Writings

• M -theory on manifolds with exceptional holonomy, Fortschr. Phys. 51 (2003), 719-731
• With Witten: Gauge theory, ramification and the geometric Langlands program, in Barry Mazur, inter alia, (Editor ), Current Developments in Mathematics 2006, International Press / American Mathematical Society 2008 online
• With Albert S. Schwarz, Cumrun Vafa, Khovanov - Rozansky homology and topological strings, Lett. Math Phys., 74, 2005, 53-74, online
• Surface operators and knot homology, ICMP 2006
• Robbert Dijkgraaf with Andrew Neitzke, Cumrun Vafa Topological M -theory as Unification of Form Theories of Gravity, Adv Theor. Math Phys., 9, 2005, 603-665, online
• With Bobby Acharya M theory and Singularities of Exceptional Holonomy Manifolds, Physics Reports, Volume 392, 2004, 121-189, Arxiv