Igor Klebanov

Igor Romanovich Klebanov (Russian Игорь Романович Клебанов, transcription Igor Romanovich Klebanov, born March 29, 1962 in the Soviet Union ) is a Russian- American theoretical physicist who deals with string theory.

Klebanov was still a teenager in the United States and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor 's degree in 1982 and received his doctorate in 1986 at Curtis Callan at Princeton University. As a post - graduate student, he was until 1989 at SLAC. He was Assistant Professor, 1995 Associate Professor and in 1998 Professor of Physics at Princeton University in 1989.

2012/13 he is Acting Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science ( as a representative of Paul J. Steinhardt ) and was previously an Associate Director.

He was in the 1990s one of the pioneers of the duality between gravity and gauge theories ( AdS / CFT correspondence ), that is the description of strongly coupled gauge theories in d spacetime dimensions by gravity in certain curved d 1 dimensional spaces (anti- de Sitter spaces ).

He was also a dual description of a gauge theory with color confinement - for the really interesting QCD in four spacetime dimensions, however, there is still no simple dual description.

1991 to 1995 he was Sloan Fellow and Presidential Young Investigator 1991-1997. 2010 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

He has U.S. citizenship. He has been married since 1991 and has two daughters.

Writings

• TASI Lectures: Introduction to AdS / CFT Correspondence, TASI, Boulder 1999, Arxiv
• Marcus Benna Gauge String Dualities and some applications, Les Houches Lectures 2007, Arxiv
• Steven Gubser, Alexander Markovich Polyakov Gauge Theory correlators from non -critical string theory, Physics Letters B, Volume 428, 1998, pp. 105-114, Arxiv
• Juan Maldacena: Solving quantum field theories via curved spacetimes, Physics Today, January 2009, Online