Anton Kapustin
Russian-American physicist (born 1971)
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Anton Nikolayevich Kapustin (born November 10, 1971, Moscow) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His interests lie in quantum field theory and string theory, and their applications to particle physics and condensed matter theory. He is the son of the pianist-composer Nikolai Kapustin.[1]
Anton Kapustin | |
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| Born | Anton Nikolayevich Kapustin November 10, 1971 |
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| Fields | Theoretical physics |
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| Thesis | Topics in Heavy Quark Physics (1997) |
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Education
Kapustin obtained a B.S. in physics from Moscow State University in 1993.[citation needed] He received a Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1997 with John Preskill as his advisor.[2]
Research
He has made several contributions to dualities and other aspects of quantum field theories, in particular topological field theories and supersymmetric gauge theories. With Edward Witten, he discovered deep connections between the S-duality of supersymmetric gauge theories and the geometric Langlands correspondence, known as Kapustin–Witten theory. In recent years, he has focused on mathematical structures in and classification schemes of topological field theories and symmetry-protected topological phases.
