Biography:Igor Klebanov

Igor R. Klebanov
Born	(1962-03-29) March 29, 1962 Soviet Union
Alma mater	MIT, Princeton University
Known for	AdS/CFT correspondence, Klebanov-Strassler solution, Higher-spin theory
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics String theory
Doctoral advisor	Curtis Callan
Doctoral students	Steven Gubser
Website	www.princeton.edu/physics/research/high-energy-theory/

Igor Romanovich Klebanov (Russian: И́горь Ромáнович Клеба́нов; 29 March 1962) is a theoretical physicist whose research is centered on relations between string theory and quantum gauge field theory. Since 1989, he has been a faculty member at Princeton University where he is currently a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and the Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Born in the Soviet Union in 1962, he emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. He received his undergraduate education at MIT (class of 1982), and his Ph.D. degree at Princeton University as a student of Curtis Callan in 1986. In his thesis he made advances in the Skyrme model of hadrons. Klebanov worked as a post-doc at SLAC. His main contributions to string theory are in Matrix model approaches to two-dimensional strings, in brane dynamics, and more recently in the gauge theory-gravity duality. His work in 1996-97 on relations between branes in supergravity and their gauge theory description anticipated the gauge theory-gravity correspondence.

Klebanov's 1998 paper Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory with his graduate student Gubser, and Polyakov, which made a precise statement of the AdS/CFT duality, is among the all-time top cited papers in high-energy physics (it has over 8700 citations according to Google Scholar). A series of papers by Klebanov and collaborators on D-branes on the conifold has led to discovery of cascading gauge theory. Its dual warped throat provides a geometric description of color confinement and chiral symmetry breaking; it has been used in model building for cosmology and particle physics. The relation between 3-dimensional critical O(N) model and bosonic higher-spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional AdS space has been called the Klebanov-Polyakov correspondence.

Honors

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2010 Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award
• 2012 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• 2014 Tomassoni Prize
• 2016 Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
• 2017 Pomeranchuk Prize

Works

• hep-th/9702076 "World Volume Approach to Absorption by Non-dilatonic Branes ", High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) Igor R. Klebanov, 10 Feb 1997
• hep-th/9802109 "Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory", High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov, 16 Feb 1998
• hep-th/0007191 "Supergravity and a Confining Gauge Theory: Duality Cascades and Chiral Symmetry Breaking-Resolution of Naked Singularities" High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton), Matthew J. Strassler (IAS) 24 Jul 2000
• hep-th/0210114 "AdS Dual of the Critical O(N) Vector Model", High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov, 13 Nov 2002
• "Some stringy aspects of the AdS/CFT duality", Strings 2002, Igor Klebanov
• Solving Quantum Field Theories via Curved Spacetimes, Physics Today, Igor Klebanov and Juan Maldacena.

External links

• List of his papers on Arxiv
• List of his papers on Google Scholar
• An interview on his most famous work
• List of most cited physicists in brane physics
• Igor R Klebanov", Scientific commons
• Igor Klebanov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project