| BORN:
April 4, 1949; RIGA,
LATVIA |
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| EDUCATION |
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Ph.D. - Theoretical & Mathematical Physics
Institute
for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)
Moscow, USSR
Dissertation: Non-Leptonic Decays of Strange Particles
in QCD and Related Topics |
1976 |
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Diploma with Honors (Masters Degree Equivalent)
Moscow
Institute for Physics and Technology
Moscow, USSR
Thesis: The Problem of the Two-Muon Decays of K_L |
1966-1972 |
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| RESEARCH
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Professor (with Tenure) and Member
Theoretical
Physics Institute
School of Physics
and Astronomy
University of
Minnesota
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1990 - Present |
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Professor (equivalent)
Senior Researcher
Junior Researcher
Institute
for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, USSR |
1983-1990
1981-1983
1975-1981 |
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| HONORS
AND AWARDS |
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Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Research Awards
(Germany)
Fellow of The American Physical Society
J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences |
1993
1997
1999
1993, 1996 |
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| RESEARCH:
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| 1974-1976 |
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The
penguin mechanism of flavor changing hadron (quark) transitions
introduced. (JETP Lett. 22 (1975) 55; Nucl. Phys. B120 (1977)
316; JETP 45 (1977) 670). |
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| 1978-1981 |
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Deriving
a new class of low-energy theorems stemming from the trace
anomaly of QCD. (Phys. Lett 78B (1978) 443; Sov. J. Nucl.
Phys. 30 (1979) 716; Nucl. Phys. B191 (1981) 301). |
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| 1977-1979 |
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Gluon
condensate introduced; the QCD Sum Rule method relating
the properties of the low-lying hadronic states to the vacuum
condensates ("SVZ sum rules") worked out. (Nucl.
Phys. B147 (1979) 385; Nucl. Phys. B147 (1979) 448). |
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| 1980 |
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The
invisible axion ("KSVZ axion") invented. (Nucl.
Phys. B166 (1980) 493). |
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| 1983-1991 |
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First
exact results in the supersymmetric gauge theories (gluino
condensate, beta functions). Solution of the anomaly problem
and holomorphy. (Nucl. Phys. B229 (1983) 407; Nucl. Phys.
B229 (1983) 381; Nucl. Phys. B277 (1986) 456; Nucl. Phys.
B359 (1991) 571). |
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| 1986-1988 |
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The
heavy quark symmetry introduced. (Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 47
(1988) 511; Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 45 (1987) 292). |
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| 1989-1990 |
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Extension
of the coset construction in two-dimensional conformal field
theory. (Int. J. Mod. Phys. A5 (1990) 803). |
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| 1989-1991 |
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Discovery
of the premature unitarization in the instanton-induced
amplitudes at sphaleron energies. (Nucl. Phys. B371 (1992)
177). |
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| 1985-1995 |
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Foundations
of the heavy quark expansion formulated; theory of inclusive
heavy flavor decays worked out. (Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 41
(1985)120; Sov. Phys. JETP 64 (1986) 698; Phys. Rev. Lett.
71 (1993) 496; Phys. Rev. D49 (1994) 3356; Phys. Rev. D50
(1994) 2234). |
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| 1995-1996 |
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Alpha_s
crisis revealed. (Mod. Phys. Lett., A10 (1995) 605). |
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| 1994-1998 |
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Relation
between the divergence of the operatior product expansion
in high orders and duality violations in QCD; first semi-quantitative
models of duality violations suggested. (Proc. V PASCOS
Symp., March 1995, Baltimore, ed. J. Bagger (World Scientific,
Singapore, 1996), page 69; Phys. Rev D57 (1998) 2691; Phys.
Rev. D59 (1999) 054011). |
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| 1996-1999 |
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Central
extensions in N=1 superalgebras in the Yang-Mills theory
as a result of anomaly. The theory of the BPS-saturated
domain walls in supersymmetric gluodynamics and other supersymmetric
theories elaborated. (Phys. Lett. B396 (1997) 64; Phys.
Rev. D56 (1997) 7990; Phys. Rev. D59 (1999) 045016). |
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| 1999-2004 |
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Pinpointing
anomalies in supersymmetric theories with solitons. (Phys.
Rev. D59 (1999) 045016; hep-th/0108153); marginal stability
through delocalization (Phys. Rev. D63 (2001) 065018).
Theory
of supersymmetric solitons: flux tubes (strings), domain
walls (D. branes) and their junctions (confined monopoles).
(Phys. Rev. D67 (2003) 125007). |
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| 2002 |
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Cosmological
Constant Problem in Infinite Volume Extra Dimensions: Solving
through Infrared Modification of 4D Gravity (Phys. Rev.
D67 (2003) 044020). |
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| 2003-2004 |
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Orientifold
pairs - Planar equivalence (Nucl. Phys. B667 (2003) 170).
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| PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS |
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Vacuum Structure and QCD Sum Rules,
516 pp, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1992.
Unpublished foreword |
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Instantons in Gauge Theories,
488 pp, World Scientific,
Singapore, 1994. |
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The Many Faces of the Superworld:
Yuri Golfand Memorial Volume, 677 pp,
World Scientific, Singapore, 1999.
Link to foreword |
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At the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD/Boris Ioffe Festschrift, (in 3 Volumes),
2151 pp, World Scientific, Singapore, 2000.
Volume 4 published in 2002, 400pp.
Link to foreword |
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The Supersymmetric World:
The Beginnings of the Theory,
(with G. Kane), 273 pp,
World Scientific, Singapore, 2000.
Link to foreword |
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SUSY 30, International Symposium Celebrating
30 Years of Supersymmetry, NORTH-HOLLAND, Amsterdam, 2001,
450 pp.
(with K. Olive and S. Rudaz)
Link to foreword |
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Continuous Advances in QCD 2002 - Arkadyfest
(World Scientific 2002), with K. Olive and M. Voloshin.
Link to Brochure - Fun reading |
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| PUBLICATIONS:
PAPERS |
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The
full publication list for 1971-2005 includes 260+ papers published
or accepted for publication. The list of publications beginning
in late 2002 is given below.
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NON-ABELIAN FLUX TUBES IN SQCD: SUPERSIZING
WORLD-SHEET SUPERSYMMETRY, (with A. YUNG), PRD, submitted;
hep-th/0501211.
COMMENTS ON DIQUARKS, STRONG BINDING
AND A LARGE HIDDEN QCD SCALE, (with A. Vainshtein),
PRD, submitted.
REFINING THE PROOF OF PLANAR EQUIVALENCE,
(with A. Armoni and G. Veneziano), PRD, submitted; hep-th/0412203.
NONABELIAN MEISSNER EFFECT IN YANG-MILLS
THEORIES AT WEAK COUPLING, (with A. Gorsky and A. Yung),
PRD, submitted; hep-th/0412082.
SPECTRAL DEGENERACY IN SUPERSYMMETRIC
GLUODYNAMICS AND ONE-FLAVOR QCD RELATED TO N=1/2 SUSY, (with
A. Gorsky), PRD, submitted; hep-th/0410099.
ENHANCED WORLDVOLUME SUPERSYMMETRY
AND INTERSECTING DOMAIN WALLS IN N=1 SQCD, (with A.
Ritz, and A. Vainshtein), Phys. Rev. D70, 095003 (2004); hep-th/0405175.
AN EXACT RELATION FOR ${\cal N}=1$
ORIENTIFOLD FIELD THEORIES WITH ARBITRARY SUPERPOTENTIAL,
(with A. Armoni and G. Veneziano), Nucl. Phys. B702, 37
(2004); hep-th/0404247.
NONABELIAN STRING JUNCTIONS AS CONFINED
MONOPOLES, (with A. Yung), Phys. Rev. D70, 045004, 2004;
hep-th/0403149.
FROM SUPER-YANG-MILLS THEORY TO QCD:
PLANAR EQUIVALENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS, (with A. Armoni
and G. Veneziano), published in the Ian Kogan Memorial Collection
"From Fields to Strings: Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics,"
Ed. M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein and J. Wheater (World Scientific,
2004), Vol. 1, p. 353; hep-th/0403071.
SOFTLY MASSIVE GRAVITY, (with
G. Gabadadze), Phys. Rev. D69, 124032, 2004; hep-th/0312289.
LOCALIZATION OF NONABELIAN GAUGE FIELDS
ON DOMAIN WALLS AT WEAK COUPLING (D-BRANE PROTOTYPES II),
(with A. Yung), Phys. Rev. D70, 025013, 2004; hep-th/0312257.
EFFECTIVE LAGRANGIANS FOR ORIENTIFOLD
THEORIES, (with F. Sannino), Phys. Rev. 69 (2004); hep-th/0309252.
QCD QUARK CONDENSATE FROM SUSY AND
THE ORIENTIFOLD LARGE-$N$ EXPANSION, (with A. Armoni
and G. Veneziano), Phys. Lett. B579, 384-390, 2004; hep-th/0309013.
SUSY RELICS IN ONE FLAVOR QCD FROM
A NEW $1/N$ EXPANSION, (with A. Armoni and G. Veneziano),
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 191601, 2003, hep-th/0307097.
REMARKS ON STABLE
AND QUASISTABLE K STRINGS AT LARGE $N$, (with A. Armoni),
Nucl. Phys. B671, 67, 2003; hep-th/0307020.
ON $k$-STRING TENSIONS AND DOMAIN WALLS
IN ${\cal N}=1$ GLUODYNAMICS, (with A. Armoni), Nucl.
Phys. B664 (2003) 233-246, hep-th/0304127.
${\cal N}=2$ SIGMA MODEL WITH TWISTED
MASS AND SUPERPOTENTIAL: CENTRAL CHARGES AND SOLITONS, (with
A. Losev), Phys. Rev. D68 (2003) 045006, hep-th/0304003.
THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT AND DOMAIN
WALLS IN ORIENTIFOLD FIELD THEORIES AND ${\cal N} = 1$ GLUODYNAMICS,
(with A. Armoni), Nucl. Phys. B670, 148 (2003), hep-th/0303109.
EXACT RESULTS IN NONSUPERSYMMETRIC
LARGE-$N$ ORIENTIFOLD FIELD THEORIES, (with A. Armoni
and G. Veneziano), Nucl. Phys. B667, 170-182, 2003, hep-th/0302163.
DOMAIN WALLS AND FLUX TUBES IN N=2
SQCD: D-BRANE PROTOTYPES, (with A. Yung), Phys. Rev.
D67 (2003) 125007, hep-th/0212293.
DILUTING COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT VIA
LARGE DISTANCE MODIFICATION OF GRAVITY, (with G. Dvali
and G. Gabadadze), in {\em Continuous Advances in QCD 2002/ArkadyFest},
Eds. K. Olive, M. Shifman, and M. Voloshin (World Scientific,
Singapore, 2002), pp. 566-581; also in Proc. 3 Int. Sakharov
Conference on Physics, Eds. A. Semikhatov, M. Vasiliev and V.
Zaikin (Scientific World, Moscow, 2003), Vol. 2, pp. 812-828.
hep-th/0208096.
REMINISCENCES IN PASTELS,
published in "Continuous Advances in QCD 2002",
Eds. K. Olive, M. Shifman, and M. Voloshin (World Scientific,
Singapore, 2002), pp. 604-614. (Pages 13-22 of the "Brochure
-- Fun Reading")
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| INVITED
TALKS |
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2003/04
- k-Strings in the Yang-Mills Theory: How They Form, Live
and Decay Invited lecture at the 9-th Adriatic Meeting "Particle
Physics and the Universe, Dubrovnik, Craotia, 4--14 September
2003.
- Duality and Self-Duality (Energy Reflection Symmetry) of
Quasi-Exactly Solvable Systems, Invited Talk at the Second
Workshop FENOMEC "Selected Topics in Mathematical Physics,"
November 7-8, 2003, Cocoyoc, Mexico
- Planar equivalence between supersymmetric gluodynamics and
its orientifold daughters: implications for QCD, Invited Talk
at Physics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville,
Florida, November 11, 2003
- Planar equivalence: a window of opportunities in nonperturbative
QCD,
Colloquium at NYU, New York, November 24, 2003
- From Supersymmetric Gluodynamics to QCD: Planar equivalence
and its Implication, Institute of Nuclear Research, Moscow,
December 29, 2003
- Explorations of QCD with Supersymmetric Tools, Colloquium
at Technion, Haifa, Israel, January 1, 2004
- Orientifold Large-N Expansion, Invited Talk, Technion, Haifa,
Israel, January 4, 2004
- Quark Condensate in QCD from the Gluino Condensate in Supersymmetric
Gluodynamics, Invited Talk, Technion, Haifa, Israel, January
5, 2004
- Supersymmetry at Strong Coupling: Understanding the Hadronic
World, Colloquium at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel,January
6, 2004
- From Supersymmetric Gluodynamics to QCD: Planar equivalence
and its Implications, Invited Talk, Tel-Aviv University, Israel,
January 7, 2004
- Advances in Supersymmetry at Strong Coupling, Plenary Talk
at the International Conference "From Fields to Strings
-- Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics," In Memory of
Ian Kogan, Oxford, UK, January 8-10, 2004
- Understanding the Hadronic World with Supersymmetry, University
of Minnesota SPA Colloquium. March 10, 2004.
- Planar Equivalence: from Type 0 Strings to QCD, Plenary
Talk at the International Conference "Continuous Advances
in QCD-2004" (May 13), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
May 13-16, 2004.
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Summer 2004
- One-flavor QCD from SUSY gluodynamics via planar equivalence,
University of Siegen, Germany, June 26, 2004.
- Planar equivalence between supersymmetric and QCD-like theories
and its consequences, University of Milan, Italy, July 15,
2004.
- Large N gauge theory, Invited Talk at the Workshop on Large
N QCD, Trento, Italy, July 5-9, 2004.
- What we know and do not know of QCD k strings from string
and field theory, Invited Talk at the Trento Workshop on Hadrons
and Strings, Trento, Italy, July 12-17, 2004.
- From strings to one-flavor QCD, Invited Talk at the conference,
"String Phenomenology 2004," University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, August 1-6, 2004.
- From strings to one-flavor QCD, Invited Talk at PASCOS-04/Pran
Nath Fest, Northeastern University, Boston, August 20, 2004.
- Four lectures on supersymmetry, National Summer School for
Graduate Students WE-Heraeus-Doktorandenschule Saalburg, "Grundlagen
und neue Methoden der theoretischen Physik," Wolfersdorf,
Thüringen, August 30-September 10, 2004.
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2004/05
- Planar equivalence: From supersymmetric gluodynamics to
one-flavor QCD, Seminar at Penn State, September 22, 2004.
- Understanding the hadronic world with supersymmetry, Colloquium
at Penn State, September 23, 2004.
- Field Theory and Mathematics Panel at the The Future of
Physics Conference, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
October 9, 2004.
- Discussion Session on Quark-Hadron Duality, Workshop
on QCD String Theory, KITP, Santa Barbara, October 20,
2004.
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| Link to another Dr.
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| INTERESTING READING, YOU ARE WELCOME TO BROWSE
A fragment of A. Kolesnichenko's caricature "Sum
Rules 1985,"
60-th Birthday of Arkady Vainshtein: "First Poster," "Second Poster," "Brochure -- Fun Reading"
"Grandmaster," Sasha Polyakov on A.B. Migdal (in Russian).
Plaut on Antisemitism
"On Antisemitism
Today," An article by Oriana Fallaci in Panorama.
(Russian version)
"A Glimpse of 2012,"
"On Human Rights
Groups and Double Standards," M. Shifman's black
humor.
"A Modern Version
of the Passover Story," by Daniel P. Waxman.
"Comrade Einstein," edited by M. Shifman
Vladimir Vysotsky on M. Shifman
(in Russian)
Unpublished contribution to the Yuri
Simonov Festschrift
Future of Physics/KITP-2004
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