Arkady Vainshtein
Professor
440 Tate, 626-0814, email vainshte @ umn.eduhttp://www.tpi.umn.edu/vainshtein/
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GLORIA BECKER LUBKIN CHAIR IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS, AND MEMBER OF W.I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE, AND PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 1990-; Director, FTPI, 1993-96; APS Fellow, 1997, J.J. SAKURAI PRIZE FOR THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS, APS, 1999; Ya. POMERANCHUK PRIZE, ITEP, MOSCOW, 2005.
Co-orginzer of the FTPI workshops “Continuous Advances in QCD” (every other year); one of coordinators of the program “QCD and String Theory,” Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, 2004; member of advisory committee of many workshops, schools and conferences.
Research Areas: Theory of fundamental interactions: gauge theories, supersymmetry. Operator product expansion and its applications.
Selected Publications
M. Shifman and A. Vainshtein, “Highly Excited Mesons, Linear Regge Trajectories and the Pattern of the Chiral Symmetry Realization,'', Phys. Rev. (2008)
A. Vainshtein, “Hadronic light-by-light contribution to muon g-2,'', Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. (2007)
K. Melnikov and A. Vainshtein, Book “Theory of the muon anomalous magnetic moment,, Berlin, Germany: Springer, (2006)
A. Vainshtein, “Massive Gravity,'', Surveys High Energ. Phys. (2006)
M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein and R. Zwicky, “Central charge anomalies in 2D sigma models with twisted mass,'', J. Phys. (2006)
Education
Ph.D. in Theoretical and Math Physics, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, 1968