Anton Kapustin

Russian-American physicist (born 1971)

Moscow State University (B.S.),
California Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)

Scientific careerFieldsTheoretical physicsInstitutions

Moscow State University
California Institute of Technology
Institute for Advanced Study

Thesis Topics in Heavy Quark Physics (1997)Doctoral advisorJohn Preskill^{[citation needed]}

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]

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. In recent years, he has focused on mathematical structures in and classification schemes of topological field theories and symmetry-protected topological phases.