Nikita Alexandrovich Nekrasov
Nikita Alexandrowitsch Nekrasov ( Russian: Никита Александрович Некрасов , English transliteration Nikita Nekrasov; * 1973 in Moscow ) is a Russian theoretical physicist , Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016).
Nekrasov studied from 1989 at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), where he received his diploma in 1995. He was then a candidate at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) in Moscow, but at the same time studied at Princeton University from 1994 , where he obtained his doctorate in 1996 under David Gross (Four-dimensional holomorphic theories). He has been a Senior Researcher at ITEP since 1995. From 1996 to 1999 he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and from 1999 to 2000 Robert Dicke Fellow at Princeton University. Also from 1999 he was at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (where Gross is), since 2003 as a member. From 2000 he is also a permanent member and professor at IHES . In 2003 he was visiting professor at the ETH Zurich .
Nekrasow deals with string theory and supersymmetric gauge field theories and their connection with integrable systems. In the Seiberg-Witten theory he developed a new method to calculate the low-energy part of the effective interaction (prepotential), which has non-perturbation-theoretical instanton contributions.
He was invited speaker at the ICM 2002 in Beijing (Seiberg-Witten prepotential from instanton counting).
In 2004 he received the Hermann Weyl Prize and the Prix Jacques Herbrand.
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| SURNAME | Nekrasov, Nikita Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Некрасов, Никита Александрович (Russian); Nekrasov, Nikita (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |