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He received his undergraduate education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (class of 1982), and his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Princeton University as a student of Curtis Callan in 1986.
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Igor Klebanov
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Since 1989, he has been a Professor at Princeton University where he is currently a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics. Born in the Soviet Union in 1962, he emigrated to the United States. as a teenager. 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 1996-1997 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 7800 citations according to Google Scholar).
A series of papers by Klebanov and collaborators on Doctorate-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.
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The relation between 3-dimensional critical O(North) model and bosonic higher-spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional AdS space has been called the Klebanov-Polyakov correspondence. Klebanov"s Doctor of Philosophy students include Akikazu Hashimoto, Steven Gubser, Christopher Herzog, Anatoly Dymarsky, Marcus Benna, Arvind Murugan, and Benjamin Safdi. He also co-advised David Lowe, Juan Maldacena, Daniel Baumann, and Silviu Pufu.
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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