Nicolai Reshetikhin

Nicolai Reshetikhin
Born (1958-10-10) October 10, 1958
Leningrad, Soviet Union
Residence Berkeley, California, U.S.
Nationality Russian
Alma mater Leningrad Polytechnical Institute (B.A., 1979)
Leningrad State University
(B.S., M.A., 1982)
Steklov Mathematical Institute (Ph.D., 1984)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematical physics
Institutions Steklov Mathematical Institute
Harvard University
UC Berkeley
University of Amsterdam
Website math.berkeley.edu/~reshetik/

Nicolai Yuryevich Reshetikhin (Russian: Николай Юрьевич Решетихин, born October 10, 1958 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a mathematical physicist, currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and a professor of mathematical physics at the University of Amsterdam. His research is in the fields of low-dimensional topology, representation theory, and quantum groups. His major contributions are in the theory of quantum integrable systems, in representation theory of quantum groups and in quantum topology. He and Vladimir Turaev constructed invariants of 3-manifolds which are expected to describe quantum Chern-Simons field theory introduced by Edward Witten.

He earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree from Leningrad State University in 1982, and his Ph.D. from the Steklov Mathematical Institute in 1984.

He gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.
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