This fund celebrates the life and accomplishments of Professor Anatoly Larkin. It was endowed by a group of 43 donors comprised of colleagues and former students. The fellowship is awarded to a physics graduate student whose adviser is a member of the Fine Theoretical Physics Institute.
Chao-Hsiang is originally from Taiwan. He plans to use the fellowship to support his summer research in the area of chiral gauge theory. His research is focused on sigma models and nonperturbative properties of gauge theory.
Advisor: Misha Shifman
2022 Larkin Fellowship Recipient
Yi Huang
Advisor: Boris Shklovskii
2021 Larkin Fellowship Recipient
Dmitry Chichinadze
Dmitry is from Moscow, Russia. His plans are to use the money to finish and summarize his research in graduate school. He currently works on generalized Stoner instabilities in multilayer graphene systems.
Advisor: Andrey Chubukov
2020 Larkin Fellowship Recipient
Sarunas Verner
Sarunas is from Vilnius, Lithuania. He plans to spend the award money on various physics books. He is currently working with FTPI Professor Keith Olive on physics beyond the Standard Model, cosmology, and the early Universe.
Advisor: Keith Olive
2019 Larkin Fellowship Recipient
Hanteng Wang
Hanteng is currently working with FTPI Professor Alex Kamenev on Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev superconductivity research.
