Arkady Vainshtein

Professor Emeritus, School of Physics and Astronomy

William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI)

Biographical Info

Ph.D., Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, 1968

M.S., Novosibirsk University, 1964

Gloria Becker Lubkin Chair in Theoretical Physics, 1990-2018
Member of William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI), 1990-2018
Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota, 1990-2018
Director, FTPI, 1993-1996
Co-organizer of the FTPI workshops “Continuous Advances in QCD” (every other year)
Co-coordinator of the program “QCD and String Theory,” Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, 2004
Member of advisory committee of many workshops, schools and conferences.

Research & Teaching

Publications & Awards

J. Chen, X. Cui, M. Shifman and A. Vainshtein, ''N=(0,2) deformation of (2, 2) sigma models: Geometric structure, holomorphic anomaly, and exact beta functions'', Phys. Rev. D 90, 045014 (2014)
M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein, M.B. Voloshin and V.Zakharov, “Higgs boson decay into two photons through the W-boson Loop: No decoupling in the m_W -> 0 Limit'', Phys. Rev. D 85, 013015 (2012) [abstract]
A. Ritz and A. Vainshtein, “Dyon dynamics near marginal stability and non-BPS states“, Phys. Lett. B 668, 148 (2008) [abstract]
M. Shifman and A. Vainshtein, “Highly Excited Mesons, Linear Regge Trajectories and the Pattern of the Chiral Symmetry Realization'', Phys. Rev. D77, 034002 (2008) [abstract]
K. Melnikov and A. Vainshtein, Book: Theory of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, Berlin, Germany: Springer, (2006)