Theory of fundamental interactions: gauge theories, supersymmetry. Operator product expansion and its applications.

Education

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

M.S., Novosibirsk University, 1964 

Professional Background

• 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.

Scientific & Professional Societies

Honors and Awards

• Dirac Medal and Prize, 2016
• Julius Wess Award, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2014
• Ya. Pomeranchuk Prize, ITEP, Moscow, 2005
• J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, APS, 1999 
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 1997

Selected Publications

1. 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)
2. 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]
3. A. Ritz and A. Vainshtein, “Dyon dynamics near marginal stability and non-BPS states“, Phys. Lett. B 668, 148 (2008) [abstract]
4. 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]
5. K. Melnikov and A. Vainshtein, Book: Theory of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, Berlin, Germany: Springer, (2006)