Education
Ph.D., Masters Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, 1976
Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, 1972
Professional Background
- Oversight Committee of the Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy
- Scientific Evaluation Committee of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Triest, Italy
- Advisory Board of the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Editorial Board of European Physical Journal C (Springer)
- Lilienfeld Prize Committee, 2008
- Sakurai Prize Committee of the American Physical Society, 2001
CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZER
- "Noncommutativity: from Mathematics to Phenomenology," Bayrischzell, Germany, May 2-5, 2003.
- "Continuous Advances in QCD 2004" Minneapolis, May 13-15, 2004.
- “PNPI: Hadron Structure and QCD," St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2005.
- "QCD and String Theory", Benasque Center for Science, Spain, July 2 - July 14 2006.
- 3-D FENOMEC Workshop "Selected topics in Mathematical Physics", Cocoyoc, Mexico, November 10-12, 2005.
- "Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum" Sardinia, Italy, September 21-25 2004.
- "PNPI: Hadron Structure and QCD: from LOW to HIGH energies," Repino, Russia, 18-22 May 2004.
- "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VII," Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, 2-7 September 2006.
- "QCD and String Theory" at The Benasque Center for Science, Universitat de Barcelona and Universidad de Zaragoza, July 2-- 14, Benasque, Spain.
- "Frontiers in Theoretical Physics" NBI, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 3 - August 13, 2006.
- Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Conference "CAQCD-06" FTPI, Minneapolis, May 2006.
- "QCD @ Work", Martina Franca, Italy, June 2007.
- "Fundamental Challenges of QCD,” Schladming, Austria, February 27-March 7, 2009.
- "Continuous Advances in Quantum Chromodynamics" (CAQCD_2011), FTPI.
- "Frontiers Beyond the Standard Model III" (FBSM III), FTPI.
- "Continuous Advances in QCD" (CAQCD_2013), FTPI.
- "Eleventh Conference on Quark Confinement and Hadronic Spectrum", St. Petersburg, Russia, 2014.
- "Twelth Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum", Thessaloniki, Greece, 2016.
- QCD-2016, FTPI, May 2016.
- "Resurgent Asymptotics in Physics and Mathematics", KITP, October-December 2017
EDITOR
- "The Many Faces of the Superworld," 588 pp, World Scientific, Singapore, 2000.
- "Continuous Advances in QCD 2002/Arkadyfest" published by World Scientific, Singapore in December 2002.
- The Supersymmetric World: the Beginnings of the Theory, 288 pp, World Scientific, Singapore, 2000.
- At the Frontier of Particle Physics / Handbook of QCD, Vols. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 2550 pp, World Scientific, Singapore, 2001 and 2002.
- SUSY 30: Proceedings of the International Symposium Celebrating 30 Years of Supersymmetry, (Minneapolis, MN, USA, 13-27 October 2000), 449 pp, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2001.
- Proceedings of “CAQCD-06” published by World Scientific, Singapore, 2007.
- Three-volume publication "FROM FIELDS TO STRINGS: CIRCUMNAVIGATING THEORETICAL PHYSICS," published by World Scientific, Singapore, 2005.
- “You just failed your math test, Comrade Einstein,” published by World Scientific, Singapore, 2005.
- "FELIX BEREZIN: Life and Death of the Mastermind of Supermathematics." published by World Scientific, Singapore, 2007.
- Under the Spell of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies, 550pp, World Scientific, Singapore, 2013.
- Physics in A Mad World, 550 pp., World Scientific, Singapore, 2015.
Scientific & Professional Societies
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (2018)
Fellow, American Physical Society (1997)