Samson Lulievich Shatashvili ( ka, სამსონ შათაშვილი; Russian: Самсон Лулиевич Шаташвили, born February 1960) is a theoretical and mathematical physicist who has been working at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

, Ireland, since 2002. He holds the Trinity College Dublin Chair of Natural Philosophy and is the director of the Hamilton Mathematics Institute. He is also affiliated with the

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(IHÉS), where he held the Louis Michel Chair from 2003 to 2013 and the Israel Gelfand Chair from 2014 to 2019. Prior to moving to Trinity College, he was a professor of physics at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

from 1994.

Background

Shatashvili received his PhD in 1984 at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Saint Petersburg under the supervision of Ludwig Faddeev (and Vladimir Korepin). The topic of his thesis was on gauge theories and had the title "Modern Problems in Gauge Theories". In 1989 he received D.S. degree (doctor of science, 2nd degree in Russia) also at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Saint Petersburg.

Contributions and awards

Shatashvili has made several discoveries in the fields of theoretical and mathematical physics. He is mostly known for his work with Ludwig Faddeev on quantum anomalies, with Anton Alekseev on geometric methods in two-dimensional conformal field theories, for his work on background independent open string field theory, with

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on superstrings and manifolds of exceptional holonomy, with Anton Gerasimov on tachyon condensation, with Andrei Losev, Nikita Nekrasov and Greg Moore on instantons and supersymmetric gauge theories, as well as for his work with Nikita Nekrasov on quantum integrable systems. In particular, Shatashvili and Nikita Nekrasov discovered the gauge/Bethe correspondence. In 1995 he received an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award of the Department of Energy (DOE) and a NSF Career Award and from 1996 to 2000 he was a Sloan Fellow. Shatashvili is the member of the

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and the recipient of the 2010

Gold Medal as well as the Ivane Javakhishvili State Medal, Georgia. In 2009 he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress on Mathematical Physics in Prague and in 2014 was an invited speaker at the

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in Seoul (speaking on "Gauge theory angle at quantum integrability"). In 2025, he won the

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is an award given each year since 1959 jointly by the American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics. It is established by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman. As of 201 ...

for "clever use of various techniques in studying symmetry in quantum field theory".

References

External links

Videos of Samson Shatashvili
in the AV-Portal of the

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