Vyacheslav Rychkov

Vyacheslav Rychkov (called Slava Rychkov, Russian Вячеслав Рычков, transcription Vyacheslav Rychkov; born 27 May 1975 in Samara, Russia ) is a Russian-Italian-French He received his doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University, under the supervision of Elias Stein, in 2002 with a thesis titled "Estimates for Oscillatory Integral Operators". Alexander Polyakov was his unofficial supervisor. In 2009 he became a professor of physics at the University of Paris VI and a member of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. and in 2017 he became a permanent professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.

Research Slava Rychkov’s research interests mostly concern problems of theoretical physics to which the methods of quantum field theory and conformal field theory are applicable. He is the deputy director of the international collaboration on the nonperturbative bootstrap financed by the Simons Foundation.

Awards Between 2012 and 2017 he was a Junior Member of l’Institut Universitaire de France.

He was the 2019 laureate of the Grand Prix Mergier-Bourdeix of the French Academy of Sciences for his work on the conformal bootstrap.