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The L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
 is a research institution, located in the small town of Chernogolovka
Chernogolovka

Chernogolovka is a types of settlements in Russia in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 43 km northeast from Moscow border. Town status since 2001....
 near Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. Its main fields of research are



the crisis of the nineties in the last century.






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The L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
 is a research institution, located in the small town of Chernogolovka
Chernogolovka

Chernogolovka is a types of settlements in Russia in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 43 km northeast from Moscow border. Town status since 2001....
 near Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. Its main fields of research are

  • Condensed matter theory
  • Quantum field theory
    Quantum field theory

    Quantum field theory or QFT provides a theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanics models of systems classically described by field or of Many-body problem....
  • Nuclear
    Nuclear physics

    Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies the building blocks and interactions of atomic nuclei.The most commonly known applications of nuclear physics are nuclear power and nuclear weapons, but the research field is also the basis for a far wider range of applications, including in the medical sector , in materials engineering...
     and elementary particle physics
    Particle physics

    Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary particle constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them....
  • Computational physics
    Computational physics

    Computational physics is the study and implementation of numerical algorithms in order to solve problems in physics for which a quantitative theory already exists....
  • Nonlinear dynamics
  • Mathematical physics
    Mathematical physics

    Mathematical physics is the scientific discipline concerned with the interface of mathematics and physics. There is no real consensus about what does or does not constitute mathematical physics....


History


The Landau Institute was formed in 1965 to keep the Landau school alive after the tragic car accident of Lev Davidovich Landau. Since its foundation, the institute grew rapidly to about one hundred scientists, becoming one of the worldwide best-known and leading institutes for theoretical physics
Theoretical physics

Theoretical physics employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics in an attempt to explain experimental data taken of the natural world....
.

Unlike many other scientific centers in Russia, the Landau Institute had the strength to cope with the crisis of the nineties in the last century. Although about one half of the scientists accepted positions at leading scientific centers and universities abroad, most of them kept ties with their home institute, forming a scientific network in the tradition of the Landau school and supporting young theoretical physicists in the Landau Institute.

Prominent members


Up to 1992, the institute was headed by Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov

Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov is a leading Soviet physicist, well known for his role in developing the BKL singularity in general relativity.Khalatnikov was born in Dnipropetrovsk and graduated from Dnipropetrovsk State University with a degree in Physics in 1941....
, who was then replaced by Vladimir E. Zakharov
Vladimir E. Zakharov

Vladimir Evgen'evich Zakharov is Regent?s Professor of mathematics at The University of Arizona. He is a former director of Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics....
. Its numerous prominent scientists, mathematician
Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
s as well as physicists, include the Nobel laureate Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is a Russian theoretical physics whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003....
 as well as Lev Gor'kov
Lev Gor'kov

Lev Gor'kov is an United States research physicist from Russia who is internationally known for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity....
, Anatoly Larkin
Anatoly Larkin

Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin was a Russian-born theoretical physicist, universally recognised as a leader in theory of condensed matter, and who was also a celebrated teacher of several generations of theorists....
, Arkady Migdal
Arkady Migdal

Arkady Beynusovich Migdal was a Soviet physicist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He developed the formula that accounts for the Landau?Pomeranchuk?Migdal effect, a reduction of the bremsstrahlung and pair production cross sections at high energies or high matter densities....
, Sergei Petrovich Novikov
Sergei Petrovich Novikov

Sergei Petrovich Novikov is a Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory....
, Alexander Polyakov
Alexander Polyakov

Alexander M. Polyakov is a theoretical physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow, at Princeton University....
, Valery Pokrovsky
Valery Pokrovsky

Valery Pokrovsky is a Russian physicist. He is a member ofthe Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Chernogolovka nearMoscow in Russia and a professor for Theoretical Physics at Texas A&M University....
, and Yakov G. Sinai
Yakov G. Sinai

Yakov Grigorevich Sinai is one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. He obtained numerous groundbreaking results in the theory of dynamical systems, in Mathematical Physics and in Probability theory....
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