Alex Kamenev

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Alex Kamenev is a theoretical physicist, at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in condensed matter. Kamenev's current research focuses on theoretical condensed matter physics, disordered systems and glasses, field-theoretical treatment of many-body systems, mesoscopic systems, out of equilibrium systems. Kamenev earned his M.Sci. degree theoretical physics, in 1987 from Moscow State University and a Ph.D. in solid-state physics, in 1996 from Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. [1]

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Honors and awards

Kamenev was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013; [2] elected an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 2004 to 2008; [3] [4] and was awarded the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for the years of 2005–2007. [5] [6]

Publications

He is the author of a book, Field Theory of Non-Equilibrium Systems, [7] Cambridge University Press (2011) and a number of journal articles. His most cited article, cited 589 times according to Google Scholar [8] is Boris L. Altshuler, Yuval Gefen, Alex Kamenev, and Leonid S. Levitov "Quasiparticle Lifetime in a Finite System: A Nonperturbative Approach" published in 2003 in vol. 78 of Physical Review Letters [9]

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References

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  2. UMN Physics Awards list
  3. "Alfred P. Sloan Past Fellows". Archived from the original on 2016-11-06. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  4. UMN Physics Awards List
  5. SPA Newsletter 2005
  6. UMN BIO Physics Kamenev
  7. Cambridge University Press
  8. Google Scholar
  9. Condensed Matter Archive