Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
The L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a research institution, located in the small town of Chernogolovka near Moscow. Its mainfields of research are
* Condensed matter theory
* Quantum field theory
* Nuclear and elementary particle physics
* Computational physics
* Nonlinear dynamics
* 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.
Unlike many other scientific centers in Russia, the Landau Institute had the strength to copewith the crisis of the nineties in the last century. Although aboutone half of the scientists accepted positions at leading scientific centers anduniversities abroad, most of them kept ties with their "home institute", forming a scientific network in the tradition of the Landau school and supporting youngtheoretical physicists in the Landau Institute.
Prominent members
Up to 1992, the institute was headed by Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, who was thenreplaced by Vladimir E. Zakharov. Its numerous prominentscientists, mathematicians as well as physicists, include the Nobel laureate Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov as well as Lev Gor'kov,
Anatoly Larkin, Arkady Migdal,
Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Alexander Polyakov, Valery Pokrovsky,and Yakov G. Sinai.
External links
* [http://itp.ac.ru/ Institute's web site]
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