Alexander Givental

Job title: 
Professor
Research area: 
Bio: 

Year Appointed:  1990

Selected Publications: 

  1. Coates, Tom and Givental, Alexander (2007). Quantum Riemann-Roch, Lefschetz and Serre. Ann. of Math. (2) 165 No.1, 15-53. [MR] [GS?]
  2. Givental, Alexander (2006). The Pythagorean theorem: What is it about?. Amer. Math. Monthly 113 No.3, 261-265. [MR] [GS?]
  3. Coates, Tom and Givental, Alexander (2006). Quantum cobordisms and formal group laws. In The unity of mathematics Progr. Math. 244 155-171 Birkhäuser Boston Boston, MA. [MR] [GS?]
  4. Givental, Alexander B. and Milanov, Todor E. (2005). Simple singularities and integrable hierarchies. In The breadth of symplectic and Poisson geometry Progr. Math. 232 173-201 Birkhäuser Boston Boston, MA. [MR] [GS?]
  5. Givental, Alexander B. (2004). Symplectic geometry of Frobenius structures. In Frobenius manifolds Aspects Math., E36 91-112 Vieweg Wiesbaden. [MR] [GS?]
Research interests: 

Symplectic and contact geometry, Singularity theory, Mathematical physics

Supervised Dissertations

Irit Huq-Kuruvilla; Alexander Givental
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2023
Xiaohan Yan; Alexander Givental
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2022
Valentin Tonita; Alexander Givental
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2011
Todor Eliseev Milanov; Alexander Givental
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2005
Hsian-Hua Tseng; Alexander Givental
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2005
Tom Coates; Alexander Givental
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2003
Yuan-Pin Lee; Alexander Givental
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1999
Bumsig Kim; Alexander Givental
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1996