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| III Markov readings, 2005 год |
Valery Rubakov, from the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian academy of sciences (INR) in Moscow, and Michail Shaposhnikov, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, have been awarded the Markov Prize for 2005. Markov Prize was established in 2002 by INR in a memory to a prominent physicist and for many years the Academician-secretary of Nuclear Physics Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Moisey Alexandrovich Markov advocated strong research program in fundamental physics especially in the field of the underground and deep-underwater neutrino physics and was one of the founders of INR. The prize is awarded every year for outstanding contributions to fundamental physics and presented at Markov Readings, a mini-conference organized jointly by INR, Lebedev Institute and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna).
V.Rubakov and M.Shaposhnikov received the prize for their outstanding contributions to studies of the cosmological effects of gauge interactions and for the developments of novel ideas of space-time and gravity. Their most well known papers include that on electroweak non-conservation of baryon and lepton numbers at high temperatures, (written together with Vadim Kuzmin), currently a one of cornerstones of the modern theory of early Universe. In 1983 Rubakov and Shaposhnikov conjectured the possibility that we are living on a four dimentional brane embedded in a multidimensional space-time and suggested a mechanism of the matter localization on the brane. These fascinating ideas have been greatly boosted by recent developments. Other renowned results of the prize winners are related to nonperturbative methods in quantum field theory, in particular the instanton-like transitions violating the barion and leptin numbers conservation, to a generation of the barion assymmetry of the Universe, topological defects and lattice gauge theory, as well as to the multi-dimensional gravity.