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Igor Klebanov, Ph.D.

Director, Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings

Affiliations
  • Princeton University
Website
phy.princeton.edu/people/igor-klebanov

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Confinement and QCD Strings

Simons Collaboration

Featuring Igor Klebanov

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Mathematicians and String Theorists Push Each Other’s Fields Forward

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Foundation Announces the Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings

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