Clueless (film) was preceded by a series of books.
Igor Romanovich Klebanov -LRB- Игорь Романович Клебанов 29 March 1962 -RRB- is a theoretical physicist whose research is centered on relations between string theory and quantum gauge field theory .. theoretical physicist. theoretical physicist. string theory. string theory. quantum gauge field theory. quantum field theory. Since 1989 , he has been a Professor at Princeton University where he is currently a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics .. Princeton University. Princeton University. In 2016 , he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .. National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences. Born in the Soviet Union in 1962 , he emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager .. Soviet Union. Soviet Union. He received his undergraduate education at MIT -LRB- class of 1982 -RRB- , and his Ph.D. degree at Princeton University as a student of Curtis Callan in 1986 .. MIT. MIT. Princeton University. Princeton University. Curtis Callan. Curtis Callan. Curtis Callan. Curtis Callan. In his thesis he made advances in the Skyrme model of hadrons .. Skyrme model. Skyrme model. Klebanov worked as a post-doc at SLAC .. SLAC. SLAC. His main contributions to string theory are in Matrix model approaches to two-dimensional strings , in brane dynamics , and more recently in the gauge theory-gravity duality .. string theory. string theory. Matrix model. String theory. brane. Membrane ( M-theory ). gauge theory. gauge theory. His work in 1996-97 on relations between branes in supergravity and their gauge theory description anticipated the gauge theory-gravity correspondence .. supergravity. supergravity. gauge theory. gauge theory. Klebanov 's 1998 paper Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory with his graduate student Gubser , and Polyakov , which made a precise statement of the AdS / CFT duality , is among the all-time top cited papers in high-energy physics -LRB- it has over 7800 citations according to Google Scholar -RRB- .. Gubser. Steven Gubser. Polyakov. Alexander Markovich Polyakov. AdS / CFT. AdS / CFT. A series of papers by Klebanov and collaborators on D-branes on the conifold has led to discovery of cascading gauge theory .. gauge theory. gauge theory. D-branes. D-branes. conifold. conifold. cascading gauge theory. cascading gauge theory. Its dual warped throat provides a geometric description of color confinement and chiral symmetry breaking ; it has been used in model building for cosmology and particle physics .. color confinement. color confinement. chiral symmetry breaking. chiral symmetry breaking. The relation between 3-dimensional critical O -LRB- N -RRB- model and bosonic higher-spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional AdS space has been called the Klebanov-Polyakov correspondence .. gauge theory. gauge theory. Polyakov. Alexander Markovich Polyakov