Alexander Givental

Alexander Givental is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley, specializing in Symplectic and contact geometry, Singularity theory, and Mathematical physics. He has significantly contributed to quantum K-theory, Gromov-Witten invariants, and Frobenius structures.

• Email: givental@math.berkeley.edu
• Office: 701 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley

Research interests: His work bridges symplectic geometry with quantum field theory, focusing on Riemann-Roch-type theorems in quantum settings, integrable hierarchies from singularities, and applications to mirror symmetry and algebraic topology.

Selected publications highlight his contributions to quantum cohomology (2007), symplectic geometry of Frobenius structures (2004), and Kepler's laws (2015). His research papers online address permutation-equivariant quantum K-theory, Virasoro constraints, and explicit reconstruction methods.

Advising: He has supervised numerous PhD students, including Xiaohan Yan (2022), Valentin Tonita (2011), and Tom Coates (2003), many of whom have authored influential works in quantum geometry and topology.