Biography:Mina Aganagic
Mina Aganagic is a Bosnian-born mathematical physicist who works as a professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Aganagic was raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] She has a bachelor's degree and a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology, in 1995 and 1999 respectively; her PhD advisor was John Henry Schwarz.[2] She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University physics department from 1999 to 2003. She then joined the physics faculty at the University of Washington, where she became a Sloan Fellow [1] and a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator.[3] She moved to UC Berkeley in 2004. In 2016 the Simons Foundation gave her a Simons Investigator award.[4]
Research
She is known for applying string theory to various problems in mathematics, e.g. knot theory (refined Chern–Simons theory),[3] enumerative geometry (topological vertex)[2], mirror symmetry [1][4] and Geometric Langlands Correspondence [5].
Selected publications
| 1. | Aganagic, Mina (2000), Mirror symmetry, D-branes and counting holomorphic discs, Bibcode: 2000hep.th...12041A |
| 2. | Aganagic, Mina; Klemm, Albrecht; Mariño, Marcos (2005), "The topological vertex", Communications in Mathematical Physics 254 (2): 425–478, doi:10.1007/s00220-004-1162-z, Bibcode: 2005CMaPh.254..425A |
| 3. | Aganagic, Mina; Shakirov, Shamil (2011), Knot homology from refined Chern–Simons theory, Bibcode: 2011arXiv1105.5117A |
| 4. | Aganagic, Mina (2012), Large N duality, mirror symmetry, and a Q-deformed A-polynomial for knots, Bibcode: 2012arXiv1204.4709A |
| 5. | Aganagic, Mina (2017), Quantum q-Langlands Correspondence, Bibcode: 2017arXiv170103146A |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Three profs win Sloan Research Fellowships", UW Today (University of Washington), March 11, 2004, http://www.washington.edu/news/2004/03/11/three-profs-win-sloan-research-fellowships/
- ↑ Mina Aganagic at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ US Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Awards, https://science.energy.gov/~/media/hep/pdf/files/pdfs/OJI_ALL_Awards.pdf).
- ↑ "Simons Investigator Awards Announced", News, Events and Announcements (American Mathematical Society), July 13, 2016, http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=3115, retrieved 2017-09-20
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