Mina Aganagić | |
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Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
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Scientific career | |
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Mathematical physics String theory |
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Thesis | String theory on Calabi–Yau manifolds: Topics in geometry and physics (1999) |
Doctoral advisor | John Henry Schwarz |
Mina Aganagić is a mathematical physicist who works as a professor in the Center for Theoretical Physics, the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Aganagić was raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. [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 Research 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] and the same year American Physical Society had awarded her with its fellowship. [5]
She is known for applying string theory to various problems in mathematics, including knot theory (refined Chern–Simons theory), [3] enumerative geometry, [2] mirror symmetry, [1] [4] and the geometric Langlands correspondence. [5]