Shiraz Minwalla
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Shiraz Minwalla is a young Indian string theorist. He has been a Harvard Junior Fellow and after that he was assistant professor at Harvard University. Right now he is assistant professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, his home town. He graduted from Indian Institutes of Technology Kanpur; he later moved to Princeton University to earn his Ph.D.
[edit] Notable contributions to the field
- Analysis of primary operators on AdS4 and AdS7
- Three-point functions in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and AdS/CFT
- Noncommutative perturbative dynamics (with Nathan Seiberg and Mark Van Raamsdonk)
- Noncommutative solitons (with Andrew Strominger and Rajesh Gopakumar)
- OM-theory (with Nathan Seiberg, Andrew Strominger and Rajesh Gopakumar)
- Stringy interactions in pp-waves
- Some insights about tachyon condensation