Amer Iqbal

Amer Iqbal
Residence	Lahore, Punjab Province
Citizenship	Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Fields	Theoretical Physics
Institutions	Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) University of Texas at Austin Harvard University University of Washington National Centre for Physics GCU School of Mathematics
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Doctoral advisor	Barton Zwiebach
Known for	Mysterious duality

Amer Iqbal, Ph.D., is a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He is primarily known for his work in string theory and mathematical physics.^[1] He is the associate professor of Physics at the School of Science and Engineering at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.^[2] Previously, he had served as a Professor of Mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences.^[3]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 2.1 Patents and Research 3 References

Biography

Iqbal has a M.Sc. in Mathematics from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and Doctorate in Theoretical physics from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He carried out his doctoral research under the supervision of string theorist professor Barton Zwiebach.

Bibliography

Patents and Research

• A. Iqbal and A. Naqvi, "On marginal deformations in superstring field theory," J. High Energy Phys. JHEP 0101, 040 (2001).

• T. Hauer, A. Iqbal and B. Zwiebach, "Duality and Weyl symmetry of 7-brane configurations," J. High Energy Phys. JHEP 0009, 042 (2000).

• T. Hauer and A. Iqbal, "Del Pezzo surfaces and affine 7-brane backgrounds," J. High Energy Phys. JHEP 0001, 043 (2000).

• O. DeWolfe, A. Hanany, A. Iqbal and E. Katz, "Five-branes, seven-branes and five-dimensional E(n) field theories," J. High Energy Phys. JHEP 9903, 006 (1999).

• O. DeWolfe, T. Hauer, A. Iqbal and B. Zwiebach, "Uncovering infinite symmetries on (p,q) 7-branes: Kac-Moody algebras and beyond," Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 3, 1835 (1999).

• O. DeWolfe, T. Hauer, A. Iqbal and B. Zwiebach, "Uncovering the symmetries on (p,q) 7-branes: Beyond the Kodaira classification," Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 3, 1785 (1999).

• A. Iqbal, "Self-intersection number of BPS junctions in backgrounds of three and seven-branes," J.High Energy Phys. JHEP 9910, 032 (1999).

• O. DeWolfe, T. Hauer, A. Iqbal and B. Zwiebach, "Constraints on the BPS spectrum of N = 2, D = 4 theories with A-D-E flavor symmetry," Nucl. Phys. B 534, 261 (1998).

References