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 doctoral thesis was supervised by 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] She moved to UC Berkeley in 2004.

Research

She is known for applying physics to the mathematics of knot theory (e.g. refined Chern–Simons theory),[pub 1] curve counting (topological vertex)[pub 2] and mirror symmetry.[pub 3][pub 4]

Publications

  1. ↑ Knot Homology from Refined Chern-Simons Theory, arXiv:1105.5117 Freely accessible
  2. ↑ The Topological Vertex, arXiv:hep-th/0305132 Freely accessible
  3. ↑ Mirror Symmetry, D-Branes and Counting Holomorphic Discs, arXiv:hep-th/0012041 Freely accessible
  4. ↑ Large N Duality, Mirror Symmetry, and a Q-deformed A-polynomial for Knots, arXiv:1204.4709 Freely accessible

References

  1. 1 2 "Three profs win Sloan Research Fellowships", UW Today, University of Washington, March 11, 2004.
  2. ↑ Mina Aganagic at the Mathematics Genealogy Project


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