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.
Career
Aganagić was raised in
Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Yugoslavia.
[
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
John Henry Schwarz (; born November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of s ...
. She was a postdoctoral fellow
A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD). The ultimate goal of a postdoctoral research position is to p ...
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
The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.
...
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...
had awarded her with its fellowship.
Research
She is known for applying string theory to various problems in mathematics, including knot theory
In the mathematical field of topology, knot theory is the study of knot (mathematics), mathematical knots. While inspired by knots which appear in daily life, such as those in shoelaces and rope, a mathematical knot differs in that the ends are ...
(refined Chern–Simons theory
The Chern–Simons theory is a 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Schwarz type developed by Edward Witten. It was discovered first by mathematical physicist Albert Schwarz. It is named after mathematicians Shiing-Shen Chern and Jam ...
), enumerative geometry, mirror symmetry, and the geometric Langlands correspondence.
Selected publications
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References
External links
Physics Department home pageMath Department home page
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Yugoslav emigrants to the United States
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Washington faculty
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Bosnia and Herzegovina mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Mathematical physicists
Simons Investigator
21st-century women mathematicians
American string theorists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
American women physicists
21st-century American women scientists
Quantum physicists