Mina Aganagić

Mina Aganagić
Mina Aganagić
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology
Awards	APS Fellow (2016); Simons Fellow (2016-20);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical physics; String theory
Institutions	Harvard University; University of Washington; University of California, Berkeley;
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.

Career

Aganagić 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 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 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]

Aganagić, Mina; Vafa, Cumrun (2000), Mirror symmetry, D-branes and counting holomorphic discs, arXiv:hep-th/0012041, Bibcode:2000hep.th...12041A
Aganagić, Mina; Klemm, Albrecht; Mariño, Marcos; Vafa, Cumrun (2005), "The topological vertex", Communications in Mathematical Physics, 254 (2): 425–478, arXiv:hep-th/0305132, Bibcode:2005CMaPh.254..425A, doi:10.1007/s00220-004-1162-z, MR 2117633
Aganagić, Mina; Shakirov, Shamil (2011), Knot homology from refined Chern–Simons theory, arXiv:1105.5117, Bibcode:2011arXiv1105.5117A
Aganagić, Mina; Vafa, Cumrun (2012), Large N duality, mirror symmetry, and a Q-deformed A-polynomial for knots, arXiv:1204.4709, Bibcode:2012arXiv1204.4709A
Aganagić, Mina; Frenkel, Edward; Okounkov, Andrei (2017), Quantum q-Langlands Correspondence, arXiv:1701.03146, Bibcode:2017arXiv170103146A