Mina Aganagić

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. 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. 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 and a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator. She moved to UC Berkeley in 2004. In 2016 the Simons Foundation gave her a Simons Investigator award.

Research

She is known for applying string theory to various problems in mathematics, e.g. knot theory (refined Chern–Simons theory),^[3] enumerative geometry (topological vertex)^[2], mirror symmetry ^[1][4] and Geometric Langlands Correspondence ^[5].

Selected publications

1.

Aganagic, Mina; Vafa, Cumrun (2000), Mirror symmetry, D-branes and counting holomorphic discs, arXiv:hep-th/0012041, Bibcode:2000hep.th...12041A

2.

Aganagic, 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

3.

Aganagic, Mina; Shakirov, Shamil (2011), Knot homology from refined Chern–Simons theory, arXiv:1105.5117, Bibcode:2011arXiv1105.5117A

4.

Aganagic, Mina; Vafa, Cumrun (2012), Large N duality, mirror symmetry, and a Q-deformed A-polynomial for knots, arXiv:1204.4709, Bibcode:2012arXiv1204.4709A

5.

Aganagic, Mina; Frenkel, Edward; Okounkov, Andrei (2017), Quantum q-Langlands Correspondence, arXiv:1701.03146, Bibcode:2017arXiv170103146A

External links

• Physics Department home page
• Math Department home page