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. 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 Research 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 and the same year American Physical Society had awarded her with its fellowship.
Research
She is known for applying string theory to various problems in mathematics, including knot theory (refined Chern–Simons theory), enumerative geometry, mirror symmetry, and the geometric Langlands correspondence.
Selected publications
References
External links
Physics Department home page
Math Department home page
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