Andrew Strominger
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Andrew E. Strominger | |
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PhD, 1982) | |
| Known for | CGHS model Contributions to: String theory Quantum gravity dS/CFT correspondence Kerr/CFT correspondence SYZ conjecture S-brane |
| Awards | Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2017) Klein Medal (2014) Dirac Medal (2014) Dannie Heineman Prize (2016) Guggenheim Fellowship (2020) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara Harvard University |
| Thesis | The large symmetry approximation in quantum field theory (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Roman Jackiw |
| Doctoral students | |
Andrew Eben Strominger (Society of Fellows, and is the Gwill E. York Professor of Physics.
Education
Strominger received his bachelor's degree at
MIT in 1982 under the supervision of Roman Jackiw
. Prior to joining Harvard as a professor in 1997, he held a faculty position at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of over 200 publications.
Research
Notable contributions
- a paper with Cumrun Vafa that explains the microscopic origin of the black hole entropy, originally calculated thermodynamically by Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein, from string theory[2]
- a paper with Philip Candelas, Gary Horowitz, and Edward Witten in the 1980s about the relevance of Calabi–Yau manifolds for obtaining the Standard Model from string theory
- other articles discussing the AdS/CFTcorrespondence)
- D-branes)
- OM-theory (with Shiraz Minwalla and Nathan Seiberg)
- noncommutative solitons (with Anastasia Volovich, Shiraz Minwalla and Rajesh Gopakumar)
- massless black holes in the form of wrapped change
- the SYZ conjecture, an interpretation of mirror symmetry as a special case of T-duality (with Eric Zaslow and Shing-Tung Yau)
- purely cubic action for string field theory
- superstrings with torsion
- a study of the relationship between asymptotic symmetries in asymptotically flat spacetimes, soft theorems and memory effects
- an analytic calculation of the exact spectrum of gravitational wave emission from eLISA)
Awards
In recognition of his accomplishments, Strominger has been awarded numerous prizes, fellowships, and honorary professorships. These include the Klein Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the 2008 Eisenbud Prize from the American Mathematical Society, the 2014 Dirac Medal from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, which he received for his contributions to the origin, development, and further understanding of string theory, and the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Cumrun Vafa and Joseph Polchinski. In 2020, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]
See also
References
External links
Wikiquote has quotations related to Andrew Strominger.
- Home page of Strominger at Harvard
- Harvard Physics Department Newsletter, fall 2015 describing the Strominger group's research (pp. 21–25)
- Strominger's articles in the INSPIRE-HEP database
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