Andrew_Strominger

Andrew Strominger
Andrew Eben Strominger (/ˈstrɑːmɪndʒər/;[1] born

1955) is an American theoretical physicist who is the Andrew E. Strominger
director of Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws
of Nature. He has made significant contributions to
quantum gravity and string theory. These include his
work on Calabi–Yau compactification and topology
change in string theory, and on the stringy origin of
black hole entropy. He is a senior fellow at the Society
of Fellows, and is the Gwill E. York Professor of
Physics.
Education
Strominger in 2004
Strominger received his bachelor's degree at Harvard
College in 1977 and his master's degree at the Born July 30, 1955
University of California, Berkeley. He then received Citizenship US
his PhD at MIT in 1982 under the supervision of Alma mater Harvard College (AB, 1977)
Roman Jackiw. Prior to joining Harvard as a professor University of California, Berkeley
in 1997, he held a faculty position at the University of (MA, 1979)
California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of over 200 MIT (PhD, 1982)
publications.
Known for CGHS model
Contributions to:
String theory
Research Quantum gravity
dS/CFT correspondence
Kerr/CFT correspondence
Notable contributions SYZ conjecture
a paper with Cumrun Vafa that explains the S-brane
microscopic origin of the black hole entropy, Awards Breakthrough Prize in
originally calculated thermodynamically by Fundamental Physics (2017)
Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein, from Klein Medal (2014)
string theory[2] Dirac Medal (2014)
a paper with Philip Candelas, Gary Horowitz, Dannie Heineman Prize (2016)
and Edward Witten in the 1980s about the
Guggenheim Fellowship (2020)
relevance of Calabi–Yau manifolds for
obtaining the Standard Model from string Scientific career
theory
Fields Physics
other articles discussing the dS/CFT
correspondence and the Kerr/CFT Institutions University of California, Santa
correspondence (variations of the AdS/CFT Barbara
correspondence) Harvard University
S-branes (a variation of D-branes) Thesis The large symmetry
OM-theory (with Shiraz Minwalla and Nathan approximation in quantum field
Seiberg) theory (https://www.worldcat.org/
noncommutative solitons (with Anastasia title/8153582) (1981)
Volovich, Shiraz Minwalla and Rajesh
Doctoral Roman Jackiw
Gopakumar)
advisor
massless black holes in the form of wrapped
D3-branes that regulate the physics of a Doctoral Ruth Britto
conifold and allow topology change students Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
the SYZ conjecture, an interpretation of mirror
symmetry as a special case of T-duality (with Anastasia Volovich
Eric Zaslow and Shing-Tung Yau) Xi Yin
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 extreme
mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) into rapidly rotating black holes (these gravitational waves are
expected to be detected with future space-based gravitational wave detectors such as
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
Pasterski–Strominger–Zhiboedov triangle
References
1. The Dirac Roundtable (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RAeb4WqsIo)
2. Strominger, Andrew; Vafa, Cumrun (1996). "Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking
entropy". Physics Letters B. 379 (1–4): 99–104. arXiv:hep-th/9601029 (https://arxiv.org/abs/
hep-th/9601029). Bibcode:1996PhLB..379...99S (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996Ph
LB..379...99S). doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00345-0 (https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0370-269
3%2896%2900345-0).
3. "Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020" (https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/andrew-strominge
r/).
External links
Home page of Strominger at Harvard (https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/str
ominger)
Harvard Physics Department Newsletter, fall 2015 (https://web.archive.org/web/2016111820
1031/https://www.physics.harvard.edu/uploads/files/Newsletter_Fall_2015.pdf) describing
the Strominger group's research (pp. 21–25)
Strominger's articles (http://inspirehep.net/search?p=find+a+strominger) in the INSPIRE-
HEP database
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