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Andrew E. Strominger
Strominger in 2004
Born	(1955-07-30)July 30, 1955 (age 70)
Citizenship	US
Alma mater	Harvard College (AB, 1977) University of California, Berkeley (MA, 1979) MIT (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)
Scientific career
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	Ruth Britto Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Anastasia Volovich Xi Yin

Andrew Eben Strominger (/ˈstrɑːmɪndʒər/;^[1] born 1955) is an Americantheoretical physicist who is the director of Harvard'sCenter for the Fundamental Laws of Nature. He has made significant contributions toquantum gravity andstring theory. These include his work onCalabi–Yau compactification and topology change in string theory, and on the stringy origin ofblack hole entropy. He is a senior fellow at theSociety of Fellows, and is the Gwill E. York Professor of Physics.

Strominger received his bachelor's degree atHarvard College in 1977 and his master's degree at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. He then received his PhD atMIT in 1982 under the supervision ofRoman 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.

• a paper withCumrun Vafa that explains the microscopic origin of theblack hole entropy, originally calculated thermodynamically byStephen Hawking andJacob Bekenstein, from string theory^[2]
• a paper with Philip Candelas, Gary Horowitz, andEdward Witten in the 1980s about the relevance ofCalabi–Yau manifolds for obtaining theStandard Model fromstring theory
• other articles discussing thedS/CFT correspondence and theKerr/CFT correspondence (variations of theAdS/CFT correspondence)
• S-branes (a variation ofD-branes)
• OM-theory (withShiraz Minwalla andNathan Seiberg)
• noncommutativesolitons (withAnastasia Volovich,Shiraz Minwalla andRajesh Gopakumar)
• massless black holes in the form of wrappedD3-branes that regulate the physics of aconifold and allowtopology change
• theSYZ conjecture, an interpretation ofmirror symmetry as a special case ofT-duality (withEric Zaslow andShing-Tung Yau)
• purely cubic action forstring field theory
• superstrings withtorsion
• a study of the relationship betweenasymptotic symmetries inasymptotically flat spacetimes, soft theorems and memory effects
• an analytic calculation of the exact spectrum of gravitational wave emission fromextreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) into rapidly rotating black holes (these gravitational waves are expected to be detected with future space-basedgravitational wave detectors such aseLISA)

In recognition of his accomplishments, Strominger has been awarded numerous prizes, fellowships, and honorary professorships. These include theKlein Medal from theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the 2008 Eisenbud Prize from the American Mathematical Society, the 2014Dirac Medal from theAbdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, which he received for his contributions to the origin, development, and further understanding of string theory, and the 2017Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics withCumrun Vafa andJoseph Polchinski. In 2020, he received aGuggenheim Fellowship.^[3]

• Pasterski–Strominger–Zhiboedov triangle

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• Strominger's articles in theINSPIRE-HEP database

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