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'''Xenia de la Ossa Osegueda''' (Born 30 June 1958, San José, [[Costa Rica]]) is a [[theoretical physicist]] whose research focuses on mathematical structures that arise in [[string theory]]..<ref> [http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/X.de.la.Ossa.1 Scientific publications on INSPIRE-HEP]</ref> She is a professor at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]]'s Mathematical Institute.<ref>[https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/xenia.delaossa Academic Faculty - University of Oxford]</ref> |
'''Xenia de la Ossa Osegueda''' (Born 30 June 1958, San José, [[Costa Rica]]) is a [[theoretical physicist]] whose research focuses on mathematical structures that arise in [[string theory]]..<ref> [http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/X.de.la.Ossa.1 Scientific publications on INSPIRE-HEP]</ref> She is a professor at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]]'s Mathematical Institute.<ref>[https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/xenia.delaossa Academic Faculty - University of Oxford]</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:40, 18 May 2018
Template:Spanish name Xenia de la Ossa Osegueda (Born 30 June 1958, San José, Costa Rica) is a theoretical physicist whose research focuses on mathematical structures that arise in string theory..[1] She is a professor at Oxford's Mathematical Institute.[2]
Academic career
Xenia de la Ossa received her PhD from University of Texas at Austin with the dissertation Quantum Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Mirror Symmetry written under the supervision of Willy Fischler.[3]
She was at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1993 to 1995.[4]
Contributions
Xenia de la Ossa is known for her contributions to mathematical physics with much of her work focusing on string theory and its interplay with algebraic geometry. In 1991, she coauthored "A pair of Calabi-Yau manifolds as an exactly soluble superconformal theory",[6] which contained remarkable predictions about the number of rational curves on a quintic threefold.[7] This was the first work to use mirror symmetry in order to make enumerative predictions in algebraic geometry, which moreover went far beyond what could be proved at the time using the available techniques within the area.[8]
This paper was cited in the more important books about String Theory. In 2004, it was mentioned in the popular book The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose:
But having said that, I have to admit to there being the appearance of something of genuine significance ‘going on behind the scenes’ in some aspects of string/ M-theory. As the mathematician, Richard Thomas (mathematician), of Imperial College London remarked to me, in an e-mail message: ‘’ I can’t emphasize enough how deep some of these dualities are: they constantly surprise us with new predictions. They show up structure never thought possible. Mathematicians confidently predicted several times that these things weren’t possible, but people like Candelas, de la Ossa, et al. have shown this to be wrong. Every prediction made, suitably interpreted mathematically, has turned out to be correct. And not for any conceptual maths reason so far – we have no idea why they’re true, we just compute both sides independently and indeed find the same structures, symmetries and answers on both sides. To a mathematician these things cannot be coincidence, they must come from a higher reason. And that reason is the assumption that this big mathematical theory describes nature…’’.[9]
Other Contributions
Professor de la Ossa has belonged to scientific committees of several organizations for the promotion of scientific events in Latin America. Among them Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics [10] and School of Mathematics of Latin America and the Caribbean [11]. She has been invited as speaker in many conferences at important academic institutions in the world [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
She has also been principal investigator in the project entitled Vacuum States of the Heterotic String [17] with grant by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [18] for innovative research in the UK.
Personal life
Xenia de la Ossa is married to British physicist and mathematician Philip Candelas and has two daughters.[19][20]
References
- ^ Scientific publications on INSPIRE-HEP
- ^ Academic Faculty - University of Oxford
- ^ Xenia de la Ossa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Scholars - Institute for Advanced Study
- ^ Geometric, Algebraic and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory Villa de Leyva Summer School – 2017
- ^ Philip Candelas; Xenia de la Ossa; Paul S. Green; Linda Parkes (1991), "A pair of Calabi-Yau manifolds as an exactly soluble superconformal theory", Nuclear Physics B, 359: 21–74, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(91)90292-6
- ^ Hori, Kentaro; Katz, Sheldon; Klemm, Albrecht; Pandharipande, Rahul; Thomas, Richard; Vafa, Cumrun; Vakil, Ravi; Zaslow, Eric (2003). Mirror symmetry. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-2955-6.
- ^ Cox, David A.; Katz, Sheldon (1999). Mirror symmetry and algebraic geometry. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-1059-6.
- ^ Penrose, Roger (2004). The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. London: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0679454434.
- ^ Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics
- ^ School of Mathematics of Latin America and the Caribbean
- ^ JDG 2002: Fifth Conference on Geometry and Topology
- ^ Mathematics of String Theory
- ^ Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics
- ^ Institute for Basic Science(IBS)
- ^ A celebration of Nigel Hitchin's 70th birthday in honour of his contributions to mathematics
- ^ Vacuum States of the Heterotic String
- ^ Engineering and Physical Sciences Reasearch Council (EPSRC)
- ^ CANDELAS. "CANDELAS, Prof. Philip". Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter|othernames=ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required) - ^ "Philip Candelas's CV" (PDF). www.maths.ox.ac.uk.