Amer Iqbal
Amer Iqbal | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| Known for | D-Branes in Massive LG Theories Mysterious duality Refined Topological Vertex M-Strings |
| Awards | Abdus Salam Award COMSTECH Award for Physics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | University of Washington Harvard University University of Texas at Austin |
| Doctoral advisor | Barton Zwiebach |
Amer Iqbal is a Pakistani American theoretical physicist. He is primarily known for his work in string theory and mathematical physics.
Biography
Amer Iqbal has a Doctorate in Theoretical physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He carried out his doctoral research under the supervision of Barton Zwiebach. He has held faculty position at University of Washington and postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas at Austin and at Harvard University.
Amer Iqbal was awarded the Abdus Salam Award for physics in 2012 for his work on superstring theory and its relationship with supersymmetry and gauge theories.[1] He was also awarded the COMSTECH Award for physics in 2019 for his work on six dimensional little strings and their geometric engineering using F-theory on elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds.[2]
References
- ^ "Dr. Amer Iqbal awarded the Abdus Salam Prize". Lahore University of Management Sciences. February 7, 2012.
- ^ "Comstech Awards 2019". Comstech. October 5, 2020.
External links
- Amer Iqbal publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Amer Iqbal on LinkedIn
- Quaid-i-Azam University alumni
- Pakistani physicists
- String theorists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Living people
- Pakistani educators
- Pakistani scholars
- Pakistani science writers
- Theoretical physicists
- Scientists from Lahore
- Lahore University of Management Sciences faculty
- MIT Center for Theoretical Physics alumni
- Pakistani emigrants to the United States