Robbert Dijkgraaf

Robbert Dijkgraaf (born 24 January 1960) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. At the Institute for Advanced Study he is the director and the Leon Levy professor. Quotes The last two years have seen the emergence of a beautiful new subject in mathematical physics. It manages to combine a most exotic range of disciplines: two-dimensional quantum field theory, intersection theory on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, integrable hierarchies, matrix integrals, random surfaces, and many more. The common denominator of all these fields is two-dimensional quantum gravity or, more general, low-dimensional string theory. 1992 Intersection Theory, Integrable Hierarchies and Topological Field Theory by Robbert Dijkgraaf Fröhlich J., ’t Hooft G., Jaffe A., Mack G., Mitter P.K., Stora R. (eds.) New Symmetry Principles in Quantum Field Theory NATO ASI Series (Series B: Physics) vol. 295 95–158 Springer Boston, MA 10.1007/978-1-4615-3472-3_4 Mirror symmetry is concerned with counting the number of holomorphic curves on Calabi-Yau manifolds, i.e. compact Kähler manifolds X with trivial canonical bundle KX. Mirror symmetry and elliptic curves by Robert Dijkgraaf The moduli space of curves 149–163 Progress in Mathematics vol. 129 Birkhäuser Boston 1995 10.1007/978-1-4612-4264-2_5 I would be willing to bet that whatever formulations of quantum field theory we have now are preliminary ... The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Robbert Dijkgraaf and Edward Witten in Conversation 30 May 2019 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjthuCDzAnY (quote at 7:18 of 21:39) External links Category:Academics from the Netherlands Category:Physicists from the Netherlands Category:1960 births Category:Living people