American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is currently a professor at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Society of Fellows. His contributions to physics include:

• a paper with Cumrun Vafa that explains the microscopic origin of the black hole entropy, originally calculated thermodynamically by Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein, from string theory
• a paper with Philip Candelas, Gary Horowitz, and Edward Witten in the 1980s about the relevance of Calabi-Yau manifolds for obtaining the Standard Model from string theory
• other articles discussing the dS/CFT correspondence (a variation of AdS/CFT correspondence); S-branes (a variation of D_branes)
• OM_theory (with Shiraz Minwalla and Nathan Seiberg)
• noncommutative solitons (with Shiraz Minwalla and Rajesh Gopakumar)
• massless black holes in the form of wrapped D3-branes that regulate the physics of a conifold and allow topology change
• interpretation of mirror symmetry as a special case of T-duality (with Eric Zaslow and Shing_Tung Yau)
• purely cubic action for string field theory
• superstrings with torsion

External links

• Andrew Strominger's home page under construction (http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~andy/)
• Home page of Strominger at Harvard (http://physics.harvard.edu/strominger.htm)
• SPIRES database of Strominger's articles (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=find+a+strominger)