Robbert Dijkgraaf
Dutch politician, mathematical physicist and string theorist · Netherlands · On the map · Politicians · Born 1960 · age 66
Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf, is a Dutch theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theorist and former politician. He served as the Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands from 2022 until 2024.
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, The last two years have seen the emergence of a beautiful new subject in mathematical physics.
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.
I would be willing to bet that whatever formulations of quantum field theory we have now are preliminary ...
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From July 2012 until his inauguration as a minister, he had been the director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a tenured professor at the University of Amsterdam. As of January 2025, Robbert is the president-elect of the International Science Council.
