Edward Frenkel

Edward Frenkel
Frenkel in 2008
Born (1968-05-02) May 2, 1968 (age 56)
Alma materGubkin University of Oil and Gas
Harvard University
Known forContributions to the Langlands program
AwardsHermann Weyl Prize (2002)
Euler Book Prize (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsAlgebraic geometry
InstitutionsHarvard University
University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorBoris Feigin
Joseph Bernstein
Doctoral studentsDavid Ben-Zvi
Xinwen Zhu

Edward Vladimirovich Frenkel (Russian: Эдуáрд Влади́мирович Фре́нкель; born May 2, 1968) is a Russian-American mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.