Igor Frenkel | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 22, 1952 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University Yale University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Howard Garland |
| Doctoral students | Pavel Etingof Mikhail Khovanov Alexander Kirillov, Jr. |
Igor Borisovich Frenkel (Russian: Игорь Борисович Френкель; born April 22, 1952) is a Russian-American mathematician at Yale University working in representation theory and mathematical physics.
Frenkel emigrated to the United States in 1979. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1980 with a dissertation on the "Orbital Theory for Affine Lie Algebras". He held positions at the IAS and MSRI, and a tenured professorship at Rutgers University, before taking his current job of tenured professor at Yale University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.[1] He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]