Edward Frenkel

Edward Frenkel

Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously on the faculty at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and winner of the Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical physics. His recent work has focused on the Langlands Program and dualities in Quantum Field Theory. Frenkel has authored two books and over eighty research articles in mathematical journals, and he has lectured on his work around the world. He co-produced, co-directed and played the lead in the film “Rites of Love and Math,” which French newspaper Le Monde called “a stunning short film… offering an unusual romantic vision of mathematicians.”

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