Eric Friedlander
Department of Mathematics

Eric Friedlander, (PhD, MIT), Henry S. Noyes Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics Department. Between 1995 and 1998 he served as Associate dean of Science at Northwestern. His research areas include algebraic geometry (both classical and abstract), algebraic K-theory, and algebraic topology, and representation theory. Friedlander held visiting positions in Heidelberg university, ETH/Switzerland, Max Planck Institut, and IHES/France (1982/3, 1990/91, 1998/99). In 2004 he taught an advanced graduate course at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris. He is a frequent participator in international mathematical conferences in France. He won the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1996-97), is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Mathemtical Society and is co-editory of the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra.

eric@math.northwestern.edu