Dan Freed

Dan Freed, actually Daniel Stuart Freed, ( born April 17, 1959) is an American mathematician who deals with global analysis and connections to mathematical physics ( supersymmetry, string theory, quantum field theory).

Freed graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's and master's degree in 1981 and in 1985 at Isadore Singer at the University of California at Berkeley PhD (The geometry of loop groups). As a post - graduate student, he was Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. From 1989 he was an associate professor and in 1994 professor at the University of Texas at Austin. 1996 to 1998 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and he was a visiting scientist at the IHES (1995, 1999).

2002/2003 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and 1988-1992 Sloan Fellow. In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing (Twisted K- theory and loop groups). He is one of the founders of the IAS / Park City Mathematics Institute and since 2006 has been in Leitungsrat (Board of Trustees ) of the MSRI, whose scientific advisory board he joined in 2002. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• With Karen Uhlenbeck: Instantons and 4- manifolds. Springer, 1984.
• With Karen Uhlenbeck (ed.): Geometry and Quantum Field Theory. American Mathematical Society in 1995.
• Five lectures on supersymmetry. American Mathematical Society in 1999.
• With Pierre Deligne, Pavel Etingof, L. Jeffrey, David Kazhdan, John Morgan, David Morrison, Edward Witten (ed.): Quantum Fields and Strings. A course for mathematicians. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Iceland 1999.
• David R. Morrison, Isadore Singer ( ed.): Quantum Field Theory, Supersymmetry and Enumerative Geometry. IAS / Park City Mathematics Series 11, American Mathematical Society / Institute for Advanced Study, 2006.