Joel Friedman
Professor
Academic Information
A.B., Harvard College (1984); Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1987); Assistant Professor, Princeton University (1987-1993); Associate Professor, UBC (1994-2001); Quantitative Analyst, D.E. Shaw & Co. (1998-99); Professor, UBC (2001-);
Selected Publications
Joel Friedman, "A Proof of Alon's Second Eigenvalue Conjecture and Related Problems,'' Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2008, no. 910.
Joel Friedman, "On the Bit Extraction Problem,'' 33rd IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1992, 314--319.
Paul Feldman, Joel Friedman, and Nicholas Pippenger, "On Non-Blocking Networks,'' SIAM J. Disc. Math., 1 (1988), 185--173.
Joel Friedman, "Constructing O(n log n) Size Monotone Formulae for the k-th Threshold Function,'' SIAM Journal on Computing, 15 (1986), 641-654.
Interests
My research focuses on graph eigenvalues and expansion and their connections to other fields. These other fields are quite numerous, and include error correcting codes, nonblocking networks, differential geometry, number theory, mathematical physics concerning eigenvalues of random structures, etc.