Harm Derksen was born in the Netherlands and received his master’s degree in Mathematics from the Radboud University in Nijmegen in 1993. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Basel (Switzerland) in 1997. After visiting Northeastern 1997-1998 as a postdoc he became a C.L.E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts institute of Technology. Dr. Derksen was a faculty member at the University of Michigan from 2000 until 2020 before becoming a professor at Northeastern University. He has co-written books on computational invariant theory and on the theory of quiver representations. His current research is in pure and applied algebra.
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Celebrating our COS 2023 TIER1 Awardees
11 are faculty members of the College of Science are 2023 TIER1 Awardees. The TIER 1 Seed Grant/Proof of Concept Program awards are supported by the colleges and the Senior Vice Provost for Research. -
Math students achieve excellence at 2021 Putnam Competition
In December of 2021, ten Northeastern students competed at the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, a university-level mathematics competition held annually on campuses across the US and Canada.