Jeremy Rickard

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Jeremy Rickard (also known as J. C. Rickard or J. Rickard) is a British mathematician who works in algebra and algebraic topology. He studies modular representation theory of finite groups and related topics in algebraic topology and homological algebra. Rickard is known for derived (Rickard) equivalences, a generalization of Morita equivalences in rings and algebras. He earned his PhD in 1988 from University College London, supervised by Aidan Schofield. He is a professor at the University of Bristol. Rickard won the Whitehead Prize in 1995 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 2002. In 1998, he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, where he spoke about the abelian defect group conjecture.