David Dror Ben-Zvi is an American mathematician, currently Professor of Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin.[1]

David Dror Ben-Zvi
Born1974
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
EducationB.A. Summa Cum Laude, Mathematics, Princeton University, 1994
Ph.D., Mathematics, Harvard University
Thesis'Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems' (1999)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas, Institute for Advanced Study, University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, The Geometry Center University of Minnesota
Websitehttp://www.math.utexas.edu/~benzvi

Early life and education edit

David Ben-Zvi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and grew up in Rehovot, Israel, and Setauket New York. He graduated a Valedictorian from Ward Melville High School and was a finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

Ben-Zvi earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999, with a dissertation titled Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems supervised by Edward Frenkel.[2] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

Honors and awards edit

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, elected in inaugural class, 2012.
  • Plenary Lecture, AMS Central Sectional Meeting, Baylor University, 2009.
  • London Mathematical Society Invited Lecture Series, Oxford, 2007.
  • Princeton University Department of Mathematics Undergraduate Prizes, 1993 Brown Prize, 1994 Covington Prize, 1994 Miller Prize, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 1993-1994.

Bibliography edit

Books edit

Vertex Algebras and Algebraic Curves (with E. Frenkel). Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 88, American Mathematical Society 2001.

Selected articles edit

  • David Ben-Zvi, John Francis and David Nadler, Integral transforms and Drinfeld centers in derived algebraic geometry, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (2010), 909-966
  • David Ben-Zvi and David Nadler, Loop spaces and connections, Journal of Topology, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 377–430

References edit

  1. ^ "David Ben-Zvi". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  2. ^ David Ben-Zvi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-04-12