David Ben-Zvi
David Dror Ben-Zvi is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Early life and education
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. He then graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University.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.
In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Honors and awards
- 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.
Books
Vertex Algebras and Algebraic Curves. Mathematical Surveys andMonographs 88, American Mathematical Society 2001.
Selected articles
- David Ben-Zvi, John Francis and David Nadler, Integral transforms and Drinfeld centers in derived algebraic geometry, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 23, 909-966
- David Ben-Zvi and David Nadler, Loop spaces and connections, Journal of Topology, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 377–430