David Erie Nadler (born 1973) is an American
mathematician
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who specializes in geometric
representation theory
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and
symplectic geometry
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. He is currently a professor at the
University of California, Berkeley
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.
Education and career
Nadler graduated from
Brown University with a
B.S.
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in mathematics in 1996. He completed his doctoral studies at
Princeton University
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under the supervision of
Robert MacPherson, earning a
Ph.D.
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in mathematics in 2001. He worked as an instructor at the
University of Chicago
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for several years before taking a tenure track position at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Chart ...
in 2005, where he became a Full Professor in 2011. He moved to his current position at the University of California at Berkeley in 2012.
Recognition
In 2007 Nadler was selected as a
Sloan Research Fellow
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, and in 2013 he became a member of the inaugural class of
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows may refer to Fellow
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Within the ...
.
Nadler delivered the
Arf Lecture in 2012.
Selected works
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References
External links
David Erie Nadlerat the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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David Nadlerauthor profile at
MathSciNet
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David Nadlerauthor profile at
zbMath
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David Nadlerresearcher profile at
University of California, Berkeley
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1973 births
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
Brown University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Northwestern University faculty
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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