David Dror Ben-Zvi (born 1974) is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the

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Early life and education

David Ben-Zvi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and grew up in

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. He graduated a valedictorian from

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and was a finalist in the

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. He then graduated ''

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. Ben-Zvi earned his Ph.D. from

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in 1999, with a dissertation titled ''Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems'' supervised by

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. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural

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s of the

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Honors and awards

*Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, elected in inaugural class, 2012. *Plenary Lecture, AMS Central Sectional Meeting, Baylor University, 2009. *

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Invited Lecture Series, Oxford, 2007. *

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Undergraduate Prizes, 1993 Brown Prize, 1994 Covington Prize, 1994 Miller Prize, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 1993-1994.

Bibliography

Books

Vertex Algebras and Algebraic Curves (with E. Frenkel). Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 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 (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

Living people University of Texas at Austin faculty 21st-century American mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 1974 births {{US-mathematician-stub