David Dror Ben-Zvi
Born	1974 (age 49–50) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education	Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Algebraic geometry
Institutions	University of Texas at Austin Institute for Advanced Study University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago The Geometry Center University of Minnesota
Thesis	Spectral Curves, Opers And Integrable Systems  (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Edward Frenkel
Website	http://www.math.utexas.edu/~benzvi

David Dror Ben-Zvi (born 1974) is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.^[1]

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.^[2] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.^[3]

• 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.

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

• 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

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