David Ben-Zvi

David Dror Ben-Zvi is an American mathematician, currently Professor of Mathematics at 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.

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 (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