David Nadler (mathematician)

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David Erie Nadler (born 1973)^[1] is an American mathematician who specializes in geometric representation theory and symplectic geometry. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2][3]

David Nadler
David Nadler at Berkeley (2018)
Born	1973
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University Princeton
Awards	Fellow, American Mathematical Society (2013) Arf Lecture (2012) Sloan Fellowship (2007)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Northwestern University University of Chicago
Thesis	Perverse sheaves on real loop Grassmannians  (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Robert MacPherson
Website	math.berkeley.edu/~nadler/

Education and career

Nadler graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in mathematics in 1996.^[3] He completed his doctoral studies at Princeton University under the supervision of Robert MacPherson, earning a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2001.^[3][4] He worked as an instructor at the University of Chicago for several years before taking a tenure track position at Northwestern University in 2005, where he became a Full Professor in 2011.^[3][5] He moved to his current position at the University of California at Berkeley in 2012.^[2]

Recognition

In 2007 Nadler was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow,^[6] and in 2013 he became a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.^[7]

Nadler delivered the Arf Lecture in 2012.^[8]

Selected works

• Nadler, David (2005). "Perverse sheaves on real loop Grassmannians". Invent. Math. 159 (1): 1–73. arXiv:math/0202150. doi:10.1007/s00222-004-0382-3. MR 2142332. S2CID 14234902.

• Nadler, David; Zaslow, Eric (2009). "Constructible sheaves and the Fukaya category". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 22 (1): 233–286. arXiv:math/0604379. Bibcode:2009JAMS...22..233N. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-08-00612-7. MR 2449059.

• Nadler, David (2009). "Microlocal branes are constructible sheaves". Selecta Math. New Series. 15 (4): 563–619. arXiv:math/0612399. doi:10.1007/s00029-009-0008-0. MR 2565051. S2CID 18624939.

• Ben-Zvi, David; Francis, John; Nadler, David (2010). "Integral transforms and Drinfeld centers in derived algebraic geometry". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (4): 909–966. arXiv:0805.0157. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-10-00669-7. MR 2669705.

• Ben-Zvi, David; Nadler, David (2012). "Loop spaces and connections". Journal of Topology. 5 (2): 377–430. arXiv:1002.3636. doi:10.1112/jtopol/jts007. MR 2928082. S2CID 115176241.