David Nadler
Curriculum Vitae


Department of Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley
Evans Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3840

Phone: +1 (510) 642-6550
Fax: +1 (510) 642-8204

email: nadler@math.berkeley.edu

Education

Ph.D. Princeton University, 2001
Thesis title: Perverse sheaves on real loop Grassmannians
Thesis adviser: Robert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced Study

B.S. Brown University, 1996
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Hungary, Fall 1994-Spring 1995.

Employment

2012-current Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
2018-2019 Visiting Faculty, Google Research, Mountain View, CA
2011-2012 Professor, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
2008-2011 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
Spring 2008 Member, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study
2005-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
2001-2005 L.E. Dickson Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago

Honors

July 2026 Invited Speaker, 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, Philadelphia
Spring 2025 Recipient, Frontiers of Science Award
Spring 2025 Recipient, Frontiers of Science Award
Winter 2025 Plenary Lecture, 2024 International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Shanghai
Fall 2024 Hua Lectures, Tsinghua University
Spring 2017 William J. Spencer Lecture, Kansas State University
Fall 2017 Fall Distinguished Lecture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2016-2017 Miller Research Professor, Miller Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2012 Cahit Arf Lecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Fall 2012 Andreas Floer Memorial Lecture, Stanford University
Fall 2012 Elected AMS Fellow
Winter 2011 Invited address, Current Events Bulletin, Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans
2009 Clarence Ver Steeg Graduate Faculty Award, Northwestern University
Fall 2008 Invited address, AMS Central Section Meeting, Western Michigan University
2007-2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Northwestern University
2002-2005 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Chicago
1997-2000 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Princeton University
1996 David Howell Premium for Excellence in Mathematics, Brown University
1996 Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University

Research support

2024-current Principal investigator, Representation theory and symplectic geometry, Simons Travel Support for Mathematicians
2024-current Principal investigator, Representation theory and symplectic geometry inspired by topological field theory, NSF DMS grant #2401178
2023-current Co-principal investigator, RTG: Numbers, Geometry, and Symmetry at Berkeley, NSF DMS grant #2342225
2021-2024 Principal investigator, Lagrangian Skeleta in Symplectic Geometry and Representation Theory, NSF DMS grant #2101466
2018-current Principal investigator, Singularities and sheaves in symplectic geometry and geometric representation theory, NSF DMS grant #1802373
2015-2018 Principal investigator, Microlocal geometry in gauge theory, NSF DMS grant #1502178
2012-2015 Principal investigator, Quantum topological structures in geometric representation theory, NSF DMS grant #1201319/#1319287
2012-2016 Co-principal investigator, FRG: Collaborative Research: In and Around Theory X, NSF DMS grant #1342948
2009-2012 Principal investigator, Representation theory via topological field theory, NSF DMS grant #0901114
2008-current Co-principal investigator, SQuaRE grant, American Institute of Mathematics
2007-2012 Member, Research Training Group in Geometry and Physics, NSF DMS grant #0636646, principal investigators: E. Getzler, B. Tsygan, E. Zaslow
2006-2009 Principal investigator, Perverse sheaves in representation theory, NSF DMS grant #0600909