Curriculum Vitae for Benjamin Gammage
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Education and Employment
- 2019-present: Benjamin Peirce Fellow, Harvard University (on leave 2019-2020)
- 2020-2023: NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University
- 2019-2020: Research Assistant Professor, University of Miami
- 2014-2019: PhD student, UC Berkeley
- Advised by David Nadler.
- Thesis title: Microlocal sheaves and mirror symmetry
- 2014: BS with General Honors, University of Chicago
- Mathematics with Special Honors
- Minor in Classical Studies
Research Interests
- Geometric representation theory
- Mathematical physics
- Derived algebraic & symplectic geometry
Publications and preprints
- arXiv:1903.07928, with Michael McBreen and Ben Webster, Homological mirror symmetry for hypertoric varieties II. Preprint 2019. Submitted.
- arXiv:1707.02959, with Vivek Shende, Mirror symmetry for very affine hypersurfaces, preprint 2017. Submitted.
- arXiv:1702.03255, with David Nadler, Mirror symmetry for honeycombs. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), pp. 71-107.
Teaching Experience
Miami
- Spring 2020: Instructor, Multivariable calculus (MTH 310)
Berkeley
- Spring 2019: Mentor, Directed Reading Program
- Fall 2015: Mentor, Directed Reading Program
- Spring 2015: Graduate Student Instructor, Multivariable calculus (Math 53)
- Fall 2014: Graduate Student Instructor, Calculus 1 (Math 1A)
Chicago
- 2014: Mentor, University of Chicago REU
- 2012-2014: Assistant Teacher, Young Scholars Program
- 2011-2014: Reader in Mathematics and Computer Science
- 2013-2014: College Core Tutor in Mathematics
- 2013: Volunteer Teacher, Winning Words Program
- 2012-2013: Math Problems Editor, Brilliant.org
- 2012: Assistant Teacher, SESAME program
Honors & Awards
- 2020: NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2019: Kenneth Ribet and Lisa Goldberg Award in Algebra (UC Berkeley dissertation prize)
- 2015: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2014: Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2014: Paul R. Cohen Prize (University of Chicago senior mathematics prize)
Seminars and Talks
Organizational activity
- Organizer, Gammage Seminar, Summer 2018 & Spring 2019
- Co-organizer, Derived Algebraic Geometry seminar, Spring 2018
- Co-organizer, Derived Algebraic Geometry seminar, Spring 2017
- Organizer, GRASP Seminar, Fall 2015-Spring 2017
- Co-organizer, Symplectic Field Theory seminar, Fall 2016
- Organizer, Nadler Student Pizza Seminar, Fall 2015
Research talks
- Cluster varieties and mirror symmetry, QFT & GRT Working Seminar, 04/22/2020
- Cluster varieties and mirror symmetry, IMSA seminar, Miami, 04/02/2020
- Mirror symmetry and multiplicative hypertoric varieties, Geometry & Physics Seminar, Northwestern, 02/27/2020
- Mirror symmetry near large volume, Conference "Homological Mirror Symmetry and Topological Recursion", Miami, 01/29/2020
- Mirror symmetry and Hitchin systems, Topology and Geometry seminar, Hebrew University, 01/07/2020
- Hyperkähler geometry and mirror symmetry, Informal Mathematical Physics Seminar, Columbia, 12/09/2019
- Cluster varieties and mirror symmetry, Conference "Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics," Fields Institute, 11/19/2019
- Mirror symmetry and K-theoretic Coulomb branches, String-Math Seminar, Berkeley, 10/29/2019
- Mirror symmetry and K-theoretic Coulomb branches, QMAP Seminar, Davis, 05/02/2019
- Mirror symmetry and K-theoretic Coulomb branches, Conference "Mirror symmetry and related topics," Miami, 01/29/2019
- Mirror symmetry and toric geometry, Algebraic geometry seminar, Cornell, 12/03/2018
- Mirror symmetry and representation theory, Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar, Columbia, 11/30/2018
- Mirror symmetry and representation theory, Mathematical Physics Seminar, Perimeter Institute, 11/26/2018
- How to compute Fukaya categories, Geometric Structures Laboratory, Fields Institute, 10/09/2018
- Brane bricks and mirror symmetry for hypersurfaces, Math/string seminar, IPMU, 03/07/2018
- Two perspectives on mirror symmetry for hypersurfaces, M-seminar, Kansas State, 03/01/2018
- Mirror symmetry for affine hypersurfaces, Algebraic geometry seminar, Cambridge, 10/23/2017
- Mirror symmetry for affine hypersurfaces, Algebraic geometry seminar, Oxford, 10/10/2017
Other
- 2013: 1st-Place Undergraduate Team, Quiz Bowl National Championship
- 2009-2010: President, La Jolla High School Feminism Club
- 2009: Semifinalist, Impromptu Speaking, California State High School Speech Tournament
last updated: 22 avril 2020