Curriculum Vitae for Benjamin Gammage
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Education and Employment
- 2019-present: Benjamin Peirce Fellow, Harvard University
- 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
Publications and preprints
- arXiv:2210:06548,
with Justin Hilburn, Betti Tate's thesis and the trace of perverse schobers. Preprint 2022.
- arXiv:2210.03227, with Maxim Jeffs, Functorial mirror symmetry for very affine hypersurfaces. Preprint 2022.
- arXiv:2202.06833, with Justin Hilburn and Aaron Mazel-Gee, Perverse schobers and 3d mirror symmetry. Preprint 2022.
- arXiv:2105.12863, Local mirror symmetry via SYZ. Preprint 2021. Submitted.
- arXiv:2104.11129, with Vivek Shende, Mirror symmetry at large volume. Tunis. J. Math. To appear.
- arXiv:2103.12232, with Ian Le, Mirror symmetry for truncated cluster varieties. SIGMA Symmetry Integrability Geom. Methods Appl. 18 (2022), 055.
- arXiv:2010.15570. Mirror symmetry for Berglund-Hübsch Milnor fibers. Preprint 2020. Submitted.
- 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. Acta Math. 229 (2022), no. 2, 287-346.
- arXiv:1702.03255, with David Nadler, Mirror symmetry for honeycombs. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), pp. 71-107.
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: Paul R. Cohen Prize (University of Chicago senior mathematics prize)
Teaching Experience
Harvard
- Spring 2024 (Expected): Differential topology (Math 132)
- Fall 2023 (Expected): Sets, Groups, and Categories (Math 101)
- Fall 2022: Symplectic geometry (Topics course, Math 270Z)
- Spring 2021: Multivariable calculus (Math 21a)
- Fall 2020: "Quantum geometry" (Topics course, Math 277x)
Miami
- Spring 2020: 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
Service
Committee work
- 2022-2023: Qualifying exam committee, Harvard
- 2020-2021: Graduate admissions committee, Harvard
- Thesis defense committees:
- Lin Chen (Harvard, 2021)
- Yuchen Fu (Harvard, 2022)
- Minor thesis advisor:
- Grant Barkley (Harvard, 2022)
Outreach & inclusion
- 2022-2023: "Math Includes" mentor, Harvard
Peer reviewer:
- Geometry & Topology
- Advances in Mathematics
- Forum of Mathematics: Sigma
- Journal of Differential Geometry
- Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
- Journal of the London Mathematical Society
Seminars organized
- Spring 2022: Topological string theory seminar
- Fall 2021: Universal centralizers seminar
- Spring 2021: Noncommutative Hodge theory seminar
- Summer 2018 & Spring 2019: "Gammage Seminar"
- Spring 2017 & Spring 2018: Derived Algebraic Geometry seminar
- Fall 2016: Symplectic Field Theory seminar
- Fall 2016: TQFT seminar
- Fall 2015: Seminar on quantized symplectic resolutions
- Fall 2015: Nadler Student Pizza Seminar
Invited Talks
- Structural features of 3d mirror symmetry, Algebraic geometry seminar, Academia Sinica, 04/11/2023
- Structural features of 3d mirror symmetry, M-seminar, Kansas State, 03/30/2023
- Fully extended 3d mirror symmetry, Algebra Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 03/08/2023
- Fully extended 3d mirror symmetry, Schedler Seminar, Imperial College London, 03/01/2023
- 2-categorical 3d mirror symmetry, Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification seminar, Columbia, 02/17/2023
- Introduction to 3d mirror symmetry, Conference on homological mirror symmetry, IMSA, 01/23/2023
- 2-categories 𝒪 and duality, Special session on resolutions of singularities and cohomology in geometry and representation theory, JMM, 01/05/2023
- Quantum invariants and duality, Math-Physics Joint Seminar, UPenn, 12/05/2022
- The Fukaya-Fueter 2-category, MIT symplectic seminar, 09/08/2022
- Abelian 3d mirror symmetry and boundary conditions, Conference "QFT for Mathematicians 2022," Perimeter Institute, 06/28/2022
- 2-categorical 3d mirror symmetry, Representation Theory Seminar, UMass Amherst, 04/26/2022
- 2-categorical 3d mirror symmetry, Quantum Categorical Structures in Mirror Symmetry (AMS Special Session), JMM 04/07/2022
- 2-categorical 3d mirror symmetry, Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar, CMSA, 03/15/2022
- 2-categorical 3d mirror symmetry, String-Math Seminar, Berkeley, 03/07/2022
- Mirror symmetry from the SYZ base, Geometry and Physics Seminar, BU, 11/03/2021
- Mirror symmetry from the SYZ base, Symplectic Geometry seminar, Princeton, 10/25/2021
- Abelian 3d mirror symmetry, GPRT Seminar, Northeastern, 10/14/2021
- Homological mirror symmetry over the SYZ base, Emmy Noether Kolloquium, Mainz, 07/20/2021
- 3d mirror symmetry for abelian gauge groups, Mathematical Physics seminar, BIMSA (Tsinghua), 04/22/2021
- What is mirror symmetry?, "What is ...? Seminar", University of Queensland, 03/11/2021
- Mirror symmetry for Berglund-Hübsch Milnor fibers, Symplectic Monday seminar, IBS CGP, 03/08/2021
- Deformation of Fukaya categories, Stanford Symplectic Geometry Seminar, 02/22/2021
- Mirror symmetry for Berglund-Hübsch Milnor fibers, Free Mathematics Seminar, 1/26/2021
- Mirror symmetry through perverse schobers, Conference "Legendrians, Cluster algebras, and mirror symmetry," IBS Center for Geometry and Physics, 1/14/2021
- 3d mirror symmetry for abelian gauge groups,, CMSA Math Physics Seminar, 10/19/2020
- 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: 16 avril 2023