David Harvey

Associate Professor and Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society
School of Mathematics and Statistics
UNSW Sydney, Australia
email: d DOT harvey AT unsw DOT edu DOT au (PGP public key)
phone: +61 (2) 9385-7088
office: 6108 Red Centre
postal: School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Research interests
- Computational number theory and arithmetic geometry
- Fast polynomial and integer arithmetic
Grants and awards
- 2022 N.G. de Bruijn Medal (shared with Joris van der Hoeven)
- 2019 Australian Mathematical Society Medal
- 2017–2021: ARC Future Fellowship
Counting points on algebraic surfaces (FT160100219, $805,054)
- 2016 Journal of Complexity Best Paper Award
(with Joris van der Hoeven and Grégoire Lecerf)
- 2015–2017: ARC Discovery Project
Fast algorithms for zeta functions of algebraic varieties (DP150101689, $325,500)
- 2012–2014: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Counting solutions to equations over fields of large characteristic (DE120101293, $375,000)
Education / employment
- 2019–: Associate Professor, UNSW
- 2011–2018: Senior Lecturer, UNSW
- 2008–2011: Courant Instructor (Assistant Professor), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
- 2003–2008: Ph.D. in Mathematics (supervisor: Barry Mazur), Harvard University
- 1998–2002: B.Sc. in Mathematics with First Class Honours and University Medal (supervisor: Michael Cowling) & B.Com. in Economics, UNSW
- Sydney born and bred
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