User:David Lehavi

Brief academic CV:

Area of Specialization: Algebraic geometry. More specifically: Classical algebraic geometry, moduli spaces, birational geometry.

Positions: • 9/2006 - present : Visiting assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. • 9/2005 - 7/2006 : Lecturer at Princeton university. • 2002-2005: Zassenhaus assistant professor at Ohio state university.

Education: • 1997-2002 Ph.D. (accepted December 2002), the Hebrew University. Thesis: Bitangents and 2-level Structure for Curves of Genus 3. Adviser: Prof. Ron Livn´e. • 1994-1997 M.Sc. (magna cum laude) in mathematics, the Hebrew University. Thesis: A cohomological view of the Albert Hasse Brauer Noether theorem. Adviser: Prof. Ehud De-Shalit. • 1991-1994 B.Sc. (summa cum laude) in mathematics, the Hebrew University.

Research papers: • Formulas for the arithmetic geometric mean of curves of genus 3, joint with C. Ritzenthaler. Accepted to Experimental Math. Preprint available online at math.AG/0403182. • Any smooth plane quartic can be reconstructed from its bitangents. Israel J. Math. 146 (2005), 371–379. Earlier version available online at math.AG/0111017.

Expository papers: • Mikhalkin’s classification of M-curves in maximal position with respect to three lines. AMS proceedings volume of Snowbird Joint Summer Research Conference Algebraic Geometry: Presentations by Young Researchers.