Contact Information
329 Altgeld Hall, MC-382
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Interests
I got my PhD in 2013 from UC Berkeley, working with Peter Teichner, and then was a Szego Assistant Professor at Stanford from 2013-2015 before moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Description
My research studies connections between supersymmetric (quantum) field theories, differential geometry, and algebraic topology.
Education
PhD UC Berkeley, 2013
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Recent Publications
Berwick-Evans, D., Cliff, E., Murray, L., Nakade, A., & Phillips, E. (2025). Flat principal 2-group bundles and flat string structures. In T. Creutzig, J. Plavnik, & D. Ridout (Eds.), Quantum Symmetries: Tensor Categories, TQFTs, and Vertex Algebras - Thematic Program Quantum Symmetries: Tensor Categories, Topological Quantum Field Theories, Vertex Algebras, 2022 (pp. 257-301). (Contemporary Mathematics; Vol. 813). American Mathematical Society. https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/813/16291
Berwick-Evans, D., BOAVIDA DE BRITO, P., & Pavlov, D. (2024). Classifying spaces of infinity-sheaves. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 24(9), 4891-4937. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2024.24.4891
Berwick-Evans, D. (2024). Elliptic Cohomology and Quantum Field Theory. In Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, Second Edition: Volumes 1-5 (Vol. 1-5, pp. V4:205-V4:231). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95703-8.00215-9
Berwick-Evans, D. (2024). SUPERSYMMETRIC LOCALIZATION, MODULARITY AND THE WITTEN GENUS. Journal of Differential Geometry, 126(2), 401-430. https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1712344216
Schubel, M. D., Berwick-Evans, D., & Hirani, A. N. (2024). Averaging property of wedge product and naturality in discrete exterior calculus. Advances in Computational Mathematics, 50(4), Article 84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10444-024-10179-8