Paul Seidel

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Paul Seidel

Born	1970 (age 43–44) Florence, Italy
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater	University of Oxford University of Heidelberg
Doctoral advisor	Simon Donaldson
Notable awards	Veblen Prize (2010) EMS Prize (2000)

Paul Seidel (born 1970) is a Swiss-Italian mathematician. He is a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He used to be a member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Chicago. In 2010 he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry "for his fundamental contributions to symplectic geometry and, in particular, for his development of advanced algebraic methods for computation of symplectic invariants."^[1]

Seidel attended the University of Heidelberg, where he received his Diplom under supervision of Albrecht Dold in 1994. He then pursued his Ph.D. studies at the University of Oxford under supervision of Simon Donaldson (Thesis: Floer Homology and the symplectic isotopy problem) in 1998.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[2]

Publications

Fukaya Categories and Picard-Lefschetz Theory, European Mathematical Society, 2008^[3]

References

↑ http://www.ams.org/notices/201004/rtx100400521p.pdf
↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-15.
↑ Smith, Ivan (2010). "Review: Fukaya categories and Picard-Lefschetz theory, by Paul Seidel". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 47 (4): 735–742.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 83606469 LCCN: no2009041247 ISNI: 0000 0001 0993 0640 GND: 174018622 BNF: cb16191018b MGP: 93808

Persondata
Name	Seidel, Paul
Alternative names
Short description	German mathematician
Date of birth	1970
Place of birth	Florence, Italy
Date of death
Place of death

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