Paul Seidel

Paul Seidel
Paul Seidel
Born	1970 (age 49–50); Florence, Italy
Alma mater	University of Oxford; University of Heidelberg
Awards	Veblen Prize in Geometry (2010); EMS Prize (2000)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Chicago; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Simon Donaldson

Paul Seidel (born December 30, 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]

Biography

Seidel attended Heidelberg University, 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] and a Simons Investigator.[3]

He is married to Ju-Lee Kim, who is also a professor of mathematics at MIT.[4]

Fukaya Categories and Picard-Lefschetz Theory, European Mathematical Society, 2008[5]

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