Paul Seidel

Paul Seidel
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Born	1970 (age 53–54) 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 in Geometry (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."

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.

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

Publications

• Fukaya Categories and Picard-Lefschetz Theory, European Mathematical Society, 2008

External links

• Website at MIT
• Paul Seidel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Laudatio from the Veblen Prize, Notices AMS, April 2010
• Honors for the EMS Prize 2000