Paul Seidel

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Paul Seidel
Born	(1970-12-30) 30 December 1970 Florence, Italy
Alma mater	University of Oxford University of Heidelberg
Awards	Simons Investigator (2012) Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012) Veblen Prize in Geometry (2010) EMS Prize (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Chicago Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Simon Donaldson
Doctoral students	Ailsa Keating

Paul Seidel (born 30 December 1970) is a Swiss-Italian mathematician specializing in homological mirror symmetry. He is a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career

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. He was a chargé de recherche at the CNRS from 1999 to 2002, a professor at Imperial College London from 2002 to 2003, a professor at the University of Chicago from 2003 to 2007, and then a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2007 onwards.

Awards

In 2000, Seidel was awarded the EMS Prize. 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." In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a Simons Investigator.

Personal life

Seidel 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