Paul Seidel
{{short description|Swiss-Italian mathematician (born 1970)}}
{{for|the German cyclist|Paul Seidel (cyclist)}}
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| birth_date = {{bda|1970|12|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Florence, Italy
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| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = University of Chicago
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| alma_mater = University of Oxford
University of Heidelberg
| doctoral_advisor = Simon Donaldson
| doctoral_students = Ailsa Keating
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| awards = {{ubl|Simons Investigator (2012)|Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012)|Veblen Prize in Geometry (2010)|EMS Prize (2000)}}
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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.{{cite web |url= https://math.mit.edu/~seidel/texts/cv.pdf |website=Paul Seidel |title=Curriculum Vitae |access-date=January 23, 2023}}
Awards
In 2000, Seidel was awarded the EMS Prize.{{cite web|url=http://euro-math-soc.eu/history-prizes-awarded-european-congresses-mathematics|title=History of Prizes of the European Mathematical Society |accessdate=2 October 2020}} 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."{{cite journal|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201004/rtx100400521p.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|title=2010 Veblen Prize|date=April 2010|pages=521–523|volume=57|issue=4}} In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list|title= List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society| access-date=2013-07-15}} and a Simons Investigator.{{cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-physical-sciences/simons-investigators/simons-investigators-awardees/ |title=Simons Investigators Awardees|website= Simons Foundation}}
Personal life
Seidel is married to Ju-Lee Kim, who is also a professor of mathematics at MIT.{{cite web|url=https://math.mit.edu/wim/about/bios/jk.html|title=Ju-Lee Kim|work=MIT Women in Mathematics|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|accessdate=2015-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121144050/https://math.mit.edu/wim/about/bios/jk.html|archive-date=2015-11-21|url-status=dead}}.
Publications
- Fukaya Categories and Picard-Lefschetz Theory, European Mathematical Society, 2008{{cite journal|last=Smith| first=Ivan|authorlink=Ivan Smith (mathematician) | title=Review: Fukaya categories and Picard-Lefschetz theory, by Paul Seidel|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|series= (N.S.)| year=2010|volume=47|issue=4|pages=735–742|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2010-47-04/S0273-0979-10-01289-9/|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-10-01289-9|doi-access=free}}
References
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External links
- [http://www-math.mit.edu/~seidel/ Website at MIT]
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- [https://www.ams.org/notices/201004/index.html Laudatio from the Veblen Prize, Notices AMS, April 2010]
- [http://www.emis.de/ECM3/prizes.html Honors for the EMS Prize 2000]
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Category:20th-century German mathematicians
Category:20th-century Swiss mathematicians
Category:21st-century Swiss mathematicians
Category:Heidelberg University alumni
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty