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Paul Seidel

b. 1970

German mathematician

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About Paul Seidel

Born 1970. Paul Seidel is a Swiss mathematician.

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

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Born
1970, Germany
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Education
University of Oxford, Heidelberg University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago
Employers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Radcliffe College
Awards
Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry; EMS Prize; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Paul Seidel?

German mathematician

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Paul Seidel was born in 1970 in Germany.

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Paul Seidel is a mathematician.

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Paul Seidel is Swiss.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Paul Seidel

· Wikidata: Q475420

· DBpedia: Paul Seidel

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