Paul Seidel is a Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

-Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 mathematician

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

. He is currently a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

. He was a former member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. In 2010 he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

The Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry is an award granted by the American Mathematical Society for notable research in geometry or topology. It was founded in 1961 in memory of Oswald Veblen...

 "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

Diplom

A Diplom is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland , Greece, Hungary, Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Ukraine...

 under supervision of Albrecht Dold

Albrecht Dold

Albrecht Dold was a German mathematician specializing in algebraic topology who proved the Dold–Thom theorem, the Dold–Kan theorem, and introduced Dold manifolds, Dold–Puppe stabilization, and Dold fibrations.Albrecht Dold studied mathematics and physics at the University ofHeidelberg, then worked...

 in 1994. He then pursued his Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 studies at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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 under supervision of Simon Donaldson

Simon Donaldson

Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS , is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth four-dimensional manifolds. He is now Royal Society research professor in Pure Mathematics and President of the Institute for Mathematical Science at Imperial College London...

 (Thesis: Floer Homology and the symplectic isotopy problem) in 1998.

External links

• Website at MIT