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{{short description|Swiss-Italian mathematician (born 1970)}}
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| birth_date        = {{birth year and age|1970}}
| birth_place       = [[Place:Florence|Florence]], Italy
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| fields            = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces        = [[Organization:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]<br />[[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
| alma_mater        = [[Organization:University of Oxford|University of Oxford]]<br />University of Heidelberg
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Biography:Simon Donaldson|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 December 30, 1970) is a {{wipe|Switzerland}}-Italian [[Biography:Mathematician|mathematician]]. He is a faculty member at the [[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. He used to be a member of the mathematics faculty at the [[Organization:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]].

==Career==
Seidel attended [[Organization:Heidelberg University|Heidelberg University]], where he received his [[Social:Diplom|Diplom]] under supervision of [[Biography:Albrecht Dold|Albrecht Dold]] in 1994. He then pursued his [[Social:Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] studies at the [[Organization:University of Oxford|University of Oxford]] under supervision of [[Biography:Simon Donaldson|Simon Donaldson]] (Thesis: ''Floer Homology and the Symplectic Isotopy Problem'') in 1998.

==Awards==
In 2000, Seidel was awarded the EMS Prize.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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."<ref>https://www.ams.org/notices/201004/rtx100400521p.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list|title= List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society| access-date=2013-07-15}}</ref> and a Simons Investigator.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-physical-sciences/simons-investigators/simons-investigators-awardees/ |title=Simons Investigators Awardees|website= Simons Foundation}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Seidel is married to Ju-Lee Kim, who is also a professor of mathematics at [[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://math.mit.edu/wim/about/bios/jk.html|title=Ju-Lee Kim|work=MIT Women in Mathematics|publisher=[[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|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}}.</ref>

==Publications==
*Fukaya Categories and Picard-Lefschetz Theory, European Mathematical Society, 2008<ref>{{cite journal|last=Smith| first=Ivan| title=Review: ''Fukaya categories and Picard-Lefschetz theory'', by Paul Seidel|journal=[[Organization:Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|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}}</ref>

==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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