Biography:Peter Ozsváth

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Short description: American mathematician
Peter Ozsváth
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Peter Ozsváth in Berkeley, 2005
BornOctober 20, 1967
Dallas, Texas
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
AwardsOswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2007)
Guggenheim Fellow (2008)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Yale University
University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorJohn Morgan
Doctoral students

Peter Steven Ozsváth (born October 20, 1967) is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Zoltán Szabó, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds.

Education

Ozsváth received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1994 under the supervision of John Morgan; his dissertation was entitled On Blowup Formulas For SU(2) Donaldson Polynomials.

Awards

In 2007, Ozsváth was one of the recipients of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.[1] In 2008 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow.[2] In July 2017, he was a plenary lecturer in the Mathematical Congress of the Americas.[3] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.[citation needed]

Selected publications

References

  1. "2007 Veblen Prize", Notices of the AMS 54 (4): 527–530, April 2007, https://www.ams.org/notices/200704/comm-veblen-web.pdf .
  2. "2008 Fellows". Guggenheim Foundation. http://www.gf.org:80/newfellow.html. Retrieved 12 Jan 2019.  from Wayback Machine
  3. "Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2017". https://mca2017.org. 

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