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American mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Peter Ozsváth | |
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Born | October 20, 1967 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Awards | Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2007) Guggenheim Fellow (2008) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University Yale University University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | John Morgan |
Doctoral students |
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.
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]
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