Mohammed Abouzaid

Mohammed Abouzaid (born in 1981)^[1] is a mathematician working in symplectic topology.^[2] He is a professor at Stanford University.^[3] He obtained his PhD in 2007 at the University of Chicago under Paul Seidel's supervision.^[4]

Mohammed Abouzaid
Title	Professor of Mathematics
Awards	Fellow of the American Mathematical Society 2017 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Thesis	Homological Mirror Symmetry for Toric Varieties (2007)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Seidel
Academic work
Discipline	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Stanford 2023-present
Main interests	Symplectic manifolds
Website	mathematics.stanford.edu/people/mohammed-abouzaid

Honors

• Invited speaker the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014^[5]
• 2017 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize^[2]
• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (since 2018)^[6]
• Clay Research Fellow^[7]

Selected publications

• Mohammed Abouzaid and Paul Seidel. "An open string analogue of Viterbo functoriality." Geometry & Topology 14.2 (2010), pp. 627-718.
• Mohammed Abouzaid. "A geometric criterion for generating the Fukaya category." Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS 112 (2010), pp. 191-240.