Peter Ozsváth
American mathematician
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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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Ozsváth in Berkeley, 2005 | |
| Born | 20 October 1967 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Workplaces | Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University Yale University University of California, Berkeley |
| John Morgan | |
Doctoral students | |
Education
Ozsváth received his PhD 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.[4] He was elected to the 2026 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
Selected publications
- Ozsváth, Peter; Szabó, Zoltán (2004). "Holomorphic disks and topological invariants for closed three-manifolds". Ann. of Math. 159 (3): 1027–1158. arXiv:math/0101206. doi:10.4007/annals.2004.159.1027. S2CID 119143219.
- Ozsváth, Peter; Szabó, Zoltán (2004). "Holomorphic disks and three-manifold invariants: properties and applications". Ann. of Math. 159 (3): 1159–1245. doi:10.4007/annals.2004.159.1159.
- Grid Homology for Knots and Links, American Math Society, (2015)
