Peter Ozsváth

Peter Ozsváth
Peter Ozsváth in Berkeley, 2005
Born	October 20, 1967 Dallas, Texas
Nationality	United States
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	Elisenda Grigsby

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.^{[citation needed]} In July 2017, he was a plenary lecturer in the Mathematical Congress of the Americas.^[2] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.^{[citation needed]}

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)

References[]

External links[]

• Personal homepage
• Peter Ozsváth at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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