Peter Steven Ozsváth (born October 20, 1967) is a professor of mathematics at

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. He created, along with Zoltán Szabó,

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, a

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for

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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

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. In 2008 he was named a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. In July 2017, he was a plenary lecturer in the Mathematical Congress of the Americas. He was elected a member of the

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in 2018.

Selected publications

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Homology for Knots and Links''
American Math Society, (2015)

References

External links

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