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

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. He created, along with Zoltán Szabó, Heegaard Floer homology, a

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for

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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. In 2008 he was named a

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. 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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* Living people 1967 births 20th-century American mathematicians 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 21st-century Hungarian mathematicians Princeton University faculty Columbia University faculty American topologists Mathematicians from Texas Academics from Dallas Princeton University alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences {{US-mathematician-stub