Paul Seidel

Contact

Email:
seizdel@mazth.mit.edu with both z removed
(a primitive line of defense against spam)

Mail address:
MIT Room 2-270
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

Curriculum Vitae

You can look at my complete cv here. Currently I am a Professor in the MIT Department of Mathematics. Previously, I've been at the University of Chicago, Imperial College London, and Ecole Polytechnique Paris (CNRS). I have held visiting positions (of at least one semester each) at the Simons Center (SUNY Stony Brook), ETH Zurich, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Max Planck Institute Bonn.

Selected papers

Occasionally, I write programmatic papers which are a mixture of survey, research announcement, and speculation:

  • Some speculations on pairs-of-pants decompositions and Fukaya categories (2010)
  • Symplectic homology as Hochschild homology (2006)
  • Fukaya categories and deformations (2002)
  • Vanishing cycles and mutation, and More about vanishing cycles and mutation (2000)

    • As for actual papers with proofs... here are four older ones (before 2005):

  • (with Ivan Smith) A link invariant from the symplectic geometry of nilpotent slices
  • Homological mirror symmetry for the quartic surface
  • My thesis, written up for publication much later as Lectures on four-dimensional Dehn twists
  • pi1 of symplectic automorphism groups and invertibles in quantum homology rings

    • Teaching

    In Spring 2013 I am teaching Topics in Geometric Topology (18.937).

    Undergraduate courses I've taught at MIT (usually several times each):

  • Calculus (18.01)
  • Real Analysis (18.100C)
  • Project Laboratory in Mathematics (18.821)
  • Differential Geometry (18.950)

    • Graduate courses I've taught at MIT:

  • Riemann surfaces (18.116)
  • Topics in Geometry (18.969)
  • Topics in Geometric Topology (18.937)