Curriculum Vitae (June 9, 2018)

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1 Paul Seidel MIT Room Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA Curriculum Vitae (June 9, 2018) Principal employment: 2007 Professor of Mathematics, MIT; in : Norman Levinson Professor Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago Professor of Mathematics, Imperial College London CNRS Research Fellow (chargé de recherche), Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Visiting or temporary positions: Spring 2018 Minerva Visiting Professor, Princeton University Fall 2017 Eilenberg Visiting Professor, Columbia University Member, IAS, Princeton Distinguished Visiting Professor, IAS, Princeton Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Spring 2011 Visiting Faculty Member, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Visiting Professor, MIT Spring 2003 Visiting Professor, ETH Zürich Member, Institute for Advanced Study Maître de conférences en charge partielle, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Visitor, Max Planck Institut, Bonn Member, IAS, Princeton Education: Graduate student, Oxford University (D. Phil. obtained 1998, advisor: S. Donaldson) Undergraduate student, Heidelberg University (Diploma in Mathematics obtained 1994, advisor: A. Dold) 1

2 Distinctions: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 2014) Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (class of 2012) Veblen Prize of the American Mathematical Society (2010) Junior Faculty Mentoring Award (for graduate student mentoring), University of Chicago (2006) Invited speaker, Differential Geometry section, International Congress of Mathematics, Beijing (2002) European Mathematical Society Prize, Awarded at the European Congress of Mathematics, Barcelona (2000) Named lectures/distinguished lectures: 2018 Artin Lecture, Heidelberg 2018 Floer Memorial Lectures, Bochum 2017 Eilenberg Lectures, Columbia University 2015 Jankowski Memorial Lecture, Gdansk 2014 Invited (Plenary) Lecture, AMS/MAA Joint Annual Meeting 2012 Adem Lecture, Mexico City 2012 Mordell Lecture, Cambridge University 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series, UCLA 2010 Marston Morse Lectures, IAS, Princeton 2010 Evans Lecture, Berkeley 2007 William Spencer Lecture, Kansas State University 2006 Walter Feit Memorial Lecture, Yale 2

3 Grants awarded: As the only Principal Investigator: 2017 NSF Symplectic geometry - celebrating the work of Simon Donaldson NSF Lefschetz fibrations, mapping tori, and dynamics on moduli spaces of objects Simons Foundation Simons Investigator Fellowship NSF Cohomological methods in symplectic topology NSF Fukaya categories and applications As co-pi or part of a group application: NSF FRG: Collaborative Research: Wall-crossings in Geometry and Physics NSF EMSW-21-RTG: Geometry and Topology NSF FRG: Collaborative Research: Homological Mirror Symmetry and its applications 3

4 Service teaching: (only courses with typical enrolment > 100) MIT (2006 ) (Calculus) Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2015, Fall 2018 Other teaching: (graduate courses are marked with a *) MIT (2006 ) University of Chicago ( ) Imperial College ( ) Real analysis Riemann surfaces* Project Laboratory in Mathematics Symplectic homology* Differential geometry Geometry of manifolds* Gromov-Witten theory* Categorical dynamics and symplectic topology* Geometry of manifolds* Honors Calculus Differential geometry* Fukaya categories* Symplectic geometry of algebraic varieties* Complex analysis II Introduction to quantization* Major undergraduate research projects: Name Year School Topic Yuchen Fu 2016 MIT Random walks and Conley-Zehnder index Umut Varolgünes 2012 MIT Homological mirror symmetry for singularities Alejandro Ginory 2011 Florida Intl. Quantitative aspects Univ. of Hurwitz theorem Andrew Geng MIT Knotted symplectic surfaces 4

5 PhD students: Name Graduation School Subsequent position Tim Large (2021 planned) MIT Yusuf Baris Kartal (2019 planned) MIT Umut Varolgunes 2018 MIT Stanford Netanel Blaier 2016 MIT Harvard/Brandeis Ailsa Keating 2014 MIT Columbia/Cambridge David Jackson-Hanen 2014 MIT (sports industry) Nick Sheridan 2012 MIT Princeton/IAS Emma Smith 2009 Chicago Wentworth Inst. Tech. Alexander Ritter 2009 MIT Cambridge University Masuo Yanagisawa 2007 Chicago (financial industry) Mohammed Abouzaid 2007 Chicago Clay Research Fellowship Gabriel Kerr 2007 Chicago Northwestern University Joseph Jones 2006 Chicago New York University Junior researchers mentored: Name Period Institution Subsequent position Hülya Argüz 2016 IAS Imperial College Sheel Ganatra 2016 IAS USC Heather Lee IAS Univ. of Washington Amitai Zernik IAS (IT industry) Zack Sylvan IAS Columbia Cheuk Yu Mak IAS Cambridge Jingyu Zhao IAS Harvard/Brandeis Luis Haug 2016 MIT ETH (computer science) Sobhan Seyfaddini MIT IAS/CNRS Michael McBreen , MIT Toronto Emmy Murphy MIT Northwestern Vivek Shende MIT Berkeley Jason McGibbon MIT Univ. of Mass. Amherst Mark McLean MIT IAS/Aberdeen Kevin Costello Chicago Northwestern 5

6 Major departmental service: chair of the Pure Mathematics (senior hiring) committee chair of the Moore (postdoc hiring) committee co-chair of the graduate program Editorial activities: 2016 Editorial board member, Monographs of the European Math. Soc Editorial board member, J. of the European Math. Soc Editorial board member, Selecta Mathematica (with P. Etingof and D. Kazhdan) Editor-in-Chief, Selecta Mathematica Associate editor, Journal of Symplectic Geometry Associate editor, Duke Mathematics Journal Associate editor, Geometriae Dedicata Editorial board member, ERA of the Amer. Math. Soc. External committees: Scientific Advisory Committee, MSRI Elector for the Lowndean and Herchel-Smith Chairs, Cambridge University AMS Centennial Prize Committee Scientific Advisory Committee, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics 6

7 Activities as conference and program organizer: 2017 (organizing committee member) String-Math 2017, Hamburg 2017 (with D. McDuff, D. Salamon and R. Thomas) Symplectic geometry, Newton Institute Special Year on Homological Mirror Symmetry, IAS (includes two workshops) 2015 Fukaya categories of Lefschetz fibration, MIT 2014 Current developments in Mathematics, Harvard 2011 Equivariant quantum cohomology and mirror symmetry, Simons Center 2011 (with D. Auroux and L. Katzarkov) Mirror symmetry, Miami 2010 (with D. Auroux and L. Katzarkov) Mirror symmetry, MIT 2009 (with M. Abouzaid, K. Fukaya, E. Ionel) Algebraic structures in SFT, MSRI 2009 (with M. Abouzaid, K. Fukaya, E. Ionel) Cyclic homology and symplectic topology, AIM (with J. Etnyre, Ya. Eliashberg, E. Ionel, D. McDuff) Special Year in symplectic and contact geometry, MSRI 2009 (with D. Auroux and L. Katzarkov) Mirror symmetry, MIT 2009 (with S. Ganatra and J. Francis) Talbot workshop, South Carolina 2009 (with D. Auroux and L. Katzarkov) Mirror symmetry, Miami 2008 (with D. Auroux and L. Katzarkov) Mirror symmetry, MIT 2008 (with D. Auroux and L. Katzarkov) Mirror symmetry, Miami 2005 (with B. Leeb and G. Tian) Global differential geometry, Oberwolfach 2002 (with K. Fukaya) Workshop on A -structures and mirror symmetry, Oberwolfach 2000 (with D. Auroux and C. Viterbo) Workshop on symplectic four-manifolds, Paris 7

8 Books and book-length papers: [1] Homological mirror symmetry for the quartic surface. Memoirs of the Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 1116, [2] Abstract analogues of flux as symplectic invariants. Mémoires de la Soc. Math. France, vol. 137, [3] Fukaya categories and Picard-Lefschetz theory. ETH Lecture Notes Series vol. 8, European Math. Soc., Papers: [4] Connections on equivariant Hamiltonian Floer cohomology. Comm. Math. Helv., to appear. [5] Fukaya A -structures associated to Lefschetz fibrations. II 1/2. Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 20 (2016), [6] Fukaya A -structures associated to Lefschetz fibrations. II. In: Algebra, Geometry and Physics in the 21st Century (Kontsevich Festschrift), Progress in Math. vol. 324, Birkhäuser, 2017, [7] Picard-Lefschetz theory and dilating C -actions. J. Topology 8 (2015), [8] The equivariant pair-of-pants product in fixed point Floer cohomology. Geom. Funct. Anal. 25 (2015), [9] Disjoinable Lagrangian spheres and dilations. Invent. Math. 197 (2014), [10] Lagrangian homology spheres in (A m ) Milnor fibres via C -equivariant A -modules. Geom. Topol. 16 (2012), [11] (with J. Solomon) Symplectic cohomology and q-intersection numbers. Geom. Funct. Anal. 22 (2012), [12] Fukaya A -structures associated to Lefschetz fibrations. I. J. Symplectic Geom. 10 (2012), [13] Some speculations on Fukaya categories and pair-of-pants decompositions. In: Surveys in Diff. Geometry vol. XVII, Intl. Press, 2012, [14] (with I. Smith) Localization for involutions in Floer cohomology. Geom. Funct. Anal. 20 (2010),

9 [15] (with M. Maydanskiy) Lefschetz fibrations and exotic symplectic structures on cotangent bundles of spheres. J. Topology 3 (2010), See also: Corrigendum, J. Topology 8 (2015), [16] Homological mirror symmetry for the genus two curve. J. Algebraic Geom. 20 (2011), [17] (with M. Abouzaid) An open string analogue of Viterbo functoriality. Geometry and Topology 14 (2010), [18] Suspending Lefschetz fibrations, with an application to local mirror symmetry. Commun. Math. Phys. 297 (2010), [19] (with K. Fukaya and I. Smith) The symplectic geometry of cotangent bundles from a categorical viewpoint. In: Homological Mirror Symmetry: New Developments and Perspectives, Springer Lect. Notes in Physics vol. 757, 2008, [20] A -subalgebras and natural transformations. Homotopy Homology Appl. 10 (2008), [21] (with K. Fukaya and I. Smith) Exact Lagrangian submanifolds in simply-connected cotangent bundles. Invent. Math. 172 (2008), [22] A biased view of symplectic cohomology. In: Current Developments in Mathematics International Press, 2008, [23] Symplectic homology as Hochschild homology. In: Algebraic Geometry: Seattle Amer. Math. Soc., 2008, part 1, [24] (with I. Smith) A link invariant from the symplectic geometry of nilpotent slices. Duke Math. J. 134 (2006), [25] (with I. Smith) The symplectic topology of Ramanujam s surface. Comment. Math. Helv. 80 (2005), [26] Exact Lagrangian submanifolds in T S n and the graded Kronecker quiver. In: Different faces of geometry, Kluwer, 2004, [27] Lectures on four-dimensional Dehn twists. In: Symplectic four-manifolds and algebraic surfaces, Cetraro (2004), LNM vol. 1938, Springer, 2008, [28] Fukaya categories and deformations. In: Proceedings of the ICM (Beijing), Higher Ed. Press, 2002, [29] A long exact sequence for symplectic Floer cohomology. Topology 42 (2003),

10 [30] More about vanishing cycles and mutation. In: Symplectic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry, World Scientific, 2001, [31] Vanishing cycles and mutation. In: European Congress of Mathematics (Barcelona), Birkhäuser, 2002, [32] (with M. Khovanov) Quivers, Floer cohomology, and braid group actions. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (2002), [33] (with R. Thomas) Braid group actions on derived categories of coherent sheaves. Duke Math. J. 108 (2001), [34] Graded Lagrangian submanifolds. Bull. Soc. Math. France 128 (2000), [35] Lagrangian two-spheres can be symplectically knotted. J. Differential Geom. 52 (1999), [36] π 1 of symplectic automorphism groups and invertibles in quantum homology rings. Geom. Funct. Anal. 7 (1997), More papers: these are publications I would love to consider apocryphal, but it s presumably too late for that. [37] Exotic iterated Dehn twists. Algabraic and Geometric Topol. 14 (2014), [38] Simple examples of distinct Liouville type symplectic structures. J. Topol. Anal. 3 (2011), 1 5. [39] Braids and symplectic four-manifolds with abelian fundamental group. Turkish J. Math. 26 (2002), [40] Symplectic Floer homology and the mapping class group. Pacific Math. J. 206 (2002), [41] On the symplectic automorphism groups of CP m CP n. In: Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar, Amer. Math. Society, 1999, [42] The symplectic Floer homology of a Dehn twist. Math. Research Lett. 3 (1996), Unpublished (available on the arxiv or the author s homepage): 10

11 [43] Fukaya A -structures associated to Lefschetz fibrations. IV 1/ [44] Fukaya A -structures associated to Lefschetz fibrations. IV [45] Fukaya A -structures associated to Lefschetz fibrations. III [46] (with M. Abouzaid) Altering symplectic manifolds by homologous recombination [47] Symplectic automorphisms of T S 2. Preprint, 1998; this has been subsumed into the paper [14]. [48] Floer homology and the symplectic isotopy problem. DPhil thesis, 1997; most of this has been subsumed into the paper [14]. 11