Peter Ozsváth

Peter Ozsváth
Born October 20, 1967
Dallas
Nationality United States
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Yale University
University of California
Alma mater Princeton University
Doctoral advisor John Morgan
Notable awards Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2007)

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.

He 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.

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