Emmy Murphy
Emmy Murphy | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Known for | symplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Loose Legendrian Embeddings in High Dimensional Contact Manifolds (2012) |
| Doctoral advisor | Yakov Eliashberg |
Emmy Murphy is an American mathematician and a professor at Princeton University who works in the area of symplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology. [1]
Education[]
Murphy graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2007,[1] the first in her family to earn a college degree.[2] She completed her doctorate at Stanford University in 2012; her dissertation, Loose Legendrian Embeddings in High Dimensional Contact Manifolds, was supervised by Yakov Eliashberg.[1][3]
Career[]
She was a C. L. E. Moore instructor and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1] before moving in 2016 to Northwestern University, where she became an associate professor of mathematics. She moved to Princeton University in 2021 as a full professor.[4]
Murphy is recognized for her contribution to symplectic and contact geometry. She won the Breakthrough Prize for "the introduction of notions of loose Legendrian submanifolds"[5], and "overtwisted contact structures in higher dimensions", which is joint work with Matthew Strom Borman and Yakov Eliashberg[5].
Murphy was invited to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 and she gave a talk related to some results on h-principle phenomena.[6] Apart from using h-principle to study the flexibility of local geometric models, Murphy's work uses cut-and-paste/surgery techniques from smooth topology. She also works on exploring the interaction of symplectic/contact topology with geometric invariants, such as those coming from pseudo-holomorphic curves or constructible sheaves[1].
Murphy received the grants from National Science Foundation for the period 2019-2022 on the topic "Flexible Stein Manifolds and Fukaya Categories". [7]
Awards and honors[]
- Von Neumann Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, 2019-2020.[1][8]
- New Horizons in Mathematics prize awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation 2020.[9][5]
- Invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.[10][6]
- Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize 2017 by the Association for Women in Mathematics.[2][11]
- AWM Birman Prize 2016 by Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.[1][2]
- Sloan Research Fellowship 2015.
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g Curriculum vitae (PDF), Northwestern University, 9 September 2017, retrieved 24 February 2018
- ^ a b c "Murphy Awarded AWM Birman Prize" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 63 (8): 943, September 2016
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Princeton appointment announcement
- ^ a b c 2020 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, retrieved 20 September 2019
- ^ a b Talk at ICM2018
- ^ National Science Foundation
- ^ von Neumann Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study
- ^ Northwestern's Emmy Murphy Wins Prestigious 'New Horizons' Prize, retrieved 20 September 2019
- ^ "Speakers", ICM 2018, archived from the original on 7 December 2017, retrieved 24 February 2018
- ^ "Emmy Murphy", Past Birman Award Recipients, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 26 January 2019
External links[]
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- Living people
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- American women mathematicians
- University of Nevada, Reno alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
- Northwestern University faculty
- 21st-century women mathematicians
- 21st-century American women