Emmy Murphy

Emmy Murphy is an American mathematician who works in the area of symplectic geometry.

Education and career

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]

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 is an assistant professor of mathematics.[4]

Recognition

Murphy won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2015, and in the same year was awarded a prize by the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium for her work on contact geometry.[1][2] In 2017 she won the Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[5][2] She has been selected as an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, speaking in the section on geometry.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae (PDF), Northwestern University, September 9, 2017, retrieved 2018-02-24
  2. 1 2 3 "Murphy Awarded AWM Birman Prize" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 63 (8): 943, September 2016
  3. ↑ Emmy Murphy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Faculty, Northwestern University Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2018-02-24
  5. ↑ "Emmy Murphy", Past Birman Award Recipients, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2018-02-24
  6. ↑ "Speakers", ICM 2018, retrieved 2018-02-24
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.