Emmy Murphy
Murphy at the ICM 2018
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Known forsymplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
ThesisLoose Legendrian Embeddings in High Dimensional Contact Manifolds (2012)
Doctoral advisorYakov Eliashberg

Emmy Murphy is an American mathematician and a professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga[1] who works in the area of symplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology. [2]

Education

Murphy graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2007,[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.[2][3]

Career

She was a C. L. E. Moore instructor and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[2] 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] in 2023, she accepted a position of professor at the University of Toronto.[5][1]

Murphy is recognized for her contribution to symplectic and contact geometry. She won the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize in 2020[6] for "the introduction of notions of loose Legendrian submanifolds"[7], and "overtwisted contact structures in higher dimensions", which is joint work with Matthew Strom Borman and Yakov Eliashberg[7].

Murphy was invited to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 and she gave a talk related to some results on h-principle phenomena.[8] 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[2].

Murphy received the grants from National Science Foundation for the period 2019–2022 on the topic "Flexible Stein Manifolds and Fukaya Categories". [9]

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 "Emmy Murphy | Mathematical & Computational Sciences". www.utm.utoronto.ca. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Curriculum vitae (PDF), Northwestern University, September 9, 2017, retrieved February 24, 2018
  3. ↑ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Princeton appointment announcement
  5. ↑ "Faculty members submit resignations". Inside Princeton. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Breakthrough Prize – Mathematics Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Emmy Murphy". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  7. 1 2 3 2020 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, retrieved September 20, 2019
  8. 1 2 Talk at ICM2018
  9. ↑ National Science Foundation
  10. ↑ von Neumann Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study
  11. ↑ Northwestern's Emmy Murphy Wins Prestigious 'New Horizons' Prize, retrieved September 20, 2019
  12. ↑ "Speakers", ICM 2018, archived from the original on December 7, 2017, retrieved February 24, 2018
  13. 1 2 "Murphy Awarded AWM Birman Prize" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 63 (8): 943, September 2016
  14. ↑ "Emmy Murphy", Past Birman Award Recipients, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved January 26, 2019
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