Emmy Murphy is an American mathematician and a professor at the University of Toronto, Mississauga campus.[1] Murphy also maintains an office at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology.[2] Murphy works in the area of symplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology. [3]
Emmy Murphy | |
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.jpg) Murphy at the ICM 2018 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Known for | symplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Loose Legendrian Embeddings in High Dimensional Contact Manifolds (2012) |
| Doctoral advisor | Yakov Eliashberg |
Education
editMurphy graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2007,[3] She completed her doctorate at Stanford University in 2012; her dissertation, Loose Legendrian Embeddings in High Dimensional Contact Manifolds, was supervised by Yakov Eliashberg.[3][4]
Career
editShe was a C. L. E. Moore instructor and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[3] 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;[5] and later moved to the University of Toronto in 2023.[6][1]
Murphy is recognized for her contribution to symplectic and contact geometry. She won the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize in 2020[7] for "the introduction of notions of loose Legendrian submanifolds"[8], and "overtwisted contact structures in higher dimensions", which is joint work with Matthew Strom Borman and Yakov Eliashberg[8].
Murphy was invited to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 and she gave a talk related to some results on h-principle phenomena.[9] 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[3].
Murphy received the grants from National Science Foundation for the period 2019–2022 on the topic "Flexible Stein Manifolds and Fukaya Categories". [10]
Awards and honors
edit- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.[11]
- Von Neumann Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, 2019–2020.[3][12]
- New Horizons in Mathematics prize awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation 2020.[13][8]
- Invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.[14][9]
- Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize 2017 by the Association for Women in Mathematics.[15][16]
- AWM Birman Prize 2016 by Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.[3][15]
- Sloan Research Fellowship 2015.
References
edit- ^ a b "Emmy Murphy | Mathematical & Computational Sciences", www.utm.utoronto.ca, retrieved 2024-01-05
- ^ "Emmy Murphy", 25 July 2023
- ^ a b c d e f g Curriculum vitae (PDF), Northwestern University, September 9, 2017, retrieved February 24, 2018[permanent dead link]
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Princeton appointment announcement
- ^ "Faculty members submit resignations", Inside Princeton, retrieved 2024-01-05
- ^ "Breakthrough Prize – Mathematics Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Emmy Murphy", breakthroughprize.org, retrieved October 12, 2022
- ^ a b c 2020 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, retrieved September 20, 2019
- ^ a b Talk at ICM2018, 28 September 2018
- ^ National Science Foundation
- ^ 2025 Class of Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2024-11-01
- ^ von Neumann Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, archived from the original on August 8, 2020, retrieved March 5, 2020
- ^ Northwestern's Emmy Murphy Wins Prestigious 'New Horizons' Prize, archived from the original on September 20, 2019, retrieved September 20, 2019
- ^ "Speakers", ICM 2018, archived from the original on December 7, 2017, retrieved February 24, 2018
- ^ a b "Murphy Awarded AWM Birman Prize" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 63 (8): 943, September 2016
- ^ "Emmy Murphy", Past Birman Award Recipients, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved January 26, 2019