Emmy Murphy | |
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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 |
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]
Murphy 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]
She 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]
Emmy Murphy | |
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![]() 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 |
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]
Murphy 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]
She 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]