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.
Education
Murphy graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2007, She completed her doctorate at Stanford University in 2012; her dissertation, Loose Legendrian Embeddings in High Dimensional Contact Manifolds, was supervised by Yakov Eliashberg.
Career
She was a C. L. E. Moore instructor and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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.
Murphy is recognized for her contribution to symplectic and contact geometry. She won the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize in 2020 for "the introduction of notions of loose Legendrian submanifolds", and "overtwisted contact structures in higher dimensions", which is joint work with Matthew Strom Borman and Yakov Eliashberg.
Murphy was invited to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 and she gave a talk related to some results on h-principle phenomena. 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.
Murphy received the grants from National Science Foundation for the period 2019–2022 on the topic "Flexible Stein Manifolds and Fukaya Categories".
Awards and honors
Von Neumann Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, 2019–2020. New Horizons in Mathematics prize awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation 2020. Invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize 2017 by the Association for Women in Mathematics. AWM Birman Prize 2016 by Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. Sloan Research Fellowship 2015.
References
External links
Loose Legendrian Embeddings in High Dimensional Contact Manifolds
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