Emmy Murphy
Alma materStanford University
Thesis urlhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.2245.pdf
Thesis year2012
Doctoral advisorYakov Eliashberg
Known forsymplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology
FieldMathematics
Work institution

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]

Education

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]

Career

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]

Awards and honors

References

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  3. ^ "Curriculum vitae", International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 413: 9, Northwestern University, September 9, 2017, Bibcode:2017IJMSp.413....9.. doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2017.01.010, retrieved February 24, 2018[dead link]
  4. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project"
  5. ^ "Princeton appointment announcement"
  6. ^ "Faculty members submit resignations". Inside Princeton. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  7. ^ "Breakthrough Prize – Mathematics Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Emmy Murphy". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  8. ^ "2020 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize", retrieved September 20, 2019
  9. ^ "Talk at ICM2018", 28 September 2018
  10. ^ "National Science Foundation"[dead link]
  11. ^ "Dr. Emmy Murphy to receive the 2025 Krieger-Nelson Prize", Canadian Mathematical Society, March 3, 2025, retrieved 2025-03-14
  12. ^ "2025 Class of Fellows of the AMS", American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2024-11-01
  13. ^ "von Neumann Fellow", Institute for Advanced Study, archived from the original on August 8, 2020, retrieved March 5, 2020
  14. ^ "Northwestern's Emmy Murphy Wins Prestigious 'New Horizons' Prize", archived from the original on September 20, 2019, retrieved September 20, 2019
  15. ^ "Speakers", ICM 2018, archived from the original on December 7, 2017, retrieved February 24, 2018
  16. ^ "Murphy Awarded AWM Birman Prize", Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 63 (8): 943, September 2016
  17. ^ "Emmy Murphy", Past Birman Award Recipients, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved January 26, 2019