The Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry is a prize given every other year by the Association for Women in Mathematics to an outstanding young female researcher in topology or geometry. The prize fund for the award was endowed by a donation in 2013 from Joan Birman and her husband, Joseph Birman, and first awarded in 2015.
Winners
edit- Elisenda Grigsby (2015), for her research in low-dimensional topology, particularly in knot theory and categorified invariants.[1][2][3]
- Emmy Murphy (2017), for her research in symplectic geometry where she developed new techniques for studying symplectic manifolds and contact geometry.[4][5]
- Kathryn Mann (2019), for "major breakthroughs in the theory of dynamics of group actions on manifolds".[6]
- Emily Riehl (2021), for "deep and foundational work in category theory and homotopy theory."[7]
- Kristen Hendricks (2023), for "highly influential work on equivariant aspects of Floer homology theories".[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize 2015". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ J. Elisenda Grigsby wins the inaugural AWM Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry (PDF), Association for Women in Mathematics, May 19, 2014
- ^ Díaz-Lopez, Alexander (March 2016), "Elisenda Grigsby Interview" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 63 (3): 282–284, doi:10.1090/noti1374
- ^ "Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize 2017". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Murphy Awarded AWM Birman Prize" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 63 (8): 943, September 2016
- ^ "Kathryn Mann Wins Birman Research Prize", Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 48 (4): 3, July–August 2018
- ^ "Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize 2021".
- ^ "Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize 2023". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 2023-05-20.