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Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry

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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 topologyorgeometry. 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[edit]

• List of awards honoring women
• List of mathematics awards

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• AWM Birman Research Prize, Association for Women in Mathematics