John Etnyre

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John Boyd Etnyre is an American mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology, [1] and his research fields include contact geometry, symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Texas, Austin under the supervision of Robert Gompf. [2] Etnyre was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University from 1997 to 2001. [3] He was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania prior to joining the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. [3]

In 2013, Etnyre was in the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [4] He received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant award in 2003, [5] and in 2015-2016 he was a Simons Fellow in Mathematics. [6] Etnyre serves as a Principal Editor for the journal of Algebraic & Geometric Topology. [7]

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  2. "John Etnyre at the Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  3. 1 2 "John Etnyre (Curriculum Vitae)" (PDF).
  4. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  5. "NSF Award Search: Award # 0239600 - CAREER: Knot Theory and Dynamics in Contact Geometry". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  6. "Simons Fellows in Mathematics". Simons Foundation. 2012-06-19. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  7. Algebraic & Geometric Topology. Mathematical Sciences Publishers.