Maggie Miller (mathematician)

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Maggie Miller
Alma mater Princeton University
Known for Low-dimensional topology
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions Stanford University, University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisor David Gabai

Maggie Miller is a mathematician and an Assistant Professor in the mathematics department at the University of Texas at Austin. She was also a former Visiting Clay Fellow, and Stanford Science Fellow at Stanford University in the Mathematics Department. [1] Her primary research area is low-dimensional topology.

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Professional career

Miller earned her PhD in mathematics from Princeton University, where she was advised by mathematician David Gabai and wrote her dissertation on extending fibrations of knot complements to ribbon disk complements. [2] [3] Prior to graduate school, she completed her undergraduate studies at University of Texas at Austin. [4] [5]

After completing her doctoral degree, Miller worked as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow from 2020 to 2021 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [4] Later as a Visiting Clay Fellow and Stanford Science Fellow, she spent time at Stanford University from 2021 to 2023. [1] [6] Miller is currently a tenure track professor at the University of Texas at Austin. [7] [8]

Awards and honors

Miller was awarded a 2021 Clay Research Fellowship by the Clay Mathematics Institute for her work to expand topological research of manifolds. [9] [10] [11] Her contributions were described by MIT as "important...to long-standing problems in low-dimensional topology." [12] Clay Research Fellowships are awarded to recent PhD-holders who are selected for their research accomplishments and potential as leaders in mathematics research. [13]

In her previous position at Stanford, she was a Stanford Science Fellow. [6] Fellowships are awarded to early career scientists who have demonstrated scientific achievement and advancement, as well as a desire to collaborate with a diverse scholarly community. [14] [15]

Prior to her appointment at Stanford, Miller was awarded a National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoc Research Fellowship while at MIT in the Department of Mathematics. [16] She also has a record of accomplishment during her graduate studies, having been awarded the Princeton Mathematics Graduate Teaching Award in 2018 and the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship in 2019. [17] [18]

She received the 2023 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, one of the Breakthrough Prizes, [19] and she was named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 – Science for 2023. [20]

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  2. ↑ "Princeton University Doctoral Dissertations: Extending fibrations of knot complements to ribbon disk complements". Princeton DataSpace. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  3. ↑ "Maggie Miller - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  4. 1 2 "Maggie Miller – Women In Math". math.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  5. ↑ Sciences, College of Natural (2015-05-11), Maggie Miller, Mathematics , retrieved 2022-03-12
  6. 1 2 "Meet the Fellows | Science Fellows". stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  7. ↑ Hartnett, Kevin (2024-02-22). "A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  8. ↑ "CNS Welcomes New Faculty for the 23-24 Academic Year | College of Natural Sciences". cns.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  9. ↑ "Mathematics People" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 68: 828–829. May 2021.
  10. ↑ "2021 Clay Research Fellows | Clay Mathematics Institute". claymath.org. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  11. ↑ "Maggie Miller *20 and Georgios Moschidis *18 Named 2021 Clay Research Fellows | Math". www.math.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  12. ↑ "Lisa Piccirillo and Postdoc Maggie Miller Named 2021 Clay Research Fellows – Women In Math". math.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  13. ↑ "Fellowship Nominations | Clay Mathematics Institute". www.claymath.org. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  14. ↑ "Science Fellows". stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  15. ↑ "Apply | Science Fellows". stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  16. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 2001675 - PostDoctoral Research Fellowship". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  17. ↑ "Boumal, Miller, Nestoridi Receive Department Teaching Awards | Math". www.math.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  18. ↑ "Honorific Fellowship Award Winners | Graduate School". gradschool.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  19. ↑ "Breakthrough Prize – Mathematics Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Maggie Miller". breakthroughprize.org.
  20. ↑ "Maggie Miller". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
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