Lisa Piccirillo and postdoc Maggie Miller have been awarded 2021 Clay Research Fellowships.
Lisa, who recently joined our department as an assistant professor, was recognized for her work in low-dimensional topology, and in particular her surprising resolution of the 50-year-old Conway Knot problem.
Maggie, an NSF postdoctoral fellow at MIT, has also made important contributions to long-standing problems in low-dimensional topology.
Postdoc Alex Smith also was awarded, for making deep contributions to the theory of elliptic curves and class groups. Both postdocs will be moving on to Stanford this summer.
These fellowships, which begin on July 1, 2021, go to recent PhDs who are potential leaders in research mathematics.
Congratulations Lisa, Maggie, and Alex!