Maggie Miller (mathematician)
{{short description|Mathematician}}
{{Distinguish|Maggie Meller}}
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| name = Maggie Miller
| image = File:Arunima_Ray,_Andrew_J._Lobb,_Maggie_Miller_Oberwolfach_2023.jpg
| caption = Miller (right) in 2023
| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|30|2024|1|29}}
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| fields = Mathematics, geometric topology
| workplaces = University of Texas at Austin
Stanford University
| alma_mater = Princeton University (PhD)
University of Texas at Austin (BS)
| doctoral_advisor = David Gabai
| thesis_title = [https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01w6634654p Extending fibrations of knot complements to ribbon disk complements] (2020)
| known_for = Low-dimensional topology
Work on Seifert surfaces
| awards = Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (2023)
| website = {{URL|https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/mhm799/}}
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Maggie Hall Miller (born in 1993 or 1994[https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7286 News from the AMS, Sharing Research, Making Connections: A Tale of Two Mathematicians at JMM, January 29, 2024] (Note: News from the AMS says "She is just 30", in 2024)) is a mathematician whose primary area of research is low-dimensional topology. She is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She and co-authors made notable advancements to the understanding of Seifert surfaces. She was awarded the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize in 2023.
Education and career
Miller completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin.{{Cite web |title=Maggie Miller – Women In Math |url=https://math.mit.edu/wim/members/maggie-miller/ |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=math.mit.edu}}{{Citation |last=Sciences |first=College of Natural |title=Maggie Miller, Mathematics |date=2015-05-11 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/utcns/17828966055/ |access-date=2022-03-12}}
She earned her PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 2020, with David Gabai as advisor (thesis: Extending fibrations of knot complements to ribbon disk complements).{{Cite web |title=Princeton University Doctoral Dissertations: Extending fibrations of knot complements to ribbon disk complements |url=http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01w6634654p |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=Princeton DataSpace}}{{Cite web |title=Maggie Miller - The Mathematics Genealogy Project |url=https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=264868 |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=www.mathgenealogy.org}}
After completing her doctoral degree, Miller worked as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow from 2020 to 2021 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later as a Visiting Clay Fellow and Stanford Science Fellow, she spent time at Stanford University from 2021 to 2023.{{Cite web |title=Meet the Fellows {{!}} Science Fellows |url=https://stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu/meet-fellows |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu |language=en}} Miller is currently a tenure track professor at the University of Texas at Austin.{{Cite web |last=Hartnett |first=Kevin |date=2024-02-22 |title=A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology |url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-agenda-for-low-dimensional-topology-20240222/ |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=Quanta Magazine |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=CNS Welcomes New Faculty for the 23-24 Academic Year {{!}} College of Natural Sciences |url=https://cns.utexas.edu/news/announcements/cns-welcomes-new-faculty-23-24-academic-year |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=cns.utexas.edu |language=en}}
Mathematical work
In 2022, together with Kyle Hayden, Seungwon Kim, JungHwan Park and Isaac Sundberg, Miller proved a then 40 years old conjecture of Charles Livingston on Seifert surfaces.Kevin Hartnett (June 16, 2022), "Surfaces So Different Even a Fourth Dimension Can’t Make Them the Same" (Quanta Magazine) https://www.quantamagazine.org/special-surfaces-remain-distinct-in-four-dimensions-20220616/{{cite arXiv|eprint=2205.15283 |last1=Hayden |first1=Kyle |last2=Kim |first2=Seungwon |last3=Miller |first3=Maggie |last4=Park |first4=JungHwan |last5=Sundberg |first5=Isaac |title=Seifert surfaces in the 4-ball |date=2022 |class=math.GT }}
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.{{Cite journal |date=May 2021 |title=Mathematics People |url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202105/rnoti-p824.pdf |journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society |volume=68 |pages=828–829}}{{Cite web |title=2021 Clay Research Fellows {{!}} Clay Mathematics Institute |url=https://claymath.org/events/news/2021-clay-research-fellows |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=claymath.org}}{{Cite web |title=Maggie Miller *20 and Georgios Moschidis *18 Named 2021 Clay Research Fellows {{!}} Math |url=https://www.math.princeton.edu/news/maggie-miller-20-and-georgios-moschidis-18-named-2021-clay-research-fellows |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=www.math.princeton.edu}} Her contributions were described by MIT as "important...to long-standing problems in low-dimensional topology."{{Cite web |title=Lisa Piccirillo and Postdoc Maggie Miller Named 2021 Clay Research Fellows – Women In Math |url=https://math.mit.edu/wim/2021/04/07/lisa-piccirillo-and-postdoc-maggie-miller-named-2021-clay-research-fellows/ |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=math.mit.edu}} Clay Research Fellowships are awarded to recent PhD-holders who are selected for their research accomplishments and potential as leaders in mathematics research.{{Cite web |title=Fellowship Nominations {{!}} Clay Mathematics Institute |url=https://www.claymath.org/programs/fellowship-nominations |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=www.claymath.org}}
In her previous position at Stanford, she was a Stanford Science Fellow. 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.{{Cite web |title=Science Fellows |url=https://stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu/ |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu}}{{Cite web |title=Apply {{!}} Science Fellows |url=https://stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu/apply |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu |language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 2001675 - PostDoctoral Research Fellowship |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2001675&HistoricalAwards=false |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=www.nsf.gov |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Boumal, Miller, Nestoridi Receive Department Teaching Awards {{!}} Math |url=https://www.math.princeton.edu/news/boumal-miller-nestoridi-receive-department-teaching-awards |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=www.math.princeton.edu}}{{Cite web |title=Honorific Fellowship Award Winners {{!}} Graduate School |url=https://gradschool.princeton.edu/about/awards |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=gradschool.princeton.edu}}
She received the 2023 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, one of the Breakthrough Prizes, for "work on fibered ribbon knots and surfaces in 4-dimensional manifolds.",{{Cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3927|title=Breakthrough Prize – Mathematics Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Maggie Miller|website=breakthroughprize.org}} and was named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 – Science for 2023.{{Cite web |title=Maggie Miller |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/maggie-miller/ |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=Forbes |language=en}}
In 2025, Miller was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship.{{Cite web |title=2025 Fellows {{!}} Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |url=https://sloan.org/fellowships/2025-Fellows |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=sloan.org |language=en}}
Selected publications
- {{cite journal | last1=Juhász | first1=András | last2=Miller | first2=Maggie | last3=Zemke | first3=Ian | title=Knot cobordisms, bridge index, and torsion in Floer homology | journal=Journal of Topology | volume=13 | issue=4 | date=2020 | issn=1753-8416 | doi=10.1112/topo.12170 | pages=1701–1724| arxiv=1904.02735 }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Hughes | first1=Mark C | last2=Kim | first2=Seungwon | last3=Miller | first3=Maggie | title=Isotopies of surfaces in 4–manifolds via banded unlink diagrams | journal=Geometry & Topology | volume=24 | issue=3 | date=30 September 2020 | issn=1364-0380 | doi=10.2140/gt.2020.24.1519 | pages=1519–1569| arxiv=1804.09169 }}
Further reading
- {{citation|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/special-surfaces-remain-distinct-in-four-dimensions-20220616/|title=Surfaces So Different Even a Fourth Dimension Can’t Make Them the Same|magazine=Quanta Magazine|date=16 June 2022|first=Kevin|last=Hartnett}}
References
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External links
- {{google scholar id|pKMhMbQAAAAJ}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MURzTFRRuJQ YouTube video: "How to 'See' the 4th Dimension with Topology"] (15 may 2025)
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