Lisa Piccirillo
Lisa Piccirillo | |
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| Born | 1990 or 1991 (age 34–35) Greenwood, Maine, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Boston College (BS, 2013) University of Texas at Austin (PhD, 2019) |
| Known for | Determining the slice property of the Conway knot |
| Awards | Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (2021)
Clay Research Fellowship (2021) Sloan Research Fellowship (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Low-dimensional topology Knot theory |
| Institutions | Brandeis University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Texas at Austin |
| Thesis | Knot traces and the slice genus (2019) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Edwin Luecke |
Lisa Marie Piccirillo (born 1990 or 1991) is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology. She is a Professor and holds the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is known for solving a long-standing problem in knot theory by proving that the Conway knot is not smoothly slice.