Lisa Piccirillo
Lisa Piccirillo | |
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| Born | Lisa Marie Piccirillo 1990 or 1991 (age 34–35) Greenwood, Maine, U.S. |
| Education | 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.