Emily Riehl edit

Emily Riehl is an American mathematician, assistant professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, and player on the United States women's national Australian Rules football team.[1] She is known for writing two books, one on categorical homotopy theory[2] and the other on category theory,[3] her active areas of research. Riehl was awarded the National Science Foundation's CAREER grant in 2017 for her work on higher infinity-categories.[4]

Education edit

Riehl received her undergraduate education at Harvard University, culminating in a thesis on Lubin-Tate formal groups.[5][6] Prior to her graduate studies at the University of Chicago, she attended University of Cambridge for a Part III, a year-long sequence of post baccalaureate study, which Riehl credits with introducing her to category theory.[7] She went on to receive her M.A. and PhD in mathematics from University of Chicago in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Riehl completed her dissertation on algebraic model structures under J. Peter May.[8]

Career edit

Riehl returned to Harvard University as a Benjamin Peirce[9] and National Science Foundation[10] postdoctoral fellow from June 2011 to June 2015, In the span of those four years, she wrote or co-wrote several publications, including an extension of her work on algebraic model structures[11] as well as collaborative work with Dominic Verity at the Centre of Australian Category Theory.[12] In 2014, Riehl published her first full text, Categorical Homotopy Theory, on the theory of homotopy limits and colimits. Starting in July 2015, and as recently as September 2017, Riehl has been assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University[13] and in November 2016, published her second full text, Category Theory in Context.

References edit

  1. ^ "2017 USA Freedom Squad". United States Australian Football League.
  2. ^ Riehl, Emily (26 May 2014). Categorical Homotopy Theory. ISBN 9781107048454.
  3. ^ Riehl, Emily (16 November 2016). Category Theory in Context. ISBN 9780486809038.
  4. ^ "NSF Award Search | CAREER: Model-Independent Foundations for Higher Infinity-Categories". National Science Foundation.
  5. ^ Riehl, Emily (April 3, 2006). "Lubin-Tate Formal Groups and Local Class Field Theory" (PDF). Harvard University Department of Mathematics.
  6. ^ Widdicombe, Elizabeth S. (June 2006). "Stellar Seniors". Harvard Magazine.
  7. ^ Malmskog, Beth (August 19, 2017). "Category Theory and Context | An Interview with Emily Riehl". American Mathematical Society Blogs.
  8. ^ Riehl, Emily (2011). "Algebraic model structures". New York J. Math. 17: 173–231. arXiv:0910.2733.
  9. ^ "Mathematics FAS Registrar's Office". Harvard University. 2012.
  10. ^ "NSF Award Search | PostDoctoral Research Fellowship". National Science Foundation. April 14, 2011.
  11. ^ Riehl, Emily (2013). "Monoidal algebraic model structures". J. Pure Appl. Algebra. 217 (6): 1069–1104. arXiv:1109.2883. doi:10.1016/j.jpaa.2012.09.029. S2CID 10809445.
  12. ^ Riehl, Emily; Verity, Dominic (2014). "The theory and practice of Reedy categories". Theory and Applications of Categories. 29 (9): 256–301. arXiv:1304.6871.
  13. ^ "Emily Riehl | Mathematics". Johns Hopkins University. 2017.