{"667579":{"#nid":"667579","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mixing Surfaces, Algebra, and Geometry","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis feature article is a written version of a lecture that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dmargalit7.math.gatech.edu\/index.shtml\u0022\u003EDan Margalit\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, gave at the 2022 Joint Mathematical Meetings of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ams.org\/home\/page\u0022\u003EAmerican Mathematical Society (AMS)\u003C\/a\u003E. The Society established the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ams.org\/meetings\/lectures\/meet-mirzakhani-lect\u0022\u003EMaryam Mirzakhani Lecture\u003C\/a\u003E in 2018 to honor the memory of Mirzakhani, the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal, one of the highest honors in math. Margalit writes that on a basic level, Mirzakhani\u2019s work centers around the geometry of surfaces, as understood through their simple curves: \u0022Starting from this humble-seeming topic, Mirzakhani made surprising and sweeping connections between numerous fields of mathematics, including algebraic geometry, Teichm\u00fcller theory, moduli spaces, dynamics, homogeneous spaces, symplectic geometry, and billiards.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis feature article is a written version of a lecture that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dmargalit7.math.gatech.edu\/index.shtml\u0022\u003EDan Margalit\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, gave at the 2022 Joint Mathematical Meetings of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ams.org\/home\/page\u0022\u003EAmerican Mathematical Society (AMS)\u003C\/a\u003E. The Society established the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ams.org\/meetings\/lectures\/meet-mirzakhani-lect\u0022\u003EMaryam Mirzakhani Lecture\u003C\/a\u003E in 2018 to honor the memory of Mirzakhani, the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal, one of the highest honors in math. Margalit writes that on a basic level, Mirzakhani\u2019s work centers around the geometry of surfaces, as understood through their simple curves: \u0022Starting from this humble-seeming topic, Mirzakhani made surprising and sweeping connections between numerous fields of mathematics, including algebraic geometry, Teichm\u00fcller theory, moduli spaces, dynamics, homogeneous spaces, symplectic geometry, and billiards.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dan Margalit has a featured article in the AMS Notices which appears on this month\u0027s cover page."}],"uid":"34518","created_gmt":"2023-05-01 15:04:13","changed_gmt":"2023-05-01 15:06:34","author":"sbarone7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"592960":{"id":"592960","type":"image","title":"Dan Margalit","body":null,"created":"1498501561","gmt_created":"2017-06-26 18:26:01","changed":"1498501561","gmt_changed":"2017-06-26 18:26:01","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226016","name":"Dan Margalit .png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dan%20Margalit%20.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dan%20Margalit%20.png","mime":"image\/png","size":728812,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Dan%20Margalit%20.png?itok=ypMRgaUb"}}},"media_ids":["592960"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/notices\/202305\/noti2690\/noti2690.html?adat=May%202023\u0026trk=2690\u0026galt=none\u0026cat=feature\u0026pdfissue=202305\u0026pdffile=rnoti-p737.pdf","title":"AMS Article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESal Barone\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["comm@math.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}