Media
See in addition the lists of my popular writing and general audience talks.
Mixed Media
A Science podcast discussion Looking for continents on exoplanets, and math is hard for mathematicians, too and related Expert Voices column.
A Q&A for Quanta Magazine, with a video interview and brief introduction to higher category theory.
A press release from the Johns Hopkins University HUB about the 2020 President’s Frontier Award, with accompanying video.
A discussion of My Favorite Theorem on the eponymous podcast hosted by Kevin Knudson and Evelyn Lamb, with show notes in the Roots of Unity blog hosted by Scientific American.
A Science Friday radio interview, The Infinitely Surprising Career of a Mathematician, with Eugenia Cheng and Rebecca Goldin, with an accompanying off-air interview.
Video
A video Mathematician explains infinity in 5 levels of difficulty, produced as episode 22 of the WIRED 5 levels series.
A video interview for ΜΣΣΤ a Mathematician.
Audio
An interview on Tidbits of Research with Smaranda Sandu.
An interview on Topology, Categories, and the Future of Mathematics on Seal Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast.
A press release highlighting the four Johns Hopkins mathematicians who will speak at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians.
A brief account of running rim-to-rim-to-rim at the Grand Canyon in Emily Riehl: Numbers Runner for the Krieger School Arts and Sciences Magazine.
Some thoughts on Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI in a special issue of Quanta on AI in the sciences.
A brief description of my experience with computer formalized proofs is contained within the article A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too.
An article The mathematic mind of Emily Riehl from Johns Hopkins Magazine.
A press release from the Association for Women in Mathematics for the 2021 Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry.
A Quanta Magazine article on the community effort to develop the foundations of ∞-category theory: With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes From Equality, with an interview I gave in response.
A two-part interview for the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad.
A series of five interviews on ∀_forall, an Instagram account run by Annie Raymond.
A brief biography appeared along profiles of 27 female mathematicians in the March 2018 issue of the Notices of the AMS.
An interview from the Association for Women in Mathematics November-December issue by Beth Malmskog: read the full version from the Mathematics, Live! column or a web excerpt, Category Theory and Context: An Interview with Emily Riehl.
An interview with the fabulous Mike Hill, On performing queerness and mathematics, for the wonderful inclusion/exclusion blog.