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Daniel Kane Receives 2007 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize

January 8, 2007

Providence, RI:

Daniel Kane, an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has received the 2006 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student. The Morgan Prize is presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The prize was awarded on Saturday, January 6, 2007, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Kane is majoring in both mathematics and physics at MIT and expects to receive his bachelor's degree in June 2007. The prize citation says, "At this early stage of his mathematical career, Kane has already established a research record that would be the envy of many professional mathematicians." He has authored or co-authored ten articles that have appeared or will soon appear in research journals and has six other papers in progress. His work spans number theory, computer science, ergodic theory, combinatorics, computational geometry, and game theory.

In addition to doing mathematical research, Kane has excelled in the Putnam Competition, a challenging nationwide mathematical contest for undergraduates. While in junior high and high school he competed in the International Mathematical Olympiad, twice earning a gold medal.

Find out more about AMS prizes at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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