Levi L. Conant Prize

Levi L. Conant Prize

This prize was established in 2000 in honor of Levi L. Conant to recognize the best expository paper published in either the Notices of the AMS or the Bulletin of the AMS in the preceding five years.  Levi L. Conant was a mathematician at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His will provided for funds to be donated to the AMS upon his wife’s death.  The US$1,000 prize is awarded annually.

Next award:  January 2009. Call for nominations.

Eighth award, 2008:   To J. Brian Conrey for his article "The Riemann Hypothesis," Notices of the AMS 50 (2003) no. 3, 341-353; and to Shlomo Hoory, Nathan Linial, and Avi Wigderson for their article "Expander graphs and their applications", Bulletin of the AMS 43 (2006), no. 4, 439-561.

Seventh award, 2007 :  To Jeffrey Weeks for his article "The Poincare Dodecahedral Space and the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations, " Notices of the AMS 51 (2004) no. 6, 610-619.

Sixth award, 2006 :  To Ronald Solomon for his article “A Brief History of the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups ”, Bulletin of the AMS 38 (2001), no. 3, 315–352.

Fifth award, 2005 :  To Allen Knutson and Terence Tao for their stimulating article "Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices, " Notices of the AMS  48, no. 2 (2001), 175-186.

Fourth award, 2004 :  To Noam D. Elkies for his enlightening two-part article “Lattices, Linear Codes, and Invariants”, Notices of the AMS 47, nos. 10–11 (2000): Part I, 1238–45; Part II, 1382–91.

Third award, 2003 : To Nicholas Katz and Peter Sarnak for their expository paper “Zeroes of zeta functions and symmetry ”, Bulletin of the AMS 36 1–26 (1999).

Second award, 2002 : To Elliott H. Lieb and Jakob Yngvason for their article, "A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, " Notices of the AMS 45, no. 5 (1998), 571-581.

First award, 2001 : To Carl Pomerance for his paper,"A Tale of Two Sieves, " Notices of the AMS 43, no. 12 (1996), 1473-1485.