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# Prizes and Awards

September 15, 2017
Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department
Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference

AMS Prizes recognize outstanding achievement in mathematical research.

 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics For an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense. Amount: $5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2018 Bôcher Memorial Prize For a notable paper in analysis published during the preceding six years. Amount:$5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2020 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory For a notable paper in Lie Theory published during the preceding six years. Amount: $8,000 Frequency: even numbered years Next prize: 2018 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra For a notable paper in algebra published during the preceding six years Amount:$5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2018 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory For a notable paper in number theory published during the preceding six years. Amount: $5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2020 Levi L. Conant Prize Recognizes the best expository paper published in either the Notices of the AMS or the Bulletin of the AMS in the preceding five years Amount:$1,000 Frequency: every year Next prize: 2018 Joseph L. Doob Prize Recognizes a single, relatively recent, outstanding research book that makes a seminal contribution to the research literature, reflects the highest standards of research exposition, and promises to have a deep and long-term impact in its area. The book must have been published within the six calendar years preceding the nomination year. Amount: $5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2020 Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics Honors a work or group of works that brings the mathematics and physics fields closer together. Amount:$5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2020 Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize For outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics Amount: Up to three awards of $1,500 each Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2018 This prize is awarded jointly with the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling For exceptional theoretical and applied contributions in stochastic theory and modeling. Amount:$5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2018 E. H. Moore Research Article Prize For an outstanding research article to have appeared in one of the AMS primary research journals Amount: $5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2019 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student To an undergraduate student (or students having submitted joint work) for outstanding research in mathematics. Amount: up to three awards of$1,200 each Frequency: every year Next prize: 2018 This prize is awarded jointly with the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) David P. Robbins Prize For a paper with the following characteristics:  it shall report on novel research in algebra, combinatorics or discrete mathematics and shall have a significant experimental component; and it shall be on a topic which is broadly accessible and shall provide a simple statement of the problem and clear exposition of the work. Amount: $5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2019 Bertrand Russell Prize of the AMS For research or service contributions of mathematicians or related professionals to promoting good in the world and to recognize the various ways that mathematics furthers human values. Amount:$5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2018 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics To recognize an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous six years. Amount: $5,000 Frequency: every two years Next prize: 2019 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement For the cumulative influence of the total mathematical work of the recipient, high level of research over a period of time, particular influence on the development of a field, and influence on mathematics through Ph.D. students Amount:$5,000 Frequency: every year Next prize: 2018 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition For a book or substantial survey or expository-research paper Amount: $5,000 Frequency: every year Next prize: 2018 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research For a paper, whether recent or not, that has proved to be of fundamental or lasting importance in its field, or a model of important research Amount:$5,000 Frequency: every year Next prize: 2018 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry Recognizes a notable research memoir in geometry or topology published in the preceding six years Amount: $5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2019 Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize The Whiteman Prize recognizes notable exposition and exceptional scholarship in the history of mathematics. Amount:$5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2018 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics For an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense. Amount: $5,000 Frequency: every three years Next prize: 2019 This prize is awarded jointly with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) AMS Awards recognize outstanding achievement in mathematics, exceptional public service in support of research and education in the mathematical sciences, and significant contributions to the public understanding of mathematics.  Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics Award is given to a mathematician (or group of mathematicians) who has made significant contributions of lasting value to mathematics education. Amount:$1,000 Frequency: every year Next award: 2017 Centennial Fellowships Awarded primarily for the excellence of the candidate's research Amount: varies annually Frequency: every year Next award: 2017 JPBM Communications Award To reward and encourage communicators who, on a sustained basis, bring mathematical ideas and information to nonmathematical audiences Amount: $1,000 Frequency: every year Next award: 2017 This is awarded jointly with the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the American Statistical Association (ASA) Epsilon Awards for Young Scholars Programs To help support existing summer programs for mathematically talented high school students Amount:$2,500 - $15,000 Frequency: every year Next award: 2017 Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department Award Recognizes a department which has distinguished itself by undertaking an unusual or particularly effective program of value to the mathematics community, internally or in relation to the rest of society Amount: Up to$5,000 Frequency: every year Next award: 2017 Mathematical Art Exhibition Award To acknowledge those whose works demonstrate the beauty and elegance of mathematics expressed in a visual art form. Amount: $400 for best photograph, painting, or print;$400 for best textile, sculpture, or other medium; $200 for one honorable mention. Frequency: every year Next award: 2017 Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference Award To programs that aim to bring more persons from underrepresented backgrounds into some portion of the pipeline beginning at the undergraduate level and leading to advanced degrees in mathematics and professional success, or retain them once in the pipeline; have achieved documentable success in doing so; and are replicable models. Frequency: every year Next award: 2018 Karl Menger Memorial Award To pre-college students in mathematics as well as mathematically-oriented projects in computer science, physics, and engineering at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Frequency: every year Next award: 2017 Public Policy Award To recognize a public figure for sustained and exceptional contributions to public policies that foster support for research, education, and innovation Frequency: every year starting in 2014 Award for Distinguished Public Service To a research mathematician who has made a distinguished contribution to the mathematics profession during the preceding five years Amount:$4,000 Frequency: every two years Next award: 2018 Public Service Citation To provide encouragement and recognition for contributions to public service activities in support of mathematics. The award is no longer being made. Public Service Award This award was established in 1999 by the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the American Astronomical Society (AAS), and the American Physical Society (APS) to recognize a public figure for his or her sustained and exceptional contributions to public policies that foster support for research, education, and industrial innovation in the physical sciences and mathematics. As of January 2007, the AMS no longer participates in this award, but instead offers the AMS Public Policy Award. Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Memorial Awards To assist students who have declared a major in mathematics at a college or university that is an institutional member of the AMS. These funds help support students who lack adequate financial resources and who may be in danger of not completing the degree program in mathematics for financial reasons. Amount: $3,000 Frequency: every year Next award: 2017 AMS also supports some prizes and awards given by other organizations.  National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics For excellence of research in the mathematical sciences published within the past ten years Amount:$5,000 Frequency: every four years Next award: 2017 This is awarded jointly with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). AMS Award for Outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presentation Recognize the best student paper(s) presented at a PME student paper session Frequency: annual Next award: 2017 This is awarded jointly with Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). Beal Prize For either a proof or a counterexample of the Beal Conjecture that is published in a refereed journal Frequency: one time Stefan Bergman Prize Awards are made in either: 1) the theory of the kernel function and its applications in real and complex analysis; or 2) function-theoretic methods in the theory of partial differential equations of elliptic type with attention to Bergman's operator method. Amount: one year’s income from the prize fund Frequency: every year or two Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics To the individual deemed to have made the most substantial contribution in research in the field of pure mathematics, and who is deemed to have the potential for future production of distinguished research in such field Amount: net income from the trust Frequency: every four years Next award: 2017 The Automatic Theorem Proving Prize The Fredkin Foundation established three prizes in Automatic Theorem Proving (ATP). In the mid-1980s the Foundation asked the AMS to appoint a formal ATP prize committee and to take over the administration of the awards. Since support for these prizes has been withdrawn, currently there are no plans to make future awards.

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