Oswald Veblen Prize Selection Committee
General Description
- Committee is standing
- Number of members is three
- A new committee is appointed for each award
Principal Activities
The award is made every three years at the Annual (January) Meeting, in a cycle including the years 2001, 2004, and so forth. The award is made for a notable research work in geometry or topology that has appeared in the last six years. The work must be published in a recognized, peer-reviewed venue.
The committee recommends a winner and communicates this recommendation to the Secretary for approval by the Executive Committee of the Council.
Past winners are listed in the November issue of the Notices in odd-numbered years.
Statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
(as adopted by the April 2019 Council)
The American Mathematical Society is committed to promoting and facilitating equity, diversity and inclusion throughout the mathematical sciences. For its own long-term prosperity as well as that of the public at large, our discipline must connect with and appropriately incorporate all sectors of society. We reaffirm the pledge in the AMS Mission Statement to "advance the status of the profession of mathematics, encouraging and facilitating full participation of all individuals," and urge all members to conduct their professional activities with this goal in mind.
About this Prize
This prize was established in 1961 in memory of Professor Oswald Veblen through a fund contributed by former students and colleagues. The fund was later doubled by a gift from Elizabeth Veblen, widow of Professor Veblen. In honor of her late father, John L. Synge, who knew and admired Oswald Veblen, Cathleen Synge Morawetz and her husband, Herbert, substantially increased the endowed fund in 2013. The award is supplemented by a Steele Prize from the AMS under the name of the Veblen Prize.
Miscellaneous Information
The business of this committee can be done by email or videoconference.
Note to the Chair
For the purpose of archiving the committee activities, the Secretary maintains a central file system for archiving committee records. Committee Chairs are asked to submit committee records on yearly basis. Chairs can submit material at their discretion, and some materials that they may wish to provide are meeting minutes, agenda, and emails. Confidential material should be noted, so that it can be handled in a confidential manner.
Authorization
- Prize was established in 1961 by the Trustees.
- 10/05/89; updated 03/07/91; 12/92; 3/94; 8/94; 5/95; 501;1/08; 8/09;7/22
- 09 January 2018, Item 4.6.2: Geographic and membership restrictions were removed, the venue of acceptable publication was broadened and the approval process was more accurately described.
- 24 April 2021 Council, Item 6.8: Added the Statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- 02 January 2024 Council, Item 2.3: Removed prize amount.
Past Members
Year Members
1964 no record
1966 Raoul Bott, S S Chern (Chair), G T Whyburn
1971 Raoul Bott (Chair), Morton Brown, Stephen Smale
1976 Shiing S Chern, Robion C Kirby, John W Milnor (Chair)
1981 Raoul H Bott, Eugene Calabi, William Thurston (Chair)
1986 R H Bing, Richard K Lashof, Shing-Tung Yau (Chair)
A list of current and past members from 1990 onwards is available here:
http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/veblen-past.html
Past Winners
http://www.ams.org/veblen-winners