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Eitan Tadmor, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, will receive the 2022 AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics for his original contributions to applied and numerical analysis with applications in fluid dynamics, image processing, and collective dynamics. The prize also recognizes the significant impact of his fundamental work in theory and computation of nonlinear partial differential equations.

The University of Missouri Mathematics Department will receive the 2022 AMS Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department. Its outreach program under the leadership of Stephen Montgomery-Smith has been highly successful in serving at-risk and low-income children in Columbia, Missouri. In partnership with the Grade A Plus Academic Support and Enrichment program, graduate students tutor community students seeking support. The at-risk students commit to at least two hours a week of tutoring.

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Rodrigo Bañuelos, a professor of mathematics at Purdue University, will receive the 2022 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service. The honor recognizes his exceptional service to the profession, his extensive educational and professional mentoring, and his prolific activities that have advanced diversity, equity, and inclusion at all levels of the mathematical sciences community.

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Deborah Hughes Hallett, a professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona and an adjunct professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will receive the 2022 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. Hughes Hallett's brilliant leadership in the calculus reform movement changed how mathematics is taught across the country and the globe. As a beloved mentor, she inspires generations of math educators. As a tireless advocate for justice, she has shown how mathematics can be used to combat racial profiling, climate change, and gerrymandering.

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Mimi Dai, an associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), has been awarded the AMS Centennial Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. The primary selection criterion is the excellence of the candidate's research. Dai researches nonlinear partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, harmonic analysis, and complex fluids. Recently she has focused on the appearance of singularities in turbulent flows. During her fellowship year, she will visit collaborators in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Switzerland to continue tackling challenging problems on the pathological behavior of solutions to certain fluid equations.

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The 2022 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory will be awarded to Xuhua He for his substantial advances in at least three directions of Lie Theory: the study of the cocenter of Hecke algebras of p-adic groups, the study of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties and the theory of modular representations of semisimple groups.

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Adam Marcus, Daniel Spielman, and Nikhil Srivastava will receive the 2022 Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory. The award recognizes their highly original work that introduced and developed methods for understanding the characteristic polynomial of matrices, namely the iterative sparsification method (also in collaboration with Batson) and the method of interlacing polynomials.

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Ryan Hynd, an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the AMS Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. Hynd researches partial differential equations arising in mathematical models for fluid mechanics, control theory, and finance, as well as eigenvalue problems.

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Alin Bostan, Irina Kurkova, and Kilian Raschel will receive the 2022 AMS David P. Robbins Prize for their paper “A human proof of Gessel's lattice path conjecture,” published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in 2017. The paper proves highly nontrivial enumeration results on a family of lattice paths known as Gessel walks. These simple-to-describe walks have a surprisingly beautiful enumeration that withstands standard combinatorial techniques. The proof makes an inspired use of experimentation to connect the problem with a remarkable identity involving elliptic functions. Unlike previous arguments, this novel proof method avoids any reference to large-scale computation.

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The 2022 E.H. Moore Research Article Prize was awarded to Piotr Przytycki and Daniel Wise, both from McGill University, for the paper "Mixed 3-manifolds are virtually special," published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2018, pp. 319-347).

University of Maine, Orono: Kaia De Vries

Travis Dillon, a graduate of Lawrence University, will receive the 2022 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student. Dillon earns this year's honor for his significant work in number theory, combinatorics, discrete geometry, and symbolic dynamics, which has been recognized by publications in top journals and competitive awards. Receiving Honorable Mention are Sophie Kriz, a student at the University of Michigan, and Alex Cohen, a graduate of Yale University.

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Bianca Viray, a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington, has been awarded the AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars for 2022-2023. An arithmetic geometer, Viray researches rational points on varieties, particularly how a variety's geometric properties influence failures of the local-to-global principle.

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Talithia Williams, an associate professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, has won the 2022 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award for bringing mathematics and statistics into the homes and hands of millions through her work as a TV host, renowned speaker, and author.

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The AMS presented the Karl Menger Awards at the 2022 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF) on May 12. The first-place award of $2,000 was given to Sarth Chavan of Aditya English Medium School in Pune, India, for On Ramanujan?s Identity for Odd Zeta Values and Its Generalization. The Menger Award Committee also presented awards to: Daniel Salkinder, Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills, New York, Nxnxn Rubik?s Cube and God?s Number (Second Award); Sophie Zhu, Williamsville East High School, East Amherst, New York, Factorizations in Evaluation Monoids of Laurent Semirings (Second Award), Edward Garth, Redeemer Baptist School, North Park, Australia, Validating a Predictive Mathematical Modelling Paradigm for Travelling from Point A to Point B (Third Award); Morgan Holien, Monarch High School, Louisville, Colorado, Attempting to Define Tetration of Non-Integer Heights (Third Award); Donald Liveoak, Allen Park High School, Allen Park, Michigan, Schrodinger Bridges on Discrete Domains (Third Award); Shirley Xu, The Bishop's School, La Jolla, California, A Heuristic Solution to the Closest String Problem Using Wave Function Collapse Techniques (Third Award), Dongin Kim, Sihyeong Yang, and Seokyoung Yoon, Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Busan, South Korea, Study on the Solution Set of Knot Colorings (Honorable Mention); Jiahui Li, Emma Willard School, Troy, New York, From the Manhattan Project to Statistics of Zeros in L-Functions (Honorable Mention); and Akilan Sankaran, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Modifying the ABCs of Number Theory (Honorable Mention).

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Richard P. Stanley, an emeritus professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will receive the 2022 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Stanley has revolutionized enumerative combinatorics, revealing deep connections with other branches of mathematics, such as commutative algebra, topology, algebraic geometry, probability, convex geometry, and representation theory. In doing so, he solved important longstanding combinatorial problems, often reinvigorating these other fields with new combinatorial methods. Through his outstanding research; excellent expository works; and many PhD students, collaborators and colleagues, he continues to influence the field of combinatorics worldwide.

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Aise Johan de Jong, a professor of mathematics at Columbia University, will receive the 2022 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition. De Jong is the originator and maintainer of The Stacks Project, which is at once a comprehensive online textbook on the foundations of contemporary algebraic geometry and a remarkable instance of a carefully structured large-scale collaborative writing process.

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The 2022 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research is awarded to Michel Goemans and David Williamson for their paper "Improved Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Cut and Satisfiability Problems Using Semidefinite Programming" published in 1995 in the Journal of the ACM. This paper, which focused on the Max-Cut problem, a core problem in combinatorial optimization, has had major, sustained impact on the fields of theoretical computer science and optimization theory.

Andrej Bauer receives the 2022 Levi L. Conant Prize for the article "Five Stage of Accepting Constructive Mathematics", Bulletin of the AMS, 54 (2017), 481-498.

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Camillo De Lellis, Institute for Advanced Study, received the 2022 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics "for his fundamental contributions to the study of dissipative solutions to the incompressible Euler equations and to the regularity theory of minimal surfaces."

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Best photograph, painting, or print: David Reimann for Septenary Circles.
Best textile, sculpture, or other media: Laura Nica for Scherk Minimal Surfaces.
Co-Honorable Mention: Public Math for Is It Complete? Children's Solutions to The Hexagon Challenge and the University of Kentucky Math Lab (Nathan Fieldsteel, et al.) for Symmetric group on 4 Letters.

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The Department of Mathematics at California State University at Fullerton (CSUF) will receive the 2022 AMS Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference Award. The department is recognized for its excellent record of mentoring and graduating students from underrepresented groups.

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The 2022 AMS-EMS Mikhail Gordin Prize is awarded to Semyon Dyatlov for his work on quantum chaos, scattering theory and, in particular, differentiable dynamical systems.

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Michael Hill, Michael Hopkins, and Douglas Ravenel received the 2022 Veblen Prize for their paper "On the nonexistence of elements of Kervaire invariant one." This paper solved a 50-year-old problem in geometric topology by showing that framed manifolds with Kervaire invariant one can only exist in finitely many dimensions, introducing deeply influential new ideas and techniques in algebraic topology.

California Institute of Technology: Necef Kavrut

DePaul University: Leslye Rodriguez

Middle Tennessee State University: Michael Brito

Northern Arizona University: Heather Vogler

University of Buffalo-SUNY: Mahdi Rahman

University of Central Oklahoma: Kayleigh Page

University of Louisville: Aaron Thomas

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley: Aniela Mendez

Washington & Lee University: Nevin Etter