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The Postbaccalaureate Program at the Center for Women in Mathematics at Smith College develops mathematical talent and confidence, demystifies the steps toward an academic career, diversifies the mathematical community, and provides a path into mathematics for women whose undergraduate experience did not.

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Ulrica Wilson, Professor of Mathematics at Morehouse College, will receive the 2023 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in recognition of her contributions to numerous initiatives that have impacted nearly every segment of the mathematics community, including K-12 students, undergraduate students, graduate students, and mathematics faculty. Dr. Wilson's steadfast commitments to excellence in mathematics education, equity, and mentorship are central themes in her work.

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The 2023 Bôcher Memorial Prize is awarded to Frank Merle, Pierre Raphaël, Igor Rodnianski, and Jérémie Szeftel for their groundbreaking work establishing the existence of blow-up solutions to the defocusing NLS equation in some supercritical regimes and to the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations.

Joel Nagloo, an associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in the Department of Math, Stat, and Comp Sci, has been awarded the 2023-2024 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. The primary selection criterion is the excellence of the candidate's research. During the fellowship year, Nagloo plans to visit his collaborators in France and the United Kingdom, to continue our work on the Ax-Schanuel conjectures for covering maps and to apply those results to problems of unlikely intersections.

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Ludovic Tangpi, an assistant professor in Princeton University's Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, has been awarded the third annual AMS Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship. Tangpi's research interests include applied probability, stochastic control, and their applications in quantitative finance, including risk management, super hedging, and large population games.

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The recipient of the 2023 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student is Letong (Carina) Hong of MIT who has solved conjectures and proven important results in combinatorics, number theory, and probability.

Receiving Honorable Mention for the 2023 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate Student is Sophie Kriz of University of Michigan who has written ten solo-authored research papers in representation theory and category theory, and has also co-authored a textbook, Introduction to Algebraic Geometry. Also receiving Honorable Mention for the 2023 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student is Egor Lappo of Stanford for his outstanding research in mathematical evolutionary biology, combinatorics, and knot theory.

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The 2023 AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory is awarded to Kaisa Matomäki, James Newton, Maksym Radziwill, and Jack Thorne. K. Matomäki and M. Radziwiłł for their breakthrough paper 1. "Multiplicative functions in short intervals" [Annals of Math. 183 (2016), 1015-1056], which together with further developments by themselves and their collaborators have led to the solution and advances on long standing difficult problems, such as the Chowla Conjecture concerning local patterns in the parity of the number of prime factors of an integer. J. Newton and J. Thorne for their astonishing proof of a landmark sought after case of the Langlands Conjectures; namely the symmetric power functoriality for holomorphic modular forms. This is achieved in their two papers 1. Symmetric power functoriality for holomorphic modular forms, I. Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. 134 (2021), pp. 1-116. 2. Symmetric power functoriality for holomorphic modular forms, II. Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. 134 (2021), pp. 117-152.

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Jennifer Balakrishnan, the Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Mathematics at Boston University, has been awarded the 2023-2024 AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars. Balakrishnan's research is motivated by various aspects of the classical and p-adic Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectures, as well as the problem of algorithmically finding rational points on curves.

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The 2023 Joseph L. Doob Prize is awarded to the book Rational Points on Varieties, written by Bjorn Poonen and published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2017 in the series Graduate Studies in Mathematics.

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Jordan Ellenberg, professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for his clear and entertaining prose that brings the power and beauty of mathematics to a general audience.

Grant Sanderson, creator of 3Blue1Brown, for his watchable and engaging YouTube channel, with over 4 million subscribers, about discovery and creativity in mathematics.

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The AMS presented the Karl Menger Awards at the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF) on May 17th. The winners are high school students who earned the right to compete at the Regeneron ISEF by winning a top prize at a local, regional, state, or national science fair. The first place award of $2,000 was awarded to Nicholas Hagedorn of Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey for Strict Inequalities for the n-Crossing Number.

The Menger Award Committee also presented the following awards:

Second award of $1,000: Nikola Gyulev, Model High School of Mathematics "Akademik Kiril Popov", Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Proof of the Complete Presence of a Modulo 4 Bias for the Semiprimes, and Jeffrey Xu, Montgomery High School, Skillman, New Jersey, Extending the Vieta-Newton Theorem

Third award of $500: Stefan Gaydarov, Model High School of Mathematics "Akademik Kiril Popov," The Shape of Polynomial Map x ?Üí kx^n Mod P, Joseph Vulakh, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, Kentucky, Hereditary Atomicity and ACCP in Monoids and Integral Domains, Meryl Zhang, R. C. Clark High School, Plano, Texas, The Easiest Hard Problem: A Heuristic Solution to the Two-Way Partitioning Problem Using Probabilistic Algorithms, and Sophie Zhu, Williamsville East High School, Williamsville, New York, Pointed Fusion Categories Over Non-Algebraically Closed Fields, and

Certificates of Honorable Mention: Joseph Crachiola, Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, Saginaw, Michigan, Creating and Assessing a Tool to Organize Graphs Using Hooke's Law, Camille Duma, Vanguard High School, Ocala, Florida, Application of Michaelis-Menten Rational Function Models, Parametric Calculations, and Differential Equations to Determine the Most Influential Factor on Histamine Levels, Yunjia Quan, Charlotte Country Day School, Charlotte, North Carolina, Improving Bitcoin's Post-Quantum Transaction Efficiency With a Novel Lattice-Based Aggregate Signature Scheme Based on CRYSTALS-Dilithium and a STARK Protocol, and Rich Wang, William P. Clements High School, Sugar Land, Texas, Ending States of a Special Variant of the Chip-Firing Algorithm, and Andrew Zhang, Wayzata High School, Plymouth, Minnesota, Extremal Problems on the Steiner k-Distance and the Steiner k-Wiener Index

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The 2023 Leonard Eisenbud Prize is awarded to Jason P. Miller and Scott Sheffield for works on random two-dimensional geometries, and in particular on Liouville Quantum Gravity.

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Nicholas M. Katz, Princeton University, will receive the 2023 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement for his landmark contributions to number theory and arithmetic geometry.

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Lawrence C. Evans, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, has received the 2023 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for his book Partial Differential Equations published by the American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1998 (first edition) and 2010 (second edition).

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The 2023 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research is awarded to Peter B. Kronheimer of Harvard University and Tomasz S. Mrowka of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their paper "Gauge theory for embedded surfaces, I, published in 1993 in Topology 32, 773-826.

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Joshua Greene receives the 2023 Levi L. Conant Prize for the article "Heegaard Floer homology", Notices of the AMS, 68 (2021), No. 1, pp. 19-33.

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Diana M. Thomas receives the 2023 Mary P. Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research for her outstanding research at the interface of mathematics with nutrition and obesity as well as her work in number theory, combinatorics, and dynamical systems. She brings her joy for mathematical research to undergraduate students across disciplines providing previously untapped student populations, especially first-generation students, with novel research and career opportunities.

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Best photograph, painting, or print: Richard Hammack for Topological Envelopes.
Best textile, sculpture, or other media: Edmund Harriss and Silviana Amethyst for Barth Sextic.
Honorable Mention: Jiangmei Wu for Dawn.

The AMS is pleased to recognize the Math Bridge to Doctorate Program at the University of Texas, Arlington (UTA) Mathematics Department with the 2023 Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference Award. The University of Texas-Arlington Math Bridge-to-Doctorate program is a year-long program that focuses on critical transitions from undergraduate to doctoral studies, that serves URM and underserved students from HBCUs and HSIs and supports the Gulf States Math Alliance. This program makes a difference in increasing URM doctorate students in mathematical sciences.

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The 2023 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize is awarded to Panagiota Daskalopoulos of Columbia University and Natasa Sesum of Rutgers University for their groundbreaking work in the study of ancient solutions to geometric evolution equations..

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Colin Brennan, Northwestern University
Marianna Gabriele, East Tennessee State University
Paul Gongwer, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Mia Grella, Southern Connecticut State University
Frances Grout, University of San Francisco
Noah Haley, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Jillian Marasco, Washington State University
Jeffrey Nubla, University of Nevada, Reno
Wandy Saint-Phard, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Suzanne (Suzy) Smith, Trinity University
Nasir Wynruit, Tufts University

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