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Year: 2024
 
Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize 2024 Leo Corry

The 2024 Albert Leon Whiteman Prize of the American Mathematical Society is awarded to Leo Corry of Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Open University of Israel, "for his exceptional scholarship and exposition elucidating the roles of axioms and structures in the practice of modern mathematics and physics, as well as for his many contributions to the field of history of mathematics as an editor, mentor, and communicator, "

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


AMS Award for Outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presentation 2024 Kendall Bearden; Clara Chaplin; Brent Christian; Georgia Corbett; Cameron Davis; Galileo Fries; Jacob Gathje; Kyle Kelley; Celia Kerr; Jackson Krebsbach; Sarah Kulas; Isaac Leiterman; Juntao Liu; Oscar Murillo-Espinoza; Olivia Roberts; Leif Schaumann; Dylan Schuster; Nash Ward
AMS Young Scholars Program 2024 Adelphi Summer Institute in Mathematical Epidemiology; Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM) Summer Away; Canada/USA Mathcamp; Euler Circle; GirlsGetMath@CSU 2024; GirlsGetMath@ICERM 2024; Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM); Kenneth I. Gross and Tony Trono Governor's Institute on Mathematical Sciences (GIV); LSU Math Circle / Virtual Math Circle: Research Opportunities for High School Students; Math Circles of Chicago; MathILy (serious Mathematics Infused with Levity); MathILy-Er; Mathworks Honors Summer Math Camp (HSMC); Michigan Math and Science Scholars (MMSS); Navajo Nation Math Circles; New York Math Circle; PROMYS and PROMYS Pathways Summer Program; PROTaSM(Puerto Rico Opportunities for Talented Students in Mathematics); PZ Math Corp; Ross Mathematics Program; SigmaCamp / Sigma Prime; Summer Illinois Mathematics (SIM) Camp 2024; Summer Math Program for Young Scholars; TexPREP - Lubbock 2024; University of South Florida STEM Education Center; Young CryptograpHers; Bridge to Calculus; Live Math Workshops; Math Knights Summer Institute; Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP) Preparing for Success in Calculus; UConn CAPS Pre-College Summer Program; Navigate the Maze to Achievement, Inc.
AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize 2024 Ronald Coifman

The 2024 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Ronald Coifman of Yale University for his profound impact on pure and applied harmonic analysis, and for the introduction of tools developed from these areas to address modern challenges of data science.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department 2024 ACME Program at Brigham Young University

The Applied and Computational Mathematics Emphasis (ACME) Program at Brigham Young University is awarded the 2024 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department. The ACME program has been highly successful in providing students with a rigorous foundation in mathematics as well as a broad interdisciplinary experience in applied mathematics.

Award announcement as seen in the news release.


Award for Distinguished Public Service 2024 Angel Pineda

Angel Pineda, a professor of mathematics at Manhattan College, will receive the 2024 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service. Professor Pineda is honored "in recognition of his tireless work at the grassroots level supporting mathematicians living in challenged, resource-poor environments around the world and of the impact his example has had on national and international scientific organizations," according to the citation, which highlights his work in Cambodia.

Award announcement as seen in the news release.


Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics 2024 Sybilla Beckmann

Sybilla Beckmann, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia, will receive the 2024 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. "Beckmann is nationally recognized for her seminal contributions to mathematics teacher education, combining experiences in mathematics, public school classrooms, textbook writing, national service, and research," the citation noted. "Through her work in mathematics education policy, she has advocated for high-quality teacher education and rigorous mathematical curriculum, impacting students and teachers across the country."

Award announcement as seen in the news release.


Bertrand Russell Prize of the AMS 2024 Susan Landau

The 2024 Bertrand Russell Prize of the AMS is awarded to Susan Landau of Tufts University, a leading scholar in encryption policy and digital privacy, for her work writing technical research papers and op-eds, publishing public-facing work, briefing policymakers, and participating in national studies.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Centennial Fellowship 2024 Francesc Castella

Francesc Castella, an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2024-2025 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year. The primary selection criterion is the excellence of the candidate's research. Castella's research interests are number theory and arithmetic geometry: more specifically, p-adic L-functions, Euler systems, and Iwasawa theory.

Fellowship announcement as seen in the news release.


Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory 2024 Victor Ostrik

The 2024 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory is awarded to Victor Ostrik of the University of Oregon "for his fundamental contributions to the theory of tensor categories, which have already found deep applications in modular representation theory and Lie theory. " Three papers were the basis for this award: "On symmetric fusion categories in positive characteristic," published in Selecta Mathematica, "Frobenius exact symmetric tensor categories" (joint with Kevin Coulembier and Pavel Etingof), published in Annals of Mathematics, and "New incompressible symmetric tensor categories in positive characteristic" (joint with Dave Benson and Pavel Etingof), published in Duke Mathematical Journal.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship 2024 Chelsea Walton

Chelsea Walton, a professor of mathematics at Rice University, has been awarded the fourth annual AMS Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship. Walton's research interests include Noncommutative Algebra, Quantum Symmetries, Hopf algebras and their variants/Quantum Groups, and Representation Theory.

Fellowship announcement as seen in the news release.


Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize (AMS-MOS) 2024 Benjamin Cousins; Santosh Vempala; Nathan Keller; Noam Lifshitz; Zilin Jiang; Jonathan Tidor; Yuan Yao; Shengtong Zhang; Yufei Zhao

The Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize 2024 is presented to:

  • Ben Cousins & Santosh Vempala for Gaussian Cooling and O*(n^3) Algorithms for Volume and Gaussian Volume, SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 47, 2018.
  • Nathan Keller & Noam Lifshitz for The Junta Method for Hypergraphs and the Erdos-Chvátal Simplex Conjecture, Advances in Mathematics, Vol. 392, 2021.
  • Zilin Jiang, Jonathan Tidor, Yuan Yao, Shengtong Zhang, & Yufei Zhao for Equiangular lines with a fixed angle, Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 194, 2021.

Edmund Landau Award 2024 Darsh Gandhi; Jalise Lopez
Elias M. Stein Prize for New Perspectives in Analysis 2024 Marcel Filoche; Svitlana Mayboroda

The inaugural 2024 Elias M. Stein Prize for New Perspectives in Analysis is awarded jointly to Marcel Filoche and Svitlana Mayboroda for their original, powerful, elegant and impactful theory of the "localization landscape."

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student (AMS-MAA-SIAM) 2024 Faye Jackson; Rupert Li; Daniel Zhu

The recipient of the 2024 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student is Faye Jackson of the University of Michigan who has discovered and theoretically explained several new and unexpected phenomena in analytic number theory.

Receiving Honorable Mention for the 2024 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate Student is Rupert Li of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose work focused on problems in combinatorics and has resulted in ten coauthored mathematical research papers. Also receiving Honorable Mention for the 2024 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student is Daniel Zhu of Princeton University who has made noteworthy contributions to multiple areas within combinatorics, including algebraic combinatorics, graph theory, and enumerative combinatorics.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra 2024 Jessica Fintzen

The 2024 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra is awarded to Jessica Fintzen (University of Bonn) for her work transforming the understanding of representations of p-adic groups, in particular for the article "Types for tame p-adic groups," Ann. of Math. (2) 193 (2021), no. 1, 303–346.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Ivo and Renata Babuška Thesis Prize 2024 Abigail Hickok

The inaugural Ivo and Renata Babuška Thesis Prize is awarded to Abigail Hickok in recognition of the outstanding contributions in her PhD thesis, "Topics in Geometric and Topological Data Analysis.""

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars 2024 Greta Panova

Greta Panova, Gabilan Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering and professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California, has been awarded the 2024-2025 AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars. Panova's research is in Algebraic Combinatorics with connections to Representation Theory, Computational Complexity Theory within Theoretical Computer Science and with Probability and Statistical Mechanics. Separately, she works with a team of molecular biologists on modeling DNA repair dynamics.

Fellowship announcement as seen in the news release.


JPBM Communications Award 2024 Natalie Dean

Natalie Dean, Assistant Professor from Emory University, for her remarkable record of public engagement providing clear meaning and context to COVID models and predictions through traditional and social media.

 

Award announcement as seen in the news release.


Karl Menger Memorial Awards 2024 Quang Tran; Anna Oliva; Emma Rueter; Arda Ozcelebi; Yoonsang Lee; Anay Aggarwal; Manu Isaacs; Helena Welch

The American Mathematical Society presented the Karl Menger Awards at the 2024 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF) on May 17. 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. All winners received a booklet on Karl Menger and a one-year membership to the AMS.

Quang Tran of Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy, Harvey, LA was awarded the first-place prize of $2,000 for Divisors.

The Menger Award Committee also presented the following awards:

Second awards ($1,000): Anna Oliva, Carnegie Vanguard High School, Houston, TX, Symmetry, Fixed Points and Quantum Billiards and Emma Rueter, Leibniz-Gymnasium Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Integration of Sequences

Third awards ($500): Arda Ozcelebi, Izmir Ozel Ege Lisesi, Izmir, Turkey, p-Euler-phi Partitions and Their Properties; Yoonsang Lee, Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Seoul, South Korea, A Study on Arc Index of Theta Curves; Anay Aggarwal and Manu Isaacs, Jesuit High School, Portland, OR, Fast Modular Exponentiation With Factored Modulus; Helena Welch, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, NM, Modeling an Ancient Musical Instrument

Certificates of Honorable Mention: Yunjia Quan, Charlotte Country Day School, Charlotte, NC, Enhancing Ethereum's Security With LUMEN; Austin Luo, Morgantown High School, Morgantown, WV, Injective Chromatic Index of Packet Radio Networks; Ayush Jain, Shri Ram School - Aravali Campus, Gugaon, Haryana, India, Detecting Causality Using Symplectic Quandles; Joseph Vulakh, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, KY, Twisted Homogeneous Racks; Arav Chand, Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, NY, Proofs of Fibonacci Analogues of Two Theorems; Songtianze Huang, Hangzhou Foreign Languages School, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Group of seventh chord transformations; Sarah Lu, Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayaguez, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Enhancing Federated Learning Using Math and Coding.

 

Award annoucement as seen in the news release.

Award announcement as seen in the news release.


Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1993 - present) 2024 Haim Brezis

The 2024 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement is awarded to Haïm Brezis for his outstanding and seminal contributions in several fields of Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, and for his remarkable influence in mathematics, in particular through his exceptional training of PhD students.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (1993 - present) 2024 Benson Farb; Dan Margalit

The 2024 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition is awarded to Benson Farb and Dan Margalit for their Princeton Mathematical Series book A Primer on Mapping Class Groups.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (1993 - present) 2024 Jozsef Balogh; Robert Morris; Wojciech Samotij; David Saxton; Andrew Thomason; Jozsef Balogh; Robert Morris; Wojciech Samotij; David Saxton; A. Thomason

The 2024 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research is awarded jointly to József Balogh, Robert Morris, and Wojciech Samotij for their 2015 paper "Independent sets in hypergraphs," published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and to David Saxton and Andrew Thomason for their 2015 paper "Hypergraph Containers," published in Inventiones Mathematicae.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Levi L. Conant Prize 2024 Jennifer Hom

The 2024 Levi L. Conant Prize is awarded to Jennifer Hom of Georgia Tech for her article Getting a handle on the Conway knot, which was published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (2021), 19–29.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics (formerly named the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics) 2024 Sylvia Serfaty

Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, received the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics. Serfaty has made impactful contributions to the study of nonlinear partial differential equations, variational problems, and statistical physics problems.


Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference 2024 Mathematics Project at Minnesota, University of Minnesota

The AMS is pleased to recognize the Mathematics Project at Minnesota, University of Minnesota with the 2024 Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference Award. The Mathematics Project at Minnesota is an invaluable and highly effective graduate-student-led initiative developed with the goal of exposing and removing known barriers in retaining and advancing the careers of women, gender minorities, and underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences at the University of Minnesota.

Award announcement as seen in the news release.


Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling 2024 Tilmann Gneiting

The Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling is awarded to Tilmann Gneiting for seminal work in environmental and stochastic modeling, with applications to computational weather forecasting, and for research in probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.


Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Memorial Awards 2024 Melissa Beerbower; Juan Brewer Caldera; Hannah Choi ; Ian Clawson; Pascal Cogan; Joseph Comerate; Kevin Crane; Mark Dubynskyi; Chasy Dupont; Cecilia Enriquez Ruiz ; Mia Goldstein; Ethan Hall; Adin Hammond; Kayanna Healy; Meredith Estrella Hernandez; Chuck Osaro Naghise; William Paek; Mary Radachy; Isabella Ruskamp; William Scheske; Jatin Shrestha; Avayendra Subedi; Ja'Lah Tenner; Bhim Tiwari; Kayla Wager; Skye E. Whitlow; Hewan Yoseph; Ivy Zhan