Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

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.

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 the widow of Professor Veblen. An anonymous donor generously augmented the fund in 2008. In 2013, 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 endowment

The current prize amount of US$5,000 is awarded every three years.

Most Recent Prize: 2025

Soheyla Feyzbakhsh and Richard Thomas, both of Imperial College London, will receive the 2025 AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. They are honored, according to the citation, for "a series of three papers that transformed Donaldson-Thomas theory by proving that the rank r invariants of a Calabi-Yau 3-fold X are completely determined by any of: (i) the rank 1 invariants of X, or (ii) the Gromov-Witten invariants of X, or (iii) the rank 0 invariants of X (whose generating series are conjectured to be modular)."

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.

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Next Prize:  January 2028

Nomination Period:  1 February - 31 May, 2027

Nomination Procedure: 

Submit a letter of nomination, a complete bibliographic citation for the work being nominated, and a brief citation that explains why the work is important.

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