AMS Centennial Fellowship for 2023-2024

The AMS Centennial Research Fellowship Program makes an award annually to an outstanding mathematician to help further their career in research. The primary selection criterion for the Centennial Fellowship is the excellence of the candidate's research.

The eligibility rules are as follows.

  • Preference will be given to candidates who have not had extensive fellowship support in the past.
  • Recipients may not hold the Centennial Fellowship concurrently with another major research award such as a Sloan fellowship, NSF Postdoctoral fellowship, or CAREER award.
  • Under normal circumstances, the fellowship cannot be deferred.
  • A recipient of the fellowship shall have held their doctoral degree for at least three years and not more than twelve years at the inception of the award (that is, received between September 1, 2011 and September 1, 2020).
  • Applications will be accepted from those currently holding a tenured, tenure track, post-doctoral, or comparable (at the discretion of the selection committee) position at an institution in North America.
  • A recipient of the fellowship must be a member of the AMS at the time of application.

For any program, fellowship, prize or award that has a maximum period of eligibility after receipt of the doctoral degree, the selection committee may use discretion in making exceptions to the limit on eligibility for candidates whose careers have been interrupted for reasons such as family or health. The fellowship to be awarded for 2023-2024 is expected to be in the amount of \$50,000. Acceptance of the fellowship cannot be postponed. Note that no overhead costs will be covered by this grant.

AMS :: Centennial Fellowship
Most Recent Fellowship: 2022

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.

Fellowship announcement as seen in the news release.

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Support is paid to the university/department to be used for course release, research-related travel, and research-related expenses. Applications should include a cogent plan indicating how the fellowship will be used. The selection committee will consider the plan in addition to the quality of the candidate's research and will try to award the fellowship to those for whom the award would make a real difference in the development of their research careers. Work in all areas of mathematics, including interdisciplinary work, is eligible.

The application form requires the following information:  

References

Please list three reference writers for this application and use the email links on the MathPrograms cover sheet to send passwords directly to the writers.

Attachments

Also upload the following:

  • A list of all positions and fellowships since PhD: (Do not attach vita). The applicants should list all fellowships and comparable research appointments, such as a term at one of the mathematical institutes.
  • Current and Pending Support: A list containing the following: support status (that is, current or pending), project/proposal title, source of support, total award amount, total award period (give start and end dates for the award), location of project, person-months per year committed to the project (also indicate whether those months are for the Calendar year, Academic Year, or Summer)
  • Research description (Research Statement): please describe the research in your thesis and other work you have done (one to three pages; no more than three pages, including bibliographical references, will be accepted)
  • Provide a cogent plan (approximately one paragraph) indicating how the fellowship will be used.
  • Publications - attach a list. (Do not attach vita).

Applications are no longer being accepted. The 2023-2024 application cycle will open in early fall.

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