Morgan Prize
North American undergraduate mathematics award
The Morgan Prize (full name Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student ) is an annual award given to an undergraduate student in the US, Canada, or Mexico who demonstrates superior mathematics research. The $1,200 award, endowed by Mrs. Frank Morgan of Allentown, Pennsylvania , was founded in 1995. The award is made jointly by the American Mathematical Society , the Mathematical Association of America , and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . The Morgan Prize has been described as the highest honor given to an undergraduate in mathematics. [1]
Previous winners
1995
Winner: Kannan Soundararajan (Analytic Number Theory , University of Michigan )
Honorable mention: Kiran Kedlaya (Harvard University )
1996
Winner: Manjul Bhargava (Algebra , Harvard University )
Honorable mention: Lenhard Ng (Harvard University )
1997
Winner: Jade Vinson (Analysis and Geometry , Washington University in St. Louis )
Honorable mention: Vikaas S. Sohal (Harvard University )
1998
Winner: Daniel Biss (Combinatorial Group Theory and Topology , Harvard University )
Honorable mention: Aaron F. Archer (Harvey Mudd College )
1999
Winner: Sean McLaughlin (Proof of the Dodecahedral Conjecture , University of Michigan )
Honorable mention: Samit Dasgupta (Harvard University )
2000
Winner: Jacob Lurie (Lie Algebras , Harvard University )
Honorable mention: Wai Ling Yee (University of Waterloo )
2001
Winner: Ciprian Manolescu (Floer Homology , Harvard University )
Honorable mention: Michael Levin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
2002
Winner: Joshua Greene (Proof of the Kneser conjecture , Harvey Mudd College )[2]
Honorable mention: None
2003
Winner: Melanie Wood (Belyi-extending maps and P-orderings , Duke University )[3]
Honorable mention: Karen Yeats (University of Waterloo )
2004
Winner: Reid W. Barton (Packing Densities of Patterns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology )[4]
Honorable mention: Po-Shen Loh (California Institute of Technology )
2005
Winner: Jacob Fox (Ramsey theory and graph theory , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )[5]
Honorable mention: None
2007
Winner: Daniel Kane (Number Theory , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )[6]
Honorable mention: None
2008
Winner: Nathan Kaplan (Algebraic number theory , Princeton University )[7]
Honorable mention: None
2009
Winner: Aaron Pixton (Algebraic topology and number theory , Princeton University )[8]
Honorable mention: Andrei Negut (Algebraic cobordism theory and dynamical systems , Princeton University )
2010
Winner: Scott Duke Kominers (Number theory , computational geometry , and mathematical economics , Harvard University )[9]
Honorable mention: Maria Monks (Combinatorics and number theory , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
2011
Winner: Maria Monks (Combinatorics and number theory , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )[10]
Honorable mention: Michael Viscardi (Algebraic geometry , Harvard University ), Yufei Zhao (Combinatorics and number theory , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
2012
Winner: John Pardon (Solving Gromov's problem on distortion of knots ,[11] Princeton University )[12]
Honorable mention: Hannah Alpert (Combinatorics , University of Chicago ), Elina Robeva (Algebraic geometry , Stanford University )
2013
Winner: Fan Wei (Analysis and combinatorics , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )[13]
Honorable mention: Dhruv Ranganathan (Toric Gromov–Witten theory , Harvey Mudd College ), Jonathan Schneider (Combinatorics , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
2014
Winner: Eric Larson (Algebraic geometry and number theory , Harvard University )[14]
Honorable mention: None
2015
Winner: Levent Alpoge (Number theory , probability theory , and combinatorics , Harvard University )[15]
Honorable mention: Akhil Mathew (Algebraic topology , algebraic geometry , and category theory , Harvard University )[16]
2016
Winner: Amol Aggarwal (Combinatorics , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )[17]
Honorable mention: Evan O'Dorney (Number Theory , algebra , and combinatorics , Harvard University )[18]
2017
Winner: David H. Yang (Algebraic geometry and geometric representation theory , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )[19]
Honorable mention: Aaron Landesman (Algebraic geometry , number theory , combinatorics , Harvard University )[20]
2018
Winner: Ashvin Swaminathan (Algebraic geometry , number theory , and combinatorics , Harvard University )[21]
Honorable mention: Greg Yang (Homological theory of functions, Harvard University )[22]
2019
Winner: Ravi Jagadeesan (Algebraic geometry , mathematical economics , statistical theory , number theory , and combinatorics , Harvard University )[23]
Honorable mention: Evan Chen (Number theory , Combinatorics , Massachusetts Institute of Technology ),[24] Huy Tuan Pham (Additive Combinatorics , Stanford University )[24]
2020
Winner: Nina Zubrilina (Mathematical analysis and analytic number theory , Stanford University )[25]
Honorable mention: Mehtaab Sawhney (Combinatorics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ),[25] Cynthia Stoner (Combinatorics, Harvard University ),[25] [26] Ashwin Sah (Combinatorics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ),[25] Murilo Corato Zanarella (Princeton University )[25]
2021
Winner: Ashwin Sah (Combinatorics , discrete geometry , and probability , Massachusetts Institute of Technology ), Mehtaab Sawhney (Combinatorics , discrete geometry , and probability , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
Honorable mention: Noah Kravitz (Yale University )
2022
Winner: Travis Dillon (Number theory , combinatorics , discrete geometry , and symbolic dynamics , Lawrence University )[27]
Honorable mention: Sophie Kriz (University of Michigan ), Alex Cohen (Yale University )
2023
Winner: Letong (Carina) Hong (Number theory , combinatorics , and probability , Massachusetts Institute of Technology )[28]
Honorable mention: Sophie Kriz (University of Michigan ), Egor Lappo (Stanford University )
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