Morgan Prize

Distinguish from the De Morgan Medal awarded by the London Mathematical Society.

The Morgan Prize (actually 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 $1,000 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.

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); 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)^[1]; Honorable mention: None
2003: Winner: Melanie Wood (Belyi-extending maps and P-orderings, Duke University)^[2]; Honorable mention: Karen Yeats (University of Waterloo)
2004: Winner: Reid W. Barton (Packing Densities of Patterns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)^[3]; Honorable mention: Po-Shen Loh (California Institute of Technology)
2005: Winner: Jacob Fox (Ramsey theory and graph theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)^[4]; Honorable mention: None
2007: Winner: Daniel Kane (Number Theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)^[5]; Honorable mention: None
2008: Winner: Nathan Kaplan (Algebraic number theory, Princeton University)^[6]; Honorable mention: None
2009: Winner: Aaron Pixton (Algebraic topology and number theory, Princeton University)^[7]; 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)^[8]; Honorable mention: Maria Monks (Combinatorics and number theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2011: Winner: Maria Monks (Combinatorics and number theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)^[9]; 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,^[10] Princeton University)^[11]; 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)^[12]; 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)^[13]; Honorable mention: None
2015: Winner: Levent Alpoge (Number theory, probability, and combinatorics, Harvard University)^[14]; Honorable mention: Akhil Mathew (Algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, category theory, Harvard University)^[15]
2016: Winner: Amol Aggarwal (Combinatorics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)^[16]; Honorable mention: Evan O'Dorney (Number Theory, Algebra, Combinatorics, Harvard University)^[17]

References

External links

Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize at the American Mathematical Society
List of Morgan Prize Recipients at the Mathematical Association of America
A brief overview of the career paths of the Morgan Prize winners as of 2015.

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