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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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