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(Updated 3-22-2021 with information about the new Gordin Prize.)

Celebrate excellence in mathematics scholarship, education, and outreach by nominating colleagues for upcoming prizes and awards. Nominations are open through June 30, 2021. Winners will be recognized at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings in January.

The AMS is proud to announce two new prizes. The Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory will be awarded every three years beginning in January 2022. The prize will recognize notable work in operator theory published during the preceding six years. Ciprian Foias (1933-2020) was an influential scholar in operator theory and fluid mechanics, a generous mentor, and an enthusiastic advocate of the mathematical community. His colleagues and friends established the prize in his memory.

The AMS-EMS Mikhail Gordin Prize will be awarded every four years beginning in January 2022. It will recognize a mathematician working in probability or dynamical systems, with preference given to early-career mathematicians from or professionally connected to an Eastern European country. The prize honors the memory of Mikhail Gordin (1944-2015), an expert in probability theory from St. Petersburg, and the tradition of the mathematics of Eastern Europe.

The current nomination cycle includes five other AMS prizes that honor accomplishments in mathematical research and exposition:

• Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory: Given for notable work in Lie theory published in the last six years.
• Levi L. Conant Prize: Recognizes the best expository paper published in either Notices of the AMS or Bulletin of the AMS in the last five years.
• E. H. Moore Research Article Prize: Given for an outstanding research article that has appeared in one of the Society’s primary research journals (Journal of the AMS, Proceedings of the AMS, Transactions of the AMS, Memoirs of the AMS, Mathematics of Computation, Electronic Journal of Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, and Electronic Journal of Representation Theory) during the six calendar years ending a full year before the meeting at which the prize is awarded.
• David P. Robbins Prize: Awarded for a paper that reports on novel research on a broadly accessible topic in algebra, combinatorics, or discrete mathematics with a significant experimental component. The paper should provide a simple statement of the problem and clear exposition of the work and must have been published in the last six calendar years,
• Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry: Recognizes a notable research work in geometry or topology that has appeared in the last six years.

In addition, the AMS is seeking nominations for awards that highlight outstanding service to the mathematics community through education, outreach, and other contributions to the profession.

• Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department: Recognizes a department which has distinguished itself by undertaking an unusual or particularly effective program of value to the mathematics community, internally or in relation to the rest of society.
• Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: Honors a mathematician (or group of mathematicians) who has made significant contributions of lasting value to mathematics education.
• Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference: Awarded to outstanding programs that have successfully addressed the issues of underrepresented groups in mathematics, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, low-income students, and first-generation college students.
• Award for Distinguished Public Service: Given to a research mathematician who has made recent or sustained distinguished contributions to the mathematics profession through public service.

Finally, nominations are open for two prizes presented jointly by the AMS and other mathematical societies:

• Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics (AMS-SIAM): Awarded for an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense.
• Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate Student (AMS-MAA-SIAM): Honors an undergraduate student (or students for joint work) for outstanding research in mathematics.

Read more about each prize and award. If you know a colleague, student, mentor, or department who is deserving of any of these accolades, we encourage you to nominate them for consideration. If you have any questions about the nomination processes, please contact the AMS Secretary.  

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