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 (MIT)

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 (Caltech)

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, MIT)

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, 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 (Harvard University)^[13]

References

External links

• Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize at the American Mathematical Society
• List Morgan Prize Winners