Awards

Faculty Awards

Major Math Awards

Abel Prize

The Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund was established on 1 January 2002, to award the Abel Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics.

  • 2005 Isadore Singer

Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award

To provide recognition to exceptional young scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of fluid dynamics.

  • 2007 Eric Lauga

Bôcher Memorial Prize

This prize is awarded for a notable paper in analysis published during the preceding six years.

  • 1984 Richard Melrose
  • 1969 Isadore Singer

ICIAM Su Buchin Prize

The Su Buchin Prize was established to provide international recognition of an outstanding contribution by an individual in the application of Mathematics to emerging economies and human development, in particular at the economic and cultural level in developing countries.

  • 2007 Gil Strang

Clay Mathematics Institute Senior Scholar

Its aim is to foster mathematical research and the exchange of ideas by providing support for senior mathematicians who will play a central role in a topical program at an institute or university.

  • 2004 Richard Stanley

Cole Prize

The prize is awarded at regular intervals for outstanding contributions in algebra and number theory.

  • 1985 George Lusztig
  • 2000 A.J. de Jong

Dirac Medal

This medal is awarded to scientists who have made significant contributions to physics.

  • 1993 Daniel Freedman

Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize

This Prize is awarded for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics.

  • 2000 Michele Goemans

Lester R. Ford Prize

This award recognizes authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine.

  • 2005 Alan Edelman and Gilbert Strang
  • 1965 Hartley Rogers

Guggenheim Fellowship

The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.

  • 2007 Michel Goemans
  • 2005 Santosh Vempala

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal

The medal is awarded to alumni who are honored for "contributions to society as they have emerged from one's graduate education at Harvard."

  • 2005 Mike Artin

Daniel Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

This prize recognizes outstanding publications in the field of mathematical physics.

  • 2006 Daniel Freedman

MacArthur Fellows

  • 1999 Peter Shor
  • 1984 Alar Toomre

NES/MAA Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics

This award is made to a teacher of mathematics at the post-secondary level who has been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful.

  • 2006 Gil Strang

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

These fellowships are designed to identify those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge.

  • 2007 Mark Behrens
  • 2007 Katrin Wehrheim
  • 2006 Kiran Kedlaya
  • 2005 Denis Auroux
  • 2005 Jason Starr
  • 1995 Michele Goemans
  • 1991 Gang Tian

Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award

This award is to honor college or university teachers who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had influence beyond their own institutions.

  • 2007 Gil Strang

John von Neumann Medal

It honors individuals who have made outstanding, sustained contributions in the field of computational mechanics generally over periods representing substantial portions of their professional careers.

  • 2005 Gilbert Strang

Oswald Veblen Prize

It is awarded in recognition of a notable research memoir in geometry or topology published in the preceding six years.

  • 2007 Tom Mrowka
  • 2001 Michael Hopkins
  • 1996 Gang Tian

Alan Waterman Award

This award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the National Science Foundation.

  • 1994 Gang Tian

Memberships in National Academies

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • 2007 Victor Kac
  • 2007 Tomasz Mrowka

Mathematics Institute of the Romanian Academy

  • 2005 George Lusztig, Honorary Member

National Academy of Engineering

  • 2004 Tom Leighton, Inductee

MIT Awards

Robert E. Collins Distinguished Scholar

  • 2006 Michel Goemans

Graduate Student Council Teaching Award

The award is presented each year to a faculty member and/or a teaching assistant for excellence in teaching graduate courses.

  • 2006 Haynes Miller

Edmund F. Kelly Research Award

The award is given to a junior faculty member "in recognition of work that applies mathematical methods to a new area or that offers a fundamentally new perspective on a classical problem."

  • 2006 Alexander Postnikov
  • 2003 John Bush

James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award

Established in 1971 as a tribute to MIT's 10th president, the Killian Award recognizes extraordinary professional accomplishment by an MIT faculty member.

  • 2005 Isadore Singer

Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow

Recognizes faculty who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to the teaching and education of undergraduates at MIT.

  • 2005 Haynes Miller
  • 2004 David Jerison
  • 1992 Arthur Mattuck

School of Science Dean's Educational & Student Advising Award

The award recognizes and rewards employees in the School of Science for their dedication to their educational programs and student advising.

  • 2004 Michel Goemans
  • 2003 Michael Artin
  • 2003 Michael Sipser

School of Science Teaching Prize for Graduate Education

  • 2006 Dio Margetis
  • 1994 Victor Guillemin

School of Science Teaching Prize for Undergraduate Education

  • 2006 Denis Auroux
  • 1995 Michael Artin
  • 1993 Hartley Rogers
  • 1990 Ali Nadim
  • 1989 Arthur Mattuck
  • 1987 Alar Toomre
  • 1984 James Munkres

Major MIT Positions

MIT Institute Professors

  • Isadore Singer

Simons Professorship

  • 2007 Tomasz Mrowka
  • 2006 Richard Melrose
  • 2002 Daniel Stroock

Student Awards

External Awards

Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff Fellowship

  • 2007 Pavlo M. Pylyavskyy
  • 2006 Vigleik Angeltveit
  • 2006 Fu Liu
  • 2005 Vasiliy Dolgushev
  • 2005 Chris Douglas
  • 2005 Thomas Lam

COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling

MCM is a contest where teams of undergraduates use mathematical modeling to present their solutions to real world problems.

  • 2007 Outstanding Paper Team: Andrew Spann, Daniel Gulotta, Daniel Kane
  • 2005 Outstanding Paper Team: Andrew Spann, Daniel Gulotta, Daniel Kane

Computing Research Association

CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Awards program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

  • 2005 Mihai Patrascu, Outstanding Male Undergraduate

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship

The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry M. Goldwater. The purpose of the Foundation is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue careers in these fields.

  • 2006 Daniel Kane
  • 2005 Jacob Fox

S. Klein Prize for Scientific and Technical Writing

Awards giving for interpretive writing on scientific and technical subjects by undergraduate and graduate students at MIT.

  • 2006 Sira Sriswasdi

Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize

This prize, which was established in 1995, is to be awarded to an undergraduate student (or students having submitted joint work) for outstanding research in mathematics.

  • 2007 Daniel Kane
  • 2006 Jacob Fox
  • 2004 Reid Barton

Anna Pogosyants UROP Award

This award is given to an undergraduate student who is currently carrying out a UROP project in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

  • 2006 Beckett Sterner

William Lowell Putnam Competition

  • 2006 Third place team: Oleg I. Golberg, Daniel M. Kane, Kuat T. Yessenov
  • 2006 Putnam Fellows: Hansheng Diao, Daniel M. Kane, Yufei Zhao
  • 2005 Fourth place team: Timothy Abbott, Vladimir Barzov, Daniel Kane
  • 2005 Putnam Fellows: Oleg Golberg, Matthew Ince, Daniel Kane
  • 2005 Next ten: Thomas Belulovich, Thanasin Nampaisarn, Eric Price, Kuat Yessenov
  • 2005 Next eight: Hyun Soo Kim, Steven Sivek
  • 2004 First Place Team: Reid Barton, Dan Kane, Emanuel Stoica
  • 2004 Putnam Fellows [Top Five]: Reid Barton, Vladimir Barzov, Daniel Kane
  • 2004 Next ten: Timothy Abbott
  • 2004 Next eleven: Oleg Goldberg, Daniel Gulotta, Zhong Tao Wu

Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize

This award is given for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman in mathematics, by the Association for Women in Mathematics.

  • 2007 (runner-up) Yaim Cooper

MIT Awards

AMITA Senior Academic Award

This award is presented annually by AMITA to one or more senior woman students who demonstrate the highest level of academic excellence and professional promise through course work and academic endeavors at MIT.

  • 2005 Karola Meszaros

Bucsela Prize

The Jon A. Bucsela Prize in Mathematics is given in recognition of distinguished scholastic achievement, professional promise and enthusiasm for mathematics.

  • 2007 Daniel M. Kane
  • 2006 Jacob Fox
  • 2005 Reid Barton
  • 2005 Karola Meszaros
  • 1997 Pramod N. Achar
  • 1997 Aleksey Zinger

Dean's Education and Student Advising Award

The award recognizes and rewards employees in the School of Science for their dedication to their educational programs and student advising.

  • 2007 Michael Manapat
  • 2005 Andrew Brooke-Taylor
  • 2005 Michael Ching
  • 2004 Viorel Costeanu

Charles and Holly Housman Award for Excellence in Teaching

This award is presented to graduate student(s) in Mathematics for skill and dedication in undergraduate teaching.

  • 2007 Jason M. Burns
  • 2007 Ilya Elson
  • 2007 Teena M. Gerhardt
  • 2006 Alice Chan
  • 2006 Pak Wing Fok
  • 2006 Christina Goddard
  • 2005 Andreas Malmendier
  • 2005 Dragos Oprea
  • 2005 Bianca Santoro
  • 2005 Damiano Testa
  • 1997 Ioanid Rosu

Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Prize

This prize is awarded to a current MIT graduate student in the Department of Mathematics for a research paper accepted for publication in a major journal.

  • 2007 Silvia Montarani
  • 2007 Luis A. Rademacher
  • 2006 Vigleik Angeltveit
  • 2006 Fu Liu
  • 2005 Thomas Lam
  • 2000 (co-winner) Kiran Kedlaya
  • 1997 Andras Vasy

Rogers Family Prize

Summer Program in Undergraduate Research (SPUR) is a six-week program offering full-time research experience to MIT undergraduates, paired with MIT Math graduate students as mentors, culminating in written papers and lectures to faculty. The top team is selected for the Rogers Family Prize by a jury of senior faculty.

  • 2005 Nathan Ince (mentored by Pavlo Pylyavskyy)
  • 2005 Nikhil Savale (mentored by Vito Iacovino)

Staff Awards

Infinite Mile Award

The award recognize and rewards employees in the School of Science for their dedication to the School and their willingness to go the extra mile or in some cases, the infinite miles required to get their jobs accomplished.

  • 2007 Kim Makara
  • 2006 Paula Duggins
  • 2006 Dan Nicholas
  • 2005 Shirley Entzminger
  • 2005 Tivon Luker
  • 2005 Anna Ward

School of Science Dean's Educational & Student Advising Award

The award recognizes and rewards employees in the School of Science for their dedication to their educational programs and student advising.

  • 2003 Joanne Jonsson