2026 Travel Support for Mathematicians Awardees Announced
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the latest recipients of its Travel Support for Mathematicians Award. These awards aim to stimulate collaboration in mathematics by funding travel and related expenses.
Each awardee receives up to $6,000 per year for travel and research expenses, such as scientific travel by the principal investigator (PI) and the PI’s graduate students, as well as expenses for scientific visits. An additional $1,000 per year is allocated to the department’s discretionary funds to enhance the department’s research atmosphere.
The Simons Foundation is awarding a total of $5.7 million in grants to 141 grantees this year. The list of awardees is provided below.
Pramad Achar
Louisiana State University
Jeff Achter
Colorado State University
Arka Adhikari
University of Maryland, College Park
Silas Alben
University of Michigan
David Anderson
Ohio State University
David Aulicino
Brooklyn College
Paul Balmer
University of California, Los Angeles
Agnès Beaudry
University of Colorado Boulder
Arkady Berenstein
University of Oregon
Luke Alexander Betts
Cornell University
Christin Bibby
Louisiana State University
Matthew Blair
University of New Mexico
Grigoriy Blekherman
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jairo Bochi
Pennsylvania State University
Elijah Bodish
Indiana University
March Tian Boedihardjo
Michigan State University
Tom Bohman
Carnegie Mellon University
Walter Bridges
University of North Texas
Maxim Braverman
Northeastern University
Ashay Burungale
University of Texas at Austin
Orsola Capovilla-Searle
Oregon State University
Wui Kuo Chen
University of Minnesota
Mihai Ciucu
Indiana University
Nicholas Cook
Duke University
Gheorge Craciun
University of Wisconsin
Tommaso de Fernex
University of Utah
Jonathan DeWitt
Pennsylvania State University
Natasha Dobrinen
University of Notre Dame
Marjorie Drake
Ohio State University
Alena Erchenko
University of Oregon
Malena Español
Arizona State University
Rui Loja Fernandes
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Susanna Fishel
Arizona State University
Matthias Flach
California Institute of Technology
Tom Gannon
University of California, Riverside
Ziyang Gao
University of California, Los Angeles
Carlos García-Cervera
University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Gekhtman
University of Notre Dame
Joshua Greene
Boston College
Başak Gürel
University of Central Florida
Tai Ha
Tulane University
Hrant Hakobyan
Kansas State University
Iva Halacheva
Northeastern University
Zachary Hamaker
University of Florida
Qing Han
University of Notre Dame
Jonathan Hanselman
Indiana University
Mark Haskins
Duke University
Soufiane Hayou
Johns Hopkins University
Yan Mary He
University of Oklahoma
Yunhui He
University of Houston
Matthew Hedden
Michigan State University
Susan Hermiller
University of Nebraska
Michael Hill
University of Minnesota
Tara Holm
Cornell University
Paul Horn
University of Denver
Jack Jeffries
University of Nebraska
Yu Jin
University of Nebraska
Efstratia Kalfagianni
Michigan State University
Sara Kališnik-Hintz
Pennsylvania State University
Sheldon Katz
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alexander Kiselev
Duke University
Mark Kisin
Harvard University
Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen
University of Hawaii
Dmitry Kleinbock
University of Michigan
Elena Kosygina
City University of New York
Sándor Kovács
University of Washington
Tamara Kucherenko
City College of New York
Igor Kukavica
University of Southern California
Ru-Yu Lai
University of Minnesota
King-Yeung Lam
Ohio State University
Kirill Lazebnik
University of Texas at Dallas
Daniel Le
Purdue University
Brian Lehmann
Boston College
Jichun Li
University of Mississippi
Yangyang Li
University of Notre Dame
Zhongyang Li
University of Connecticut
Hailiang Liu
Iowa State University
Walter Bridges
University of North Texas
Siting Liu
University of California, Riverside
Yifei Lou
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ákos Magyar
University of Georgia
Abhishek Mallick
Dartmouth College
Siddharth Mathur
University of Georgia
Peter McGrath
North Carolina State University
Curtis McMullen
Harvard University
Abhishek Methuku
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Changhong Mou
Utah State University
Dhruv Mubayi
University of Illinois Chicago
Camil Muscalu
Cornell University
Florencia Orosz Hunziker
University of Colorado Boulder
Charles Ouyang
Washington University in St. Louis
Cheng Ouyang
University of Illinois Chicago
Stefania Patrizi
University of Texas at Austin
Julia Pevtsova
University of Washington
Bruno Poggi Cevallos
University of Pittsburgh
Claudiu Raicu
University of Notre Dame
Rohini Ramadas
Emory University
Roland Roeder
Indiana University
Andrew Sageman-Furnas
North Carolina State University
Radmila Sazdanovic
North Carolina State University
Laura Schaposnik
University of Illinois Chicago
Henry Schenck
Auburn University
Andrew Senger
University of Maryland, College Park
Linhui Shen
Michigan State University
Xiao Shen
North Carolina State University
Jia Shi
Indiana University
Mark Shimozono
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Anne Shiu
Texas A&M University
Mykhaylo Shkolnikov
Carnegie Mellon University
Brian Simanek
Baylor University
Avraham Soffer
Rutgers University
Zi-Xia Song
University of Central Florida
Prashanth Sridhar
University of Alabama
Tracy Stepien
University of Florida
Jeff Streets
University of California, Irvine
Tingting Tang
San Diego State University
Maja Tasković
Emory University
Niclas Technau
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Konstantin Tikhomirov
Carnegie Mellon University
Samy Tindel
Purdue University
Tomasz Tkocz
Carnegie Mellon University
Valerio Toledano Laredo
Northeastern University
Andrew Toms
Purdue University
Philip Tosteson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Li-Cheng Tsai
University of Utah
Oleksandr Tsymbaliuk
Purdue University
Mary Vaughan
Texas State University
Botong Wang
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jiuya Wang
University of Georgia
Xingting Wang
Louisiana State University
Matthias Wink
University of California, Santa Barbara
Chenxi Wu
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jiahong Wu
University of Notre Dame
Hang Xue
University of Arizona
Amanda Young
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Polly Yu
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Bogdan Zavyalov
University of Maryland, College Park
Anton Zeitlin
Georgia Institute of Technology
Xiangxiong Zhang
Purdue University
Yi Zhao
Georgia State University
Lingjiong Zhu
Florida State University


