2026 Travel Support for Mathematicians Awardees Announced

The Simons Foundation has awarded $5.7 million to 141 mathematicians across the United States to foster scientific collaboration and fund research travel.

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

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