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Important Dates
  • Application Deadline:
    12 p.m. (noon) EDT
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Important Dates
  • Application Deadline:
    12 p.m. (noon) EDT
  • Notification By:
  • Earliest Award Start Date:
Contact Info

The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for the Simons Fellows in Mathematics program to make sabbatical research leaves more productive by extending them from a single term to a full academic year.

The foundation also strongly encourages applications from scientists from underrepresented groups.

Rationale

Sabbatical research leaves from classroom teaching and administrative obligations can provide strong intellectual stimulation and lead to increased creativity and productivity in theoretical research.

Basis for Awards

Awards will be based on the applicant’s scientific accomplishments in the five-year period preceding the application and on the potential scientific impact of the work to be done during the leave period.

Level and Duration of Funding

A Simons Fellowship in Mathematics provides salary replacement for up to 50 percent (up to a maximum of $125,000) of the Fellow’s current academic-year salary, whether normally paid over 9 or 12 months, and up to $10,000 for expenses related to the leave. The Fellow’s home institution will receive an additional 20 percent overhead on allowable direct cost expenditures, per the foundation’s indirect cost policy.

The Simons Fellowship will fund up to 50 percent of the 2024–2025 academic year, where, for example, the full leave year period could be January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024; September 1, 2024, through August 31, 2025; or January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025. Fellowship funding must be contiguous to the university-supported portion of the leave.

Fellowship awards and sabbatical periods may begin no earlier than January 1, 2024, and no later than January 1, 2025. For sabbaticals beginning January 1, 2024, awards will be retroactively started and grant funds available no sooner than March 2024.

Allowable Expenses

Salary replacement funds are to be used only to replace or partly replace salary during academic terms in which the recipient would otherwise be teaching or engaging in academic administration or other departmental or university committee work. The funding may not be used for summer salary (if salary is paid over nine months) or to increase the academic-year salary beyond the university rate but may be paid out over the course of the full leave. Please follow the university’s policy on costs associated with sabbaticals not supported by the university. If applicable, fringe benefits are allowed within the salary-replacement-funds category, but the total amount requested cannot exceed the maximum allowed ($125,000).

The additional funding is to be used to support expenses related to the leave in a manner consistent with the approved sabbatical plans. Allowable leave-related expenses include small equipment and supplies, travel (including the Fellow and the Fellow’s family members to and from the sabbatical location(s) and the Fellow’s travel to meetings and collaborators), housing (for the Fellow and the Fellow’s family), automobile rental, childcare and support for visitors (including meals). Salaries for students or research associates will not be supported, but funds may be used to help transport members of the Fellow’s research group to the sabbatical location (if different from the home institution) and provide housing. Leave-related expenses may be incurred at any time during the award period; they are not restricted to the terms in which salary is provided by the foundation.

Eligibility Requirements

Eligibility is restricted to sabbatical or equivalent leave-eligible faculty who wish to use the Simons Fellowship award for the purpose of extending at least a single-term sabbatical research leave to a full academic year without teaching or administrative responsibilities. The fellowship program will not support the extension of a full year of sabbatical research leave to an additional term. In order to receive the fellowship, you must be approved by your institution for a full year of sabbatical research leave, consisting of two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters with at least 50 percent of the year fully paid by the home university and no more than 50 percent fully or partly supported by the fellowship. If funds from the foundation are insufficient to cover the salary needs for the period supported by the fellowship, other resources can be used for this purpose. The foundation will consider circumstances where, for example, the university covers 80 percent of a full year of leave and the fellowship covers the remaining 20 percent.

Verification of sabbatical approval is not required at the time of application but must be provided to the foundation at least three months prior to the start of the applicant’s award. Please see the How to Apply tab for further information.

A Simons Fellow in Mathematics must have a teaching or administrative tenured position at the same U.S. or Canadian college or university within the mathematics department at the time of application, throughout the course of the sabbatical research leave and in the term following the leave. This must be the applicant’s primary position. Applied mathematics and statistics disciplines are eligible as long as the applicant resides within the mathematics, and not statistics, department. Those doing primarily mathematical education research are not eligible. In addition, a Fellow must have an active, current research program. Fellows cannot simultaneously hold a Simons Investigator award.

Previous fellowship awardees are allowed to apply for another fellowship as long as they follow their universities’ rules on sabbatical or equivalent leave eligibility.

Unspent Funds

Unspent funds at the end of the grant must be returned to the foundation. No-cost extension requests will typically not be considered.

Number of Awards

The foundation expects to award up to 50 mathematics fellowships for 2024.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted via the Simons Award Manager (SAM), https://sam.simonsfoundation.org/. The deadline to apply is September 27, 2023, 12 p.m. (noon) EDT.

Please refer to the How to Apply tab for instructions.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Many of the greatest ideas and discoveries come from a diverse mix of minds, backgrounds and experiences. The Simons Foundation is committed to grantmaking that inspires and supports greater diversity and inclusiveness by cultivating a funding environment that ensures representation of all identities and differences and equitable access to information and resources for all applicants and grantees.

The Simons Foundation provides equal opportunities to all applicants for funding without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic disposition, neurodiversity, disability, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law. The foundation also funds programs directed at supporting scientists from disadvantaged backgrounds or underrepresented groups, often working closely with professional societies and other funding agencies.

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Important Dates
  • Application Deadline:
    12 p.m. (noon) EDT
  • Notification By:
  • Earliest Award Start Date:
Contact Info

The deadline to submit applications is September 27, 2023, at 12 p.m. (noon) EDT. Late applications will not be accepted. Applications must be submitted via the Simons Award Manager (SAM), https://sam.simonsfoundation.org/. Please click on the Funding Opportunities icon. Applications should be started and submitted under the applicant’s own account in the Simons Award Manager (SAM). For the Mathematics and Physical Sciences – Simons Fellows in Mathematics application, please click on Create Application, then Begin Application.

Informational videos on submitting applications in SAM can be found here. Proposal attachments should be single spaced and in a common typeface and font size no smaller than 10 points. Margins must be at least half an inch in all directions.

Please complete the application as follows:

  1. Proposal Tab:

    1. Applicant Details & Personal Data: Complete all required fields, including academic rank, demographic data, position/title and ORCID iD. This information should be completed in the user’s profile. The applicant may use the Edit Profile button to update their information as needed.
    2. Academic Degrees: Enter degrees (optional).

    3. Application Details:

      1. Enter the title of the application.
      2. Enter the award start and end dates, which should reflect the full-year leave period. These dates will automatically populate in the budget.

    4. Proposal:

      1. Answer sabbatical certification questions. Sabbatical approval is not required at the time of application but must be provided to the foundation at least three months prior to the start of the applicant’s award.
      2. Statement of Recent Work (two-page limit, plus up to one page for references and figures, which can be embedded within the text): Upload a statement explaining the candidate’s most significant scientific work over the previous five years.
      3. Statement of Sabbatical Plans (two-page limit, plus up to one page for references and figures, which can be embedded within the text): Upload a statement summarizing the applicant’s plans for the entire leave period, the institution or institutions at which the leave is to be spent and the main scientific goals.
      4. Applicant Biosketch: Upload a SciENcv or fillable PDF NIH- or NSF-style biosketch.
      5. Students List: Upload a list of current or recent (past five years) graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and Ph.D. students, as applicable, including their dissertation topics and likely date of completion.

      6. Letter from Other Institution (if applicable):

        • If the leave is to be taken at another institution or institutions and will last longer than one month, confirmation must be submitted from the host institution(s) in the form of a letter signed by relevant department chairs or other appropriate university authorities stating that the visit is approved and briefly describing the facilities that will be made available to the applicant.
        • If the letter of confirmation from the prospective host institution(s) cannot be obtained, then the application must include a backup plan describing what would be done if the visit(s) were not possible. The location of the sabbatical must be confirmed, in the form of the above-mentioned letter, to the foundation at least three months prior to the start of the applicant’s award.
        • The location must be at either the originally proposed host institution or at the institution(s) specified in the backup plan, unless explicit permission is obtained from the foundation no later than three months before the start of the leave. Please use the Letter from Other Institution as the attachment type if including a backup plan.
  2. Contacts & Personnel Tab: Please refer to the instructions provided in SAM to add required institutional officials.
  3. Budget Tab: Click the Edit/Modify button to add a detailed, one-year budget in U.S. dollars. In the Personnel Costs section, provide the applicant’s known or expected academic-year salary for the full year of the leave period as the Base Salary. If this is not yet finalized, please note this in the justification column and include the expected date of salary increase. The Request Salary and Fringe Cost should reflect the amount that will be covered by the Fellowship during the full-year leave period. For Leave Related Expenses, provide a brief itemization of anticipated expenses and corresponding justification, not exceeding $10,000. An insufficient budget justification may result in the proposal not being considered further.

  4. Abstracts & Keywords Tab:

    1. Technical Abstract: Provide a brief summary of where the applicant’s requested leave will take place and the main scientific goals during this time.
    2. Keywords: Click on the Add/Modify Keywords button to select up to two tags as it applies to the applicant’s research in the last five years. Please note that your choices will be used to select the most suitable reviewers.

  5. Publications & Other Support Tab:

    1. Publications: Provide up to five accepted or published papers from the previous five years via the applicant’s SAM profile or PDF upload.
    2. Other Support: Provide current and pending support via PDF upload or via the applicant’s SAM profile. If providing via SAM profile, please select “Yes.” Then select “Select Other Support from Profile” option. Click the “Assign Other Support for this Proposal” button to add other support to this application. This will display all other support related to the applicant that was previously added to their SAM profile. Click on the Report Overlap button for each entry and select Yes or No as appropriate.

      If using PDF upload, NSF format is sufficient and should at least provide the award number, source of funding, title of award, dates of project and annual costs for each support item listed. Please name each PDF as LastName_FirstName_Support.pdf.

      Provide all of the applicant’s current and pending external PI or co-PI support, which includes all financial resources, whether federal or nonfederal, available in direct support of this applicant and their research’s research endeavors. It is not necessary to include internal funding or this current application.

  6. Check Application Progress: Click the Check Application Progress button to check for any missing required information or files. All missing required information will be listed at the top of the screen and must be corrected before the application can be submitted.
  7. Send for Sign-off: When the application is complete, please click on the Send for sign-off button to send to your signing official for signature. You will receive a notification when the application is signed.
  8. Submit Application: When the application is complete, please click on the Submit Application button. A confirmation page will appear once the application is successfully submitted, and the application will now appear in the Submitted tab of the Applications in Progress table. Please note that you will not be able to submit an application if the deadline has passed.
Important Dates
  • Application Deadline:
    12 p.m. (noon) EDT
  • Notification By:
  • Earliest Award Start Date:
Contact Info
  1. My university does not call leaves “sabbatical,” but rather “leave without pay” or “research leave.” Am I still eligible to apply?plus--large

    You are eligible to apply for the Simons Fellows program if you are eligible for a leave equivalent to a sabbatical, you will be granted a yearlong leave and at least 50 percent of the year’s salary is provided by your university.

  2. I have a tenure-track position. Am I eligible to apply?plus--large

    No, only those with tenured positions are eligible for the fellowship.

  3. Can I hold a Travel Support Gift Award and a Simons Fellowship at the same time?plus--large

    Yes, the foundation allows holding both awards simultaneously.

  4. Can the Simons Fellowship support sabbaticals in which recipients remain at their home institutions?plus--large

    Yes, the fellowship can support this type of sabbatical.

  5. Can my sabbatical location be outside of the United States or Canada?plus--large

    Yes, this is allowable.

  6. Although I will not be teaching any classes during my sabbatical, I will have graduate students. Is this acceptable?plus--large

    Yes, this is acceptable.

  7. My primary appointment is in a department of computer science, although my research is primarily mathematics. Am I eligible for a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics?plus--large

    No, applicants to the Simons Fellows in Mathematics program must have a tenured, primary position in the mathematics department.

  8. Will the foundation accept applications from computer scientists?plus--large

    It is not our intent to support computer science with this program.

  9. Would you consider mathematical neuroscience an eligible field for the Simons Fellows in Mathematics program?plus--large

    Yes, mathematical neuroscience would be an eligible field for the fellowship.

  10. My primary research is mathematics education. Am I eligible to apply?plus--large

    No, you would not be eligible to apply. The program is intended to support theoretical mathematics research.

  11. Can the Simons Fellowship be used to match another external fellowship? plus--large

    No, the Simons Fellowship cannot be used to match another external fellowship.

  12. If my total academic salary for the foundation-supported term is greater than $125,000, am I allowed to make up the difference from other sources?plus--large

    Yes, as long as your total salary, including foundation support for the period of the leave, is less than or equal to your academic year salary.

  13. Is there a limit to the number of applicants per university?plus--large

    No, there is no limit.

  14. Are emeriti faculty eligible? plus--large

    Retired and emeriti faculty are not eligible.

  15. I have an adjunct appointment. Am I eligible?plus--large

    The intent of the program is to support scientists at academic institutions. A scientist whose primary appointment (as determined by source of salary and level of teaching commitments) is at a national laboratory or other research institute but who has an adjunct, courtesy or backup appointment at an academic institution is not eligible. An adjunct faculty member whose primary employer is an academic institution and who is eligible on the basis of his or her research is eligible for the Simons Fellowship.

  16. I am not a U.S. or Canadian citizen; am I eligible to be a Simons Fellow?plus--large

    U.S. or Canadian citizenship is not required, but a grantee’s primary appointment must be at a U.S. or Canadian institution in order to apply to or hold the grant.

  17. If I am not awarded a Simons Fellowship this year, may I reapply next year?plus--large

    There is no limit on the number of times one can apply, as long as one is eligible for a sabbatical.

  18. To whom is the grant awarded?plus--large

    The grant is awarded to the Simons Fellow’s home institution.

  19. How do I get reimbursed for eligible expenses?plus--large

    As the grant is made through the awardee’s institution, one should submit requests for reimbursement and purchases as prescribed by the awardee’s department.

2023

Michael Aizenman, Ph.D.

Princeton University

Jarod Alper, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Aravind Asok, Ph.D.

University of Southern California

Antonio Auffinger, Ph.D.

Northwestern University

Nir Avni, Ph.D.

Northwestern University

Matthew Baker, Ph.D.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Jennifer Balakrishnan, Ph.D.

Boston University

Alexander Braverman, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Melody Chan, Ph.D.

Brown University

Wei-Kuo Chen, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Xiuxiong Chen, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Tobias Colding, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Ph.D.

Columbia University

Tarek Elgindi, Ph.D.

Duke University

Sheel Ganatra, Ph.D.

University of Southern California

Andrey Gogolev, Ph.D.

Ohio State University

Daniel Groves, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Chicago

Mihaela Ifrim, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mattias Jonsson, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Junehyuk Jung, Ph.D.

Brown University

Kiran Kedlaya, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

Robert Lemke Oliver, Ph.D.

Tufts University

Aaron Levin, Ph.D.

Michigan State University

Guozhen Lu, Ph.D.

University of Connecticut

Anna Mazzucato, Ph.D.

Pennsylvania State University

Dhruv Mubayi, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Chicago

Andrew Neitzke, Ph.D.

Yale University

Hoi Nguyen, Ph.D.

Ohio State University

Lillian Pierce, Ph.D.

Duke University

Timo Seppäläinen, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sug Woo Shin, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Christopher Sogge, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University

Bulent Tosun, Ph.D.

University of Alabama

Jeff Viaclovsky, Ph.D.

University of California, Irvine

Botong Wang, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jun Yin, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles

Inna Zakharevich, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Xin Zhou, Ph.D.

Cornell University

2022

David F. Anderson, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jason Behrstock, Ph.D.

Lehman College, CUNY

Jin-Yi Cai, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Xuwen Chen, Ph.D.

University of Rochester

Vaughn Climenhaga, Ph.D.

University of Houston

Henri Darmon, Ph.D.

McGill University

Giovanni Forni, Ph.D.

University of Maryland, College Park

Ailana Fraser, Ph.D.

University of British Columbia

Alexander Goncharov, Ph.D.

Yale University

Matthew Gursky, Ph.D.

University of Notre Dame

Piotr Hajłasz, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh

Jennifer Hom, Ph.D.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Adrian Ioana, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

Nataša Jonoska, Ph.D.

University of South Florida

Jeff Kahn, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Jeremy Kahn, Ph.D.

Brown University

Chanwoo Kim, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dmitry Kleinbock, Ph.D.

Brandeis University

Alexander Kleshchev, Ph.D.

University of Oregon

Sándor Kovács, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Michael Larsen, Ph.D.

Indiana University

H. Blaine Lawson, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Melvin Leok, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

Tao Li, Ph.D.

Boston College

Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Ph.D.

Indiana University

Robert Lipshitz, Ph.D.

University of Oregon

Robert J. McCann, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Emily Riehl, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University

Mark Rudelson, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Rayan Saab, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

Laurent Saloff-Coste, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Michael Stillman, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Vesna Stojanoska, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jeffrey D. Streets, Ph.D.

University of California, Irvine

Pham Huu Tiep, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Alex Townsend, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Mariusz Urbański, Ph.D.

University of North Texas

Alexander Zupan, Ph.D.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2021

Mohammed Abouzaid, Ph.D.

Columbia University

Dan Abramovich, Ph.D.

Brown University

Louigi Addario-Berry, Ph.D.

McGill University

Radu Balan, Ph.D.

University of Maryland, College Park

Sandra Cerrai, Ph.D.

University of Maryland, College Park

Ivan Corwin, Ph.D.

Columbia University

Carina Curto, Ph.D.

Pennsylvania State University

Charles Doering, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Hongjie Dong, Ph.D.

Brown University

Alexander Elgart, Ph.D.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Solomon Friedberg, Ph.D.

Boston College

Loukas Grafakos, Ph.D.

University of Missouri

Alan Hammond, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Kate Juschenko, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

Joel Kamnitzer, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Konstantin Khanin, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Chandrashekhar Khare, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles

Mikhail Khovanov, Ph.D.

Columbia University

Bryna Kra, Ph.D.

Northwestern University, Chicago Campus

George Lusztig, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Russell Lyons, Ph.D.

Indiana University

Konstantin Mischaikow, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Jennifer Morse, Ph.D.

University of Virginia

Grigoris Paouris, Ph.D.

Texas A&M University

Benoit Pausader, Ph.D.

Brown University

Kasra Rafi, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Firas Rassoul-Agha, Ph.D.

The University of Utah

Yiannis Sakellaridis, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University

Laura Schaposnik, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Chicago

Christian Schnell, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Zhongwei Shen, Ph.D.

University of Kentucky

Katherine Stange, Ph.D.

University of Colorado Boulder

Hung Tran, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gunther Uhlmann, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Jan Wehr, Ph.D.

University of Arizona

Jonathan Wise, Ph.D.

University of Colorado Boulder

Helen Wong, Ph.D.

Claremont McKenna College

Jared Wunsch, Ph.D.

Northwestern University, Chicago Campus

Michael Yampolsky, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Andrej Zlatoš, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

2020

Benjamin Antieau, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Chicago

Jozsef Balogh, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jacob Bedrossian, Ph.D.

University of Maryland, College Park

Roman Bezrukavnikov, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paul Bourgade, Ph.D.

New York University

Martin Bridgeman, Ph.D.

Boston College

Richard Canary, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Jonathan Chaika, Ph.D.

The University of Utah

Xiaohui Chen, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Artem Chernikov, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles

David Damanik, Ph.D.

William Marsh Rice University

Mark Andrea de Cataldo, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Adrian Diaconu, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Nathan Dunfield, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mohammad Ghomi, Ph.D.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Michael Harris, Ph.D.

Columbia University

Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Ph.D.

University of California, Irvine

Tasho Kaletha, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Boris Khesin, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Marcus Khuri, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Alexander Kiselev, Ph.D.

Duke University

Leonid Koralov, Ph.D.

University of Maryland, College Park

Michael Lacey, Ph.D.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Yanyan Li, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Victor Lie, Ph.D.

Purdue University

Elizabeth Meckes, Ph.D.

Case Western Reserve University

Karl Schwede, Ph.D.

The University of Utah

Konstantinos Spiliopoulos, Ph.D.

Boston University

Bianca Viray, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Z. Jane Wang, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Rachel Ward, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

Juncheng Wei, Ph.D.

University of British Columbia

Elisabeth Werner, Ph.D.

Case Western Reserve University

Ting Zhou, Ph.D.

Northeastern University

Xinwen Zhu, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

Aleksey Zinger, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

2019

Federico Ardila, Ph.D.

San Francisco State University

Nir Avni, Ph.D.

Northwestern University

Yuri Berest, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Christopher Bishop, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Sergey Bobkov, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Vyjayanthi Chari, Ph.D.

University of California, Riverside

Ivan Cherednik, Ph.D.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gheorghe Craciun, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Philippe Di Francesco, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

William Duke, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles

Sergey Fomin, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Joshua Greene, Ph.D.

Boston College

Changfeng Gui, Ph.D.

University of Texas at San Antonio

Robert Guralnick, Ph.D.

University of Southern California

Juhi Jang, Ph.D.

University of Southern California

Victor Kac, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Matthew Kahle, Ph.D.

Ohio State University

Nets Katz, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

Rinat Kedem, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Autumn Kent, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Inwon Christina Kim, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles

Slava Krushkal, Ph.D.

University of Virginia

Kai-Wen Lan, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Xiaochun Li, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Irina Mitrea, Ph.D.

Temple University

Toan Nguyen, Ph.D.

Pennsylvania State University

Denis Osin, Ph.D.

Vanderbilt University

Dmitry Panchenko, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Irena Peeva, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Malabika Pramanik, Ph.D.

University of British Columbia

Eric Rowell, Ph.D.

Texas A&M University

Andreas Seeger, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Evgueni Tevelev, Ph.D.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tatiana Toro, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Jared Weinstein, Ph.D.

Boston University

Michael Wolf, Ph.D.

William Marsh Rice University

Paul Yang, Ph.D.

Princeton University

Guoliang Yu, Ph.D.

Texas A&M University

2018

Marcelo Aguiar, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Anar Akhmedov, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota

Dmytro Arinkin, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aaron Bertram, Ph.D.

The University of Utah

Lydia Bieri, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Alexander Braverman, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Ching-Li Chai, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Jingyi Chen, Ph.D.

University of British Columbia

Yingda Cheng, Ph.D.

Michigan State University

Jordan Ellenberg, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rui Loja Fernandes, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Amanda Folsom, Ph.D.

Amherst College

Michael Goldstein, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Alexander Goncharov, Ph.D.

Yale University

Anton Gorodetski, Ph.D.

University of California, Irvine

Antonella Grassi, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Lan-Hsuan Huang, Ph.D.

University of Connecticut

David Jerison, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jeffrey Lagarias, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Claude LeBrun, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Lionel Levine, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Marta Lewicka, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh

Max Lieblich, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Jacob Lurie, Ph.D.

Harvard University

Govind Menon, Ph.D.

Brown University

Antonio Montalban, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Mircea Mustata, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Alexei Oblomkov, Ph.D.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sam Payne, Ph.D.

Yale University

Olga Plamenevskaya, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Kavita Ramanan, Ph.D.

Brown University

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Federico Rodríguez Hertz, Ph.D.

Pennsylvania State University

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University of Arizona

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University of Illinois at Chicago

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Christopher Sogge, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University

Frank Thorne, Ph.D.

University of South Carolina

Shankar Venkataramani, Ph.D.

University of Arizona

Alexander Vladimirsky, Ph.D.

Cornell University

2017

Matthew Baker, Ph.D.

Georgia Institute of Technology

David Ben-Zvi, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

Mladen Bestvina, Ph.D.

The University of Utah

Lewis Bowen, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

Tobias Colding, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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New York University

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Anna Gilbert, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Florian Herzig, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

John Imbrie, Ph.D.

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Jeff Kahn, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Jeremy Kahn, Ph.D.

Brown University

Michael Kapovich, Ph.D.

University of California, Davis

Boris Khesin, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Kay Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nitu Kitchloo, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University

Svitlana Mayboroda, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota

Chikako Mese, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University

Tomasz Mrowka, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Camil Muscalu, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Irina Nenciu, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Chicago

Thomas Nevins, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Julia Pevtsova, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Andrei Rapinchuk, Ph.D.

University of Virginia

Daniel Ruberman, Ph.D.

Brandeis University

Mark Rudelson, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Thomas Scanlon, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Natasa Sesum, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Nicolas Templier, Ph.D.

Cornell University

Benedek Valkó, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

András Vasy, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Alexander Volberg, Ph.D.

Michigan State University

Sijue Wu, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Wei Zhang, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Maciej Zworski, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

2016

Jinho Baik, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Fedor Bogomolov, Ph.D.

New York University

Lev Borisov, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Fioralba Cakoni, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Xiuxiong Chen, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Maria Gordina, Ph.D.

University of Connecticut

J. Elisenda Grigsby, Ph.D.

Boston College

Thomas Haines, Ph.D.

University of Maryland, College Park

Christopher Hoffman, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Vera Mikyoung Hur, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Michael Hutchings, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Adrian Iovita, Ph.D.

Concordia University

Gautam Iyer, Ph.D.

Carnegie Mellon University

Vadim Kaloshin, Ph.D.

University of Maryland, College Park

Vitali Kapovitch, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Kiumars Kaveh, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh

Sean Keel, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

Bryna Kra, Ph.D.

Northwestern University

Radu Laza, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Liping Liu, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Dan Margalit, Ph.D.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Andrew Neitzke, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

Adam Oberman, Ph.D.

McGill University

Robert Pego, Ph.D.

Carnegie Mellon University

Robert Pollack, Ph.D.

Boston University

Sorin Popa, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles

Dinakar Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

Avraham Soffer, Ph.D.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Bernd Sturmfels, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Brian White, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Dapeng Zhan, Ph.D.

Michigan State University

Shou-Wu Zhang, Ph.D.

Princeton University

Michael Zieve, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

2015

Anthony Bloch, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Liliana Borcea, Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Nigel Boston, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ted Chinburg, Ph.D.

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Octav Cornea, Ph.D.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Guozhen Lu, Ph.D.

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Mitchell Luskin, Ph.D.

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Robert J. McCann, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

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Lenhard Ng, Ph.D.

Duke University

Martin Olsson, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Bjorn Poonen, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Florian Pop, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Mihnea Popa, Ph.D.

Northwestern University

Cristian Popescu, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

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University of California, Berkeley

Timo Seppäläinen, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alexander Varchenko, Ph.D.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

W. Hugh Woodin, Ph.D.

Harvard University

Hong-Kun Zhang, Ph.D.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

2014

Denis Auroux, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Jason Behrstock, Ph.D.

Lehman College, CUNY

Roman Bezrukavnikov, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Francis Bonahon, Ph.D.

University of Southern California

Samuel R. Buss, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

Daniela Calvetti, Ph.D.

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Guang Cheng, Ph.D.

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William Marsh Rice University

Donatella Danielli, Ph.D.

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Mark Andrea de Cataldo, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University

Giovanni Forni, Ph.D.

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Dan Freed, Ph.D.

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Alexander Furman, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Chicago

William Goldman, Ph.D.

University of Maryland, College Park

Shelly Harvey, Ph.D.

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Lizhen Ji, Ph.D.

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Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Ph.D.

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Joel Kamnitzer, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Martin Kassabov, Ph.D.

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George Lusztig, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Firas Rassoul-Agha, Ph.D.

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University of Washington

Robert Sims, Ph.D.

University of Arizona

Pham Huu Tiep, Ph.D.

University of Arizona

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Christopher Woodward, Ph.D.

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Michael Yampolsky, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

2013

Jozsef Balogh, Ph.D.

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Dror Bar-Natan, Ph.D.

University of Toronto

Alexander Braverman, Ph.D.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Christian Houdre, Ph.D.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Ralph Kaufmann, Ph.D.

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University of Maryland, College Park

Michael Larsen, Ph.D.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

John Lott, Ph.D.

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Elizabeth Meckes, Ph.D.

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Case Western Reserve University

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Barry Simon, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

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University of Washington

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Peter Thomas, Ph.D.

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Yen-Hsi Tsai, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

Gunther Uhlmann, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Ravi Vakil, Ph.D.

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Michelle Wachs, Ph.D.

University of Miami

2012

Michael Aizenman, Ph.D.

Princeton University

Sergey Bobkov, Ph.D.

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Jared Bronski, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gautam Chinta, Ph.D.

City College of New York

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Northwestern University

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James Damon, Ph.D.

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Paul Gunnells, Ph.D.

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University of Southern California

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Trachette Jackson, Ph.D.

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Victor Kac, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Igor Krichever, Ph.D.

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Michael Lacey, Ph.D.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Elliott Lieb, Ph.D.

Princeton University

Bradley Lucier, Ph.D.

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Zhengyu Mao, Ph.D.

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Gloria Mari-Beffa, Ph.D.

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Robert Meyerhoff, Ph.D.

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Jennifer Morse, Ph.D.

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Irena Peeva, Ph.D.

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Dan Romik, Ph.D.

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Christian Rosendal, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Chicago

Anne Schilling, Ph.D.

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Theodore Slaman, Ph.D.

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Christopher Sogge, Ph.D.

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Tatiana Toro, Ph.D.

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Bernd Ulrich, Ph.D.

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Jeff Viaclovsky, Ph.D.

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Alexander Voronov, Ph.D.

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Eric Zaslow, Ph.D.

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