Past IAS Scholars Honored in 2025 American Mathematical Society Awards

Ten past IAS scholars from the School of Mathematics have been named as recipients in the 2025 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Awards. AMS awards are presented to scholars "for their significant achievements in mathematical research and community support." 

Jinyoung Park, Member (2020–21), received the Levi L. Conant Prize for her article titled "Threshold Phenomena for Random Discrete Structures," which was described as "exquisitely written, speaking to graduate students and experts alike." Park discussed her work on this topic, and her journey to becoming a mathematician, as part of the Institute's Paths to Math video series.

Sean Keel, Member (1994–95, 2017), and Maxim Kontsevich, Member (1992–93) and Visitor (2002), received the E.H. Moore Research Article Prize alongside their co-authors Mark Gross and Paul Hacking for their article "Canonical Bases for Cluster Algebras." According to the AMS citation, their paper "accomplished several breakthroughs on the main problems of general structure theory of cluster algebras and varieties."

Ana Caraiani, Veblen Research Instructor (2013–16), was presented with the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for her "contributions to arithmetic geometry and number theory: in particular, the Langlands program." Caraiani returned to IAS in May 2024 to deliver a series of lectures on the Langlands program as part of the Institute's annual Women+ and Mathematics (W+AM) program.

Ben Green, Member (2007), was the recipient of the inaugural I. Martin Isaacs Prize for Excellence in Mathematical Writing for his 2024 article "On Sárközy’s theorem for shifted primes." The article was praised for "successfully serving different audiences." The citation continues: "Experts can readily extract the key ideas from his paper, while beginners can appreciate the motivation and context for the techniques."

Dusa McDuff, Member (1976, 2002) and Visitor (1977–78), was announced as the recipient of the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement for "her outstanding and seminal contributions in von Neumann algebras, algebraic topology, and especially symplectic geometry and topology." McDuff is also involved in the Institute's W+AM program, serving as a member of its organizing committee.

Richard Thomas, Member (1997–98), was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry alongside his colleague Soheyla Feyzbakhsh for a series of three papers that "transformed the landscape of Donaldson-Thomas (DT) theory, an intensively studied field that has played an important role in the fertile and celebrated interaction of algebraic geometry and string theory over the last 25 years."

James S. Milne, Member (1976–77, 1982, 1988), was presented with Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for the "extensive corpus of excellent expository works" on his website, which have "educated a generation of arithmetic geometers," according to the prize citation.

Kenneth A. Ribet, Visitor (1983–84), received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for his 1976 paper titled "A modular construction of unramified p-extensions of Q(μp)." The paper was described as having "far-reaching impact [that] continues to grow with time."

Allen E. Hatcher, Member (1975–76, 1979–80), was awarded the inaugural Elias M. Stein Prize for Transformative Exposition for his book Algebraic Topology. The prize citation states that Hatcher's book "has transformed the teaching of this topic with its lively mix of intuition, salient examples, and formal mathematics."

Read more about the 2025 AMS awards on the American Mathematical Society website.

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