The Math Department’s highest research prize is the Wirt & Mary Cornwell Prize, which is awarded to the student deemed to show the most promise in mathematical research. The award carries a $10,000 cash prize! This year, the Cornwell prize is shared by Trevor Hyde and Takumi Murayama . Trevor will be a Dixon instructor at the…
Category: Department Research Awards
Michigan math graduate students are recognized with many research awards, fellowships and grants. The most prestigious among these are offered only once a year: the Sumner Myers Thesis Award for the best Math thesis, the Peter Smereka Thesis Award for the best AIM thesis, and the Cornwell Prize for the most promising math student. Please scroll through and prepare to be impressed!
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Congrats to Summer Research Grants recipients!
Academic mathematicians need to write strong research proposals. Your professors typically apply for research grants on a three-year cycle (for example, from NSF), writing a fifteen page proposal and then an annual report every year on the progress. This year we were fortunate to have sufficient funds to offer students with no other source of…
Congrats to Summer Fellowship Recipients!
The following PhD students were chosen to receive a summer fellowship because of their outstanding progress in the program, their promise for future research, and their valuable contributions to the scholarly life of the department. Karen Butt, working with Ralf Spatzier, The Juha Heinonen Memorial Fellowship (more detailed biography), made possible by the family and…
Math Department Graduate Student Awards
Our department has a large number of committed graduate students who make huge contributions to the scholarly life of our department. We are grateful to all of them for their generosity, vision and energy, which bring us many seminars, research activity, outreach activities, an inclusive culture, mentoring for younger students, and friendship. This year, we…
Visu Makam wins Sumner Myers Award
Visu Makam, UM PhD 2018, will return to Ann Arbor to deliver the Colloquium Talk this week on his Award Winning Thesis: Invariant theory, Tensors and Computational complexity. Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Location: 1360 East Hall (4:00 PM to 5:00 PM) Visu is currently a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study. His thesis,…