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The 2024 Albert Leon Whiteman Prize of the American Mathematical Society is awarded to Leo Corry of Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Open University of Israel, "for his exceptional scholarship and exposition elucidating the roles of axioms and structures in the practice of modern mathematics and physics, as well as for his many contributions to the field of history of mathematics as an editor, mentor, and communicator, "

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• Kendall Bearnden, Samford University, "Comment on predator-prey dynamical behavior and stability with square root functional response"
• Clara Chaplin, Bucknell University, "Optimizing Final Exam Schedules at Bucknell
  University"
• Brent Christian, University of Alabama, "Nonlocal transport in layered media: Role of interface of heterogeneities"
• Georgia Corbett, Bucknell University, "Large Values of Newform Dedekind Sums"
• Cameron Davis, Fitchburg State University, "Incorporating Sandfly Population Dynamics into a Compartmental Disease Model for Visceral Leishmaniasis"
• Galileo Fries, Colorado College, "The Geometry of Small Chemical Reaction
  Networks"
• Jacob Gathje, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, "The Sandpile Group of Subset Intersection Graphs"
• Shelby Horth, Wake Forest University, "Modeling Multiple Capillary Layers in the Human Retina"
• Kyle Kelley, Kenyon College, "Structural Properties of Move Graphs Generated by Group Actions"
• Celia Kerr, College of William and Mary, "Shellability of Kohnet posets"
• Jackson Krebsbach, Hope College, "Mapping Plant Populations Using Drones and
  Machine Learning"
• Sarah Kulas, St. Norbert College, "Present Bias in Group Work"
• Isaac Leiterman, St. Norbert College, "Predicting Low-Probability River Floods using Extreme Value Theory"
• Juntao Liu, St. Olaf College, "Super Strongly Hypercyclicity for Weighted
  Backward Shifts" 
• Oscar Murillo-Espinoza, California State University, Monterey Bay, "Arithmetical Structures on Canoe Paddle Graphs"
• Olivia Roberts, University of South Dakota, "Musical Systems with $\mathbb{Z}_n$ - Cayley Graphs"
• Leif Schaumann, Kenyon College, "Generalized Thue-Morse Turtle Curves"
• Dylan Schuster, St. Norbert College, "Classifying Character Degree Graphs with Seven Vertices"
• Nash Ward, University of Utah, "Fractal Seas; Measuring sea ice geometry from millimeters to kilometers"

Adelphi Summer Institute in Mathematical Epidemiology
Bridge to Calculus
Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM) Summer Away
Canada/USA Mathcamp
Euler Circle
GirlsGetMath@CSU 2024
GirlsGetMath@ICERM 2024
Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM)
Kenneth I. Gross and Tony Trono Governor's Institute on Mathematical Sciences (GIV)
Live Math Workshops
LSU Math Circle / Virtual Math Circle: Research Opportunities for High School Students
Math Circles of Chicago
MathILy (serious Mathematics Infused with Levity)
MathILy-Er
Math Knights Summer Institute
Mathworks Honors Summer Math Camp (HSMC)
Michigan Math and Science Scholars (MMSS)
Navajo Nation Math Circles
Navigate the Maze to Achievement, Inc.
New York Math Circle
PROMYS and PROMYS Pathways Summer Program
PROTaSM(Puerto Rico Opportunities for Talented Students in Mathematics)
PZ Math Corp
Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP) Preparing for Success in Calculus
Ross Mathematics Program
SigmaCamp / Sigma Prime
Summer Illinois Mathematics (SIM) Camp 2024
Summer Math Program for Young Scholars
TexPREP - Lubbock 2024
UConn CAPS Pre-College Summer Program
University of South Florida STEM Education Center
Young CryptograpHers

The Applied and Computational Mathematics Emphasis (ACME) Program at Brigham Young University is awarded the 2024 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department. The ACME program has been highly successful in providing students with a rigorous foundation in mathematics as well as a broad interdisciplinary experience in applied mathematics.

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Angel Pineda, a professor of mathematics at Manhattan College, will receive the 2024 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service. Professor Pineda is honored "in recognition of his tireless work at the grassroots level supporting mathematicians living in challenged, resource-poor environments around the world and of the impact his example has had on national and international scientific organizations," according to the citation, which highlights his work in Cambodia.

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Sybilla Beckmann, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia, will receive the 2024 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. "Beckmann is nationally recognized for her seminal contributions to mathematics teacher education, combining experiences in mathematics, public school classrooms, textbook writing, national service, and research," the citation noted. "Through her work in mathematics education policy, she has advocated for high-quality teacher education and rigorous mathematical curriculum, impacting students and teachers across the country."

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The 2024 Bertrand Russell Prize of the AMS is awarded to Susan Landau of Tufts University, a leading scholar in encryption policy and digital privacy, for her work writing technical research papers and op-eds, publishing public-facing work, briefing policymakers, and participating in national studies.

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The 2024 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Ronald Coifman of Yale University for his profound impact on pure and applied harmonic analysis, and for the introduction of tools developed from these areas to address modern challenges of data science.

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Francesc Castella, an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2024-2025 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year. The primary selection criterion is the excellence of the candidate's research. Castella's research interests are number theory and arithmetic geometry: more specifically, p-adic L-functions, Euler systems, and Iwasawa theory.

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The 2024 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory is awarded to Victor Ostrik of the University of Oregon "for his fundamental contributions to the theory of tensor categories, which have already found deep applications in modular representation theory and Lie theory. " Three papers were the basis for this award: "On symmetric fusion categories in positive characteristic," published in Selecta Mathematica, "Frobenius exact symmetric tensor categories" (joint with Kevin Coulembier and Pavel Etingof), published in Annals of Mathematics, and "New incompressible symmetric tensor categories in positive characteristic" (joint with Dave Benson and Pavel Etingof), published in Duke Mathematical Journal.

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Chelsea Walton, a professor of mathematics at Rice University, has been awarded the fourth annual AMS Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship. Walton's research interests include Noncommutative Algebra, Quantum Symmetries, Hopf algebras and their variants/Quantum Groups, and Representation Theory.

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The inaugural 2024 Elias M. Stein Prize for New Perspectives in Analysis is awarded jointly to Marcel Filoche and Svitlana Mayboroda for their original, powerful, elegant and impactful theory of the "localization landscape."

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The recipient of the 2024 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student is Faye Jackson of the University of Michigan who has discovered and theoretically explained several new and unexpected phenomena in analytic number theory.

Receiving Honorable Mention for the 2024 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate Student is Rupert Li of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose work focused on problems in combinatorics and has resulted in ten coauthored mathematical research papers. Also receiving Honorable Mention for the 2024 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student is Daniel Zhu of Princeton University who has made noteworthy contributions to multiple areas within combinatorics, including algebraic combinatorics, graph theory, and enumerative combinatorics.

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The 2024 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra is awarded to Jessica Fintzen (University of Bonn) for her work transforming the understanding of representations of p-adic groups, in particular for the article "Types for tame p-adic groups," Ann. of Math. (2) 193 (2021), no. 1, 303–346.

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The inaugural Ivo and Renata Babuška Thesis Prize is awarded to Abigail Hickok in recognition of the outstanding contributions in her PhD thesis, "Topics in Geometric and Topological Data Analysis.""

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Greta Panova, Gabilan Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering and professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California, has been awarded the 2024-2025 AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars. Panova?s research is in Algebraic Combinatorics with connections to Representation Theory, Computational Complexity Theory within Theoretical Computer Science and with Probability and Statistical Mechanics. Separately, she works with a team of molecular biologists on modeling DNA repair dynamics.

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Natalie Dean, Assistant Professor from Emory University, for her remarkable record of public engagement providing clear meaning and context to COVID models and predictions through traditional and social media.

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The 2024 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement is awarded to Haïm Brezis for his outstanding and seminal contributions in several fields of Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, and for his remarkable influence in mathematics, in particular through his exceptional training of PhD students.

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The 2024 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition is awarded to Benson Farb and Dan Margalit for their Princeton Mathematical Series book A Primer on Mapping Class Groups.

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The 2024 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research is awarded jointly to József Balogh, Robert Morris, and Wojciech Samotij for their 2015 paper "Independent sets in hypergraphs," published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, and to David Saxton and Andrew Thomason for their 2015 paper "Hypergraph Containers," published in Inventiones Mathematicae.

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The 2024 Levi L. Conant Prize is awarded to Jennifer Hom of Georgia Tech for her article Getting a handle on the Conway knot, which was published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (2021), 19–29.

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The AMS is pleased to recognize the Mathematics Project at Minnesota, University of Minnesota with the 2024 Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference Award. The Mathematics Project at Minnesota is an invaluable and highly effective graduate-student-led initiative developed with the goal of exposing and removing known barriers in retaining and advancing the careers of women, gender minorities, and underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences at the University of Minnesota.

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The Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling is awarded to Tilmann Gneiting for seminal work in environmental and stochastic modeling, with applications to computational weather forecasting, and for research in probability theory and mathematical statistics.

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