Awarded to students upon the completion of their dissertation work. The James C. Alexander Prize for Graduate Research in Mathematics (Alexander Prize) is an award for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in any field of mathematics, and is open to students in Math/STAT/AMSC who have defended their dissertation after September of the current academic school year. The Prize is endowed by a generous gift from our late colleague Jay Alexander's student Lawrence J. Baker, Ph.D. 1978, with matching funds from ExxonMobil Corporation. A nomination packet includes a copy of the dissertation and a 1-2 pages nomination letter written by the thesis advisor.

2024-25 Recipients

Yuxiang Ji: Asymptotic and Numerical Analysis in Kähler Geometry: Edge Metrics, Einstein Metrics and Solitons
Advisor: Yanir Rubinstein

Keith Mills: Towards a Classification of Almost Complex and Spin^h Manifolds  
Advisor: Jonathan Rosenberg

2023-24 Recipients

Andrew (Luke) Evans: Mahalanobis Diffusion Maps for Quantifying Rare Events: Theory and Application to Molecular Dynamics
Advisor: Maria Cameron

Nakyung (Rachel) Lee: Classification of closed conformally flat Lorentzian 3-manifolds with unipotent holonomy
Advisor: Karin Melnick

2022-23 Recipients

Jin-Peng Liu: Quantum Algorithms for Linear and Nonlinear Differential Equations
Advisor: Andrew Childs

2021-22 Recipients

Dani Kaufman: Mutation Invariant Functions on Cluster Ensembles Associated with Surfaces
Advisor: Christian Zickert

2020-21 Recipients

Kyle Liss: Part I: On the Stability threshold of Couette flow in a uniform magnetic field; Part II: Quantitative convergence to equilibrium for hypoelliptic stochastic differential equations with small noise
Advisor: Jacob Bedrossian

2019-20 Recipients

Patrick Daniels: A Tannakian Framework for Displays and Rapoport-Zink Spaces
Advisor: Thomas Haines

Ke Xue: Affine Pavings of Hessenberg Ideal Fibers
Advisor: Patrick Brosnan

2018-19 Recipients

Ying Han: Statistical Inference Using Data From Multiple Files Combined Through Record Linkage
Advisor: Partha Lahiri

Pratima Hebbar: Branching diffusion processes in periodic media
Advisor: Leonid Koralov

2017-18 Recipients

Weilin Li: Topics in Harmonic Analysis, Sparse Representations, and Data Analysis
Advisors: John Bennedetto; Wojciech Czaja

Samuel Punshon-Smith: Capturing the Large Scale Behavior of Many Particle Systems Through Coarse-Graining
Advisor: Charles Levermore

2016-2017 Recipients

Jean-Phillipe Burelle: Generalizations of Schottky groups
Advisor: William Goldman

Tingyue Gan: Spectral Analysis of Markov Jump Processes with Rare Transitions: A Graph-Algorithmic Approach
Advisor: Maria Cameron

2015-2016 Recipients

Richard Rast: The Borel Complexity of Isomorphism for Some First Order Theories
Advisor: Chris Laskowski

2014-2015 Recipients

Michael Salins: Asymptotic problems for stochastic partial differential equations
Advisor: Sandra Cerrai