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