James C. Alexander Prize for Graduate Research

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.

  • 2023-24

    Andrew (Luke) Evans

    Nakyung (Rachel) Lee

  • 2022-23

Jin-Peng Liu

  • 2021-22

Dani Kaufman

  • 2020-21

Kyle Liss

  • 2019-20

Patrick Daniels

Ke Xue

  • 2018-19

Ying Han

Pratima Hebbar

  • 2017-18

Weilin Li

Samuel Punshon-Smith

  • 2016-2017

Jean-Phillipe Burelle

Tingyue Gan

  • 2015-2016

Richard Rast

  • 2014-2015

Michael Salins

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  • The Feynman-Lagerstrom criterion for boundary layers

    Speaker: Trinh Nguyen (Wisconsin)

    When: Thu, September 19, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: PHY 1201
  • Periodic homogenization of geometric equations without perturbed correctors

    Speaker: Jiwoong Jang (UMD)

    When: Thu, September 26, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: PHY 1201
  • Instantaneous continuous loss of regularity for the SQG equation

    Speaker: Wojciech Ozanski (FSU) 

    When: Thu, October 3, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: PHY 1201
  • Low regularity well-posedness of 2D capillary water waves

    Speaker: Lizhe Wan (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 

    When: Thu, October 17, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: PHY 1201
  • Rate of convergence in quasi-periodic homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equation

    Speaker: Son Tu (Michigan State)

    When: Thu, October 24, 2024 - 2:30pm
    Where: MATH 0401
  • Front propagation through a perforated wall

    Speaker: Hiroshi Matano (Meiji University)

    When: Thu, November 7, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: PHY 1201
  • Stochastic and deterministic moving boundary problems

    Speaker: Krutika Tawri (Berkeley) 

    When: Thu, November 14, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: PHY 1201
  • Global solutions to the obstacle problem

    Speaker: Alessio Figalli

    When: Thu, November 21, 2024 - 10:10am
    Where: MTH3206
  • Stability estimates in Sobolev type inequalities

    Speaker: Jean Dolbeault

    When: Thu, November 21, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: PHY 1201
  • Fully nonlinear equations in thin domains: a test function approach

    Speaker: Isabeau Birindelli (University of Rome I)

    When: Thu, December 5, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: PHY 1201
  • A new approach to regularity, well-posedness, and blow-up in the Boltzmann equation

    Speaker: Christopher Henderson (University of Arizona) - https://sites.google.com/view/ckhenderson

    When: Thu, January 30, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 1313
  • Suppression of chemotactic singularity by some buoyancy-driven flows

    Speaker: Kevin Hu (Duke)

    When: Thu, March 27, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH3206
  • Scalar balance laws with nonlocal singular sources

    Speaker: Khai Nguyen (NC State)

    When: Thu, April 3, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH0307
  • The Euclidean Isoperimetric problem and its gradient flow: a phase transitions approach

    Speaker: Daniel Restrepo (John Hopkins)

    When: Thu, April 10, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH3206
  • (Numerical Analysis Seminar) 𝐻² conforming virtual element discretization of nondivergence form elliptic equations

    Speaker: Guillaume Bonnet (Paris Dauphine)

    When: Thu, April 17, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH3206
  • One-phase contact point dynamics in Hele-Shaw cells

    Speaker: Francisco Gancedo (IAS)

    When: Thu, April 24, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH3206
  • Non-uniqueness for the Navier-Stokes equations from critical data

    Speaker: Stan Palasek (Princeton)

    When: Thu, May 1, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH3206