E. H. Moore Research Article Prize

This prize was established in 2002 in honor of E. H. Moore.  Among other activities, Moore founded the Chicago branch of the American Mathematical Society, served as the Society's sixth President (1901-1902), delivered the Colloquium Lectures in 1906, and founded and nurtured the Transactions of the AMS.   The US$5,000 prize is awarded every three years for an outstanding research article to have appeared in one of the AMS primary research journals (namely, the Journal of the AMS, Proceedings of the AMS, Transactions of the AMS, Memoirs of the AMS, Mathematics of Computation, Electronic Journal of Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, and  Electronic Journal of Representation Theory ) during the six calendar years ending a full year before the meeting at which the prize is awarded.

Next award :  January 2010.  Call for nominations.

Second award, 2007 :  To Ivan Shestakov and Ualbai Umirbaev for their two ground-breaking papers, both published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society :  "The tame and the wild automorphisms of polynomial rings in three variables, " 17 (2004), no. 1, 197--227; and "Poisson brackets and two-generated subalgebras of rings of polynomials, " 17 (2004), no. 1, 181--196.

First award, 2004 :  To Mark Haiman for "Hilbert schemes, polygraphs, and the Macdonald positivity conjecture ", Journal of the AMS 14 (2001), 941?1006.