Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student

This prize, which was established in 1995, is to be awarded to an undergraduate student (or students having submitted joint work) for outstanding research in mathematics.  It is entirely endowed by a gift from Mrs. Frank (Brennie) Morgan. Any student who is an undergraduate in a college or university in Canada, Mexico, or the United States or its possessions is eligible to be considered for this US$1,200 prize, which is awarded annually. The award is made jointly by the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Next award:  January 2010.  Call for nominations.

Fourteenth award, 2009: To Aaron Pixton for five impressive papers he has written, in addition to his Princeton senior thesis.

Thirteenth award, 2008:  To Nathan Kaplan for four impressive papers in algebraic number theory.

Twelfth award, 2007 :  To Daniel Kane for establishing a research record that would be the envy of many professional mathematicians. 

Eleventh award, 2006 :  To Jacob Fox for a most astounding collection of research papers by any undergraduate mathematician.

Tenth award, 2005 :  To Reid W. Barton for his paper "Packing densities of patterns ", Electron. J. Combin. 11 (2004), no. 1, Research Paper 80, 16 pp.
 Honorable Mention:  To Po-Shen Loh.

Ninth award, 2004 :  To Melanie Wood for research on Belyi-extending maps and P -orderings.
 Honorable mention:  To Karen Yeats.

Eighth award, 2003 :   To Joshua Greene for his work in combinatorics.

Seventh award, 2002 : To Ciprian Manolescu for making a fundamental advance in the field by giving an elegant construction of Floer homology.
Honorable mention: To Michael A. Levin.

Sixth award, 2001 : To Jacob Lurie for his paper "On simply laced Lie algebras and their miniscule representations", Comment. Math. Helv. 76 (2001), no. 3, 515-575.
Honorable mention: To Wai Ling Yee.

Fifth award, 2000 : To Sean McLaughlin for his proof of the "Dodecahedral Conjecture," a major problem in discrete geometry related to, but distinct from, Kepler's sphere-packing problem and a conjecture that has resisted the efforts of the strongest workers in this area for nearly sixty years.
Honorable mention: To Samit Dasgupta.

Fourth award, 1999 : To Daniel Biss for his remarkable breadth, as well as depth. The most exciting aspect of his submission was his extension of a category which more closely binds the associations between combinatorial group theory and combinatorial topology.
Honorable mention: To Aaron E. Archer.

Third award, 1998 : To Jade Vinson for wide-ranging research in analysis and geometry.
Honorable mention: To Vikaas Sohal.

Second award, 1996 : To Manjul Bhargava for truly outstanding mathematical research in algebra.
Honorable mention: To Lenhard L. Ng.

First award, 1996 : To Kannan Soundararajan for truly exceptional research in analytic number theory.
Honorable mention: To Kiran Kedlaya.