Honors Thesis Awards
The department recognizes outstanding honors theses from our graduating seniors with several awards.
Please see the digital collection of these Award-winning Mathematics Honors Theses.
Undergraduate Research Award
2025
Yunchu Dai "Four-end Solutions to Elliptic Sine-gordon Equation on the plane." Advised by Otis Chodosh.
Michael Doboli “Comparison theory on nonreversible Markov chains." Advised by Persi Diaconis.
Bradley Moon “Spaces of Maps With Only Fold Singularities.” Advised by Yakov Eliashberg.
2023
Jacob Kaplan “On the Complexity of Counting Small Cliques.” Advised by Aviad Rubinstein.
2022
Egor Alimpiev
2021
Amy Kanne, Matthew King
2020
Niven Achenjang, Javier Echevarría Cuesta, Prasanna Ramakrishnan, Jonathan Seymour
2019
Jiren Zhu
2018
Luis Kumanduri, Ethan Sussman
2017
Andreea Georgescu
2016
Ying Hong Tham
2015
Vishal Arul
2014
Bryan Hooi, John Ryan
2013
Emmanuel Tsukerman, Joseph Victor
2012
Charlotte Chan, Brian Lewis, Ted Westling
2011
Jonah Brown-Cohen, Christos Mantoulidis, Elina Robeva
2010
Otis Chodosh, Jack Gorham, Philip Vuong
2009
Natth Bejraburnin, Emily Grubert, Samy Hamdouche, Anish Mitra, Nathan Pflueger, De Wen Soh
2008
Eric Marberg, Yong Suk Moon
2007
Henry Adams, Carl Erickson, Bob Hough
George Pólya Prize
2025
Andrei Mandelshtam “Lie Algebra Representations and Modular Form Identities.” Advised by Daniel Bump.
2024
Shaunak Bhandakar “Neuromodulated Low-Rank Recurrent Neural Networks: A Mechanistic Account of Neuromodulation in Shaping Flexible Neural Dynamics.” Advised by Scott Linderman.
2022
Alexander Moreira
2020
Jae Hee Lee, Pengda Liu
Firestone Medal
Recognizes the top ten percent of all honors theses in the social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering from the graduating seniors from across the University.
2025
Quanlin Chen "Langlands conjugation conjecture of Shimura varieties.” Advised by Richard Taylor.
2024
Owen Brass “Involutive Floer Homology and Surfaces in Smooth Four-Manifolds.” Advised by Ciprian Manolescu.
Benjamin Przybocki “Theoretical aspects of satisfiability modulo theories.” Advised by Clark Barrett.
2023
Wenqi Li “Fusion Rings over Drinfeld Doubles.” Advised by Dan Bump.
Gautam Manohar “Improved Decay and Mass Inflation for the Spherically Symmetric Einstein–Maxwell–Scalar Field System." Advised by Jonathan Luk.
2022
Coen Armstrong
2021
Jabari Hastings
2020
Eric Kilgore, Katharine Woo
2019
Nitya Mani
2018
Huy Tuan Pham
2017
Zi Yang Kang
2016
Gyujin Oh
2015
Michael Lindsey
2014
Lynnelle Ye
2013
Seth Shelley-Abrahamson
2012
Rafi Witten
2011
Connor Mooney
2010
Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman
2009
Daniel Tuan-Dan Le
2008
Omkar Muralidharan
2007
Vidya Venkateswaran
Kennedy Thesis Prize
Awarded annually to the single best thesis in each of the four areas of humanities and arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering.
2023
Gautam Manohar
2018
Huy Tuan Pham
2015
Michael Lindsey
2014
Lynnelle Ye
2010
Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman