The Alexanderson Award[1] is given annually by the American Institute of Mathematics.
The award was instituted in 2018. It honors a notable paper resulting from an AIM activity (workshop, research community, or SQuaRE).[2]
The award was conceived of by John Fry in order to honor Gerald L. Alexanderson,[2] Professor at Santa Clara University and founding chair of AIM's board of trustees.
Winners of the Alexanderson Award are given a medal and a trip to Bock Cay in the Bahamas.[2]
| Year | Winners | Paper | AIM Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018[3] | Alexei Borodin, Ivan Corwin, and Patrik Ferrari | “Free energy fluctuations for directed polymers in random media in 1+1 dimensions,” Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2014.[4] | October 2011 workshop, “The Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation and universality class.”[5] |
| 2019[6] | Paul Bruillard, Siu-Hung Ng, Eric C. Rowell, and Zhenghan Wang | “Rank-finiteness for modular categories,” Journal of the American Mathematics Society, 2016.[7] | March 2012 workshop, “Classifying fusion categories.”[8] |
| 2020[9] | Laura DeMarco, Holly Krieger, and Hexi Ye | “Uniform Manin–Mumford for a family of genus 2 curves,” Annals of Mathematics, 2020.[10] | 2016–2019 SQuaRE, “Dynamical Andre-Oort Questions.”[11] |
| 2022[12] | Jan Bruinier, Benjamin Howard, Stephen S. Kudla, Michael Rapoport, and Tonghai Yang | “Modularity of generating series of divisors on unitary Shimura varieties,” Astérisque, 2020.[13][14] | 2014–2016 SQuaRE, “Modularity of Generating Series for Special Cycles.”[15] |
| 2023[16] | Kaisa Matomäki, Maksym Radziwiłł, Terence Tao, Joni Teräväinen, and Tamar Ziegler | “Higher uniformity of bounded multiplicative functions in short intervals on average,” Annals of Mathematics, 2023.[17] | December 2018 workshop, “Sarnak's conjecture.”[18] |
