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Robert McCann, University of Toronto, will receive the 2025 American Mathematical Society (AMS) - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics "in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to optimal transport theory, and for pioneering deep applications to economics and physics," according to the citation. McCann holds a Canada Research Chair in Mathematics, Economics, and Physics.

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The Math Community Educational Outreach (Math CEO) program at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) will receive the 2025 AMS Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department. Founded in 2014, UCI's Math CEO is an after-school math enrichment program aimed at increasing the number of talented students in STEM from diverse backgrounds by fostering mathematical exploration, mentor development, and community engagement.

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Yvonne Lai will receive the 2025 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. "Dr. Yvonne Lai exhibits a deep, energetic, and abiding commitment to supporting improvements in mathematics education at all levels, and to creating a more inclusive and equitable mathematics community," according to the prize citation. "She leads in bridging the gap between the mathematics and mathematics education communities, working to find common ground even in the face of divisive issues."

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Zhouli Xu, professor of mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, has been awarded the 2025-2026 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship. Xu's research interests include Algebraic Topology, Stable Homotopy Theory, connections to Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Topology.

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Matthew Kennedy, University of Waterloo, has been awarded the 2025 Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Kennedy has been honored for his wide-ranging and innovative work on group C*-algebras, according to the citation.

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Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye, an assistant professor of mathematics at Howard University, has been awarded the fifth annual AMS Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship. Ndiaye's research interests include Geometric Analysis, Calculus of Variations, Partial Differential Equations, Differential Geometry, Nonlinear Analysis.

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Sophie Morier-Genoud of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and Valentin Ovsienko of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Reims, are awarded the 2025 AMS David P. Robbins Prize for their paper "$q$-deformed rationals and $q$-continued fractions," published in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma.

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Mark Gross (University of Cambridge), Paul Hacking (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Seán Keel (University of Texas at Austin) and Maxim Kontsevich (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques) will receive the 2025 AMS E.H. Moore Research Article Prize. They are honored for the paper "Canonical Bases for Cluster Algebras," published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 31, Number 2, April 2018, pp. 497–608.

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The inaugural 2025 Elias M. Stein Prize for Transformative Exposition is awarded to Allen Hatcher, Cornell University, for his book Algebraic Topology.

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Kenta Suzuki of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is awarded the 2025 American Mathematical Society (AMS)-Mathematical Association of America (MAA)-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for his extraordinary research in the representation theory of $p$-adic groups. His papers, including two solo works, represent significant progress in different areas of the field.

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Ben Green, Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Oxford, will receive the inaugural I. Martin Isaacs Prize for Excellence in Mathematical Writing for his article "On Sárközy's theorem for shifted primes," published in Journal of the American Mathematical Society in 2024.

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Nour Khoudari is awarded the 2025 Ivo and Renata Babuška Thesis Prize in recognition of the outstanding contributions in her Temple University PhD thesis, titled "From Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Traffic Waves and Sparse Control."

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Katherine E. Stange, professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been named the 2025-26 AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellow. Stange?s research interests include Arithmetic Geometry, Elliptic Curves, Algebraic and Integer Sequences, Cryptography, Arithmetic Dynamics, Apollonian Circle Packings, and Game Theory.

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Eugenia Cheng will receive the 2025 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award "for her remarkable work bringing mathematics, mathematical ideas, and mathematical art to a wide audience through a multitude of books and other media," according to the prize citation.

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The 2025 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement is awarded to Dusa McDuff for her outstanding and seminal contributions in von Neumann algebras, algebraic topology, and especially symplectic geometry and topology.

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The 2025 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition is awarded to James S. Milne, for his "extensive corpus of excellent expository works" on his website.

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The 2025 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research is awarded to Kenneth A. Ribet for his 1976 paper "A modular construction of unramified $p$-extensions of Q($\mu_p$)."

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Jinyoung Park of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, will receive the 2025 Levi L. Conant Prize for her article "Threshold Phenomena for Random Discrete Structures," which was published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society 70 (2023), no. 10, 1615-1625.

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Pamela Gorkin is awarded the 2025 Mary P. Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). She receives the prize for her record of high-quality research in functional analysis, complex analysis, operator theory, and linear algebra, and for her outstanding mathematical exposition, her work with undergraduates, and her service to the profession.

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Best photograph, painting, or print: Rashmi Sunder-Raj for Twisted Set
Best textile, sculpture, or other media: Shiying Dong for Saddle Monster
Honorable Mention: Rebecca Lin for Disintegrating

The Joaquin Bustoz Math-Science Honors Program (JBMSHP) at Arizona State University (ASU) will receive the 2025 Award for Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). "The JBMSHP provides college-bound high-school students from groups that are historically underrepresented in STEM with a successful university experience and enhances their prospects for future academic success in the mathematical sciences," according to the prize citation. "The JBMSHP has done an outstanding job of motivating a new generation of future mathematicians, scientists, and engineers to create a statewide community of future scholars in Arizona."

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Soheyla Feyzbakhsh and Richard Thomas, both of Imperial College London, will receive the 2025 AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. They are honored, according to the citation, for "a series of three papers that transformed Donaldson-Thomas theory by proving that the rank r invariants of a Calabi-Yau 3-fold X are completely determined by any of: (i) the rank 1 invariants of X, or (ii) the Gromov-Witten invariants of X, or (iii) the rank 0 invariants of X (whose generating series are conjectured to be modular)."

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Ana Caraiani, Royal Society University Research Fellow and professor of pure mathematics, Imperial College London, has been awarded the 2025 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). She has been honored for contributions to arithmetic geometry and number theory: in particular, the Langlands program.

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Federico Pasqualotto, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded the Stefan Bergman Fellowship for 2025-2026. Pasqualotto?s research focuses on the analysis of partial differential equations of mathematical physics. More specifically, he is interested in fluid dynamics, general relativity, and dispersive equations.

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