E. H. Moore Research Article Prize

The Moore Prize is awarded  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, Communications 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.

About this Prize

The 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 current prize amount is US$5,000, awarded every three years.

Most Recent Prize(s): 2025

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.

Prize announcement as seen in the news release.

See previous winners

Next Prize:  January 2028

Nomination Period:  1 February - 31 May 2027

Nomination Procedure: 

Submit a letter of nomination, a complete bibliographic citation for the work being nominated, and a brief citation that explains why the work is important.

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