UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
WITH A SUBSTANTIAL MATHEMATICAL COMPONENT
THE $1000 PRIZE WILL BE AWARDED ANNUALLY    

ELIGIBILTY: Any graduate student at USC who is expected to receive Ph.D. degree between May 2024 and August 2025 inclusive is eligible

NOMINATION PROCEDURES: Nominations for the CAMS Prize should include a nominating letter from the students’s dissertation committee chair; the nominee’s C.V and a statement of 3 pages or less by the nominee describing his or her research in a way that is accessible to non-experts. Reprints, preprints and a further faculty letter of support are not required, but may be included in the supporting material.

SELECTION COMMITTEE: The prize winner will be selected by the Board of Directors of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences.
Susan Friedlander: Professor of Mathematics and Director of CAMS
Yingying Fan: Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
Daniel Lidar: Professor Engineering
Remo Rohs: Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology
Shanghua Teng: Professor of Computer Science

DEADLINE: Nominations are due Monday, March 25th, 2024 at 4:00 p.m

Please direct nominations to the Director of CAMS and send material to:

Chaunté Williams
Department of Mathematics
KAP 104D, MC 2532
email: cwill@usc.edu


Award

The prize will be announced and awarded in April 2024

 CAMS PRIZE CEREMONY (click here)

2024 Winners

 Faidon Andreadakis  Yuxuan Du  Matthew Ferland
  Faidon Andreadakis           Yuxuan Du      Matthew Ferland

2023 Winners

   Andrew Lowy

Liyu Chen

            Andrew Lowy

2022 Winners

Linfeng Li    Chen-Yu Wei

Linfeng Li

                Chen-Yu Wei

2020 Winners

 Trambak Banerjee  Georgios Styliaris  Qian Yu

Trambak Banerjee

   Georgios Styliaris               Qian Yu

2019 Winners

   

Emre Demirkaya

                  Fanhui Xu

2018 Winners

Guher Camliyurt Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh
Guher Camliyurt Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh

 

2017 Winners

Negin Golrezaei Haifeng Xu

2016 Winners

   

Jie Ren

Fei Wang

 

2015 Winners

   

Sunav Choudhary

Zemin Zheng

2014 Winners

   

Anand Narayanan

Ibrahim Ekren

2013 Winners

 

Sushmita Allam

2012 Winners

   

Wan-Jung Kuo

Yang Huang

2011 Winners

   

Subhankar Ghosh

Yi Gai

2010 Winners

   

Mahyar Salek

Vlad Vicol