J.J. Sylvester Awards for Excellence in Mathematics
This award is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement by a distinguished math major. The award is recognized by JHU and includes a monetary prize from the mathematics department. James Joseph Sylvester FRS (1814–1897) was an English mathematician.
He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of
Mathematics.
Winners
- 2023: Sean O’Connor and Yiyang Xu
- 2022: Brian Wen
- 2021: Advika Rajapakse and Aaron Zoll
- 2020: Zecheng Yi and Travis Leadbetter
- 2019: no winners
- 2018: Thomas Brazelton and Aurel S. Malapani-Scala
- 2017: Yve Nicole Lepkowski and Julian Joseph Gould
- 2016: Junyi Li and Kenneth Co
- 2015: Georges Obied and Peter Kalugin
- 2014: Yujie Qian, Yevgeniy Rudoy, Ellen Urheim, and Xinyang Wang
- 2013: Julia Gittleman and Sinan Ozdemir
- 2012: Benjamin Ponedel and Caleb Spier
- 2011: Adam Lu and Jason Ravit
- 2010: Xinlu Huang and Adam Saltz
- 2009: Brett Frankel and Daniel Rubin
- 2008: Joshua Cogan and Mary Kemp
- 2007: Matthew Sedlock and David Sher
- 2006: Tiffany Tasky and Ryan Jawad
- 2005: Gayan Edirisinghe
- 2004: Michael Walsh
- 2003: Eli Salomon
- 2002: Michael J. Gordon
- 2001: John Baber
- 2000: Alex Diesl
- 1999: Peter D. Kay
- 1998: Matthew Alan Parham
- 1997: Brian Michael Hess and Lauren Hsu
- 1994: George W. Schlossnagel III and Sarah H. Manchester
- 1993: Aaron Daniel Hoag
- 1992: Wendy Wai-Wan Chiu and Mohammad Ghomi
- 1991: David Andrew Schwartz
- 1990: David I. Kass
- 1988: Thomas Edward Leathrum
- 1987: John P. Stachyra
Putnam Awards
William Lowell Putnam (1861-1923) was an American Lawyer and Banker. In 1927, Elizabeth Lowell Putnam established the William Lowell Putnam Intercollegiate Memorial Fund in order to begin a collegelevel mathematics competition, the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. This contest, which continues to this day, began in 1935 under the direction of the Mathematical Association of America.
Winners
- 2023: Nathan Daly, Sean O’Connor, and Tian Zhou
- 2022: Kyle J. Gatesman
- 2021: no winners
- 2020: Daniel Chu and Kyle Gatesman
- 2019: Daniel Chu and Nathan Vallapureddy
- 2018: Xudong Zheng
- 2017: Ryan Lake and Jin Lu
- 2016: Ryan Lake & Thomas Brazelton
- 2015: Ryan Lake
- 2014: Yevgeniy Rudoy
- 2013: Yujie Qian and Yevgeniy Rudoy
- 2012 & 2011: Yevgeniy Rudoy
- 2010 & 2009: Adam Saltz
- 2008: Kihyuk Hong and Ngong Chiu Kam