The Eric Temple Bell Undergraduate Mathematics Research Prize Winners

In 1963 the department of mathematics established this prize honoring the memory of Professor Eric Temple Bell and his illustrious career as a research mathematician, teacher, author, and scholar.  It is awarded to one or more juniors or seniors for the best original research paper in mathematics. When submitting a paper, students should specify a faculty member who can attest to the quality of the work. The awards committee may award duplicate prizes in case of more than one outstanding entry. 

Abstracts and/or solutions, where available, are linked to the winner's name.

2024 - Brian Yang

2023 - Miles Cua

2022 - August Chen, Olivine Silier

2021 - Jacob Ressler-Craig, Daniel Rostovtsev, Qiyao Yu

2020 - Sara Fish

2019 - Zachary Chase, Felix Weilacher

2018 - no prize awarded

2017 - William Ballinger & Chloe Hsu & Tynan Ochse, Matthew Weidner

2016 - Tian Nie

2015 - Zhaorong Jin, Jake Marcinek

2014 - Mark Greenfield

2013 - Andy Zucker

2012 - Alexandra Musat

2011 - Jeffrey Lin

2010 - Domenic Denicola

2009 - Jeffrey Kuan, Ila Varma

2008 - Philip Perepelitsky

2007 - David Renshaw, Jed Yang

2006 - Timothy Nguyen

2005 - Patrick Hummel, Timothy Nguyen, Trevor Wilson

2004 - Ameera Chowdhury, Po-Shen Loh

2003 - no prize awarded

2002 - Suhas Nayak

2001 - no prize awarded

2000 - Keshav Dani, Peter Gerdes

1999 - Scott Carnahan, Melvin Boon-Tiong Leok

1998 - no prize awarded

1997 - Marc A. Coram, Mason Alexander Porter

1996 - Winston Yang

1995 - no prize awarded

1994 - Julian Jamison

1993 - no prize awarded

1992 - Michael Maxwell, Robert Southworth

1991 - Alan Knutson

1990 - no prize awarded

1989 - James Coykendall, IV

1988 - Laura Anderson, Eric Babson

1987 - Jonathan Shapiro

1986 - Arthur Duval, Everette Howe

1985 - Charles Nainan

1984 - Bradley Brock, Alan Murray

1983 - Vipul Perival, Mark Purtill

1982 - Forrest Quinn

1981 - Daniel Gordon, Peter Shor, Thiennu H. Vu

1980 - Eugene Y. Loh, John Stembridge, Robert Weaver

1979 - no prize awarded

1978 - no prize awarded

1977 - Thos. G. Kennedy

1976 - John Gustafson, Albert Wells, Jr., Hugh Woodin

1975 - James B. Shearer, Eric Williams

1974 - David S. Dummit

1973 - Bruce Reznick

1972 - Daniel J Rudolph

1971 - no prize awarded

1970 - no prize awarded 

1969 - Robert E. Tarjan

1968 - Michael Fredman

1967 - James Maiorana, Allen J. Schwenk

1966 - no prize awarded

1965 - Michael Ashbacher, Richard P. Stanley

1964 - William Zame

1963 - Ed Bender, Jeff Lindsey III