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The H. J. Ryser Scholarship Winners

The H. J. Ryser Scholarships were established in 1986 in memory of H. J. Ryser, who was professor of mathematics at Caltech from 1967 to 1985. Professor Ryser contributed greatly to combinatorial mathematics and inspired many students with his carefully planned courses. It is awarded to undergraduate students for academic excellence.

2023 - Charlotte Borcherds, Haydn Maust, Yakov Shalunov

2022 - Miles CuaNecef Kavrut, Laura Lewis

2021 - Elia Gorokhovsky

2020 - Allison Wang, Arushi Gupta, and Qiyao Yu

2019 - Erik Herrera, Mayank Pandey

2018 - Gefei Dang, Felix Weilacher

2017 - Sam Bardwell-Evans, Zachary Chase

2016 - William Ballinger, Chloe Hsu, Matthew Weidner

2015 - Shival Dasu, Catherine Lo, Tian Nie

2014 - Zharong Jin, Jake Marcinek, Jake Wellens

2013 - Kenneth Hung, Zhengyang Jiang

2012 - Sarawathi Benkatesh, Ryan Thorngren, Andrew Zucker

2011 - Zarathustra Brady, Samuel Elder, Jeffrey Manning, Alexandra Mustat

2010 - Yakov Berchenko-Kogan, Jason Bland, Brian Lawrence

2009 - William Barry Chen, Doo Sung Park, Seung Woo Shin

2008 - Evan Dummitt, Lozan Ivanov, Po-Ling Loh, David Renshaw

2007 - Elette Boyle, Ilya Gekhtman, Elizabeth Howe, Jed Yang

2006 - Grigori Avramidi, Nicholas Hutzler, Po-Ru Loh

2005 - Ben Golub, Po-Ru Loh, Trevor Wilson

2004 - Patrick Hummel, Timothy Nguyen, Mehmet Yenmez

2003 - Megan Guichard, Po-Shen Loh, Arving Murugan, Andrew Yang

2002 - Kevin Costello, Virginia Vassilevska

2001 - Fu Liu, Michael Shulman

2000 - Chris Hirata, Michael Schein

1999 - Damian N. Burch, Melvin Boon-Tiong Leok

1998 - Joseph K. Blitzstein

1997 - Kerwyn Casey Huang, Benjamin David Miller

1996 - Jarah M Evslin, Victoria M. Tanusheva

1995 - Amalavoyal N. Chari, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna

1994 - Debbie W. Leung, Roman Muchnik

1993 - Monwhea Jeng, Zhanqing Ren

1992 - Michael Anshelevich, Shreyas Vasanawala

1991 - Johnathan Pakianathan, Nitya Kitchloo

1990 - Raghava Chari, Jun Teng

1989 - Seth Bittker, Li Yen Ho

1988 - Stanley Chen, Glenn Tesler

1987 - Laura Anderson, Joel Hamkins

1986 - Eric Babson, John Simpson