The E. H. Moore Research Article Prize, also called the Moore Prize, is one of twenty-two prizes given out by the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

(AMS). It recognizes an outstanding research article to have appeared in one of the AMS primary research journals during the previous six years. The prize was funded in 2002 in memory of the former AMS president

E. H. Moore Eliakim Hastings Moore (; January 26, 1862 – December 30, 1932), usually cited as E. H. Moore or E. Hastings Moore, was an American mathematician. Life Moore, the son of a Methodist minister and grandson of US Congressman Eliakim H. Moore, di ...

. Beginning in 2004, it is awarded every three years at the

Joint Mathematics Meetings The Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) is a mathematics conference hosted annually in early January by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Frequently, several other national mathematics organizations also participate. From 1998 to 2020, the JMM ...

and carries a cash reward of $5,000.

Recipients

* 2004

Mark Haiman Mark David Haiman is a mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who proved the Macdonald positivity conjecture for Macdonald polynomials. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the directi ...

for "Hilbert schemes, polygraphs, and the Macdonald positivity conjecture", '' J. Amer. Math. Soc.'' (2001) * 2007 Ivan Shestakov and Ualbai Umirbaev for "The tame and the wild automorphisms of polynomial rings in three variables," ''J. Amer. Math. Soc.'' (2004) and "Poisson brackets and two-generated subalgebras of rings of polynomials," ''J. Amer. Math. Soc.'' (2004) * 2010

Sorin Popa Sorin Teodor Popa (born 24 March 1953) is a Romanian American mathematician working on operator algebras. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2025. Biograph ...

for "On the superrigidity of malleable actions with spectral gap," ''J. Amer. Math. Soc.'' (2008) * 2013 Michael J. Larsen and Richard Pink for "Finite subgroups of algebraic group," ''J. Amer. Math. Soc.'' (2011) * 2016

Caucher Birkar Caucher Birkar (; born Fereydoun Derakhshani (، ); July 1978) is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish mathematician (born in Iran) and a professor at Tsinghua University. Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry. In 2010 he re ...

, Paolo Cascini, Christopher Hacon, and James McKernan for "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type," ''J. Amer. Math. Soc.'' (2010) * 2019

Ciprian Manolescu Ciprian Manolescu (; born December 24, 1978) is a Romanian-American mathematician, working in gauge theory, symplectic geometry, and low-dimensional topology. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Biography Manolescu ...

for "Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg–Witten Floer homology and the triangulation conjecture," ''J. Amer. Math. Soc.'' (2016) * 2022 Piotr Przytycki and Daniel Wise for "Mixed 3-manifolds are virtually special," ''J. Amer. Math. Soc.'' (2018) * 2025 Mark Gross, Paul Hacking, Seán Keel and

Maxim Kontsevich Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (, ; born 25 August 1964) is a Russian and French mathematician and mathematical physicist. He is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami. He ...

for "Canonical bases for cluster algebras," ''J. Amer. Math. Soc.'', Volume 31, Number 2, April 2018, pp. 497–608.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore Research Article Prize, E. H. Awards of the American Mathematical Society American science and technology awards 2004 establishments in the United States Awards established in 2004

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