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The American Institute of Mathematics

Alexanderson Award

The Alexanderson Award recognizes an outstanding scholarly article arising from research activities sponsored by the American Institute of Mathematics and published within the past three years. The award was established in 2018 to honor the contributions of Gerald Alexanderson, Professor of Mathematics at Santa Clara University and founding chair of AIM’s Board of Trustees. As its first chair, Jerry provided the stewardship that has distinguished AIM as an international center for mathematical research with a commitment to productive and creative collaboration.

Current Winners

AIM is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Alexanderson Award: Raphaël Beuzart-Plessis, Yifeng Liu, Yichao Tian, Liang Xiao, Wei Zhang, and Xinwen Zhu. The papers "Isolation of the cuspidal spectrum, with applications to the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture” by Beuzart-Plessis, Liu, Zhang, and Zhu, published in the Annals in 2021; and
“On the Beilinson-Bloch-Kato conjecture for Rankin-Selberg motives” by Liu, Tian, Xiao, Zhang, and Zhu, published in Inventiones in 2022.

Past Winners

2024 Alexanderson Award: "Energy on spheres and discreteness of minimizing measures," by Dmitriy Bilyk, Alexey Glazyrin, Ryan Matzke, Josiah Park, and Oleksandr Vlasiuk.

2023 Alexanderson Award: “Higher uniformity of bounded multiplicative functions in short intervals on average,” by Kaisa Matomäki, Maksym Radziwiłł, Terence Tao, Joni Teräväinen, and Tamar Ziegler.

2022 Alexanderson Award: “Modularity of generating series of divisors on unitary Shimura varieties,” by Jan Bruinier, Benjamin Howard, Stephen S. Kudla, Michael Rapoport, and Tonghai Yang.

2020 Alexanderson Award: “Uniform Manin–Mumford for a family of genus 2 curves,” by Laura DeMarco, Holly Krieger, and Hexi Ye.

2019 Alexanderson Award: “Rank-finiteness for modular categories,” by Paul Bruillard, Siu-Hung Ng, Eric C. Rowell, and Zhenghan Wang.

2018 Alexanderson Award: “Free energy fluctuations for directed polymers in random media in 1+1 dimensions,” by Alexei Borodin, Ivan Corwin, and Patrik Ferrari.