The Department of Mathematics presents a number of awards to graduate students each year. Here are some the awards and recent recipients:

Academic excellence awards

This is awarded each year to the graduate students who performed the best in the first year core graduate courses and preliminary exams. Here is a list of recipients since 2000.

• 2012: Hao Chen, Sylvester Eriksson-Bique, Lorenzo Prelli
• 2011: Sayan Banerjee, Shirshendu Ganguly, Simon Spicer
• 2010: Stephen Lewis, Andrey Sarantsev, Yang Yang
• 2009: Gregory Drugan, Louis Fan, Huy Vo Tran
• 2008: Daeshik Choi, Christopher Jordan-Squire, Guangbin Zhuang
• 2007: Joao Gouveia, Ting Pong, Wenhan Wang
• 2006: Sean Holman, Andrey Novoseltsev, Zsolt Patakfalvi
• 2005: Jeremy Berquist, Jacob lewis, James Vargo
• 2004: Zsuzsanna Dancso, Joshua Kantor, Travis Kopp, Leo Tzou, Ursula Whitcher, Troy Winfree
• 2003: Matthew Ballard, Ryan Card, Matias Courdurier, Luke Gutzwiller, Jun Zhang
• 2002: Eric Bahuaud, Anton Dochterman, Ilgar Eroglu, Jeremy Walthers
• 2001: Matthew Blair, Yeongcheon Baek, Sunil Chebolu, Kris Kissel, David Maxwell, Karl Schwede, Pablo Shmerkin, Michal Skokan
• 2000: Robert Hladky, Joan Lind, Keir Lockridge, Jason Swanson, Amy Ehrlich, Gregory Markowsky, Younggu Moon

Teaching excellence awards

This is awarded each year to two of the department's top Teaching Assistants. Here is a list of recipients since 2000.

• 2012: Peter Caday, Courtney Kempton
• 2011: Matt Junge, Luke Wolcott
• 2010: Andrew Crites, Lindsay Erickson
• 2009: Jonathan Cross, Lee Patrolia
• 2008: Camil Aponte, Luke Gutzwiller
• 2007: Michael Goff, Troy Winfree
• 2006: Dan Finkel, Anusha Sekar
• 2005: Kristofer Reed, Edwin O'shea
• 2004: Juliet Anderson, Keir Lockridge
• 2003: Chris Hanusa, Kelly Jabbusch
• 2002: Dylan Helliwell, Kris Kissel
• 2001: Joan Lind, Peter Littig
• 2000: Amy Ehrlich, Alexandra Nichifor

McKibben and Merner fellows

This award, which provides extra funding for two years, is awarded to outstanding graduate students. It was established in 2005 from a generous donation by Craig McKibben and Sarah Merner. The recipients:

• 2012: Tvrkto Tadic, Huy Vo Tran
• 2011: Chris Aholt, Elliot Paquette
• 2010: Jim Stark, Andrey Sarantsev
• 2009: Joel Barnes, David Sprehn
• 2008: Alberto Chiecchio, Dake Wang
• 2007: Matthew Korson, Wenhan Wang
• 2006: Sean Holman
• 2005: Ursula Whitcher

Tanzi-Egerton fellows

This award goes to an outstanding female mathematics graduate student. It was established in 2007 from a generous donation by Lisa Tanzi and Charles Egerton. The recipients:

• 2012: Lindsay Erickson
• 2011: Alyson Deines
• 2010: Ting Zhou
• 2009: Ariana Dundon, Julia Eaton
• 2008: Kiana Ross
• 2007: Anusha Sekar, Catherine Williams

Departmental fellows

These awards provide either an additional stipend or a research assistantship for a quarter. They are funded by donations from former UW math faculty members. Recent recipients:

• 2012:
  • Z.W. Birnbaum Memorial Research Fellow: David Sprehn
  • Gerald B. Folland Fellow: Alberto Chiecchio
  • Ann Giles Fellow: Camil Aponte
  • Robert & Elaine Phelps Fellow: Bharathwaj Palvannan
  • John Rainwater Fellow: Cody Holdaway
  • Tseng Fellow: Matthew Ward
  • R Tyrrel Rockafellar Fellow: Alyson Deines
  • Lee and Cozette McFarlan Fellows: Brendan Pawlowski, Austin Roberts
  • Hewitt Family Fellow: Christian Rudnick
  • Carl B. Allendoerfer Fellow: Kaloyan Marinov
  • Department of Mathematics Fellows: Graham Clenaghan, Lorenzo Prelli
• 2011:
  • Tseng Fellow: Wenhang Wang
• 2010:
  • Birnbaum Fellow: Weiyang Ning
  • Hewitt Fellow: Kiana Ross
  • Tseng Fellow: Zsolt Patakfalvi
  • McFarlan Fellow: Sweta Suryanarayan
• 2008: McFarlan Fellows: Zsolt Patakfalvi, Ting-Kei Pong
• 2007: McFarlan Fellows: Andrey Novoseltsev, Zsolt Patakfalvi
• 2006: McFarlan Fellows: Ilgar Eroglu, Leo Tzou
• 2005: McFarlan Fellows: Matias Courdurier, Jun Zhang
• 2004: McFarlan Fellows: Sunil Chebolu, Pablo Shmerkin
• 2003: McFarlan Fellow: David Maxwell
• 2002: McFarlan Fellow: Panki Kim
• 2000: McFarlan Fellows: Robbie Mouat, Alexandru Tamasan