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The AMS Centennial Fellowship

The AMS Centennial Fellowship Program makes an award annually to an outstanding mathematician to help further their career in research. One award will be made for the 2025-2026 academic year in the amount of US$50,000. AMS membership will also be offered to the recipient for the duration of the fellowship. Acceptance of the fellowship cannot be postponed.

Support is paid to the university/department to be used for course release, research-related travel, and research-related expenses. Institutions may not charge costs of any kind to AMS fellowships, such as fringe benefit rate, indirect costs, or overhead.

Applications are currently being accepted on MathPrograms from July 15 through September 30, 2024 (11:59 p.m. EDT).

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Most Recent Fellowship: 2024

Francesc Castella, an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2024-2025 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year. The primary selection criterion is the excellence of the candidate's research. Castella's research interests are number theory and arithmetic geometry: more specifically, p-adic L-functions, Euler systems, and Iwasawa theory.

Fellowship announcement as seen in the news release.

See previous winners

Eligibility

The primary selection criterion for the Centennial Fellowship is the excellence of the candidate's research.

  • Preference will be given to candidates who have not had extensive fellowship support in the past.
  • Recipients may not hold the Centennial Fellowship concurrently with another major research award such as a Sloan fellowship, NSF Postdoctoral fellowship, or CAREER award.
  • Under normal circumstances, the fellowship cannot be deferred.
  • A recipient of the fellowship shall have held their doctoral degree for at least three years and not more than twelve years at the inception of the award (that is, received between September 1, 2013 and September 1, 2022).
  • Applications will be accepted from mathematicians currently holding a tenured, tenure track, post-doctoral, or comparable (at the discretion of the selection committee) position at a U.S. institution.

For any program, fellowship, prize or award that has a maximum period of eligibility after receipt of the doctoral degree, the selection committee may use discretion in making exceptions to the limit on eligibility for candidates whose careers have been interrupted for reasons such as family or health.

Applications should include a detailed research plan for the fellowship period that is contextualized by the research statement. The plan should include a description of how the fellowship will support the applicant's success. It should be no more than one page. The selection committee will consider the plan in addition to the quality of the candidate's research and will try to award the fellowship to those for whom the award would make a real difference in the development of their research careers. Work in all areas of mathematics, including interdisciplinary work, is eligible.

How to Apply

The application form requires the following information.  

  • Research Statement: a statement regarding the applicant's overall program of research, past and planned, that is meaningful to mathematicians who are not specialists. The statement should be no more than three pages, including bibliographical references.
  • Research Plan: a detailed research plan for the fellowship period that is contextualized by the research statement. The plan should include a description of how the fellowship will support the applicant's success. It should be no more than one page.
  • Key Professional Accomplishments: a list of up to ten publications or other professional activities that demonstrate the applicant's contributions to the mathematics profession. This list should be no more than one page.
  • Positions and Fellowships Since PhD: a list of all fellowships and comparable research appointments, such as a term at one of the mathematical institutes. Do not attach a vita.
  • NSF-style Summary of Current and Pending Support: to create an NSF Current and Pending Support document, visit https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv, log into your NSF account, follow the prompts in the walk-through form, select "Create new document," choose the "NSF Current and Pending (Other) Support" format, and download the PDF.​​​​​​
  • NSF-style Biographical Sketch: to create the NSF-style biographical sketch, visit https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv, log into your NSF account, follow the prompts in the walk-through form, select "Create new document," choose the "NSF Biographical Sketch" format, and download the PDF.
  • References: a list of three reference writers who can address the applicant’s accomplishments and research potential. Use the email links on the coversheet to send a password and instructions directly to the writers.

Applications will be accepted on MathPrograms from July 15 through September 30, 2024 (11:59 p.m. EDT). References will be accepted until October 4, 2024 (11:59 p.m. EDT). 

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