The Taylor Prize in Mathematics (GWU) is a cash prize awarded annually to a graduate student of mathematics at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. The prize is named after Dr. James Henry Taylor

James Henry Taylor

James Henry Taylor was a professor of mathematics at George Washington University from 1929–1958, and professor emeritus from 1959 until his death.- Early life :...

, a professor of mathematics at GW from 1929 to 1958.

History

James Henry Taylor was a mathematics professor at GW from 1929 to 1958 and then professor emeritus until his death in 1972. Several years after his death the president of the university, Dr. Lloyd H. Elliott, along with several of the professors in the Mathematics Department, including Taylor's good friend Fritz Joachim Weyl

Fritz Joachim Weyl

Fritz Joachim Weyl was born in Zurich, Switzerland. Today Weyl is regarded as a renowned mathematician. During his lifetime he taught at many universities, significantly contributed to research in mathematics and came to be very well respected...

, decided to create an award in his memory. Money was deposited in an account from which the prize funds would be drawn annually. The interest that builds throughout the year on the account makes up the majority of the annual prize. For example, in 1983 first year graduate student Karma Dajani won the prize, which at the time was $500 but when she won the prize again in 1986 it was worth only $300 because interest had not accumulated for as many years. Thomas J. Carter became the first recipient of the prize in 1977.

About the recipients

The GWU bulletin simply describes the criteria for recipients of the prize as, "awarded to an outstanding mathematics graduate student." Many of the twenty-five winners of the Taylor Prize have gone on to become professors of mathematics at various universities. Most have published essays and books or given lectures on their specific subjects.

Complete list of recipients

Year	Name	Current Occupation
2009	Radmila Sazdanovic	–
2008	Jennifer Chubb and Hillary Einziger	(Chubb) Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco
2007	Kerry Luse, Maciej Niebrzydowski	(Niebrzydowski) Assistant Professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette University of Louisiana at Lafayette The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, or UL Lafayette, is a coeducational, public research university located in Lafayette, Louisiana, in the heart of Acadiana...
2006	Malgorzata Dabkowska	Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas, also referred to as UT Dallas or UTD, is a public research university in the University of Texas System. The main campus is in the heart of the Richardson, Texas, Telecom Corridor, north of downtown Dallas...
2005	Eric Ufferman	Visiting Assistant Professor at GWU
2004	Laure Helme-Guizon	Co-wrote "Torsion in Graph Technology" with Józef H. Przytycki Józef H. Przytycki Józef Henryk Przytycki , is a mathematician specializing in the fields of knot theory and topology.In 1987, he and Pawel Traczyk published "Invariants of links of Conway type" , which included a description of what is now called the HOMFLY polynomial...
2003	Amir Togha	Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bronx Community College Bronx Community College The Bronx Community College of The City University of New York is a community college in the City University of New York system located in the University Heights neighborhood of The Bronx.- History :...
2002	Mietek Dabkowski	Associate professor at University of Texas at Dallas
2001	Rumen Dimitrov	Associate Professor of Mathematics at Western Illinois University Western Illinois University Western Illinois University is a public university founded in 1899 as Western Illinois State Normal School. Like many similar institutions of the time, Western Illinois State Normal School focused on teacher training for its relatively small body of students. As the normal school grew, it became...
2000	Maxim Sokolov	Works at a Chicago investment company
1999	Hongxun Qin	-
1998	William Collier	–
1997	Jun Zhang	–
1996	Adam Sikora	Assistant Professor of Mathematics at SUNY at Buffalo
1995	William Miller	Associate Professor at Arizona State University Arizona State University Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
1994	Qing Shen	–
1992	Sita Ramamurti	Associate Professor of Mathematics at Trinity University Trinity Washington University Trinity Washington University, founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is a Roman Catholic university located in Washington, D.C. across from Catholic University of America and the Dominican House of Studies...
1991	Gary Schwartz	–
1990	Uma Shivapuram	–
1988	Claire Hackett	–
1987	Hassan Sedaghat	Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University is a public university located in Richmond, Virginia. It comprises two campuses in the Downtown Richmond area, the product of a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968...
1986	Karma Dajani	Senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands)
1983	Karma Dajani	Senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands)
1978	John Petro	–
1977	Thomas J Carter	Professor and Chair of Computer Science/Cognitive Studies at CSU Stanislaus