AMS Epsilon Awards for Young Scholars Programs
The Epsilon Awards for Young Scholars Programs support existing summer programs for mathematically talented high school students.
Award Details
Awards of $7,500-$15,000 are made annually to support existing summer programs that touch hundreds of talented and highly-motivated mathematics students. The number of programs supported each year varies.
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Next awards (for summer 2013)
March 2013
Most Recent Awards: 2012
The following programs were recipients of the 2012 Epsilon Awards: Canada/USA Mathcamp, University of Puget Sound; Governor's Institutes of Vermont: Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont; Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM), Hampshire College; Lamar Achievement in Mathematics Program (LAMP), Lamar University; MathPath, Mount Holyoke College; Mathworks Honors Summer Math Camp, Texas State University; Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS), Boston University; Puerto Rico Opportunities for Talented Students in Mathematics (PROTaSM), University of Puerto Rico; Research Science Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ross Mathematics Program, The Ohio State University; Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC), Stanford University; Summer Program in Mathematical Problem Solving, Bard College; Young Scholars Program, University of Chicago.
About the Awards
In 1999 the American Mathematical Society established the Epsilon Fund to help support summer mathematics programs for mathematically talented high school students. The name for the fund was chosen in remembrance of the late Paul Erdös, who was fond of calling children "epsilons." The goal of the program is to aid and promote programs that support and nurture mathematically talented youth in the United States, and to make these opportunities available to the broad pool of all mathematically talented high school students living in the United States.
Previous Awards
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