Karl Menger Memorial Awards

2005 Karl Menger Memorial Award winners

"Family members of the late Karl Menger were the major contributors to a memorial fund established at Duke University. The majority of the income from this fund is used by the AMS for annual awards at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held each May. This year was the 18th year of AMS participation in the ISEF, and it marked the 16th year of the presentation of the Karl Menger Memorial Awards.

The members of the 2005–2006 AMS Menger Prize Committee and AMS Special Award Judges are Elwyn Berlekamp (University of California, Berkeley), Gisele Goldstein (University of Memphis), Dmitry Fuchs (University of California, Davis), and Tatiana Shubin (San Jose State University).The panel of judges reviewed more than one hundred individual and team projects in the fields of mathematics, physics, and computer science. A member of the panel interviewed each entrant under consideration for a Menger Prize, and the entire panel interviewed the finalists. The AMS gave awards to one first-place, two secondplace, and four third-place projects, and honorable mention to five others. At the 2005 ISEF the first-place award of US$1000 went to Scott Duke Kominers (Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, MD), for “On Universality Properties of Positive-Definite Integral Quadratic Forms.”"

Taken from AMS.