Every year the NZMS hands out awards for mathematics research and contributions to mathematics in NZ.
The Prize will normally be awarded annually for an outstanding and innovative piece of research in the mathematical sciences published by a member or members of the NZMS. The Prize is for a single publication of original research, which may be an article, monograph or book, having appeared within the last 5 calendar years: 2020-2025. The value of the Prize is $5000. The Prize is generously funded by the Margaret and John Kalman Charitable Trust, and recognises the significant contributions to mathematics in New Zealand made by Professor John Kalman.
Eligibility. A publication may be nominated for the Prize by any member of the NZMS who is not an author of that publication. To be eligible, the nominated publication must have at least one author who:
i) is a current member of the NZMS, and was a member in the calendar year of publication of the nominated work; and |
ii) is a resident of New Zealand, and used a New Zealand address in the publication. |
In the case of publications with multiple eligible authors, the Prize will be shared by all eligible authors. The existence of authors who do not meet the conditions in i) and ii) above will not preclude the award, although the judging panel may take into account whether the NZ author has made a major contribution to the published work. The judging panel may deem a publication ineligible if an author has previously received an award from the NZMS for a body of research that included the nominated publication.
Nominations should include the following:
Unsuccessful applicants from 2024 (whose publication remains within the eligibility period) will be invited to update their application so that it can be reconsidered in 2025.
Nominations should be sent by email to the NZMS President, Bernd Krauskopf by 31 August 2025. Submissions should state clearly that they are for the Kalman Prize for Best Paper.
A judging panel will be appointed by the NZMS President, and makes recommendations to the President for the Prize. We note that the prize should be awarded solely on the merit of the publication, not on career achievements of the author or authors. The winner(s) of the prize will be announced at the New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium Dinner in December.
The Kalman Prize for Best Paper in 2024 was awarded to Rod Downey (Victoria University of Wellington) for the book `A Hierarchy of Turing Degrees’ (Annals of Mathematics Series), written jointly with Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington).
Year | Name | Location | Award Details |
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2023 | Marston Conder, Jin-Xin Zhou, Yan-Quan Feng and Mi-Mi Zhang | Edge-transitive bi-Cayley graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. 145 (2020), 264--306. | |
2022 | C.M. Postlethwaite and A.M. Rucklidge. | Stability of cycling behaviour near a heteroclinic network model of Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock. Nonlinearity, 35, 1702, 2022. | |
2021 | Robert M. Guralnick, Martin W. Liebeck, E.A. O’Brien, Aner Shalev and Pham Huu Tiep. | Surjective word maps and Burnside’s paqb theorem. Inventiones Mathematicae 213 (2018), 589–695. | |
2020 | Melissa Tacy | Lp estimates for joint quasimodes of semiclassical pseudo-differential operators. Israel Journal of Mathematics 232 (2019), 401–425. | |
2019 | Alexander Melnikov and Keng Meng Ng. | Computable torsion abelian groups. Advances in Mathematics 325 (2018), 864-907. | |
2018 | Laurent Bienvenu, Noam Greenberg, Antonin Kucera, Andre Nies and Dan Turetsky. | Coherent randomness tests and computing the K-trivial sets. J. European Math. Society 18 (2016), 773-812. | |
2017 | Jonathan H. Brown, Lisa Orloff Clark, Cynthia Farthing and Aidan Sims. | Simplicity of algebras associated to etale groupoids. Semigroup Forum 88 (2014), 433-452. | |
2016 | Timothy H. Marshall and Gaven J. Martin. | Minimal co-volume hyperbolic lattices II: Simple torsion in a Kleinian group. Annals of Mathematics 176 (2012), 261-301. |