The Bateman Prize is awarded to a graduate student in recognition of outstanding research in number theory. The prize was initiated in 1999 by the department Number Theory Group, chaired by Professor Bruce Berndt. Most of the funds were donated by Professors Bateman and John Selfridge, a former member of the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics and founder of the Number Theory Foundation, with additional support from former students and current faculty members.
The prize is named for Professor Paul T. Bateman whose research interests are in analytic number theory, with a particular career-long interest in sums of squares, the topic of his doctoral dissertation. Professor Bateman received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. He joined the University of Illinois mathematics faculty in 1950, served as head of the department from 1965-1980, and became an emeritus professor in 1989. He died in 2012. Twenty students received their Ph.D. under his direction.
Recipients
- 2025 Debmalya Basak
- 2024 Di Liu
- 2024 Qihang Sun
- 2023 Robert Dicks
- 2023 Maria Siskaki
- 2022 Yuji Yang
- 2020 Alexander Dunn
- 2019 George Shakan
- 2018 Kyle Pratt
- 2017 Amita Malik and Xianchang Meng
- 2016 Nickolas Andersen
- 2015 Arindam Roy
- 2014 Daniel Schultz
- 2013 Joseph Vandehey
- 2012 Kit Ho Mak
- 2011 Atul Dixit
- 2010 Michael Dewar and Dimitrios Koukoulopoulos
- 2009 Byungchan Kim
- 2008 Sun Kim
- 2007 Samuel M. Kadziela and Maosheng Xiong
- 2006 O-Yeat Chan
- 2004 Hamza Yesilyurt
- 2003 Song Heng Chan
- 2002 James McLaughlin and Kevin O'Bryant
- 2001 Mark Bauer
- 2000 Yifan Yang
- 1999 Youn-Seo Choi