Jason Liu, a fourth-year graduate student in mathematics, has been awarded the 2024 Wolfgang Haken Prize in Geometry and Topology, in recognition of outstanding research in geometry and topology.

Liu researches problems in symplectic geometry. He has been working with mathematics faculty members at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to advance a conjecture regarding Hamiltonian circle action on compact manifolds, and he has pursued two other related conjectures independently.

Earlier in his graduate career, Liu led a research project for the Illinois Mathematics Lab that studied toric and semitoric packing capacities of various polygons. The results of the project have since been published in the academic journal SIGMA.