PROMYS 2018
Dates of the program: July 1 - August 11, 2018
Please visit Quick Facts about PROMYS for details of the program.
Applications
2018 Student Application: Applications are no longer being accepted.
2018 Mehta Fellowship Application for students in India: Applications are no longer being accepted.
2018 Yongren Fellowship Application for low-income students in China: Applications are no longer being accepted.
2018 Counselor Application: Applications are no longer being accepted.
2018 PROMYS for Teachers Application available HERE.
Application deadline: June 1.
Financial Aid
PROMYS offers full and partial need-based financial aid and is dedicated to the principle that no one should be unable to attend for financial reasons.
Learn more about Financial Aid
Scholarships
Endowed Breakout Fellowship to PROMYS
Thanks to the generosity of Breakthrough Prize-winning mathematicians Richard Taylor, Terence Tao, and Jacob Lurie and to PROMYS alum donors, a full scholarship will be offered annually to a mathematically talented student who might not otherwise be able to attend.
AMS Epsilon Fund Scholarships
With support from the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Epsilon Fund, PROMYS is delighted to offer a Ky and Yu-Fen Fan Scholarship: a substantial or full scholarship for a talented high school student.
PROMYS is also grateful to have AMS support of its need-based financial aid awards.
2018 Tara and Jasubhai Mehta Fellowships
Full scholarships to PROMYS for students from India. Thanks to the generosity of Nicholas Nash, Morph.org and the Indira Foundation, these scholarships cover tuition, room and board, and roundtrip airfare from India. Please click HERE for more information.
2018 Yongren (永仁) Fellowships to PROMYS for Students from China
Full scholarships to PROMYS for low-income students in China. Established thanks to the generosity of a family foundation. Details HERE.
HMMT/HMNT Scholarships
PROMYS will award two $250 scholarships (to one male and one female first-year PROMYS student) among winners of HMMT or HMNT who qualify for the program.
Please click here for student and counselor testimonials.
Breakout Fellowship to PROMYS Awarded in 2017
Haneul Shin, the 2017 Breakout Fellow, with Professor Glenn Stevens
PROMYS was delighted to award the 2017 Breakout Fellowship to PROMYS to Haneul Shin of River Edge, New Jersey. Haneul attends Bergen County Academies where she is a junior.
Terence Tao, Richard Taylor, and Jacob Lurie, recipients of the inaugural Breakthrough Prizes in Mathematics, very generously created the Breakout Fellowship to PROMYS in late 2014. The PROMYS alum community then matched the Breakout Fellowship donations to create and fully fund the Breakout Fellowship Endowment which will bring one Breakout Fellow to PROMYS every summer. 2017 was the third year of the Breakout Fellowships.
Eight Mehta Fellowships to PROMYS awarded in 2017!
2017 Mehta Fellows to PROMYS (Back, left to right) Professor Glenn Stevens, Arya Vadnere, Aman Agrawal, Siddharth Sridhar, and Adit Vishnu Pathirissery Manoj (Front, left to right) Kushagr Mohan Ahuja, Soumen Ghosh, Devansh Sehta, and Sabir Shaik
PROMYS was excited to award eight 2017 Tara and Jasubhai Mehta Fellowships to PROMYS for talented young mathematicians in India: three first-year Mehta Fellows and five Returning Mehta Fellows.
The new first-year Mehta Fellows were Devansh Sehta from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Aman Agrawal also from Indore, and Siddharth Sridhar from Chennai in Tamil Nadu. The Fellows were selected from a very strong pool of Mehta Fellowship applicants. Finalists were interviewed by alumni Dr. Abhinav Kumar and Dr. Ila Varma.
Returning Mehta Fellows in 2017 were Arya Vadnere from Pune in Maharashtra, Adit Vishnu Pathirissery Manoj from Thrissur in Kerala, Kushagr Mohan Ahuja from Chandigarh in Union Territory, and Soumen Ghosh from Katwa in West Bengal who was returning as a junior counselor. In addition, Sabir Shaik was returning as a counselor. Sabir was a Mehta Fellow at PROMYS 2015 and a Returning Fellow as a junior counselor in 2016. Soumen had just completed his first year as an undergraduate at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Sabir had completed his second year as an undergraduate at the Chennai Mathematical Institute.
The participation of these students, all exceptionally talented in mathematics, was thanks to the generosity of Nicholas Nash, the Indira Foundation and Morph.org, the Mehta Fellowship sponsors. The Mehta Fellowships are full scholarships to PROMYS which also cover round-trip airfare from India, visa fees and any required books.
Please visit the Mehta Fellowship page HERE for more information.
Yongren Fellowship to PROMYS awarded in 2017
Zehong Zong, the 2017 Yongren Fellow, with Professor Glenn Stevens
The PROMYS Foundation was delighted to award the inaugural Yongren (永仁) Fellowship to PROMYS to Zehong Zong from Zhengzhou, in Henan Province in east-central China. In coming to PROMYS, Zehong hoped for “an intellectual adventure to do some challenging and inspiring mathematics.”
Funded by a generous family foundation, the Yongren Fellowship was established to enable the participation in PROMYS of a mathematically talented low-income student from China. The Fellowship includes a full scholarship to PROMYS (including all tuition, room and board) plus roundtrip travel from China, visa application fees, and any required books.
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PROMYS
PROMYS is a six-week summer program at Boston University designed to encourage strongly motivated high school students to explore in depth the creative world of mathematics in a supportive community of peers, counselors, research mathematicians, and visiting scientists. Professor Glenn Stevens, the Director of PROMYS, founded the program in 1989 together with other members of the current faculty.
The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) and PROMYS are offering new advanced seminars for returning PROMYS students. Returning students also engage in original research under the mentorship of professional mathematicians.
Returning students present their research at PROMYS 2017
Please visit Quick Facts about PROMYS for details of the program.
PROMYS for Teachers
Teacher giving a presentation at PROMYS for Teachers
PROMYS for Teachers is a collaboration of Boston University's Department of Mathematics with the Education Development Center in Waltham, Massachusetts. Together we are working to promote what we call a "culture of exploration" in secondary school mathematics classrooms.
A video of the PROMYS for Teachers program may be viewed HERE.
PROMYS Math Circle (PMC)
PROMYS Math Circle (PMC) was launched in 2016, as a part of enhanced efforts to reach out to mathematically talented students in Massachusetts, particularly those from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds. Under the guidance of mentors (PfT alumni and graduate students in mathematics), PMC students engage in weekly exploration-based math circles, working collaboratively on specially-designed problem sets. Five of the 2016-2017 PMC students participated in PROMYS during the summer of 2017, on full or partial scholarships. PMC is supported by a generous Massachusetts family foundation.
PROMYS Europe
Professor Sir Andrew Wiles after his Guest Lecture at PROMYS Europe 2016
PROMYS Europe is a partnership between PROMYS; the University of Oxford's Mathematical Institute; the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI); and Wadham College, Oxford University. PROMYS Europe is open to pre-university students aged 16 and up who are ordinarily resident in Europe.
PROMYS Europe is closely modeled on its parent program at Boston University. The teaching philosophy and the focus on developing mathematical habits of mind is the same at both programs as is the importance of creating a supportive and highly stimulating mathematical community.
Please click HERE to visit the PROMYS Europe site
Landon T Clay: 1926 – July 29, 2017
Landon Clay founded the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI), a long-standing and deeply valued partner of the PROMYS program. Known for his intellectual curiosity and his desire to spread awareness of the significance of mathematics, Landon Clay was the creator of the Millennium Prizes. His passing is mourned by PROMYS and by all in and beyond the mathematical world who have benefited from his generosity and his vision.
Returning student presenting research at PROMYS 2017
Glenn Stevens giving one of the daily Number Theory lectures in 2017
Henry Cohn giving one of the daily Number Theory lectures in 2017
PROMYS Videos
Video about PROMYS. Students, faculty, and alums of the program were filmed and interviewed during PROMYS 2013 and at the 25th Summer of PROMYS Celebration July 5-7, 2013.
Alum Hirsh Jain's TEDx Talk: "To Think Deeply Of Simple Things"