PROMYS 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information: Currently, we still plan to run PROMYS 2020 as scheduled, but are also monitoring the situation closely. We will provide updates as soon as they become available should the situation change. For details on Boston University's response, see their information page.
PROMYS 2020 will run from Sunday, July 5 to Saturday, August 15.
Please visit Quick Facts about PROMYS for details of the program.
Applications
Student Application: Sign up here to be notified when the 2021 application becomes available.
Yongren Fellowships for students in China: Sign up here to be updated about the 2021 application.
PROMYS India near Delhi for students in India: Sign up here to be notified when the 2021 application becomes available.
Counselor Applications: Sign up here to be notified when the 2021 application becomes available.
PROMYS for Teachers Application: Available HERE
Sign up here to be notified when the 2021 application becomes available.
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.
Yongren (永仁) Fellowships to PROMYS 2020 for Students from China
Two full scholarships to PROMYS 2020 (plus roundtrip airfare and books) for low-income students in China. The Yongren Fellowships were established thanks to the generosity of a family foundation. Details HERE.
HMMT Scholarships
PROMYS will award two $250 scholarships (to one male and one female first-year PROMYS student) among winners of HMMT who qualify for the program.
Please click here for student and counselor testimonials.
Launch of PROMYS India!
PROMYS is very excited to announce the launch of PROMYS India, a separately-funded offshoot program for mathematically talented students in India. Like PROMYS Europe at the University of Oxford, PROMYS India will be closely modeled on PROMYS at Boston University.
All PROMYS India students in 2020 will be awarded full scholarships thanks to the generosity and vision of the program’s founding sponsors: Nick Nash and Phalgun Raju, Avi and Sandra Nash, Indira Foundation, and Morph.org. These sponsors also funded PROMYS India’s pilot program, the Mehta Fellowships, which brought talented students from India to PROMYS in 2015-2019.
The Director of PROMYS India is Professor Ila Varma (University of Toronto and UC San Diego) who has experienced PROMYS in multiple roles including student, counselor, Head Counselor, research mentor, guest lecturer, and PROMYS Foundation Trustee.
PROMYS India 2020 will run from May 24 - July 4 at Ashoka University in Sonepat, Haryana. The new program is a partnership of PROMYS, Ashoka University, and the PROMYS Foundation.
Applications for PROMYS India 2020 are open! Please visit the PROMYS India website.
PROMYS 30th Anniversary Weekend!
Alumni and friends of PROMYS gathered in Boston July 26-28 to celebrate thirty years of the program! Alumni from the past three decades enjoyed talks given by fellow alumni on both mathematical and non-mathematical topics, challenged each other in a Frisbee match, participated in a career mixer, enjoyed a celebratory Banquet and much more. Visit the 30th Anniversary page for the schedule, abstracts and bios.
2019 Breakout Fellowship to PROMYS
Yi Fan Lin with Professors Lim, Stevens and Baruch
PROMYS was delighted to award the 2019 Breakout Fellowship to Yi Fan Lin from Montreal where she is a high school senior.
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. 2019 is the fifth year of the Breakout Fellowships.
Fifteen Mehta Fellowships to PROMYS awarded in 2019!
Mehta Fellows with Professors Lim, Stevens and Baruch at PROMYS 2019
PROMYS was excited to award fifteen 2019 Tara and Jasubhai Mehta Fellowships for talented young mathematicians in India: six first-year Mehta Fellows, four Returning Mehta Fellows, one Mehta Junior Counselor, and four Mehta Counselors. The new Fellows were selected from an exceptionally large and impressive pool of Mehta Fellowship applicants. Finalists were interviewed by alumni Dr. Abhinav Kumar and Professor Ila Varma.
The participation of these students, all exceptionally talented in mathematics, is thanks to the generosity of the Nash Family, 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.
2019 First-Year Yongren Fellowship to PROMYS - Renewed in 2020!
Qianyun Zhou with Professors Lim, Stevens and Baruch
PROMYS was delighted to award the first-year 2019 Yongren (永仁) Fellowship to Qianyun Zhou. Qianyun is a high school junior from Shenzhen Middle School in Guangdong, China.
Funded by a generous family foundation, the Yongren Fellowships were established to enable the participation in PROMYS of mathematically talented low-income students 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. Please visit the Yongren Fellowships page for further details.
Follow @PROMYS_Program on Twitter
Follow @PROMYS_Teachers on Twitter
PROMYS Homepage
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
Please visit Quick Facts about PROMYS for details of the program.
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. Four of the 2017-2018 PMC students participated in PROMYS during the summer of 2018, 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
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
Henry Cohn giving one of the daily Number Theory lectures
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.
David Miller (Google) was among the fascinating alum speakers at the PROMYS 30th Anniversary, July 26 – 28, 2019. David was a counselor at PROMYS in 1990 and Head Counselor in 1991 and 1992. His talk, titled is “Natural Language Understanding, Deep Learning and the BERT Revolution.”
Alum Hirsh Jain's TEDx Talk: "To Think Deeply Of Simple Things"