The Irving Reiner Memorial Award was established in memory of Professor Irving Reiner by his family in 1988, with the support also of colleagues and friends. Professor Reiner, a long-time member of the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics, was a leader in the field of integral representation theory. The Reiner Prize is awarded each spring to one or more graduate students in recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement in the field of algebra.
Professor Reiner received his Master's and Ph.D. from Cornell University. After Cornell, he spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he met and worked with Professor L.K. Hua.
He joined the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics faculty in 1948. During his 38 years at Illinois, he wrote 107 research papers, survey papers, books, and other scholarly works, with many collaborators. He directed the thesis work for 17 students. His classic and influential book on representation theory, written with Professor Charles W. Curtis, was published in 1962. During his career, he received many awards for his outstanding work, among these a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Brooklyn College, and a NATO Senior Fellowship. When Professor Reiner died at age 62, a colleague wrote, "We have been enriched by knowing him."
Recipients
2022
Gidon Orelowitz (prize)
Shiliang Gao (prize)
2021
Hsin-Po Wang (prize)
2020
Colleen Robichaux (prize)
Lutian Zhao (prize)
2019
Shiyu Shen (prize)
2018
Emily Heath (fellowship)
Heejoung Kim (fellowship)
2017
Neriman Tokcan (prize)
Bolor Turmunkh (prize)
Hao Sun (fellowship)
2016
Anna Weigandt
2015
Oliver Pechenik
2014
Dominic Searles
2013
Brian Ray
2012
Jesse Beder
2011
Gregory Kelsey
Alexandra Seceleanu
2010
Patrick Reynolds
2009
Jason McCullough
2008
Isaac Goldbring
2007
Shivi S. Bansal
2006
Nadya Markin
Lucas Sabalka
2005
Jinjia Li
2004
Michael Bush
2003
David Murphy
Amador Martin-Pizzaro
2002
Bogdan Petrenko
2001
Donghi Lee
Donghoon Hyeon
2000
Mark Bauer
1999
Miriam Kantorovitz
1998
Yu-Fen Wu
Darrin Doud
1997
Claudia Miller
1996
Judy Walker
1995
Mark Walker
1994
David Ose
1993
Abdellatif Laradji
1992
Niels Lauritzen
1991
Tuval Foguel
1990
Hara Charalambous
1989
Sunil Gunaratne
1988
Harald Ellers