The Richard Sady Dissertation Prize is for the best dissertation as judged by the graduate committee. Richard Sady was a graduate student in our department and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1977. He then was an assistant professor at Pembroke State University in North Carolina where he died in 1982. He was beloved by many here. This fund was established in his name.
This year the prize is awarded to Sourav Ghosh, Annie Holden, Katherine Novey, and Nan Wu
Sourav Ghosh: Tangent Flows in Mean Curvature Flow
Annie Holden: Cohomology of Handlebody Torelli Groups
Katherine Novey: Failure of Ordinary TQFTs to Detect Homotopy Type
Nan Wu: Existence and Regularity of Brakke Flow in Hyperbolic Space