Promys Foundation

“Board of trustees review and approve the form 990 before submission.”

“Disclosure statements are required to submitted annually by each trustee. The board of trustees appoints a trustee to review these submissions and provide a report to the board.”

“The foundation makes its form 1023, form 990 and its organizational documents available for public inspection upon request and via the massachusetts public charity website.”

“Breakout fellowships term endowment (temporarily restricted contributions) - terence tao, richard taylor, and jacob lurie, recipients of the inaugural breakthrough prizes in mathematics, very generously created the breakout fellowship to promys. The breakout fellowship is a full scholarship to promys for a mathematically talented student who might not otherwise be able to attend. With the goal of creating a fully funded breakout fellowship to promys endowment, the promys alum community was invited in december 2014 to match the very generous donation of the breakthrough mathematicians. Thanks to the generosity and vision of all the donors, this endowment goal was reached in march 2015. The future of the breakout fellowships to promys is now assured: there will be a breakout fellow in every promys cohort from this year on. The promys foundation is delighted to announce that the 3rd breakout fellowship to promys was awarded to haneul shin of river edge, new jersey, in may 2017. The tara and jasubhai mehta fellowships to promys are for mathematically talented low-income students in india and are funded by nicholas nash, the indira foundation and morph.org, the mehta fellowship sponsors. Each mehta fellowship covers all tuition and room and board costs for attending the six weeks of promys at boston university. The fellowships also cover round-trip airfare from india and the cost of any required books. Promys is excited to announce the awarding in 2017 of eight tara and jasubhai mehta fellowships to promys for mathematically talented low-income students in india. There are three first-year mehta fellows and there are five returning mehta fellows: arya vadnere, adit vishnu pathirissery manoj, kushagr mohan ahuja, soumen ghosh (who will be a junior counselor), and sabir shaik (who will be a counselor). Sabir has just completed his second year at the chennai mathematical institute. The three new first-year mehta fellows to promys in 2017 are devansh sehta from indore in madhya pradesh, aman agrawal who is also from indore in madhya pradesh, and siddharth sridhar from chennai in tamil nadu. The fellows were selected from the very strong applicant pool and were interviewed by alumni dr. Abhinav kumar (stony brook university) and dr. Ila varma (columbia university). The participation of these eight students, all exceptionally talented in mathematics, is thanks to the generosity of the mehta fellowship sponsors. The trustee scholarships are full scholarships to promys awarded by the promys foundation thanks to the generosity of the promys alum community. Promys for teachers (pft) is a six-week summer immersion in mathematical problem solving for mathematics teachers in massachusetts and beyond. Most participants are experienced secondary school math teachers; some are pre-service teachers. Founded in 1991 by professor glenn stevens, pft has grown from 4 teachers to as many as 50 teachers in recent summers. Pft is working to promote a "culture of exploration." teachers attend lectures and work collaboratively on challenging problem sets along with the support of counselors who are graduate students in mathematics or pft alumni with years of experience. Like the classroom activities pft encourages, the problem sets are low threshold high ceiling, so there is enlightenment and challenge for teachers from a wide range of math backgrounds. Returning teachers take on advanced seminars, projects, and research.”