Promys Foundation

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“Annually, each trustee is expected to report conflict of interests to the board of trustees.”

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“1. In may 2022, the 2022 breakout fellowship to promys, the 8th year of the fellowship, was awarded to one an of the northern mariana islands. 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. 2.the tara and jasubhai mehta fellowships to promys are for mathematically talented low-income students in india and other low-gdp countries and are funded by nicholas nash & phalgun raju, avi & sandra nash, the indira foundation and morph.org, the mehta fellowship sponsors. Each mehta fellowship covers all costs for participation in promys (including room and board plus travel). The mehta fellowships were established in 2015 as a pilot program for a planned new promys program for students in india. Due to the global pandemic, the launch of the promys india was postponed, and the mehta fellowships for students in india were extended through 2021 and then 2022. Promys india's first summer of operation began in may 2023 at the indian institute of science (iisc) bangalore. Promys was delighted to welcome eighteen mehta fellows to promys 2022 which ran in person at boston university: twelve first-year mehta fellows, two returning mehta fellows, and one junior counselor, and three mehta counselors. Most of the fellows came from india, but there were also students from nepal, sri lanka, egypt and the philippines. 3.after two years of running a modified online program due to covid-19, promys for teachers (pft) returned in person to the campus of boston university. Academic year seminars (four half-day workshops) continued to be offered in a virtual format to help teachers unpack the pedagogical approaches used at promys to enrich the mathematical experience in their own classrooms. Another important goal of the workshops is to establish an ongoing professional network of teachers, mathematics educators, and research mathematicians. Ten teachers took part in promys for teachers in 2022, including 3 returning pft alumni. All participants but one were massachusetts teachers; the other, a mehta fellow recommender, traveled from india to attend. Pft is exceptional in immersing secondary teachers in rigorous exploratory mathematics and for being offered free to teachers. 4.thanks to the generosity and vision of a family foundation, the yongren fellowships to promys were established in 2017 to enable mathematically talented low-income students in china to participate in promys at no cost to their families. The 2022 yongren fellow was jiushan xie. Jiushan was a rising high school senior from chengdu, china who is now studying mathematics as an undergraduate at kings college, london. 5.promys is grateful to the american mathematical society (ams) epsilon fund for its support for promys 2022 including for need-based financial aid. As part of this award, the student twyla colburn was awarded the ky and yu-fen fan scholarship. 6.promys is very grateful to jane street for its generous support for promys 2022 including two jane street fellowships for students, two jane street fellowships for counselors, and support for promys math circle (now named promys pathways) designed for talented students who are low-income or from other groups underrepresented in stem. 7.in 2017, promys launched promys math circle (pmc) to increase outreach efforts to massachusetts students from low-income an”