Harvard Ph.D. Graduate Naomi Sweeting Awarded AWM Dissertation Prize

Naomi Sweeting, a ’24 Harvard math Ph.D. graduate, is one of three chosen recipients of the ninth annual Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Dissertation Prize. The award, established in 2016, honors up to three outstanding Ph.D. dissertations presented by female mathematicians and defended in the last 24 months. It is intended to be based entirely on the dissertation itself, not on other work of the individual.

Sweeting was recognized for her outstanding research in the area of number theory under the direction of Mark Kisin. In her thesis, “Tate classes and endoscopy for GSp(4) over totally real fields,” she attacked the Tate conjecture for a particular family of Tate classes on Shimura varieties, constructed using the theory of endoscopy for automorphic forms. Sweeting’s nominators consider her construction creative, technically strong, and revolutionary in the field, according to an AWM announcement.

Sweeting shares the honor with Yvonne Alama Bronsard and Agustina Czenky. All three will be presented the prize at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in Seattle, WA. Currently, Sweeting is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton, slated to start as an assistant professor at MIT in 2026.

Read the full AWM announcement.

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