El pasado 6 de enero de 2009, la American Mathematical Society presentó un total de once premios en el Joint Mathematical Meeting celebrado en Washington D.C.
La lista de premios y galardonados es la siguiente:
• AMS Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement: Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin);
• AMS Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research: Richard Hamilton (Columbia University);
• AMS Steele Prize for Exposition: Ian G. MacDonald (University of London);
• AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics: Joel Smoller (University of Michigan);
• AMS Cole Prize in Algebra: Christopher Hacon (University of Utah) y James McKernan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology);
• AMS Conant Prize: John W. Morgan (Columbia University);
• AMS Satter Prize: Laure Saint-Raymond (École Normale Supérieure);
• AMS Whiteman Prize: Jeremy J. Gray (Open University, University of Warwick);
• AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student: Aaron Pixton (Princeton University, University of Cambridge);
• JPBM Communications Award: George Csicsery (productor y director de cine);
• Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics: Maryam Mirzakhani (Princeton University).