Number Theory Foundation (NTF) Grants

Number Theory Foundation (NTF) Grants is sponsored by Number Theory Foundation. The Number Theory Foundation (NTF) provides funding to encourage research and collaboration by helping to sponsor meetings, workshops, conferences, and other events in various areas of number theory.

The Number Theory Foundation (NTF) is an organization whose aim is to collect donations from supporters of number theory and to disburse these donations to encourage research and collaboration by helping to sponsor appropriate conferences and working to foster a spirit of cooperation and goodwill among the family of number theorists.

Currently our available funds are primarily directed toward supporting workshops and conferences in various areas of number theory; examples of past events we have funded can be found below. The NTF does not seek to be the sole sponsor of such events, but rather to share in their support. The NTF is a non-profit public charity.

Contributions to the NTF are fully tax deductible in the U.S. Contributions may be made by a check to The Number Theory Foundation and sent in care of The Number Theory Foundation Department of Mathematics Jennifer Balakrishnan ( Treasurer ), Boston University Michael A.

Bennett ( Vice President ), University of British Columbia Alina Carmen Cojocaru , University of Illinois, Chicago Chantal David , Concordia University Kevin Ford , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yuan Liu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Melanie Matchett Wood , Harvard University Lillian Pierce , Duke University Carl Pomerance ( Secretary ), Dartmouth College Renate Scheidler , University of Calgary Andrew V.

Sutherland ( President ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ramin Takloo-Bighash , University of Illinois at Chicago John Voight , University of Sydney The NTF is currently accepting applications to fund meetings, workshops, conferences, and other events on a rolling basis. Applications should follow our proposal template and be submitted via email to ntf@math. dartmouth.

edu. Below are some tips for those submitting proposals: The Number Theory Foundation (NTF) is a small non-profit organization with no administrative staff. We are not able to consider individual requests for support; we instead fund events (typically workshops or conferences) based on proposals made by organizers who are then responsible for allocating our funds as detailed in their proposal.

We are very rarely the sole source of support for the events that we fund, and we encourage organizers to seek other sources of funding. NTF funds may not be used to pay honoraria or institutional overhead charges, or to pay any costs incurred by NTF officers or board members. The NTF expects any unused funds to be returned, and to receive an accounting of the funds that were used, no later than six months after the event.

Proposals must be submitted at least three months prior to the event (earlier is better). You should allow for 3 months from submission to decision. We value diversity among the invited speakers and participants of the conferences we fund, in particular efforts to include mathematicians from underrepresented groups.

A thoughtful and fair selection process from among a broader population provides a greater opportunity to choose good people, including those who might otherwise have been overlooked. The NTF encourages the support of early career mathematicians and those most in need.

NTF was a partial sponsor of the following events: University of Illinois Special Year in Number Theory (1999-2000) Millennial Conference in Number Theory, May 2000 West Coast Coast Number Theory Conference South Eastern Regional Meeting on Numbers (SERMON) (recent meetings) Pacific Northwest Number Theory Conference (many recent meetings) University of Florida Number Theory Meetings (recent meetings) Maine/Quebec Number Theory Conference (recent meetings) Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory (many recent meetings) Journées Arithmétiques (many recent meetings) Play authored by Andrew Granville.

MSI: Anatomy , 2009 ( pdf of playbill ) Mid Atlantic Seminar On Numbers (many recent meetings) Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA) (several meetings) Women In Numbers (many recent meetings) Erdös Centennial Conference, Budapest, July 2013 University of Illinois Bateman-Halberstam Conference, June 2014 Exciting New Faces in Number Theory and Evolving Frontiers in Number Theory, July 2014 Analysis, Spectra, and Number Theory (Sarnak 61), December 2014 re:boot Number Theory, (2016 and 2017) UConn Number Theory Summer School, Summer 2018 Canadian Number Theory Association (many meetings) Selfridge Prize for best paper at the Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium (ANTS) (every meeting since 2006) John D.

Brillhart (1930-2022), who passed away on May 21, 2022, was one of the original directors and a contributor to the Number Theory Foundation. For more information see the letter to the editor of the AMS Notices written in memory of his mathematical life and work. Ronald L.

Graham (1935-2020), who passed away on July 6, 2020, was one of the original directors of the Number Theory Foundation and an active member of the board through 2020. At various times in his career he was the president of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the International Jugglers' Association.

See his obituary in the New York Times and the memorial tribute in the Notices of the AMS for more information about his life and work. Richard K. Guy (1916--2020), who passed away on March 9, 2020, was a great friend, and supporter of the Number Theory Foundation from the beginning; he was one of the original directors and helped to guide the foundation for more than twenty years.

See the MAA Focus memoriam article and the AMS Notices memorial tribute for some reflections on his remarkable life. Barbara Selfridge (1951-2018), daughter of John Selfridge, was a feminist writer, playwright, actor, and activist. Over the years she generously supported The Number Theory Foundation.

Her one-woman play Zero Tolerance: Sex, Math and Seizures documented her complicated relationship with her father. Paul Bateman (1919--2012) was one of the original directors and an early contributor to The Number Theory Foundation. For more information see his University of Illinois memoriam , and his memoriam page at Celebratio Mathematica.

John Selfridge (1927--2010) founded The Number Theory Foundation. For more information, see the preface to the John Selfridge Memorial Volume of Integers, and also his obituary . Ethel Rathbun (1932--2005) was the first executive administrator of The Number Theory Foundation.

She is also warmly remembered as the administrator for the University of Michigan Mathematics Department. For more information see her obituary in the Ann Arbor News.