Spotlight Recognition Award

The HMC Alumni Association selects inspirational alumni whose contributions embody the College’s visionary themes of innovation, leadership and impact through global influence and contributions to society.

Joshua Greene ’02 (math) is recognized for his mathematical writing and its impact and value to experts, non-experts and researchers. Greene received the 2023 Levi L. Conant Prize for his article “Heegaard Floer homology,” published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society (68 [2021], No. 1). The award recognizes the best expository paper published in either Notices or the Bulletin of the AMS in the preceding five years. His article is a survey of the emerging field of Heegaard Floer homology, from its historical antecedents to the wide variety of results and applications of this theory.