UCLA Math Professor Mason Porter has been named the recipient of the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition, a prestigious honor from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). This prize recognizes his outstanding exposition of the mathematical sciences to audiences at all levels and interests, including review articles in networks, complex systems, and dynamics.

The purview of the prize is the following: “The George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition, established in 2013, is awarded every two years to an outstanding expositor of the mathematical sciences. The prize may be awarded for a specific work or for the cumulative impact of multiple expository works that communicate mathematics effectively. Following Pólya’s example, the nature of the work may range from popular accounts of mathematics and mathematical discovery to pedagogy to systematic organization of mathematical knowledge.”

Porter will be honored at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings (AN25), scheduled for July 28th to August 1st, 2025 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Learn more about the prize here.

Read the SIAM announcement here.