This prize is awarded each year, beginning from 2010, to the authors of most outstanding articles published in JMSJ (the Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan) in the preceding year. The prize committee comprises the editorial board members of JMSJ.

The 2024 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Eiko KIN; Hiroaki NAKAMURA; Hiroyuki OGAWA
  (Center for Education in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Osaka University; Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University; Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University)
  Lissajous 3-braids
  Vol. 75, No. 1 (2023) pp. 195--228
  
  

• Hiraku ATOBE; Masataka CHIDA; Tomoyoshi IBUKIYAMA; Hidenori KATSURADA; Takuya YAMAUCHI
  (Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University; School of Science and Technology for Future Life, Tokyo Denki University; Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University; Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University and Muroran Institute of Technology; Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University)
  Harder's conjecture I
  Vol. 75, No. 4 (2023) pp. 1339--1408
  
  

The 2023 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Antonio ROS
  (Department of Geometry and Topology, University of Granada)
  On the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on compact surfaces of genus three
  Vol. 74, No. 3 (2022) pp. 813--828
  
  

The 2022 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Tomoyuki ARAKAWA; Hiromichi YAMADA; Hiroshi YAMAUCHI:
  (Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University; Department of Mathematics, Hitotsubashi University; Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Woman's Christian University)
  Z_k-code vertex operator algebras
  Vol. 73, No. 1 (2021) pp. 185--209
  
  

The 2021 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Martin DICKSON; Ameya PITALE; Abhishek SAHA; Ralf SCHMIDT:
  (Department of Mathematics, King's College London; Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma; School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London; Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas)
  Explicit refinements of Böcherer's conjecture for Siegel modular forms of squarefree level
  Vol. 72, No. 1 (2020) pp. 251--301
  
  
• Masami OHTA:
  (Tokai University)
  μ-type subgroups of J₁(N) and application to cyclotomic fields
  Vol. 72, No. 2 (2020) pp. 333--412
  
  
• Yuzuru INAHAMA; Setsuo TANIGUCHI:
  (Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University; Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University)
  Heat trace asymptotics on equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds
  Vol. 72, No. 4 (2020) pp. 1049--1096

The 2020 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Katsutoshi YAMANOI:
  (Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University)
  Pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolicity of subvarieties of general type on abelian varieties
  Vol. 71, No. 1 (2019) pp. 259--298
  
  
• Masanori HINO; Shu KANAZAWA:
  (Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University; Mathematics Department, Tohoku University)
  Asymptotic behavior of lifetime sums for random simplicial complex processes
  Vol. 71, No. 3 (2019) pp. 765--804

The 2019 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Masato TSUJII:
  (Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University)
  Exponential mixing for generic volume-preserving Anosov flows in dimension three
  Vol. 70, No. 2 (2018) pp. 757--821
  
  
• Xun YU:
  (Center for Applied Mathematics, Tianjin University)
  Elliptic fibrations on K3 surfaces and Salem numbers of maximal degree
  Vol. 70, No. 3 (2018) pp. 1151--1163
  
  
• Akito FUTAKI; Hajime ONO:
  (Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo and Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University; Department of Mathematics, Saitama University)
  Volume minimization and conformally Kähler, Einstein--Maxwell geometry
  Vol. 70, No. 4 (2018) pp. 1493--1521
  
  

The 2018 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Jonathan BENNETT; Neal BEZ; Chris JEAVONS; Nikolaos PATTAKOS:
  (School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham; Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University; School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham; School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham)
  On sharp bilinear Strichartz estimates of Ozawa-Tsutsumi type
  Vol. 69, No. 2 (2017) pp. 459--476
  
  
• Toshiyuki TANISAKI:
  (Department of Mathematics, Osaka City University)
  Modules over quantized coordinate algebras and PBW-bases
  Vol. 69, No. 3 (2017) pp. 1105--1156
  
  
• Yasunori MAEKAWA; Jonas SAUER:
  (Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University; Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Darmstadt)
  Maximal regularity of the time-periodic Stokes operator on unbounded and bounded domains
  Vol. 69, No. 4 (2017) pp. 1403--1429
  
  

The 2017 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Bo BERNDTSSON; László LEMPERT:
  (Department of Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology; Department of Mathematics, Purdue University)
  A proof of the Ohsawa-Takegoshi theorem with sharp estimates
  Vol. 68, No. 4 (2016) pp. 1461--1472
  
  

The 2016 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Niko MAROLA; William P. ZIEMER:
  (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki; Mathematics Department, Indiana University)
  Aspects of area formulas by way of Luzin, Radó, and Reichelderfer on metric measure spaces
  Vol. 67, No. 2 (2015) pp. 561--579
  
  
• Tomoyuki SHIRAI:
  (Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University)
  Ginibre-type point processes and their asymptotic behavior
  Vol. 67, No. 2 (2015) pp. 763--787
  
  

The 2015 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Joachim HILGERT; Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI; Jan MÖLLERS:
  (Institut für Mathematik, Universität Paderborn; Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences,
  the University of Tokyo, and Kavli IPMU; Institut for Matematiske Fag, Aarhus Universitet)
  Minimal representations via Bessel operators
  Vol. 66, No. 2 (2014) pp. 349--414
  
  
• Nguyen Tien ZUNG; Nguyen VAN MINH:
  (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, CNRS; Foreign Trade University, Vietnam)
  Geometry of nondegenerate Rⁿ-actions on n-manifolds
  Vol. 66, No. 3 (2014) pp. 839--894
  
  
• Hidehiko MISHOU:
  (School of Information Environment, Tokyo Denki University)
  Functional distribution for a collection of Lerch zeta functions
  Vol. 66, No. 4 (2014) pp. 1105--1126
  
  

The 2014 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Hisashi OKAMOTO:
  (Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University)
  Blow-up problems in the strained vorticity dynamics and critical exponents
  Vol. 65, No. 4 (2013) pp. 1079--1099
  
  
• Daisuke FUJIWARA:
  (Department of Mathematics, Gakushuin University)
  An integration by parts formula for Feynman path integrals
  Vol. 65, No. 4 (2013) pp. 1273--1318
  
  

The 2013 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Nobuaki YAGITA:
  (College of Education, Ibaraki University)
  Chow rings of nonabelian p-groups of order p³
  Vol. 64, No. 2 (2012) pp. 507--531
  
  
• Gopal PRASAD; Sai-Kee YEUNG:
  (Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan; Department of Mathematics, Purdue University)
  Nonexistence of arithmetic fake compact Hermitian symmetric spaces of type other than A_n(n leq 4)
  Vol. 64, No. 3 (2012) pp. 683--731
  
  

The 2012 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Ivan IZMESTIEV:
  (Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin)
  Examples of infinitesimally flexible 3-dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds
  Vol. 63, No. 2 (2011) pp. 581--598
  
  
• MasaoTSUZUKI:
  (Department of Science and Technology, Sophia University)
  Limit formulas of period integrals for a certain symmetric pair II
  Vol. 63, No. 3 (2011) pp. 1039--1084
  
  

The 2011 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Michi-aki INABA:
  (Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University)
  Moduli of stable objects in a triangulated category
  Vol. 62, No. 2 (2010) pp. 395--429
  
  

The 2010 Outstanding Paper Prize:

• Shigeaki KOIKE; Andrzej ŚWIĘCH:
  (Department of Mathematics, Saitama University; School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Weak Harnack inequality for fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic PDE with unbounded ingredients
  Vol. 61, No. 3 (2009) pp. 723--755
  
  
• Ken'ichi OSHIKA:
  (Department of Mathematics, Osaka University)
  Constructing geometrically infinite groups on boundaries of deformation spaces
  Vol. 61, No. 4 (2009) pp. 1261--1291