Thanks to a generous donation by the winners of the Breakthrough Prizes in Mathematics – Ian Agol, Simon Donaldson, Maxim Kontsevich, Jacob Lurie, Terence  Tao and Richard Taylor – IMU with the assistance of FIMU (Friends of the IMU)  and TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) is launching a fellowship program to  support postgraduate studies, in a developing country, leading to a PhD degree  in the mathematical sciences. The IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowships will offer a  limited number of grants for excellent students from developing countries.

Professional mathematicians are invited to nominate highly motivated and  mathematically talented students from developing countries who plan to complete a doctoral degree in a developing country, including their own home country.

Nominees must have a consistently good academic record from the high school level and must be seriously interested in pursuing a career of research and  teaching in mathematics.

For a nomination to be eligible, the country of citizenship of the student, the country of residency and the country where the study will take place must be contained in the list of Developing Countries as defined by IMU.

The nominiation will be possible from the 22nd of April to the 22nd of June, 2016 via an online nomination form on this website.

Due to technical issues the IMU Breakout Fellowship Program will be launched on 22 April and will be open until 22 June.