Anne Bennett Prize

Last updated

The Anne Bennett Prize and Senior Anne Bennett Prize are awards given by the London Mathematical Society. [1] [2]

Contents

In every third year, the society offers the Senior Anne Bennett prize to a mathematician normally based in the United Kingdom for work in, influence on or service to mathematics, particularly in relation to advancing the careers of women in mathematics. [1]

In the two years out of three in which the Senior Anne Bennett Prize is not awarded, the society offers the Anne Bennett Prize to a mathematician within ten years of their doctorate for work in and influence on mathematics, particularly acting as an inspiration for women mathematicians. [1]

Both prizes are awarded in memory of Anne Bennett, an administrator for the London Mathematical Society who died in 2012. [3]

The Anne Bennett Prizes should be distinguished from the Anne Bennett Memorial Award for Distinguished Service of the Royal Society of Chemistry, [4] for which Anne Bennett also worked. [3]

Winners

The winners of the Anne Bennett Prize have been:

The winners of the Senior Anne Bennett Prize have been:

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">London Mathematical Society</span> United Kingdoms learned societies for mathematics

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the Operational Research Society.

The Adams Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes awarded by the University of Cambridge. It is awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and St John's College to a UK-based mathematician for distinguished research in the Mathematical Sciences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Swinnerton-Dyer</span> British mathematician

Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet, was an English mathematician specialising in number theory at the University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he was best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relating algebraic properties of elliptic curves to special values of L-functions, which was developed with Bryan Birch during the first half of the 1960s with the help of machine computation, and for his work on the Titan operating system.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frances Kirwan</span> British mathematician

Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.

The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to multiple mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C. Whitehead.

The Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) is now awarded in odd numbered years in memory of John Henry Constantine Whitehead, president of the LMS between 1953 and 1955. The Prize is awarded to mathematicians normally resident in the United Kingdom on 1 January of the relevant year. Selection criteria include work in, influence on or service to mathematics, or recognition of lecturing gifts in the field of mathematics. Previous recipients of top LMS prizes or medals are ineligible for nomination.

The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, also called the Satter Prize, is one of twenty-one prizes given out by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). It is presented biennially in recognition of an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous six years. The award was funded in 1990 using a donation from Joan Birman, in memory of her sister, Ruth Lyttle Satter, who worked primarily in biological sciences, and was a proponent for equal opportunities for women in science. First awarded in 1991, the award is intended to "honor [Satter's] commitment to research and to encourage women in science". The winner is selected by the council of the AMS, based on the recommendation of a selection committee. The prize is awarded at the Joint Mathematics Meetings during odd numbered years, and has always carried a modest cash reward. Since 2003, the prize has been $5,000, while from 1997 to 2001, the prize came with $1,200, and prior to that it was $4,000. If a joint award is made, the prize money is split between the recipients.

This is a timeline of women in mathematics.

Karen Ellen Smith is an American mathematician, specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She completed her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton University before earning her PhD in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1993. Currently she is the Keeler Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. In addition to being a researcher in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, Smith with others wrote the textbook An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Caroline Series</span> English mathematician (born 1951)

Caroline Mary Series is an English mathematician known for her work in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">André Neves</span> Portuguese mathematician (born 1975)

André da Silva Graça Arroja Neves is a Portuguese mathematician and a professor at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2016. In 2012, jointly with Fernando Codá Marques, he solved the Willmore conjecture.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alison Etheridge</span> Professor of Probability

Alison Mary Etheridge is Professor of Probability and Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Etheridge is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Julia Wolf is a British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics who was the 2016 winner of the Anne Bennett Prize of the London Mathematical Society. She is currently a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.

Lotte Hollands is a Dutch mathematician and mathematical physicist who studies quantum field theory, supersymmetric gauge theory, and string theory. She is an associate professor and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University.

Apala Majumdar is a British applied mathematician specialising in the mathematics of liquid crystals. She is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde.

Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros is a mathematics researcher in algebraic geometry and senior lecturer in Mathematics at Brunel University London. Kaloghiros was awarded the London Mathematical Society (LMS) Emmy Noether Fellowship in 2020.

The Shephard Prize is awarded by the London Mathematical Society to a mathematician or mathematicians for making a contribution to mathematics with a strong intuitive component which can be explained to those with little or no knowledge of university mathematics, though the work itself may involve more advanced ideas. The prize will be awarded in even-numbered years and is the result of a donation made to the Society by Geoffrey Shephard. The Shephard Prize may not be awarded to any person who has received the De Morgan Medal or the Pólya Prize.

Cristina Manolache is a mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield.

Viveka Erlandsson is a Swedish mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology and geometry, and known in particular for extending the work of Maryam Mirzakhani on counting geodesics on hyperbolic manifolds. She is a lecturer at the University of Bristol.

Asma Hassannezhad is an Iranian mathematician whose research concerns geometric analysis, spectral geometry, and differential geometry. She is a lecturer in pure mathematics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol, where she is also a member of the Institute of Probability, Analysis and Dynamics and the Institute of Pure Mathematics.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "LMS prizes - details and regulations | London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  2. List of LMS prize winners, London Mathematical Society , retrieved 2019-07-23
  3. 1 2 Nixon, Fiona (2012). "LMS Obituary - Anne Bennett | London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  4. "The Anne Bennett Memorial Award for Distinguished Service". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  5. "Citations for 2015 LMS prize winners | London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  6. "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 62 (9): 1081, October 2015
  7. "2016 LMS Prize Winners | London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  8. "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 63 (9): 1064, October 2016
  9. "2018 LMS Prize Winners | London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  10. "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 65 (9): 1122, October 2018
  11. "2019 LMS Prize Winners | London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  12. "Anne Bennett Prize: citation for Viveka Erlandsson" (PDF). London Mathematical Society. 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  13. "LMS Prize Winners 2022 | London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  14. "LMS Prizes 2014 | London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  15. "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 61 (9): 1090, October 2014
  16. "LMS Prizes 2017 | London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  17. "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 64 (9): 1036, October 2017
  18. "Senior Anne Bennett Prize citation: Peter Clarkson" (PDF). London Mathematical Society. 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-27.