Philip Lee Wadler is a UK-based American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory. He is the chair of theoretical computer science at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the School of Informatics,University of Edinburgh. He has contributed to the theory behind functional programming and the use of monads;and the designs of the purely functional language Haskell and the XQuery declarative query language. In 1984,he created the Orwell language. Wadler was involved in adding generic types to Java 5.0. He is also author of "Theorems for free!",a paper that gave rise to much research on functional language optimization.
Sir John Frank Charles Kingman is a British mathematician. He served as N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2001 until 2006,when he was succeeded by David Wallace. He is known for developing the mathematics of the coalescent theory,a theoretical model of inheritance that is fundamental to modern population genetics.
William Parry FRS was an English mathematician who worked in dynamical systems,and,in particular,ergodic theory. In particular,he studied subshifts of finite type nilflows.
John "Shôn" Eirwyn Ffowcs Williams (1935–2020) was Emeritus Rank Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a former Master of Emmanuel College,Cambridge (1996–2002). He may be best known for his contributions to aeroacoustics,in particular for his work on Concorde. Together with one of his students,David Hawkings,he introduced the far-field integration method in computational aeroacoustics based on Lighthill's acoustic analogy,known as the Ffowcs Williams–Hawkings analogy.
Henry Keith Moffatt,FRS FRSE is a British mathematician with research interests in the field of fluid dynamics,particularly magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1980 to 2002.
Nicholas John Higham FRS was a British numerical analyst. He was Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.
Christopher John Budd is a British mathematician known especially for his contribution to non-linear differential equations and their applications in industry. He is currently Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath,and was Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2016 to 2020.
Ursula Hilda Mary Martin is a British computer scientist,with research interests in theoretical computer science and formal methods. She is also known for her activities aimed at encouraging women in the fields of computing and mathematics. Since 2019,she has served as a professor at the School of Informatics,University of Edinburgh.
Gareth Owen Roberts FRS FLSW is a statistician and applied probabilist. He is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) at the University of Warwick. He is an established authority on the stability of Markov chains,especially applied to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) theory methodology for a wide range of latent statistical models with applications in spatial statistics,infectious disease epidemiology and finance.
Vinod Johri was an Indian astrophysicist. He was an eminent cosmologist,a retired professor of astrophysics at Indian Institute of Technology,Madras and an emeritus professor at Lucknow University since 1995. Johri had over 75 research publications and articles published in pioneering journals. His major contributions in cosmological research included 'power law inflation,genesis of quintessence fields of dark energy and phantom cosmologies'. He was the co-author of the first model of power law inflation in Brans–Dicke theory along with C. Mathiazhagan. He was honored by Uttar Pradesh Government by Research Award of the Council of Science &Technology (CSIR).
Rahul Mukerjee is an Indian academic and statistician. He is a National Science Chair of the Government of India,hosted by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,after his superannuation from the same institute in 2021 as a professor in the higher academic grade. He is also an emeritus scientist of the Indian National Science Academy,New Delhi.
Sir Martin Hairer is an Austrian-British mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis,in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He is Professor of Mathematics at EPFL and at Imperial College London. He previously held appointments at the University of Warwick and the Courant Institute of New York University. In 2014 he was awarded the Fields Medal,one of the highest honours a mathematician can achieve. In 2020 he won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
Gunther Alberto Uhlmann Arancibia is a mathematician whose research focuses on inverse problems and imaging,microlocal analysis,partial differential equations and invisibility.
Vlatko Vedral is a Serbian-born British physicist. He is best known for his contributions to quantum information theory,quantum mechanics,and quantum entanglement. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Imperial College London,where he graduated with a PhD in 1998.
An active researcher,Vedral has over 500 published,regularly cited papers to his name. This output covers a broad range of topics within quantum physics,including quantum computing,quantum cryptography,and quantum thermodynamics. In recognition of his scholarly achievements,he was honoured with the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2007. Throughout his career,Vedral has held a number of academic positions,including lectureships and readership at Imperial College London,a professorship at the University of Leeds,and visiting professorships at institutions worldwide,including Vienna,Singapore,and Beijing. Since 2009,Vedral has served as Professor of Quantum Information Science in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. Additionally,he is a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College,Oxford.
In addition to his academic work,Vedral has made efforts to popularise and communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. He frequently gives talks on quantum physics and its implications for society,as well as writing for mainstream journals and participating in vlogs,podcasts,and documentaries. Vedral has also written several textbooks and two popular science books,most notably Decoding Reality.
Peter Jackson Hammond,is a Professor of Economics and a Research Associate for CAGE at the University of Warwick. In the past he has also worked as the Marie Curie Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Warwick and an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He has made numerous significant contributions to the advancement of Economic Theory.
Alison Mary Etheridge is Professor of Probability and former Head of the Department of Statistics,University of Oxford. Etheridge is a fellow of Magdalen College,Oxford.
Ivan Zachary Corwin is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University.
Ioannis Kontoyiannis is a Greek mathematician and information theorist. He is the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research with the Statistical Laboratory,in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,of the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of Darwin College,Cambridge,an affiliated member of the Division of Information Engineering,Cambridge,a Research Fellow of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas,a Senior Member of Robinson College,Cambridge,and a trustee of the Rollo Davidson Trust.
Neil Lambert is a Professor in theoretical physics at King's College London. His research is primarily concerned with supersymmetry,string theory and M-theory.
Jacqui Ramagge is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science at Durham University and Honorary Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sydney. She was born in London,emigrated to Australia in 1991,and returned to the UK to take up the position at Durham University in 2020.
