Whitehead Prize
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The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society
to a mathematician working in the United Kingdom
who is at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy
theory pioneer J. H. C. Whitehead
.
More specifically, the person being considered for the award must be resident in the United Kingdom on 1 January of the award year or must have been educated in the United Kingdom. Also, the candidate must have less than 15 years of work at the postdoctorate level and must not have received any other prizes from the Society.
Since the inception of the prize, no more than two could be awarded per year, but in 1999 this was increased to four “to allow for the award of prizes across the whole of mathematics, including applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and mathematical aspects of computer science.”
The Senior Whitehead Prize
has similar residence requirements and rules concerning prior prizes, but is intended to recognize more experienced mathematicians.
London Mathematical Society
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to a mathematician working in the United Kingdom
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who is at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy
Homotopy
In topology, two continuous functions from one topological space to another are called homotopic if one can be "continuously deformed" into the other, such a deformation being called a homotopy between the two functions...
theory pioneer J. H. C. Whitehead
J. H. C. Whitehead
John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS , known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai , in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960....
.
More specifically, the person being considered for the award must be resident in the United Kingdom on 1 January of the award year or must have been educated in the United Kingdom. Also, the candidate must have less than 15 years of work at the postdoctorate level and must not have received any other prizes from the Society.
Since the inception of the prize, no more than two could be awarded per year, but in 1999 this was increased to four “to allow for the award of prizes across the whole of mathematics, including applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and mathematical aspects of computer science.”
The Senior Whitehead Prize
Senior Whitehead Prize
The Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society is currently 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...
has similar residence requirements and rules concerning prior prizes, but is intended to recognize more experienced mathematicians.
List of Whitehead Prize winners
- 1979 Peter CameronPeter Cameron (mathematician)Peter Jephson Cameron is an Australian mathematician who works ingroup theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London....
, P. T. Johnstone - 1980 H. G. Dales, J. Toby Stafford
- 1981 Nigel HitchinNigel HitchinNigel Hitchin is a British mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics.-Academic career:...
, D. F. Holt - 1982 John M. BallJohn M. BallSir John Macleod Ball, FRSE FRS is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the President of the International Mathematical Union from 2003-06 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford...
, Martin J. TaylorMartin J. TaylorSir Martin John Taylor FRS was professor of pure mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, UMIST where he was appointed to a chair after moving from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986... - 1983 Jeff ParisJeff ParisJeffrey Bruce Paris is a British mathematician known for his work on mathematical logic, in particular provability in arithmetic, uncertain reasoning and inductive logic with an emphasis on rationality and common sense principles....
, A. A. Ranicki - 1984 Simon DonaldsonSimon DonaldsonSimon Kirwan Donaldson FRS , is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth four-dimensional manifolds. He is now Royal Society research professor in Pure Mathematics and President of the Institute for Mathematical Science at Imperial College London...
, S. J. Patterson - 1985 D. SegalDan SegalDaniel Segal is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He specialises in algebra and group theory....
, P. J. Rippon - 1986 Terence LyonsTerry Lyons (mathematician)Terence John Lyons is a British mathematician, specializing in stochastic analysis. His mathematical contributions have been to probability, to the numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations, and to quantitative finance. In particular he developed what is now known as the Theory of...
, David A. Rand - 1987 C. M. Series, A. H. Schofield
- 1988 S. M. ReesMary ReesSusan Mary Rees, FRS is a British mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at Liverpool University since 2002, specialising in research in complex dynamical systems....
, P. J. Webb, Andrew WilesAndrew WilesSir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory... - 1989 D. E. Evans, Frances KirwanFrances KirwanFrances Clare Kirwan, FRS is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.Educated at Oxford High School, she studied at the University of Cambridge. She took a D.Phil at Oxford in 1984, supervised by Michael Atiyah...
, R. S. WardRichard S. WardRichard Samuel Ward FRS is a professor of mathematics at Durham University. He is most famous for his extension of Roger Penrose's twistor theory to nonlinear cases... - 1990 M. T. Barlow, Richard TaylorRichard Taylor (mathematician)-External links:**...
, A. J. Wassermann - 1991 N. S. MantonNick MantonNicholas Stephen Manton is a mathematician at the University of Cambridge whose work has mostly concerned solitons in particle physics. He is perhaps best known for his paper on sphalerons and for his work on the interaction of BPS monopoles. He has also worked on skyrmions and, with Michael...
, A. J. Scholl - 1992 K. M. Ball, Richard BorcherdsRichard BorcherdsRichard Ewen Borcherds is a British mathematician specializing in lattices, number theory, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998.- Personal life :...
- 1993 D. J. Benson, Peter B. KronheimerPeter B. KronheimerPeter Benedict Kronheimer is a British mathematician, known for his work on gauge theory and its applications to 3- and 4-dimensional topology. He is presently William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University....
, D. G. Vassiliev - 1994 P. H. Kropholler, R. S. MacKay
- 1995 Timothy Gowers, J. Rickard
- 1996 J. Roe, Y. Safarov
- 1997 Brian BowditchBrian BowditchBrian Hayward Bowditch is a British mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and topology, particularly in the areas of geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. He is also known for solving the angel problem...
, A. Grigor'yan, D. Joyce - 1998 S. J. Chapman, Igor Rivin, J. Nekovar
- 1999 M. R. Bridson, G. Friesecke, N. J. Higham, Imre LeaderImre LeaderImre Bennett Leader is a British mathematician and Professor of Pure Mathematics, specifically combinatorics, at the University of Cambridge....
- 2000 M. A. J. Chaplain, G. M. Stallard, Andrew M. Stuart, Burt TotaroBurt TotaroBurt Totaro, FRS, is an American mathematician, educated at Princeton and Berkeley. In 2000, he was elected Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at the University of Cambridge. In the same year, he was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.In 2009, he was elected...
- 2001 M. McQuillan, A. N. SkorobogatovAlexei SkorobogatovAlexei Nikolaievich Skorobogatov is a mathematician and currently a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. He specialises in algebraic geometry....
, V. Smyshlyaev, J. R. King - 2002 Kevin BuzzardKevin BuzzardKevin Mark Buzzard is a British mathematician and currently a Professor of Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. He specialises in algebraic number theory....
, Alessio CortiAlessio CortiAlessio Corti is a Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London working in geometry.He obtained his PhD in 1992 at the University of Utah under the supervision of János Kollár.In 2002, he was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize.-References:...
, Marianna CsörnyeiMarianna CsörnyeiMarianna Csörnyei is a Hungarian mathematician. She works in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and geometric nonlinear functional analysis. She proved the equivalence of the zero measure notions of infinite dimensional Banach spaces.She received her doctorate from Eötvös Loránd University...
, C. Teleman - 2003 N. Dorey, T. Hall, M. Lackenby, M. Nazarov
- 2004 M. Ainsworth, V. Markovic, Richard ThomasRichard Thomas (mathematician)Richard Thomas is a Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London working in several areas of geometry.He obtained his PhD on gauge theory on Calabi–Yau manifolds in 1997 under the supervision of Simon Donaldson....
, U. L. Tillmann - 2005 Ben Green, Bernd Kirchheim, Neil Strickland, Peter ToppingPeter ToppingPeter Topping is a British mathematician working in Geometric Analysis.He obtained his PhD in 1997 at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Mario Joseph Micallef.He is currently Professor at the University of Warwick....
- 2006 Raphaël RouquierRaphaël RouquierRaphaël Alexis Marcel Rouquier is a French mathematician and the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford.- Education :Rouquier was born in Étampes, France....
, Jonathan Sherratt, Paul SutcliffePaul SutcliffePaul Sutcliffe is professor of mathematics, formerly at the University of Kent, now at Durham University. Using supercomputers he has modelled topological solitons. In a famous result he showed that skyrmions look like buckminsterfullerene. He was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize in 2006.-External...
, Agata Smoktunowicz - 2007 Nikolay NikolovNikolay Nikolov (mathematician)Nikolay Nikolov is a Bulgarian mathematician working in abstract algebra and currently a Reader at Imperial College London.He obtained his PhD in 2002 under the supervision of Dan Segal.In 2007, he was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize....
, Oliver Riordan, Ivan Smith, Catharina Stroppel - 2008 Timothy BrowningTimothy BrowningTimothy Browning is a mathematician working in number theory, examining the interface of analytic number theory and Diophantine geometry.Browning is currently a Reader of pure mathematics at the University of Bristol.- Awards :...
, Tamás HauselTamás HauselTamás Hausel is a Hungarian mathematician working in the areas of combinatorial, differential and algebraic geometry and topology. More specifically the global analysis, geometry, topology and arithmetic of hyperkähler manifolds, Yang–Mills instantons, non-Abelian Hodge theory, Geometric Langlands...
, Martin HairerMartin HairerMartin Hairer is a mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations....
, Nina SnaithNina SnaithNina Claire Snaith is a British mathematician at the University of Bristol working in random matrix theory and quantum chaos.In 1998, she and her then adviser Jon Keating conjectured a value for the leading coefficient of the asymptotics of the moments of the Riemann zeta function... - 2009 Mihalis DafermosMihalis DafermosMihalis Constantine Dafermos is a Professor in Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge.He studied mathematics at Harvard University and was awarded a BA in 1997...
, Cornelia DruţuCornelia DruţuCornelia Druţu is a Romanian mathematician working in the areas of geometric group theory, topology, and ergodic theory and its applications to number theory...
, Robert James MarshRobert James MarshRobert James Marsh is a mathematician working in the areas of cluster algebras, representation theory of finite dimensional algebras, homological algebra, tilting theory, quantum groups, algebraic groups, Lie algebras and Coxeter groups. Marsh currently works at the University of Leeds as a...
, Markus OwenMarkus OwenMarkus Roger Owen is an applied mathematician working in a diverse field of subjects. This has included research into macrophage-tumour interactions, neural field theories, juxtacrine intercellular signalling, the effect of predation on biological invasions, mode-locking of periodically stimulated... - 2010 Harald HelfgottHarald HelfgottHarald Andrés Helfgott is a Peruvian mathematician born in Lima. His main area of research in number theory and related topics...
, Jens MarklofJens MarklofJens Marklof is a German mathematician working in the areas of quantum chaos, dynamical systems, equidistribution, modular forms and number theory...
, Lasse RempeLasse RempeLasse Rempe is a German mathematician born in Kiel. His research interests include holomorphic dynamics, function theory, continuum theory and computational complexity theory. He currently holds the position of reader in the department of mathematics at the University of Liverpool...
, Françoise TisseurFrançoise TisseurFrançoise Tisseur is a French mathematician working in numerical linear algebra, quadratic eigenvalue problems, polynomial eigenvalue problems, structured matrix problems, stability of algorithms and parallel computation... - 2011 Jonathan Bennett, Alexander Gorodnik, Barbara Niethammer, Alexander Pushnitski
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- Fröhlich PrizeFröhlich PrizeThe Fröhlich Prize of the London Mathematical Society is awarded in even numbered years in memory of Albrecht Fröhlich. The prize is awarded for original and extremely innovative work in any branch of mathematics...
- Senior Whitehead PrizeSenior Whitehead PrizeThe Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society is currently 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...
- Berwick Prize
- Naylor Prize and LectureshipNaylor Prize and LectureshipThe Naylor Prize and lectureship in Applied Mathematics is a prize of the London Mathematical Society awarded every two years in memory of Dr V.D. Naylor. Only those resident in the United Kingdom are eligible for the prize. The prize is awarded for ".....
- Pólya Prize (LMS)Pólya Prize (LMS)The Pólya Prize is a prize in mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. Second only to the triennial De Morgan Medal in prestige among the society's awards, it is awarded in the years that are not divisible by three – those in which the De Morgan Medal is not awarded...
- De Morgan MedalDe Morgan MedalThe De Morgan Medal is a prize for outstanding contribution to mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. The Society's most prestigious award, it is given in memory of Augustus De Morgan, who was the first President of the society....