LMS Prize Winners 2011

The winners of the LMS prizes for 2011 were announced at the Society Meeting on 1 July. The Society extends its congratulations to these winners, and its thanks to all nominators, referees and members of the Prizes Committee for their contributions to the Committee’s work this year.

PROFESSOR E. BRIAN DAVIES, FRS, of King's College London, is awarded the Pólya Prize for his remarkable work in spectral theory, including the powerful heat kernel methods that he developed and his work on non-self-adjoint operators.

Dr JONATHAN PILA, of the University of Oxford, is awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize in recognition of his startling recent work on the Andre-Oort and Manin-Mumford conjectures. The approach he and his collaborators have developed, which combines analytic ideas with model theory, is entirely new and shows great promise for further applications.

PROFESSOR J. BRYCE McLEOD, FRS, of the University of Oxford, is awarded the Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics in recognition of his important and versatile achievements in analysis of nonlinear differential equations arising in applications to mechanics, physics and biology.

DR JONATHAN BENNETT, of the University of Birmingham, is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his foundational work on multilinear inequalities in harmonic and geometric analysis, and for a number of major results in the theory of oscillatory integrals.

DR ALEXANDER GORODNIK, of the University of Bristol, is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his work on homogeneous dynamics, with particular emphasis on his deep applications to diophantine problems.

PROFESSOR BARBARA NIETHAMMER, of the University of Oxford, is awarded a Whitehead Prize for her deep and rigorous contributions to material science, especially on the Lifshit-Slyozov-Wagner and Becker-Doering equations,

DR ALEXANDER PUSHNITSKI, of King's College London, is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his contributions to Spectral Theory of Partial Differential Operators and, in particular, to the study of the properties of the discrete and continuous spectrum of Schrödinger operators.
 

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