The 2024 LMS Prize winners were announced at the Society Meeting on Friday 28 June 2024. The LMS extends its congratulations to this year’s prize winners for their continued contributions to mathematics.
Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen of the University of Oxford is awarded the Pólya Prize for his deep research into nonlinear partial differential equations, and in particular his rigorous theoretical analysis of the equations of gas dynamics, especially those involving transonic flows
Professor Christopher J Bishop, of Stony Brook University of Edinburgh, is awarded a Senior Berwick for the pair of papers ‘Models for the Eremenko–Lyubich Class’, published in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society in 2015, and ‘Models for the Speiser Class’, published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society in 2017.
Professor Samir Siksek, of the University of Warwick, is awarded the Shephard Prize for numerous seductively simple and concrete diophantine results whose proofs involve a virtuoso display of the most advanced mathematical ideas.
Professor Emmanuel Breuillard of the University of Oxford is awarded the Fröhlich Prize for his landmark work on groups and their actions, masterly combining in ingenious ways algebraic groups, combinatorics, number theory, Diophantine approximation, topology and C*-algebras. His work is notable for its originality, conceptual clarity, elegance and depth.
Dr Ana Ros Camacho of Cardiff University is awarded an Anne Bennett Prize for her ground-breaking work on categorical proofs of the Landau–Ginzburg/Conformal Field Theory correspondence and her tireless dedication to the advancement of women in mathematical physics.
Dr Sabine Bögli of Durham University is awarded a Whitehead Prize for her outstanding contributions to computational spectral theory and to spectral analysis of non-self-adjoint operators, in particular for laying theoretical foundations for a novel numerical method and for answering several long-standing questions concerning the spectra of non-self-adjoint Schrödinger operators.
Dr Viveka Erlandsson of the University of Bristol is awarded a Whitehead Prize for her outstanding work on curve counting on surfaces. She also established an extraordinary rigidity theorem for bounce sequences associated to billiard tables. Viveka Erlandsson is a leading figure in low-dimensional geometry, topology and dynamics.
Professor James Newton of the University of Oxford is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to the Langlands programme, and in particular for his spectacular joint proof with Jack Thorne of symmetric power functoriality for holomorphic modular forms.
Dr Clarice Poon of the University of Warwick is awarded a Whitehead Prize for her pioneering work at the intersection of optimisation, imaging sciences, and machine learning. She has made groundbreaking contributions to the design and analysis of large-scale optimisation schemes aimed at solving ill-posed inverse problems and advancing supervised machine learning techniques. Poon has provided in-depth mathematical analysis of the super-resolution capabilities of these approaches, showcasing an impressive breadth that covers imaging problems, compressed sensing, neural network training, and optimal transport.
Dr Julian Sahasrabudhe of the University of Cambridge is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his outstanding contributions to Ramsey theory, his solutions to famous problems in complex analysis and random matrix theory, and his remarkable progress on sphere packings.
Professor Alessandro Sisto of Heriot-Watt University is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his outstanding contributions to geometric group theory, particularly his groundbreaking work on hierarchically hyperbolic spaces.