The Anne Bennett Prize and Senior Anne Bennett Prize are awards given by the

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

. 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. 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. Both prizes are awarded in memory of Anne Bennett, an administrator for the London Mathematical Society who died in 2012. The Anne Bennett Prizes should be distinguished from the Anne Bennett Memorial Award for Distinguished Service of the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

, for which Anne Bennett also worked.

Winners

The winners of the Anne Bennett Prize have been: * 2015

Apala Majumdar 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. Education and career Majumdar did her undergraduate studies at the ...

, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the mathematics of liquid crystals and to the liquid crystal community. * 2016

Julia Wolf 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 Mathemati ...

, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to additive number theory, combinatorics and harmonic analysis and to the mathematical community. * 2018

Lotte Hollands Lotte Hollands (born 1981) 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 Departmen ...

, in recognition of her outstanding research at the interface between quantum theory and geometry and of her leadership in mathematical outreach activities. *2019 Eva-Maria Graefe, in recognition of her outstanding research in quantum theory and the inspirational role she has played among female students and early career researchers in mathematics and physics. *2021

Viveka Erlandsson 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 Unive ...

, "for her outstanding achievements in geometry and topology and her inspirational active role in promoting women mathematicians". *2022

Asma Hassannezhad 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 ...

, in recognition of her "work in spectral geometry and her substantial contributions toward the advancement of women in mathematics". The winners of the Senior Anne Bennett Prize have been: * 2014

Caroline Series Caroline Mary Series (born 24 March 1951) is an English mathematician known for her work in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and dynamical systems. Early life and education Series was born on 24 March 1951 in Oxford to Annette and George ...

, in recognition of her leading contributions to hyperbolic geometry and symbolic dynamics, and of the major impact of her numerous initiatives towards the advancement of women in mathematics. * 2017

Alison Etheridge Alison Mary Etheridge One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1964) is Professor of Probability and Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Etheridge is a fell ...

, in recognition of her outstanding research on measure-valued stochastic processes and applications to population biology; and for her impressive leadership and service to the profession. * 2020 Peter Clarkson, "in recognition of his tireless work to support gender equality in UK mathematics, and particularly for his leadership in developing good practice among departments of mathematical sciences".

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{{Awards of the London Mathematical Society Awards of the London Mathematical Society Women in mathematics Science awards honoring women

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