Alice Rogers
Alice Rogers | |
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| Nationality | British |
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| Alma mater | Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, Imperial College London |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | King's College London |
Frances Alice Rogers OBE[1] is a British mathematician and mathematical physicist. She is an emeritus professor of mathematics at King's College London.
Research
[edit]Rogers' research concerns mathematical physics and more particularly supermanifolds, generalizations of the manifold concept based on ideas coming from supersymmetry. She is the author of the book Supermanifolds: Theory and Applications (World Scientific, 2007).[2]
Service
[edit]Rogers has been a member of the British government's Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education,[3] is the education secretary of the London Mathematical Society (LMS),[4] and represents the LMS on the Joint Mathematical Council of the UK.[5]
Education
[edit]Rogers studied mathematics in New Hall, Cambridge, in the 1960s. Her mother had also studied mathematics at Cambridge in the 1930s and later became a wartime code-breaker at Bletchley Park.[6] Rogers earned her Ph.D. in 1981 from Imperial College London.
Recognition
[edit]In 2016, she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire "for services to Mathematics Education and Higher Education".[1]
In 2018, Rogers was awarded the Kavli Education Medal for "her outstanding contributions to mathematics education" from The Royal Society.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b The Queen's Birthday Honours 2016, Cabinet Office, 10 June 2016, retrieved 2016-06-11
- ^ Review of Supermanifolds: Theory and Applications by Fausto Ongay-Larios (2008), MR2320438.
- ^ "Professor Alice Rogers", Academic Staff A–Z, Department of Mathematics, King's College London, retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ^ Council, London Mathematical Society, retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ^ Council, Joint Mathematical Council, archived from the original on 2019-12-30, retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ^ Sanford, Peter (6 March 2012), "Make Britain Count: Are girls really worse at maths than boys?", The Telegraph.
- ^ "Kavli Education Medal | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
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