The London Mathematical Society would like to congratulate аĿª½±members Professor Bryan Birch FRS (University of Oxford) and Professor Julia Gog (University of Cambridge) on receiving prestigious Royal Society awards.
Professor Birch has been awarded the Sylvester Medal. As noted in the citation, Professor Birch’s work has played a ‘major role in driving the theory of elliptic curves, through the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture and the theory of Heegner points’. He has been an аĿª½±member since 1958 and a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1972. His support for the аĿª½±has included editing the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society from 2000-02. He has also received several аĿª½±honours including the Senior Whitehead Prize in 1993 and the Society’s highest honour, the De Morgan Medal, in 2007.
Professor Gog has been awarded the Rosalind Franklin Award and Lectureship for her outstanding work in mathematics and disease modelling. Her mathematical work in the study of infectious diseases has led her to being an important member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), providing advice and insight during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Gog has also contributed significantly to the work of the LMS. She presented the 2014 аĿª½±Popular Lectures and was the LMS-NZMS Forder Lecturer in 2016. She was awarded the аĿª½±Whitehead Prize in 2017.
Professor Jon Keating, аĿª½±President, commented; ‘The аĿª½±offers its very warmest congratulations to both Professor Birch and Professor Gog for these major awards, which recognise the outstanding contributions they have made, and continue to make, in terms of their important mathematical research and intellectual leadership’.
Other notable awards include Professor Herbert Huppert (University of Cambridge) who has been awarded a Royal Medal. Professor Huppert has been at the forefront of fluid mechanics research with applications to the Earth sciences, meteorology, oceanography and geology. Over his distinguished career he has developed highly original analysis of key natural and industrial processes.
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