Alice Rogers

Alice Rogers
OBE
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materMurray Edwards College, Cambridge,
Imperial College London
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
InstitutionsKing'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

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

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

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

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

  1. ^ a b The Queen's Birthday Honours 2016, Cabinet Office, 10 June 2016, retrieved 2016-06-11
  2. ^ Review of Supermanifolds: Theory and Applications by Fausto Ongay-Larios (2008), MR2320438.
  3. ^ "Professor Alice Rogers", Academic Staff A–Z, Department of Mathematics, King's College London, retrieved 2016-06-11.
  4. ^ Council, London Mathematical Society, retrieved 2016-06-11.
  5. ^ Council, Joint Mathematical Council, archived from the original on 2019-12-30, retrieved 2016-06-11.
  6. ^ Sanford, Peter (6 March 2012), "Make Britain Count: Are girls really worse at maths than boys?", The Telegraph.
  7. ^ "Kavli Education Medal | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-07-30.