Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Prizewinners
The Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications awards the following prizes: The Catherine Richards Prize; The Christopher Zeeman Medal; The David Crighton Medal; The IMA Gold Medal: The IMA Information and Inference Best Paper Prize; The IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis; and The IMA Lighthill-Thwaites Prize. Below we give a brief description of these prizes and, for some of the prizes, we give a list of the prizewinners.
The Catherine Richards Prize.
The Catherine Richards Prize.
This prize, created to preserve the memory of Catherine Richards who served as the Executive Secretart of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications from 1987 to 1993, is awarded for the best article in the preceeding years Mathematics Today, a general interest publication of the Institute.
Winners of the Catherine Richards Prize.
1999 Kenneth Morgan, Oubay Hassan and Nigel Weatherill: Why Didn't the Supersonic Car Fly?
2000 Lloyd N Trefethen: Predictions for Scientific Computing Fifty Years from Now
2001 Michael Atiyah: Mathematics in the 20th Century
2002 Rose D Baker: Probability Paradoxes: an improbable journey to the End of the World
2003 Paul Holland: Coupling Plankton Population Models to Hydrodynamical Studies
2003 Terry Fairclough: Pensions by Dickens
2004 Ben Veith: Music of the Primes; a talk by Marcus du Sautoy
2004 Joyce Aitchison: The Mathematics of Proportional Representation
2004 Matt Horsham: Fermat's Last Theorem; a talk by Simon Singh
2005 David Percy: The Power of Bayes
2006 Kathleen Ollerenshaw: Constructing pandiagonal magic squares of arbitrarily large size
2007 Ahmer Wadee: Nonlinear Mathematics in Structural Engineering
2007 Michael Powell: A view of algorithms for optimization without derivatives
2008 Paul Glendinning: Ballistic Penetration
2009 Paul Glendinning: Box Models of the Oceanic Conveyor Belt
2010 Rose D Baker: The Problem of Obesity: can mathematics help?
2011 Ken T D Eames and Ellen Brooks-Pollock: Pigs didn't Fly, but Swine Flu
2012 Christopher Hollings: The Case of Evgenii Sergeevich Lyapin
2012 Edmund Chadwick, Thurai Rahulan and Yu Wang: Reverse Swerve -- A New Phenomenon in Football
2013 Matt Keeling, Michael Tildesley, Thomas House and Leon Danon -- The Mathematics of Vaccination
2014 Malcolm Savage: Beautiful Music -- A Mathematical Fluke?
2015 David J T Sumpter: How to Model Honeybee Colonies
2016 Philip Pearce and Tom Shearer: Maths in Medicine
2017 Alan Champneys: Westward Ho! Musing on Mathematics and Mechanics -- Boardmasters
2018 Alan Champneys: Westward Ho! Musing on Mathematics and Mechanics -- Permutation poetry and chaotic collaboration
2019 Mark McCartney: Fluids, Fluorescence and a Hat Full of Beetles
2020 Adrian Rice: Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920): The Centenary of a Remarkable Mathematician
2021 Mark Pencovitch: What's Knot to Love?
2022 Emma Fairbanks: Modelling Covid-19 Transmission at Universities
2023 Matthew Cotton and Brady Metherall: Settling Scores and Gambling on Goals
2024 Adrian Rice: Abel Answers the Question of the Quintic
The Christopher Zeeman Medal.
2000 Lloyd N Trefethen: Predictions for Scientific Computing Fifty Years from Now
2001 Michael Atiyah: Mathematics in the 20th Century
2002 Rose D Baker: Probability Paradoxes: an improbable journey to the End of the World
2003 Paul Holland: Coupling Plankton Population Models to Hydrodynamical Studies
2003 Terry Fairclough: Pensions by Dickens
2004 Ben Veith: Music of the Primes; a talk by Marcus du Sautoy
2004 Joyce Aitchison: The Mathematics of Proportional Representation
2004 Matt Horsham: Fermat's Last Theorem; a talk by Simon Singh
2005 David Percy: The Power of Bayes
2006 Kathleen Ollerenshaw: Constructing pandiagonal magic squares of arbitrarily large size
2007 Ahmer Wadee: Nonlinear Mathematics in Structural Engineering
2007 Michael Powell: A view of algorithms for optimization without derivatives
2008 Paul Glendinning: Ballistic Penetration
2009 Paul Glendinning: Box Models of the Oceanic Conveyor Belt
2010 Rose D Baker: The Problem of Obesity: can mathematics help?
2011 Ken T D Eames and Ellen Brooks-Pollock: Pigs didn't Fly, but Swine Flu
2012 Christopher Hollings: The Case of Evgenii Sergeevich Lyapin
2012 Edmund Chadwick, Thurai Rahulan and Yu Wang: Reverse Swerve -- A New Phenomenon in Football
2013 Matt Keeling, Michael Tildesley, Thomas House and Leon Danon -- The Mathematics of Vaccination
2014 Malcolm Savage: Beautiful Music -- A Mathematical Fluke?
2015 David J T Sumpter: How to Model Honeybee Colonies
2016 Philip Pearce and Tom Shearer: Maths in Medicine
2017 Alan Champneys: Westward Ho! Musing on Mathematics and Mechanics -- Boardmasters
2018 Alan Champneys: Westward Ho! Musing on Mathematics and Mechanics -- Permutation poetry and chaotic collaboration
2019 Mark McCartney: Fluids, Fluorescence and a Hat Full of Beetles
2020 Adrian Rice: Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920): The Centenary of a Remarkable Mathematician
2021 Mark Pencovitch: What's Knot to Love?
2022 Emma Fairbanks: Modelling Covid-19 Transmission at Universities
2023 Matthew Cotton and Brady Metherall: Settling Scores and Gambling on Goals
2024 Adrian Rice: Abel Answers the Question of the Quintic
This is a joint award by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications and the London Mathematical Society. The medal is awarded for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of mathematics. It is currently awarded every two years, the first award being made in 2008. The award of the Christopher Zeeman Medal to the first recipient, Ian Stewart, was made by Christopher Zeeman himself.
Winners of the Christopher Zeeman Medal.
2008 Ian Stewart
2011 John Barrow
2014 Marcus du Sautoy
2016 Rob Eastaway
2018 Hannah Fry
2020 Matt Parker
2022 Simon Singh
2024 Brady Haran
The David Crighton Medal.
2011 John Barrow
2014 Marcus du Sautoy
2016 Rob Eastaway
2018 Hannah Fry
2020 Matt Parker
2022 Simon Singh
2024 Brady Haran
This is a joint award by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications and the London Mathematical Society. The medal is awarded for outstanding services both to mathematics and to the mathematical community. It was established in 2002 and is currently awarded every three years, the first award being made in 2003.
Winners of the David Crighton Medal.
2003 John Ball
2006 Christopher Zeeman
2009 Keith Moffatt
2012 Arieh Iserles and Peter Neumann
2015 Frank Kelly
2017 I David Abrahams
2019 Ken Brown
2021 Caroline Series
2023 Alison Etheridge
Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Gold Medal.
2006 Christopher Zeeman
2009 Keith Moffatt
2012 Arieh Iserles and Peter Neumann
2015 Frank Kelly
2017 I David Abrahams
2019 Ken Brown
2021 Caroline Series
2023 Alison Etheridge
This medal is awarded in recognition to outstanding contribution to mathematics and its applications over a number of years. It is awarded every two years, the first award being in 1982.
Winners of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Gold Medal.
1982 James Lighthill and Alan Breach Tayler
1984 John Michael Hammersley and Alan Wilson
1986 George Alfred Barnard and Sam Edwards
1988 Hermann Bondi
1990 No award
1992 Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz
1994 Fritz Joseph Ursell
1996 Michael James David Powell
1998 No award
2000 Ian Nicholas Stewart
2002 Keith William Morton and Fred C Piper
2004 John Michael Tutill Thompson
2006 John Richard Ockendon
2008 James Dickson Murray and Timothy John Pedley
2010 Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen
2012 Malcolm Sabin
2014 Clifford Cocks
2016 Anthony C Croft and Duncan A Lawson
2018 R Twarock
2020 N J Higham
2022 Philip K Maini
2024 I David Abrahams
Information and Inference Best Paper Prize.
1984 John Michael Hammersley and Alan Wilson
1986 George Alfred Barnard and Sam Edwards
1988 Hermann Bondi
1990 No award
1992 Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz
1994 Fritz Joseph Ursell
1996 Michael James David Powell
1998 No award
2000 Ian Nicholas Stewart
2002 Keith William Morton and Fred C Piper
2004 John Michael Tutill Thompson
2006 John Richard Ockendon
2008 James Dickson Murray and Timothy John Pedley
2010 Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen
2012 Malcolm Sabin
2014 Clifford Cocks
2016 Anthony C Croft and Duncan A Lawson
2018 R Twarock
2020 N J Higham
2022 Philip K Maini
2024 I David Abrahams
This Prize, made to an eary career researcher, is awarded every two years for the best paper in Information and Inference, one of the journals of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications.
Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis.
This Prize, established in 1985, is to preserve the memory of Leslie Fox, a world-leading researcher in numerical analysis and a founder member of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications. The Prize is awarded to researchers in numerical analysis under the age of 31 on the 1st january in the year of the award. It is awarded every two years.
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The Lighthill-Thwaites Prize.
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This Prize is in memory of the first two Presidents of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, namely James Lighthill and Bryan Thwaites. It is awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications in cooperation with the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium. The Prize was established in 2010 and is awarded for a submitted piece of work which is suitable for presentation to the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium.
Winners of the Lighthill-Thwaites Prize.
2011 Raphael Assier: On the diffraction of acoustic waves by a quarter-plane.
2013 Laura Kimpton: The effect of membrane-regulated actin polymerization on a two-phase flow mode for cell motility.
2015 John Craske: A robust mathematical model for unsteady turbulent jets: development and analysis.
2017 Doireann O'Kiely: Edge behaviour in the glass sheet redraw process.
2019 Matthew Butler: Sticking with droplets: Insect-inspired modelling of capillary adhesion.
2021 Matthew Colbrook: Diagonalising the infinite: How to compute spectra with error control
2023 Clare Rees-Zimmerman: Stratification in drying films: a diffusion–diffusiophoresis model
2025 Peter Lewin-Jones: Collision of liquid drops: bounce or merge?
2013 Laura Kimpton: The effect of membrane-regulated actin polymerization on a two-phase flow mode for cell motility.
2015 John Craske: A robust mathematical model for unsteady turbulent jets: development and analysis.
2017 Doireann O'Kiely: Edge behaviour in the glass sheet redraw process.
2019 Matthew Butler: Sticking with droplets: Insect-inspired modelling of capillary adhesion.
2021 Matthew Colbrook: Diagonalising the infinite: How to compute spectra with error control
2023 Clare Rees-Zimmerman: Stratification in drying films: a diffusion–diffusiophoresis model
2025 Peter Lewin-Jones: Collision of liquid drops: bounce or merge?