Alice Rogers
| Alice Rogers OBE | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, Imperial College London |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | King's College London |
Frances Alice Rogers OBE[1] is an emeritus professor of mathematics at King's College London. Her research concerns supermanifolds and mathematical physics; she is the author of the book Supermanifolds: Theory and Applications (World Scientific, 2007).[2]
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.[3] Rogers earned her Ph.D. in 1981 from Imperial College London. She has been a member of the British government's Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education,[4] is the education secretary of the London Mathematical Society (LMS),[5] and represents the LMS on the Joint Mathematical Council of the UK.[6]
In 2016, she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire "for services to Mathematics Education and Higher Education".[1]
References
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Sanford, Peter (6 March 2012), "Make Britain Count: Are girls really worse at maths than boys?", The Telegraph.
- ↑ "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, retrieved 2016-06-11.