Call for Nominations: LMS Prizes 2025 (UK and Ireland)

Award Categories

• Anne Bennett Prize: for work in and influence on mathematics, particularly acting as an inspiration for women mathematicians. The awardee should have fewer than 10 years’ full time involvement in mathematics.
• Berwick Prize: awarded to the author(s) of an outstanding piece of mathematical research published by the Society in the past 8 years. The awardee should have fewer than 15 years’ full-time involvement in mathematics.
• De Morgan Medal: the Society’s premier award, for which the only grounds are the candidate’s contributions to mathematics.
• Senior Whitehead Prize: for work in, influence on, or service to mathematics, or recognition of lecturing gifts in the field of mathematics.
• Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics: for work in, influence on, and contributions to applied mathematics and/or the applications of mathematics, and lecturing gifts.
• Whitehead Prizes: for work in and influence on mathematics to mathematicians with fewer than 15 years’ experience at post-doctoral level (up to six may be awarded).

Eligibility Criteria

• They strongly encourage nominations for women and other underrepresented groups in the mathematical community. The Prizes Committee interprets the criteria for all prizes broadly, so if in doubt please submit a nomination.

Requirements

• Anne Bennett Prize:
  • The award of the Anne Bennett Prize shall be considered two years out of three by the Council of the Society, starting in 2015 and 2016. The Senior Anne Bennett Prize will be considered in the third year. The Prize Winner will normally be invited to give a lecture at the Women in Maths Day in the year of the award +1.
  • No person shall be awarded the Anne Bennett Prize more than once. An Anne Bennett Prize may not be awarded to any person who has received any other LMS Prize, with the exception of the Berwick and Senior Berwick Prizes. Recipients of these prizes may be eligible for the Anne Bennett prize, provided they satisfy all other eligibility criteria.
  • The Prize shall be restricted to mathematicians who, on 1st January of the year of the award, are either normally resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or members of the Society mainly educated in the United Kingdom.
  • The grounds for the award are work in and influence on mathematics, particularly acting as an inspiration for women mathematicians.
  • The prize shall only be awarded to mathematicians who on the 1st January of the year of its award have fewer than 10 years (full time equivalent) of involvement in mathematics at post-doctoral level, allowing for breaks in continuity, or who in the opinion of the Prizes Committee are at an equivalent stage in their career.
  • The Prizes are not restricted to mathematicians working in any specific field or area of mathematics. To avoid doubt the prize may be awarded to either a man or a woman.
  • Any amendment to these Regulations for the award of the Prizes must be made at a regular meeting of Council at which the proposed amendment must receive the support of an absolute majority of those present at the meeting, whether voting or not, in order to take effect.
• Berwick Prize:
  • The award of the Berwick Prize shall be considered biennially by the Council of the Society, in odd numbered years.
  • No person shall be awarded the Berwick Prize more than once as either an individual or joint award. The Berwick Prize may not be awarded to any person who has received the Senior Berwick Prize.
  • The Prize shall only be awarded to mathematicians who on the 1st January of the year of its award are not already Fellows of the Royal Society of London, and have fewer than 15 years (full time equivalent) of involvement in mathematics at post-doctoral level, allowing for breaks in continuity, or who in the opinion of the Prizes Committee are at an equivalent stage in their career.
  • The Prize in year x shall be awarded in respect of a definite piece of mathematical research actually published by the Society.
  • To qualify for the Prize in year x, the definite piece of mathematical research must have been published in any of the eligible journals in the period from 1st January, year x – 8, until 31st December, year x –1.
  • Any amendment to these Regulations for the award of the Prize must be made at a regular meeting of Council at which the proposed amendment must receive the support of an absolute majority of those present at the meeting, whether voting or not, in order to take effect.
• De Morgan Medal:
  • The award of the De Morgan Medal shall be considered triennially by the Council of the Society, in those years numbered by a multiple of three.
  • No person shall be eligible to receive the Medal more than once.
  • The Medal shall be awarded to a mathematician who is normally resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the 1st January of the year of the award.
  • The sole grounds for the award of the Medal shall be the candidate’s contributions to mathematics.
  • Any amendment to these Regulations for the award of the Medal must be made at a regular meeting of Council at which the proposed amendment must receive the support of an absolute majority of those present at the meeting, whether voting or not, in order to take effect.
• Senior Whitehead Prize:
  • The award of the Senior Whitehead Prize shall be considered biennially by the Council of the Society, in odd numbered years.
  • No person shall be awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize more than once, The Senior Whitehead Prize may not be awarded to any person who has received the De Morgan Medal, the Senior Anne Bennett Prize or the Naylor Prize.
  • The Prize shall be restricted to a mathematician who is normally resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 1st January of the year of the award.
  • The grounds for the award of the Prize shall include:
    • work in and influence on and service to mathematics;
    • lecturing gifts.
  • The award is not restricted to mathematicians working in any specific field or area of mathematics.
  • The Prize winner shall normally be invited to deliver a lecture to a meeting of the Society within a year of the announcement of the Prize.
  • Any amendment to these Regulations for the award of the Prize must be made at a regular meeting of Council at which the proposed amendment must receive the support of an absolute majority of those present at the meeting, whether voting or not, in order to take effect.
• Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics:
  • The award of the Prize shall be considered biennially by the Council of the Society in odd-numbered years.
  • No-one who has received the De Morgan Medal, the Senior Anne Bennett Prize or the Senior Whitehead Prize shall be eligible for the Prize, and no person shall receive the Prize more than once.
  • The Prize shall be awarded to a mathematician who is normally resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 1st January of the year of the award.
  • Grounds for the award of the Prize shall include: work in, and influence on, and contributions to Applied Mathematics and/or the Applications of Mathematics, and lecturing gifts.
  • Any amendment to these Regulations for the award of the Prize shall be made at a regular meeting of Council at which the proposed amendment must receive the support of an absolute majority of those present at the meeting, whether voting or not, in order to take effect.
• Whitehead Prizes:
  • The award of the Whitehead Prizes shall be considered annually by the Council of the Society.
  • Normally not more than six Whitehead Prizes shall be awarded in any year.
  • No person shall be awarded a Whitehead Prize more than once. A Whitehead Prize may not be awarded to any person who has received any other LMS Prize, with the exception of the Anne Bennett Prize, the Berwick Prize or the Senior Berwick Prize. The award of any of these three prizes, and in particular of the Anne Bennett Prize, should not factor into the Prizes Committee’s consideration of Whitehead nominees.
  • The Prizes shall be restricted to mathematicians who, on 1st January of the year of the award, are either normally resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or members of the Society mainly educated in the United Kingdom.
  • The grounds for the award of a Prize shall include a candidate’s work in and influence on mathematics.
  • Prizes (joint or single winner) shall only be awarded to mathematicians who on the 1st January of the year of its award are not already Fellows of the Royal Society of London, and have fewer than 15 years (full time equivalent) of involvement in mathematics at post-doctoral level, allowing for breaks in continuity, or who in the opinion of the Prizes Committee are at an equivalent stage in their career.
  • The Prizes are not restricted to mathematicians working in any specific field or area of mathematics.
  • Any amendment to these Regulations for the award of the Prizes must be made at a regular meeting of Council at which the proposed amendment must receive the support of an absolute majority of those present at the meeting, whether voting or not, in order to take effect.

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