Alice Rogers

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. 1 2 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), MR 2320438.
  3. ↑ Sanford, Peter (6 March 2012), "Make Britain Count: Are girls really worse at maths than boys?", The Telegraph.
  4. ↑ "Professor Alice Rogers", Academic Staff A–Z, Department of Mathematics, King's College London, retrieved 2016-06-11.
  5. ↑ Council, London Mathematical Society, retrieved 2016-06-11.
  6. ↑ Council, Joint Mathematical Council, retrieved 2016-06-11.

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