Alice Rogers
{{short description|Emeritus professor of mathematics at King's College London}}
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Frances Alice Rogers {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}}{{citation|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-queens-birthday-honours-2016|title=The Queen's Birthday Honours 2016|publisher=Cabinet Office|date=10 June 2016|accessdate=2016-06-11}} 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).Review of Supermanifolds: Theory and Applications by Fausto Ongay-Larios (2008), {{MR|2320438}}.
Service
Rogers has been a member of the British government's Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education,{{citation|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/mathematics/people/atoz/rogersa.aspx |title=Professor Alice Rogers|work=Academic Staff A–Z|publisher=Department of Mathematics, King's College London|accessdate=2016-06-11}}. is the education secretary of the London Mathematical Society (LMS),{{citation|url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/about/council|title=Council|publisher=London Mathematical Society|accessdate=2016-06-11}}. and represents the LMS on the Joint Mathematical Council of the UK.{{citation|url=http://www.jmc.org.uk/council.htm|title=Council|publisher=Joint Mathematical Council|accessdate=2016-06-11|archive-date=2019-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230080835/http://www.jmc.org.uk/council.htm|url-status=dead}}.
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.{{citation|title=Make Britain Count: Are girls really worse at maths than boys?|newspaper=The Telegraph|first=Peter|last=Sanford|date=6 March 2012}}. 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".
In 2018, Rogers was awarded the Kavli Education Medal for "her outstanding contributions to mathematics education" from The Royal Society.{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/kavli-education-medal/|title=Kavli Education Medal {{!}} Royal Society|website=royalsociety.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-07-30}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/staff/fa_rogers/index.html Home page]
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