The Aitken Lectureship is awarded by the New Zealand Mathematical Society to a research mathematician from New Zealand. The lectureship is named for New Zealander Professor Alexander Aitken, who was a highly distinguished mathematician who spent most of his career at the University of Edinburgh. The lectureship was funded in 2009 by the London Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society, and is normally awarded every two years, alternating with the Forder Lectureship. Recipients of the lectureship will give a several-week lecturing tour of UK universities and a lecture at the annual meeting of the London society.
Recipients The recipients of the Aitken Lectureship are:
2011: Geoff Whittle 2013: Robert Mclachlan 2015: Steven Galbraith 2017: Hinke Osinga 2019: Bakh Khoussainov 2022: Lisa Orloff Clark
See also List of mathematics awards
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