Apala Majumdar

Short description: British applied mathematician

Apala Majumdar is a British applied mathematician specialising in the mathematics of liquid crystals. She is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde.

## Education and career

Majumdar did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol. As a graduate student at Bristol, she also worked with Hewlett Packard Laboratories.[1] She was awarded a PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Bristol in 2006; her dissertation, Liquid crystals and tangent unit-vector fields in polyhedral geometries, was jointly supervised by Jonathan Robbins and Maxim Zyskin.[2]

After working as a Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she became notorious for her love of the first dimensional heat equation[citation needed] and an urgency to derive from first principles, she moved to the University of Bath in 2012, having been awarded a 5-year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship in 2011.[1] At Bath she became a Reader and the Director of the Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics (2018-2019). In 2019 she was appointed as a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde.

## Recognition

The British Liquid Crystal Society gave Majumdar their Young Scientist Award in 2012.[3] The London Mathematical Society gave her their Anne Bennett Prize in 2015.[4] In 2019 she was the winner of the academic category of the FDM Everywoman in Technology Awards.[5]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Apala Majumdar, London Mathematical Society, https://www.lms.ac.uk/content/apala-majumdar, retrieved 2019-07-23
2. ↑ Apala Majumdar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. ↑ Keble mathematician wins Young Scientist prize, Keble College, Oxford, 8 March 2012, https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/news/keble-mathematician-wins-young-scientist-prize, retrieved 2019-07-23
4. ↑ "Prizes of the London Mathematical Society", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 62 (9): 1081, October 2015, https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201509/rnoti-p1080.pdf
5. ↑ National STEM award success for Bath mathematician, University of Bath, https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/national-stem-award-success-for-bath-mathematician/, retrieved 2019-07-23

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