The Aitken Lectureship is awarded by the

New Zealand Mathematical Society The New Zealand Mathematical Society is a New Zealand based learned society of mathematicians. It is listed by the Royal Society of New Zealand as the affiliate organisation responsible for mathematics research, and by the International Mathematic ...

to a research mathematician from New Zealand. The lectureship is named for New Zealander Professor

Alexander Aitken Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken (1 April 1895 – 3 November 1967) was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians. In a 1935 paper he introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation ...

, formerly of the

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. The lectureship was funded in 2009 by the

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's Learned society, learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh ...

and the New Zealand Mathematical Society, and is normally awarded every two years, alternating with the

Forder Lectureship The Forder Lectureship is awarded by the London Mathematical Society to a research mathematician from the United Kingdom who has made an eminent contribution to the field of mathematics and who can also speak effectively at a more popular level. Th ...

. 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

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Recipients

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