Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Christopher Bishop was awarded the 2024 Senior Berwick Prize by the London Mathematical Society (LMS).
The Senior Berwick Prize is awarded in even-numbered years for an outstanding piece of mathematical research published by the LMS within the last eight years. Bishop was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize for the publication of two papers: ‘Models for the Eremenko–Lyubich Class’, published in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society in 2015, and ‘Models for the Speiser Class’, published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society in 2017. He will formally receive this award in November.
“I was gratified and delighted to hear that I had been awarded the Senior Berwick prize by the London Mathematical Society,” said Bishop. “To be recognized with this highly regarded award is a tremendous honor that I appreciate very much.”
Since its inception, Bishop is the only sitting faculty member from Stony Brook University that has received this prestigious award. Other notable winners include mathematicians John G. Thompson, Louis Mordell, JHC Whitehead, Nigel Hitchen, William Hodge, Ian Agol, and many others.
“Professor Bishop’s groundbreaking work creating the technique of quasiconformal folding and applying it to open questions in transcendental dynamical systems is an important milestone, opening new methods of investigation in this branch of mathematics,” said Scott Sutherland, professor and chair of the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Mathematics. “It is a great pleasure to see the London Mathematical Society acknowledge its importance with this well-deserved prize.”
Bishop joined the Stony Brook University Department of Mathematics in 1991 and was named a SUNY distinguished professor in 2021. Throughout his career, he has participated in several notable conferences and fellowships. In 2018, Bishop was invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). He also participated in several fellowships, including as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, the Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1992, was selected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society Award in 2019, and as a Simons Fellow in Mathematics in 2019.
Bishop received his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge where he was a Churchill Scholar, and his PhD from the University of Chicago.
