{"id":1345,"date":"2020-11-27T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:53:21","slug":"1345","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Professor Apala Majumdar who wins a Suffrage Science award for Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='content-column two_fifth'><div id=\"attachment_1344\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1344\" class=\" wp-image-1344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Majumdar-Apala_Photo-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Apala Majumda\" width=\"168\" height=\"247\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apala Majumdar VISA Feb 2014<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class='content-column three_fifth last_column'>We are very pleased to learn that Professor Apala Majumdar has won a Suffrage Science Award for 2020 Maths and Computing.\u00a0Dr Nina Snaith, University of Bristol, on her nomination of Professor Apala Majumdar, University of Strathclyde said: &#8220;Apala does outstanding research in liquid crystals and partially ordered materials. She stands out because of the vast array of collaborations she maintains, from pure mathematicians to projects with industry. Her absolute dedication to mathematics has led to a brilliant and prolific output of interdisciplinary work.&#8221; For the full story please follow this link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2020-11\/mlio-lwi110320.php\">EurekAlert news release<\/a>.<br \/><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}