Winners and Finalists of the IMA Lighthill Thwaites Prize

2025

• Winner: Peter Lewin-Jones
• Title: Collision of liquid drops: bounce or merge?
• Finalists: Zoe Godard, Anna Curran, Joseph Webber, Molly Brennan

2023

• Winner: Clare Rees-Zimmerman
• Title: Stratification in drying films: a diffusion–diffusiophoresis model
• Finalists: Tilly Woods, Josh Shelton, Anna Katsiavria, Nicholas Boulle, Valentin Kunz, Simon Finney, Hiroyuki Miyoshi

2021

• Winner: Matthew Colbrook
• Title: Diagonalising the infinite: How to compute spectra with error control
• Finalists: Daniel Hill, Eleanor Johnstone, Kristian Kiradjiev, Ellen Luckins, Joshua Moore

2019

• Winner: Matthew Butler
• Title: Modelling water exit and entry of rigid bodies
• Finalists: Matthew Colbrook, Maximilian Eggl, Linnea Franssen, Matthew Nethercote, Jessica Williams

2017

• Winner: Doireann O'Kiely
• Title: Asymptotic modelling of thin viscous sheets and glass drawing
• Finalists: Nabil Fadai, Oliver Allanson, Z. Wilmott

2015

• Winner: John Craske
• Title: Unsteady turbulent plumes and entrainment
• Finalists: Jonathan Black, Susana Gomes, Lorna Ayton

 2013

• Winner: Laura Kimpton
• Title: Mathematical modelling of cell motility and active gels
• Finalists: Thomas Woolley, M. Moore, Matthew Hennessy

2011

• Winner: Raphael Assier
• Title: Diffraction by a quarter-plane and conical diffraction
• Finalists: Igor Chernyavsky, S. Lind, A. Stewart, Alice Thompson