Valentina Gosetti (2007) I’d like to announce the publication of a volume of essays, which I coedited with Alistair Rolls: Still Loitering. Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Chambers (Peter Lang, 2020). This book is a tribute to Chambers’ life and work and to his legacy among scholars in the global French studies, comparative literature and cultural studies communities. I was also fortunate to be recently awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA 2020) for a project entitled ‘Provincial Poets and the Making of a Nation’. This award will be administered via the University of New England, Australia, where I am Senior Lecturer in French. Beverley Pannell (2007) Dan Paget (2006) and I got married in July 2019. Aleksandar Petrovic (2007) On 11 October 2019 I was awarded a golden medal for civil merit for my contribution to the local community of Leskovac, Serbia. Steven Rayan (2007) At Balliol I read for the DPhil in Mathematics. I am currently a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. In June 2018 I was named an Ethel Raybould Fellow in the School of Mathematics & Physics at the University of Queensland in Australia. In March 2019 I was awarded a New Frontiers in
Katy Theobald (2007) In December I published my research into the Leadership of Future-focused Schools (www.wcmt.org.uk/fellows/ reports/developing-leaders-21stcentury-schools-and-evaluating-theirimpact). This was the product of a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship I was awarded to visit schools and system leaders in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Inspired by my travels, I moved back to Australia and I am now a Principal Policy Advisor with the Victorian Department of Education and Training.
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The happy couple honeymooned in Newfoundland, Canada. And later Vietnam. And then India. They have now returned to domestic life in less exotic Norwalk, Connecticut.
Research Grant from the Canadian TriAgency for a proposal entitled ‘Topology and the Next Generation of Quantum Materials’. The national success rate for the grant, which is valued at a quarter of a million dollars (CAD) over two years, was less than 10 per cent. Following on from this, I am now the Founding Director of the Centre for Quantum Topology and Its Applications (quanTA) at the University of Saskatchewan, an interdisciplinary institute devoted to the mathematics and physics of novel quantum materials with the aim of enabling innovations such as quantum computing. quanTA brings together 15 faculties (including five external ones) as well as ten students and junior fellows. In December, quanTA was awarded a further 200,000 CAD from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences to form a Collaborative Research Group (with myself as principal investigator). This will pave the way for exciting new science coming out of the Canadian Prairies. In 2018 and 2019, respectively, I was recognised with the New Teacher Award (Science) and the New Researcher (Science) awards from the College of Arts & Science at the university.
Vera Frances Leontine Jackson-Hollis, on 17 June 2019. She definitely has the tranquil consciousness of an effortless superiority. All three continue to live in rural Scotland surrounded by books, cats, boats, and printing presses. Ronan Lyons (2009) Together with two co-authors, I received over $600,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation in the US, to examine the performance of the housing market there since the 19th century. At Trinity College Dublin, where I am an Assistant Professor of Economics, I have been appointed Director of Trinity Research in Social Sciences, a hub for over 300 researchactive faculty, postdocs and PhD students across a dozen disciplines. Paolo Gandini (2009) I am happy to share with the Balliol community that I received a prize from the Italian Physical Society this September, the Ettore Pancini Prize. This prize is awarded to a young researcher (below 35) who has obtained significant results in the field of experimental particle or nuclear physics: ‘Award to Dott Paolo Gandini, PhD University of Oxford, currently researcher at INFN Milan, for his determinant contribution to the activities of the LHCb experiment at CERN, in particular for his measurements on spectroscopy and CP violation’ (www.sif.it/attivita/ congresso/105/premiati).
Kelsey Jackson Williams (2008) Dawn Hollis (2009) and Kelsey Jackson Williams (2008) are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter,
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