2008
The Reverend Dr Thomas Plant has served as team vicar of St Michael & all Saints, Camden, since February 2016 and in September 2017 became chaplain of Lichfield Cathedral School. Mr Mattin Biglari has published a lead article, ‘“Captive to the demonology of the Iranian mobs”: US foreign policy and perceptions of Shi’a Islam during the Iranian revolution, 1978-79’ in Diplomatic History, the principal journal in the field of US foreign relations history.
2010
The Reverend Dr Stephen Edmonds celebrated his first mass in July 2016, assisted by Thomas Plant (Se 2008), with the musical setting provided by Vox Cantab, directed by Louisa Denby (Se 2007). In September he was elected a trustee of the Prayer Book Society and in May 2017 he was married to Miss rosie Dickson in Southwark Cathedral, where Selwyn was again well represented, with Louisa Denby serving as organist, Mark Bostock (Se 2005) as cantor, and Thomas Plant as best man and chaplain to the groom.
2010
Mr Oliver Hancock was the first student at Selwyn for the degree of MMus in Choral Studies, whilst also working for Sarah MacDonald as the assistant organist to ely Cathedral Girls’ Choir. after serving as the Graduate organ Scholar at Selwyn, he moved to Portsmouth Cathedral and has now been appointed Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, a church with a fine musical tradition.
2010
Ms Claire Hayes has married Matthias Schnellmann (Se 2010) and is now Mrs Claire Schnellmann.
Dr A Evseev (Fellow 2007-10) anton evseev was Trevelyan research Fellow in Selwyn from 2007 to 2010. He died in February 2017 from a massive heart attack. a gifted mathematician, anton had participated in the russian Maths olympiad as a schoolboy. Following study at the Independent University of Moscow and Moscow State University between 1998 and 2000, he moved to St anne’s College oxford, where he gained a first in the MMath degree in 2003. He was awarded an oxford DPhil in 2007 for a dissertation entitled ‘Groups: zeta functions and uniformity questions’. He was elected to the Trevelyan Fellowship on the strength of this work and strikingly strong references from his oxford supervisor, Marcus du Sautoy, and the College assessors. His proposed research areas were conjugacy classes of unitriangular matrices and organising fair draws for competitions. He gave a Part III course in the Cambridge Maths Department and started the Junior Seminar Series, which continues to the present. His life was mostly maths: ‘intense’ is a word several people have used to describe him. He was, too, a congenial person, committed to academia, and a supporter of College life in general. He had a passionate interest in football. He moved from Cambridge to Queen Mary University of London and then to the University of Birmingham in october 2011, where he worked as an algebraist. The announcement from the University of Birmingham read as follows: ‘It is with great sadness that we report the death of Dr anton evseev, Lecturer in the School of Mathematics, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on 21 February 2017 at the age of thirty-four. anton was a talented and dedicated academic who contributed much, both to the world of mathematics and the School of Mathematics. His mathematical achievements entail sixteen papers with twelve different co-authors, in particular providing solutions to the Külshammer-olsson-robinson and Turner conjectures. His contribution to School life included teaching Galois theory and linear algebra, being the Deputy Director of the Graduate School and algebra seminar organiser, and supervising two PhD students and numerous undergraduates. anton received an MMath from the University of oxford in 2003 and completed a DPhil in 2007. He held the position of research Fellow at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, and at Queen Mary University of London, before joining us in the School of Mathematics in october 2011. His research interests mainly focused on the representation theory of finite groups, and in particular the symmetric groups and related objects. We will sorely miss anton.’
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