Professor Sir Simon Donaldson

Professor in Pure Mathematics, Imperial College, London

MA, DPhil, FRS

Quondam Fellow since 1985

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Background

Wallis Professor of Mathematics, St Anne’s College, Oxford (from 1985 to 1999)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1985)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, All Souls College (from 1983 to 1985)
Postgraduate, Worcester College, Oxford (from 1980 to 1983)
Undergraduate, Pembroke College, Cambridge (from 1976 to 1979)

Research Interests

Differential & algebraic geometry; global analysis

Selected publications

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Matthew d'Ancona

BA, FRSA

Quondam Fellow since 1996

Background

Editor, The Spectator; also Contributing Editor and Political Columnist, GQ Magazine (from 2006 to 2009)
Deputy Editor, Comment (1996-8); Deputy Editor, Sunday Telegraph (from 1996 to 2006)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996)
The Times (Assistant Editor, 1994–5) (from 1991 to 1995)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1989 to 1996)
Undergraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1986 to 1989)

Selected publications

Nothing to Fear (Hodder & Stoughton, 2008)
Confessions of a Hawkish Hack (2006)
Tabatha’s Code (Alma Books, 2006)
Going East (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2003)
(with C.P. Thiede), The Quest for the True Cross (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
(with C. P. Thiede), The Jesus Papyrus (Orion Publishing Group Ltd, 1997)
The Ties That Bind Us: A Study of Civic Society in English Town (Social Market Foundation, 1996)

Other professional memberships and roles

Member, Puttnam Commission on Parliament in the Public Eye (from 2004 to 2005)
Member, Policy Advisory Board, Social Market Foundation (from 2002 to 2006)
Member, Millennium Commission (from 2001 to 2006)
Member, British Executive, IPI (from 1998 to 2006)
Member, Board of Directors, Centre for Policy Studies (from 1998 to 2006)
Member, Advisory Council, Demos (from 1998 to 2006)

Teaching

Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture, St Edmund hall, Oxford (2006)

Research awards and grants

Editor of the Year, Current Affairs Magazines, BSME (2007).
Political Studies Associate Awards (2006).
British Press Awards (2004).
Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Prize (1995).

Professor John Crossley

Emeritus Professor, Monash University

MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 1969

I originally worked in mathematical logic, especially with Michael Dummett (see https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-sir-michael-dummett), with whom I formulated the Joint Honour School of Mathematics and Philosophy in 1969. After moving to Monash I continued working in logic, then began work on the history of mathematics in the late ’70s, and after that moved into theoretical computer science in 1982. In the 1990s the history work led into music theory in Paris, ca 1300. Around 2007 I started working on the early colonial Spanish Philippines.

My current research projects (2024) are:

China and the Philippines in the sixteenth century (with Anthony Wah-Cheung Lun, Monash University)
The Lilly Historia, transcription and translation of a Spanish MS ca 1600 (with Clive Griffin, Trinity College)
Music theory in Paris, c. 1300 (with Constant Mews and Carol Williams, Monash University)

Background

Emeritus Professor, Monash University (from 2007)
Professor of Pure Mathematics (1969-94), then Professor of Logic, Monash University (1994-2006) (from 1969 to 2007)
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College (from 1985 to 1986)
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College (from 1978 to 1979)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1969)
University Lecturer in Mathematical Logic and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1966 to 1969)
Fellow and Tutor (Mathematics), St Catherine’s College (from 1963 to 1966)
Postgraduate, Merton College, Oxford; Harmsworth Senior Scholar (1960–2), then Junior Research Fellow (from 1960 to 1963)
Undergraduate, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1957 to 1960)

Research Interests

Mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, medieval history (13th century Paris), Spain and the Philippines c. 1600.

Selected publications

(with Constant J. Mews, Carol J. Williams, and Catherine Jeffreys), Guy of Saint-Denis: Tractatus de tonis (Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo, MI, 2017).
The Dasmariñases: Early Governors of the Spanish Philippines (Routledge, Abingdon, 2016).
Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age (Ashgate, Farnham, 2011).
(with Iman Hafiz Poernomo and Martin Wirsing), Adapting proofs-as-programs: The Curry-Howard Protocol (Springer, New York, 2005).
(with Shen Kangshen and Anthony Wah-Cheung Lun), Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art – Companion & Commentary (OUP, 1999).
(with C. J. Ash, C. Brickhill, J. C. Stillwell and N. H. Williams), What is Mathematical Logic? (OUP, 1972, revised edition in preparation, 2024).

Research awards and grants

Asian Study Grant, National Library of Australia (2017 and 2018).
Everett Helm Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (2012).
Various Australian Research Council Discovery Grants (1975–2006).

Claire Creffield

Quondam Fellow since 1994

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1994)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1987 to 1994)

Peter Conrad

Student and Tutor in English, Christ Church, Oxford

BA, MA, FRSL

Quondam Fellow since 1973

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1973)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1970 to 1973)
Undergraduate, New College (Rhodes Scholar) (from 1968 to 1970)
Undergraduate, University of Tasmania, Australia (from 1965 to 1968)

Research Interests

Arts, culture and literature

Teaching

Sixteenth to nineteenth century literature

Dr Mark Collier

Head of School; Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Liverpool

DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2004

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2004)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992 to 1996)

Research Interests

Egyptian language and texts, in particular the nature of the Egyptian language and the range and nature of Egyptian written sources and their interpretation from publication of primary sources to analysis and commentary; subjectivity in Ancient Egypt: the expression of personal experience through written sources in Ancient Egypt and the marking of persons in text through linguistic expression

Selected publications

(with S. Quirke), The UCL Lahun Papyri: Accounts, British Archaeological Reports, 1471 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006)
(with S. Quirke), The UCL Lahun Papyri: Religious, Literary, Legal, Mathematical and Medical, British Archaeological Reports International Series, 1209 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004)
Dating Late XIXth Dynasty Ostraca, Egyptologische Uitgaven, 18 (Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004)
(with S. Quirke), The UCL Lahun Papyri: Letters, British Archaeological Reports International Series, 1083 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2002)
(with W. Manley), How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (London: British Museum Press, 1998)

Other professional memberships and roles

Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (from 2007)

Professor John Clarke

Professor of History, University of Buckingham

MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 1997

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997)
Junior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1974 to 1981)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1967 to 1974)
Undergraduate, Wadham College (from 1964 to 1967)

Research Interests

Local history; church history; eighteenth and nineteenth Century national and international history; historiography

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Professor Jonathan Clark

FRHistS

Quondam Fellow since 1995

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1995)
Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1986 to 1995)

Professor Jean-Sébastien Caux

Universitair HoofdDocent (Associate Professor), Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam

BSc, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2006

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006)
FOM Springplanker (Research Associate), Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam (from 2003 to 2007)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2003 to 2006)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999 to 2002)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia (from 1998 to 1999)

Research Interests

Computation of dynamical correlation functions in quantum integrable models: the ABACUS program; Low-dimensional systems: spin chains, atomic gases, quantum wires and carbon nanotubes; Integrable models and the Bethe ansatz; Conformal field theory; Bosonization; Disordered systems

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David Caute

JP, MA, DPhil, FRSL

Quondam Fellow since 1965

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1965)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1959 to 1965)

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