July 2022
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‘This month Balliol celebrated the award of the Fields Medal to James Maynard, my colleague in the Mathematical Institute and a former DPhil student at Balliol. For me, July has been focused on my undergraduate summer project students, DPhil students and postdocs, and fruitful research discussions with academics from around the world. I’ve also been busy preparing to take up the Chancellor’s Professorship at UC Berkeley. Whilst I’m sure to enjoy my time away, I am also certain I will be pleased to return to Balliol in 2023.’
Professor Jason Lotay (Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics)
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Professor James Maynard (2009) has been awarded a 2022 Fields Medal — a medal that is said to be ‘the Nobel Prize of mathematics’.
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Prospective applicants flocked to the June Open Days - the first face-to-face Open Days since 2019 - to meet Balliol’s Student Ambassadors and attend subject talks with tutors.
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The Balliol Choir went on a trip to Cambridge, where they sang evensong at the University Church and St John’s College, as three choir members report.
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The American Society of Human Genetics has named Sir Peter Donnelly, FRS, FMedSci (Balliol 1980 and Honorary Fellow) as the 2022 recipient of the annual William Allan Award.
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A new Law and Computer Science course co-founded by Professor Tom Melham (Fellow and Tutor in Computation) has been shortlisted for Oxford University’s Vice-Chancellor’s Education Award.
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Mick Herron (1981) has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award for his novel Slough House - having been shortlisted five times before.
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Professor Richard Portes (1962 and Honorary Fellow) spoke at the annual forum of the European Central Bank.
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BALLIOL ON THE WEB
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- Obituary: Klaus Bowers (1947), Legacy
- James Forder (Andrew Graham Fellow and Tutor in Political Economy): ‘Football and free speech should not be things that concern the next PM’, Times
- Bysshe Coffey (Early Career Development Fellow in English) (series consultant): ‘Percy Shelley, Reformer and Radical’, BBC Radio 4
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Adam Smith (1740): ‘Adam Smith at Oxford’, Adam Smith Institute
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Hardit Singh Malik (1912): ‘“Plane broke into three pieces”: Hardit Singh’s first flight over German lines in Droglandt’, excerpt from Lion of the Skies by Stephen Barker
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Professor Simon Lee (1976): ‘A Balliol quartet and the welfare state: Temple, Beveridge, Tawney and Toynbee’, Sage Journals
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Robert Peston (1976): ‘I wore my favourite Gaultier coat to a party conference and somebody nicked it’, Guardian interview
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Mick Herron (1981): ‘I’m interested in incompetence, things going wrong’, Guardian interview
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Rory Stewart (1992): ‘The Long History of Argument’, BBC Radio 4
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Carmen Bugan (2000): ‘My life laid bare through secret police files’ - podcast
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‘Experiencing Balliol Library’ - blogpost
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PUBLICATIONS
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If you would like us to mention any significant work published this year or last, please send details to Anne Askwith. Previously submitted publications are listed on the alumni publications page.
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