Reporter 13/1/99: University of Oxford

OXFORD NOTICES

University of Oxford

WALLIS PROFESSORSHIP OF MATHEMATICS

The electors intend to proceed to an election to the Wallis Professorship of Mathematics with effect from 1 October 1999 or such later date as may be arranged. The Professor will succeed S. K. Donaldson, FRS. The University attaches the greatest importance to the election to this Professorship of a person of mathematical distinction who will be able to offer leadership in research, teaching, and academic policy-making. The University welcomes applicants working in any branch of analysis, interpreted in its widest sense including probability theory. A non-stipendiary Professorial Fellowship at St Anne's College is attached to the Professorship.

Applications (ten copies, or one only for overseas candidates), naming three persons who have agreed to act as referees on this occasion, should be received not later than 15 March 1999 by the Registrar, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD, from whom further particulars may be obtained. Further particulars may also be accessed on the Web (URL: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/).

KENNICOTT HEBREW FELLOWSHIP

The Fellowship, which may be held in conjunction with a Junior Research Fellowship at The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, is open to members of the University of Oxford who have obtained a first or second class degree in an Honour School or candidates who have, in the opinion of the electors, achieved comparable academic standing in another university. It is in addition expected that candidates will have successfully completed a doctorate or will be in the process of doing so.

Every candidate must submit with his or her application both evidence of his or her knowledge of Hebrew and a statement satisfactory to the electors as to the course of study he or she intends to pursue in connection with the Hebrew language, literature, history, or archaeology, or the cognate Semitic languages, so far as they illustrate Hebrew. Every candidate who is already a member of the University must also submit a statement of consent to his candidature from the head of his or her society. Preference may be given to candidates who have not on the first day of Trinity Term 2000 passed their twenty-fifth birthday.

The Fellowship will be tenable for two years from the first day of Michaelmas Term 1999, although it may be deferred at the discretion of the Board of Management. It may be renewed for a third year if the Board of Management so decides. The Fellowship may not be held twice by the same person.

The value of the Fellowship shall initially be in the order of £15,735 for candidates who have already successfully completed and defended a doctorate or on the scale for postgraduate research fellows in the case of those who are still in the process of completing the doctorate. It will thereafter rise by annual increments. As a condition of becoming entitled to the emoluments of the Fellowship, the Fellow must have been admitted to matriculation as a member of the University, must reside within the University for two academic years unless the electors give him or her leave to pursue his or her course of study elsewhere, and must satisfy the Board of Management in each term that he or she is diligently prosecuting a course of studies in Hebrew approved by the Board. Applications in the field of Classical Hebrew Studies would be particularly welcome.

Candidates for the Fellowship should submit the material detailed below to the Secretary to the Board of Management for the Kennicott and Pusey and Ellerton Funds, the Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE not later than 31 January 1999: three copies of a statement including: (i) age, and date of matriculation; (ii) qualifications; (iii) intended course of research; and (iv) a note of any further emoluments applied for or obtained for the period to be covered by the Fellow-ship. In addition they are asked to arrange for two confidential academic references on their behalf to be submitted direct to the Secretary of the Board of Management by the same date.

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