The Trustees of the Rollo Davidson Trust give notice that they have awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize for 2011 jointly to Dr Christophe Garban (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) and Professor Gabor Pete (University of Toronto) for striking and important new results for planar random processes, particularly in establishing a theory of noise sensitivity for critical percolation and the application of this theory to dynamical percolation.
Christ Church: Fixed-term nine-hour Lecturership in Classical Literature; salary: £18,278–£20,571 plus meals; closing date: 29 April 2011; further particulars: http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/general-information/employment
Christ Church, Pembroke, and St Hilda’s: Fixed-term nine-hour Lecturership in Spanish; salary: £18,278–£20,571 plus meals; closing date: 29 April 2011; further particulars: http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/general-information/employment
Christ Church and the Mathematical Institute: Career Development Fellowship and Fixed-term Studentship in Pure Mathematics; £29,557–£32,615; closing date: 26 April 2011; further particulars: http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/general-information/employment
Department of Physics: Wykeham Professorship of Physics; closing date: 6 June 2011; further particulars: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/fp/
Savilian Professorship of Astronomy; closing date: 13 June 2011; further particulars: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/fp/