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Reports and College Activities Rebecca Beasley (English) Several articles and my long-term book project were published this year: a chapter on visual culture in The New Ezra Pound Studies, ed. Byron (Cambridge University Press), a chapter on ‘non-translation’ and internationalism in Modernism and Non-Translation, ed. Harding and Nash (Oxford University Press), an article on the teaching of literature at Black Mountain College, the mid-twentieth century experimental institution near Asheville, North Carolina, in the journal Modernist Cultures, and Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881-1922 (Oxford University Press). Since March, though, research has had to be put aside. As Director of Teaching and Deputy Chair in the Faculty of English, I was in charge of planning and executing the Faculty’s shift to online teaching and assessment in Trinity 2020, and I am now working with colleagues across the University on developing the mix of face-to-face and online teaching that we expect to be delivering in Michaelmas 2020. John Blair (History) Since the publication of my major book Building Anglo- Saxon England in 2018, I have been rounding off various past commitments and paving the way to new projects. Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape, the outcome of a collaborative project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, appeared in May 2020, and two articles on aspects of Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement in the Wychwood region are currently in press. The big landmark for me is retirement, after nearly forty years as a Tutorial Fellow of Queen’s. I am deeply grateful to the Governing Body for electing me to an Emeritus Fellowship. This allows me to remain fully a part of the College community, and gives me the best possible research base to work towards my projected book on regional diversity in medieval England. Angus Bowie (Literae Humaniores – emeritus) After publishing my commentary on Iliad 3 for Cambridge University Press, I have continued my engagement with Homer by working on a big commentary on Iliad 21-24 which was commissioned by the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla in Milan. In this, ignoring the advice that cobblers should stick to their last, I’m adding to the usual features of a commentary material that situates Homer’s poetry in the religious, political and cultural milieu of contemporary 14 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
and earlier Indo-European and Mesopotamian cultures. Other works that have appeared, or are about to, discuss Aristophanes’ handling of obscenity in the religious parts of his plays, narratology and emotion in Homer and honey in ancient Egyptian, Hittite and Greek religion. In the midst of this, the College very kindly allowed Almut Fries and me to get married in the Chapel, and all involved ensured this was a very agreeable occasion, despite the restrictions imposed. José A. Carrillo de la Plata (Mathematics) Reports and College Activities I recently joined Queen’s in April 2020. My research in the 2019-20 academic year has followed my endeavours in the theoretical, numerical and applied side of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) in the sciences. They constitute the basic language in which most of the laws in physics or engineering can be written and one of the most important mathematical tools for modelling in life and socio-economical sciences. I have been interested in long-time asymptotics, qualitative properties and numerical schemes for nonlinear diffusion, hydrodynamic, and kinetic equations. I have also worked in the modelling of collective behaviour of many-body systems with application in charged particles transport in a plasma cell movement by chemotaxis or cell sorting by adhesion forces. I received an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant 2019 to develop my research in nonlocal PDEs for complex particle dynamics: phase transitions, patterns and synchronization. The proposed research is centred on developing tools underpinning the analysis of long time asymptotics, phase transitions, stability of patterns, consensus and clustering, and qualitative properties of collective behaviour models in terms of the analysis of their PDE descriptions. I will also focus on the important case of the Landau equation with applications in weakly nonlinear plasmas by means of the gradient flow techniques. In addition, I will showcase the developed tools in patterns and consensus by focusing on zebra fish patterning formation, as an example of spontaneous self-organisation processes in developmental biology, and grid cells for navigation in mammals, as prototype for the synchronization of neural networks. I have been elected as the head of the Mathematics Division of the European Academy of Sciences for the next two years; and I am the current Program Director of the SIAM Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations. I gave a plenary lecture at the 2 nd SIAM/CAIM Annual Meeting and a Distinguished Lecture at the INS of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 15
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A YEAR IN THE JCR Hattie Bates JCR
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ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS Blues Fred Ne
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40 YEARS OF CO-EDUCATION AT QUEEN
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Celebrate 40 years of women at Quee
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PUBLICATIONS Bettison, Norman (1983
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Teague, Anthony known as Brother An
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Comparative Literature at Columbia
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