Fellows’ and Lecturers’ Activities Earth CDT. He has contributed work looking forward to the publication of the Classics to ten publications this year, including article by Boydell and Brewer next year. This year, Beate Dignas has been Tackling Climate Change with Machine In terms of undergraduate teaching, working and published on processes Learning, Journal of Financial Data Annie has particularly enjoyed lecturing of Heroization in 4th century Greece Science, Nature Machine Intelligence, on the topic of medievalism (i.e., post- and Asia Minor, with special focus on and Algorithmic Finance. medieval responses to the medieval the relationship between Hermias of world) and has taken great pleasure Atarneus and Aristotle. She has been This year, Noa Zilberman was named in supervising a number of thoughtful collaborating with K. Sekita (Tel Aviv) a Turing Fellow, and received a MPLS and original final-year dissertation on a volume called Gods in Translation Award for Outstanding Research students from a variety of colleges. and with Stéphane Benoist (Lille) on Supervision. She started a joint UKRI- The high point of the year, however, Memory, Traces and Identity. She has NSF grant on Carbon-Aware Networks has been the Development Office’s established joint research projects with (as Principal Investigator), exploring successful campaign to raise funding, colleagues in both the Humboldt and sustainable computing infrastructure. in partnership with the English Faculty, Freie Universität in Berlin, on Religion Noa organized the Carbon Aware to fully fund a 3-year DPhil studentship and Social Cohesion and Religious Networks workshop in Oxford, which in medieval literature at Somerville. At Diversity and Cross-Cultural was partly hosted in Somerville. She also a time when Humanities funding is so Integration respectively. started a new project funded by the seriously stretched, this is a wonderful This year, Luke Pitcher addressed a Royal Academy of Engineering, under achievement. And it is made all the conference in Kalamata on the treatment the Visiting Professors programme, more special by the fact the monies of war in Appian’s Roman History, and which takes a vertical approach to contributed by the English Faculty one in Leuven on Appian and the ancient embedding sustainability within the originate from a substantial bequest by tradition of exemplarity. He has also computing curriculum, with a secondary Professor Anne Hudson, Annie’s own published reviews of new texts of Arrian goal to recruit, retain and promote DPhil supervisor, and a remarkable and the Greek fragmentary biographers. women in computer engineering. The advocate for the value of the Humanities paper ‘Planter: rapid prototyping of in the life of the university. Charlotte Potts recently presented in-network machine learning inference’ papers on ‘Gods and Mortals / Religion’ (led by Noa’s PhD student Changgang at the Reconsidering Ancient Rome Zheng, Jesus) was selected as Best of History conference in Rome, and ‘Domestic and Computer Communications Review Religious Architecture’ at the Material and invited for presentation in ACM Natalia Nowakowska has continued Interactions in the Mediterranean Iron SIGCOMM 2024. The paper ‘Exploring working on her new history of the Age conference in Athens. She co-edited the Benefits of Carbon-Aware Routing’ Jagiellonian dynasty (1380s-1590s), From the Palatine to Pirro Ligorio: (led by Noa’s PhD student Sawsan who ruled much of Central and Eastern Architectural, Sculptural and Antiquarian El-Zahr, Somerville) won IRTF Applied Europe in the Renaissance period. In Studies in Memory of Amanda Claridge Networking Research Prize and its this academic year, she undertook (1949-2022), a Journal of Roman poster presentation in STEM for Britain further research trips to Cracow, and Archaeology Supplement, alongside won the Dyson Sustainability Award. to the Podlasie region on the Poland/ Glynn J. C. Davis, Janet DeLaine, and Noa contributed to fourteen publications Belarus border, where she was able to Zena Kamash. Her article ‘An External this year, and also released seven visit dynastic sites, historic Orthodox View: Architecture and Ritual in Central open-source projects for the research churches and Tartar villages. Natalia also Italy’ was published in The Stuff of the community’s benefit. gave a public lecture on the Jagiellonians Gods: The Material Aspects of Religion to the Historical Association (Reading in Ancient Greece. English branch), filmed in Paris with Canal Plus for a documentary on Cracow’s Wawel Annie Sutherland enjoyed a term’s palace, and contributed to a BBC Radio 4 Engineering sabbatical at the beginning of the year, programme on post-election Poland. Stephen Roberts’ interests continue which she used very happily to begin to lie in the theory and methodology of work in earnest on an edited collection Law intelligent algorithms for large-scale, of essays on the body in medieval real-world problems. He continues literature and culture, under contract Julie Dickson has continued with her as lead of the Schmidt AI in Science with CUP. She also wrote a journal article research on the methodology of legal Programme, as co-Director of the on a thirteenth-century manuscript philosophy. She gave presentations Oxford ELLIS unit and co-I on a new central to her work on prayers for on aspects of her work at workshops Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for anchoritic women. This was a revealing and conferences in Oxford and Lisbon Climate & Environment - Intelligent and exciting enterprise, and she is during the academic year 2023/24. 14