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\title{Dr K\"{o}rner's Helpful Guide For Mathematicians\\
Seeking A Cambridge Research Fellowship}
\author{T.W.K\"{o}rner
\\Trinity Hall, Cambridge}
\date{8 April 1998}
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From time to time during the year the
Cambridge University Reporter 
(the Cambridge University official
newspaper) carries advertisements of
the following type.
\begin{quotation}
\begin{small}
\begin{center}
{\normalsize\bf Churchill College, 
\\New Hall, and Trinity Hall}\\
{\em Joint Application Scheme for Research Fellowships}
\end{center}
\vspace{\baselineskip}
The three Colleges, acting as a group,
invite applications from men and women for
Research Fellowships which will normally
be tenable from 1 October 1998.

The conditions of eligibility of candidates vary
somewhat between Colleges, and further details,
together with application forms, may be obtained
from the Research Fellowships Secretary at Churchill
College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. (Please enclose an A4
or larger stamped
self-addressed envelope.)

Five copies of a completed application form
must be returned not later than
16th January 1998 for Science Research Fellowships
and 23nd January for Arts  Research Fellowships.
The application should
contain a statement of not more than 1000 words
outlining the work candidates are prepared to
submit in support of their application and the
work they propose to do if elected; this statement
should be intelligible to scholars in other subjects.

Short listed candidates will
be asked to submit three copies of their written work by
mid-February.
It is suggested that you should
consider submitting a piece or pieces of writing
of not less than 20,000 words or about a quarter of
a Ph.D thesis. This should include some of your most
recent work.

Candidates will also be required to arrange for
references by two independent referees to be
sent to the Applications Office by the closing date for applications.

The stipends of Research Fellows are reviewed at
regular intervals; financial support from other
sources may be taken into account. Participating
Colleges hope to make elections in May.
Candidates may be asked to come for interview.
\end{small}
\end{quotation}
\noindent
(A summary of other such advertisements which appeared during
the last year is given at the end of this guide. Many will now
be out of date, but they give a good idea of what is on
offer each year. The advertisement above is untypical
in that you 
apply simultaneously
to three Colleges (which you place in order of preference).)

The advertisement does not specify the duties
of a research fellow. This is because there are
none. (Some colleges ask you to make an annual
report on your work.) The college offers you a salary
(in 1998 typically \pounds12\,000 to \pounds14\,000), housing
if you are single, and one free meal a day
for three years while you do whatever research
you wish. (Many research fellows do a little
light teaching for the college, say one afternoon
a week, but this is entirely voluntary and you
receive an additional payment.) Cambridge
has excellent libraries, extensive computing
facilities, the Isaac Newton Institute, a long mathematical tradition,
an active mathematical present, and scenery out
of a tourist brochure. Research Fellows are made
welcome in the Mathematics Departments.
The two departments maintain World Wide Web pages which are the
usual mixture of the useless, the out of date and the fairly
interesting. You might consult them to get some idea of
the kind of things that go on in Cambridge. The address is
\[\text{http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/}\]
among the the links from there is one to
\[\text{http://www.cms.cam.ac.uk/colpotw.html}\]
where you may see a picture of work on the new 
Centre for Mathematical Sciences which will house the departments
from the year 2000.

Each college in Cambridge is a self governing
independent corporation and each offers research
fellowships on different terms. Some restrict
eligibility to Cambridge graduates, some
to United Kingdom candidates, but some have
no such restriction. If you receive a salary
from a different source, like the Royal Society,
the college will not pay you a salary but
you will continue to enjoy the other privileges
of a fellow. If a college offers a {\em non stipendiary}\/
research fellowship this means that the fellowship
carries no salary and you must find financial
support elsewhere. Sometimes Research Fellowships
may be restricted to one particular subject, but
usually they are offered in the Arts (not including
Mathematics) or the Sciences (including Mathematics)
or with no subject restriction whatsoever
(so that a someone whose thesis was on `Noise Reduction
for Jet Engines' will be in competition with
someone whose thesis was on `Ambiguity and Eroticism
in the Early Works of Conrad').

The typical successful candidate would be a man or
woman in their third or fourth year of research
who, on the evidence of the work they have already
done, is likely to have a good (or, perhaps, outstanding)
academic career.

When you apply for a research fellowship you
will usually be asked to fill out an application
form, to obtain two or three testimonials,
and to provide a statement of your research.
On the basis of this information the college
decides which candidates to consider further.

Of the three pieces of information before
the college, the application form is
the least important. If you have an excellent
undergraduate record that will count for you
(so, if you have been twice winner of the
Hungarian Mathematical Olympiad, do include
this fact), if you have a poor record it will
count against you, but decisions are not made
on this basis.

Much more important are the testimonials.
An enthusiastic reference from someone
the college trusts is the best possible
basis for getting  through to the next
round. Thus, if you can, try to have
testimonials from someone who knows
the Cambridge system, or, failing that
someone who should be known in Cambridge.
If you cannot do this you should try
to give the College the names of people
in Cambridge, or, failing that, in the
UK, who should be able to give an opinion
of your work.

Since your research supervisor
is the most likely mathematician to know your
work well he or she will usually be one of the
providers of testimonials. Do {\em not}\/ ask
for testimonials from people unacquainted
with your research. The College is not interested
in what a charming undergraduate you were,
or how helpful you are with teaching at your
present institution. The College is interested
in your research potential - not your character.

 
Finally we come to the
`$\ldots$ statement of not more than 1,000 words
$\ldots$ intelligible to scholars in other subjects.'
In writing this you should
remember that the choice of a research fellow
is made, not by experts in your field, but by
a group of people which will certainly contain
physicists, biologists and engineers, and which,
in some colleges, may contain historians, linguists
and literary critics. One way of dealing with
this is the `accelerating lecture technique'
in which the first paragraph can be understood
by a schoolchild, the second by any educated
person, the third by any mathematically literate
person, the fourth by any mathematician and
so on. My own preference would be to follow the
accelerating method for the first three paragraphs
but to address the rest to an intelligent and
interested, but mathematically uninformed,
engineer.

Suppose, for example, that my thesis 
simplified part of the classification theorem
for finite groups. I would start by explaining
that,
\begin{quotation}
\small
\noindent
in some sense, the theory of groups is
the study of symmetries. Although mathematicians
study symmetries for their own sake, the theory
has, as one might expect, many applications
to fields like crystallography, data transmission
in the presence of noise and to secret codes. 
[{\em Warning!} You may be asked to elaborate
on your statement at interview.] The study
of symmetry now forms an important part
of the search for the basic laws of physics.
For many years mathematicians have sought
a useful classificatory scheme covering
all finite groups. Since the notion of
a group is such a general one, this looks
as hopeless as an attempt to classify all
chemical molecules. But, just as all molecules
are made from a limited number of types of
atoms, so it turns out that all finite groups
are constructed in a well understood way
from a limited number of types of groups --
the simple groups. (Of course, this does
not bring the subject to an end any more
than the corresponding statement brings
chemistry to an end.)

This `Classification Theorem' is justly
considered a high point of 20th century
mathematics. Unfortunately, whilst
important theorems in mathematics usually occupy
at most a few pages and can be fully understood
The Classification Theorem is the result of combining many
different theorems by many different hands.
The full original proof thus covers about
5,000 pages. Since the purpose of proof
in mathematics is not merely to establish
truth, but also to give understanding, this
is not satisfactory. One of the most
important tasks of group theorists today
is to shorten and simplify the proof
of the Classification Theorem to the point
where one person can grasp it in its entirety 
$\ldots$
\end{quotation}
If there was nothing in the actual
mathematics which could be discussed in this way,
I might, perhaps, devote a couple of paragraphs
to a technical discussion.

Most Colleges will expect the account of your
research to include not merely an account of
what you have done but an indication of what you
hope to do. You may be tempted to reply `If I
knew what I was going to do I would already have
done it' but it is not unreasonable for a College
to look for evidence that you will not fall flat
on your face the moment you release your grip
on your supervisor's hand. It may be helpful to
consider the advice you would give to a student rather
brighter than yourself who wanted to do research
in your field. What are the main problems, how are they
related, and why are they important? Which ones
could conceivably be tackled by developing
the methods you have mastered or invented? 
Are there any methods which you have not yet
learned which look as though they might be relevant?
Would partial answers to some of the main problems
be useful and why?
Colleges realise that research plans must be
tentative. They are well aware that any worthwhile
project is more likely than not to fail. (If
it is going to work anyway, why do it?) However they
prefer researchers who know where they would like
to go to those whose only plan is to wait for something
to happen.

After all the applications and their associated
references have been carefully scrutinised a
limited number of applicants will be asked
to submit written work. (For the purposes of
illustration, they might be three chemists,
an astronomer, a zoologist, two computer scientists,
two mathematicians, a physicist and two engineers.)
Many people submit their PhD dissertation, or
some revised version of it, but if some other
written work gives the best account of what
you have done so far you should submit that.
The College then pays experts whose opinion
it trusts to read your work and give their
opinion on it. (In choosing testimonials
you should bear in mind that the College
is unlikely to ask a writer of your testimonial
to act as the independent expert.)

Using these expert opinions the College then
draws up a final short list. (In our example
it might consist of the zoologist, the two
physicists and one of the mathematicians.)
In some Colleges the final decision is then
made without an interview. In others
the members of the final short list
are then interviewed and a final decision made.
(If you live in New Zealand, you should ask
the College, {\em before}\/ applying,
whether they are prepared to consider
you without a personal interview 
Some colleges will and some will not.)
 
The interviewing committee may contain an
expert in your field or it may not. If
it does, you may face a detailed and, apparently,
hostile grilling. The non experts will be
watching to see how you hold up under pressure,
and the expert will be hoping that
you uphold the honour of your subject.

If the committee contains no experts your
problems are much greater. On the one hand,
they have no idea what to ask you, but,
on the other hand, they are usually clever
enough to detect an unsatisfactory answer.
Your job is thus, in some sense, to provide
sensible answers to foolish questions.
Let me give some examples.
\begin{quotation}
\small

{\em Question:} Do you use computers in your work?

{\em Possible Answer:} No.

{\em Better Answer:} My work deals with infinite
dimensional spaces and computers can only handle
finite problems. One could try to look at the
finite dimensional analogues of my problems
but unfortunately the number of calculations
appears to grow exponentially with dimension
and even the four dimensional case would need
a year on a Cray.

{\em Question:} Can you describe your work to us?

{\em Possible Answer:} No.

{\em Better Answer:} My own work is rather technical
but I can explain where the original problem 
comes from $\ldots$

\end{quotation}
Although you should do most of the talking, you
must pause from time to time to let the committee
ask questions. Do {\em not}\/ try to produce answers
to please the committee, they are looking for
future stars, not `yes men'. If someone suggests
that fractals might be of use in Galois Theory
disagree respectfully but firmly. Very occasionally
(since every committee has its village idiot)
you might be asked something which goes beyond
fair questioning (`Don't you think logic is a
rather unsuitable subject for a woman?').
Answer it as calmly as you can, you will
have the sympathy of the rest of the committee.
(On the other hand the question `How can any
sane person believe in a farrago like string theory
for which there is not a shred of evidence?'
is perfectly fair, and, if you are a string theorist,
you had better be able to cope with it.)

At the end of the interview you may be asked
if you have any questions. If you do, ask them,
but do not ask questions for the sake of asking
questions.

If the committee decides that you are its
favourite candidate then you will be
notified shortly after the day of the interview.
If there are reasons why you would like
time to think the offer over, you should
explain what these are and ask for a
couple of days. However it is unfair to
the College and, particularly, to whoever
would get the research fellowship if you
decline it, to delay your decision beyond this.

From what I have said it is clear that
Cambridge applicants have an advantage over
outside applicants, if only because they
know the system. None the less, the object
of those colleges which allow outside
applicants is to choose the best candidate,
not the best Cambridge candidate. Unless
you believe that all the world's best
mathematicians are already in Cambridge,
an outside application must be worth a
try. Competition is fierce but the initial
stages of your application do not require
much work and, once you enter the final
stages, you have a fighting chance of
success.

\newpage
\begin{center}
\begin{large}
What Is on Offer
\end{large}
\end{center}
Copies of the Cambridge University Reporter are
now available on the World Wide Web at
\[\text{http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/}\]
Research fellowships are announced under the rubric
`College Notices' and recently have been
announced under the separate rubric 
`College Research Fellowships'
(but it might be as well to check under
College Notices as well). 
Corpus, Darwin, Newnham, St Johns and
Trinity Hall advertise directly on the web
at
\[\text{http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Fellowships/}\]
but some of their sites are out of date.

If you do not have access to the Cambridge
University Reporter, or you do not
want the trouble of reading it every week 
the best thing to do is to write to 
the individual colleges asking to be notified
of their fellowship competitions. (A single
sentence request along the following lines will do.)

\noindent
{\sf Dear Master's Secretary,

Please send me details of any research fellowships
offered by your college during the next 12 months.

\hfill Yours Sincerely \hspace{4\parindent}}

Some Colleges have mastered the arcane mysteries of fax
and e-mail but some have not. A letter (perhaps
enclosing a self addressed envelope) is less likely
to get lost. On the whole research fellowships are
meant for young researchers but if your research career
has been interrupted or started late for some reason,
many colleges are sympathetic. Enquire about this
before applying. Some of the non-stipendiary fellowships may
be intended for people slightly later in their careers.

The following summarises the advertisements which I
have seen in the last year. It is unlikely to be complete
or accurate and you use it at your own risk\footnote{In
1993 one of the application dates was misprinted as one
month later than it actually was.}. If a College advertises
a research fellowship for which applications must be in
by 1 April 1998 then it is not unlikely that a year later
it will advertise
a research fellowship for which applications must be in
by 1 April 1999. Fellowships generally run from the
1st October in the year following election.
(Thus if the selection process finishes in December 1998
or March 1999 the fellowships starts on 1 October 1999.)
If you are at all interested in any fellowship
you should write {\em at once}\footnote{Now. This minute.}
asking for details and not rely on what is written here.
I have not included details of research fellowships
restricted to members of a particular college.

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\noindent
{\bf Christ's College}
Applications and 2 references in by 4 November 1996.
(Forms to be applied for by 25 October 1996.)
Restricted to members of universities in the British Isles
who by 31 December 1996 will have completed three but
no more than thirteen thirteen terms of full time research.
Candidates should normally not have passed their 28 th
birthday by 4 November 1996.
Correspondence  marked J.R.F
to `The Master's Secretary, Christ's College,
Cambridge, CB3 0DS'.


\noindent
{\bf Churchill College, New Hall and Trinity Hall}
See the first page of this guide. 

\noindent
{\bf Clare College}
Restricted to graduates of or postgraduates at UK universities.
Closing date 8 January 1996
Correspondence
to `The Master's Secretary, Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL'
tel (0)1223-333241 or e-mail ph10006@@cus.cam.ac.uk.

\noindent
{\bf Clare Hall}
This year offered non-stipendiary fellowships in the sciences
so could perhaps offer a stipendiary one next year.
Essentially no restrictions. Closing date
(including references) 2 December 1996.
Applicants must send a stamped self addressed envelope.
Correspondence to `College Secretary, Clare Hall, Herschel Road,
Cambridge, CB3 9AL'.

\noindent
{\bf Corpus Christi College}
In 1998 the research fellowships were in subjects other
than mathematics (so the next ones may include mathematics).
Applications and 2 two references were to be in by 5 February 1998.
Restricted to graduates of any university who on 1 October 1998
will have completed not more than 5 years of research.
Correspondence to `The Research Fellowship Secretary,
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH'.


\noindent
{\bf Darwin College}
This year the research fellowships advertised available to mathematicians
were non-stipendiary but it is possible that stipendiary
research fellowships could be offered in the future.
Age restrictions (not more than 30 at start of fellowship)
can be waived in appropriate cases.
Closing date 5 January 1998.
Correspondence to `The Master's Secretary, Darwin College,
Cambridge, CB3 9EU'. Consult the College web page
http:/www.dar.cam.ac.uk.

\noindent
{\bf Downing College}
Applications in by 14 December 1995.
The only restriction is that the candidate should
either be under the age of 30 on 1 Oct 1997 or
have completed less than 12 terms `as a registered
graduate student'.
Correspondence to `The Senior Tutor, Downing College,
Cambridge, CB2 1DQ'.

\noindent
{\bf Emmanuel College}
Three research fellowships in any subjects.
Application forms must be applied for by 24 October 1997,
enclose a large self addressed envelope.
No restrictions but applicants over 30 on 1 October 1997
excluded unless they submit satisfactory reasons for exemption.
Correspondence
to `The Master's Secretary, Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, CB2 3AP'. (Or, long live the 20th century,
by e-mail {\tt res-fell-info-package@@emma.cam.ac.uk}.

\noindent
{\bf Girton College}
Applications in by 28 September 1998.
No restrictions but `normally awarded to candidates
who have recently completed their PhD or are close to
completion. (Overseas candidates should note that
there is an interview at the final stages and, like other
Colleges, Girton will not pay travelling expenses.) Correspondence
(marked Science Fellowship) to
`Secretary to the Research Fellowship Electors, Girton College,
Cambridge, CB3 0JG'.

\noindent
{\bf Gonville and Caius College}
Applications in by 13 November 1998.
Restricted to graduates of or graduate students at a
university in the British Isles
who will not have completed 4 years of full time
research or the equivalent in part time research by 1 November 1996.
Correspondence
to `The Master's Secretary, Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge, CB2 1TA' (or Fax 0-1223-332336).
There is a web link http/://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/.

\noindent
{\bf Fitzwilliam College}
One stipendiary or non-stipendiary Research Fellowship.
Applications in by 21 January 1999.       
Restricted to those studying for a Ph.D at
(or graduates of)  British or Irish 
university who will not have completed 4 years of full time
research by 1 April 1999.
Correspondence (with stamped self addressed envelope)
to `The Master's Secretary, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, CB3 0DG'. 

\noindent
{\bf Hughes Hall}
Up to six non-stipendiary. Closing date 15 April 1998.
Candidates should normally be under 30 but others considered
if research career delayed or interrupted.
Only restrictions:-`Must have obtained a PhD or equivalent within the last
ten years or expect to be awarded one by 1 October 1998'.
Correspondence to `The President,
Hughes Hall, Cambridge CB1 2EW'. 

\noindent
{\bf Jesus College}
Applications in by 18 September 1998.
Written work by 7 October 1998. Normally no interview.
Restricted to graduates of or graduate students at a
university in the British Isles. Normally for candidates
who `in the College's view' will not have completed 4 years of full time
research by 1 October 1998 (but it is made clear that the 
College will consider older candidates whose studies were
interrupted).
Correspondence
to `The Research Fellowships Secretary, Jesus College, CB5 8BL,
Cambridge'.

\noindent{\bf King's College} Offered a four year non-stipendiary
research fellowship without limitation of age or subject.
Applications in by 2 November 1998.
The College is only likely to offer stipendiary
research fellowships of interest to mathematicians occasionally
but `will advertise widely' (in a British context this may just
mean putting a small ad in the Times Higher Educational Supplement)
when one comes up.
Correspondence to `The Provost's Secretary, King's College,
Cambridge, CB2 1ST'.


\noindent
{\bf Lucy Cavendish College} Offers a `semi-stipendiary'
(up to \pounds3000) fellowships.
Applications in by 10 January 1997.
Restricted to women holding PhD's.
(In my opinion, likely to be particularly sympathetic
to women whose research careers have been interrupted.
Lucy Cavendish was set up as a College for 
women students who begin their university studies
at a later age than usual.)
Correspondence to `The President's Secretary, Lucy Cavendish College,
Cambridge, CB3 OBU'.

\noindent
{\bf Magdalene College}
Applications in by 28 August 1998.
`Candidates should normally have completed two or three years of research.'
Correspondence to `The Master's Secretary,
Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 0AG'. 

\noindent
{\bf New Hall}
In addition to the scheme described above (see {\bf Churchill \ldots})
New Hall has offered non-stipendiary research fellowships.
The last one offered was not in mathematics. There were no restrictions
and the closing date was 15 April 1994.
Correspondence to `The President's Secretary,
New Hall, Cambridge, CB3 0DF'. 

\noindent
{\bf Newnham College}
Applications in by 1 February 1999.
Restricted to women graduates (Newnham is a women only college),
no other restriction.
Correspondence to `The Principal,
Newnham College, Cambridge, CB3 9DF'. 

\noindent
{\bf Pembroke College}
Restricted to graduates of or graduate students at a
university in the British Isles. Preference for candidates
under 28 but older applicants not excluded.
Applications by 4 September 1998.
In 1993 offered a `Post Doctoral Research Fellowship'
in science for which `some experience of postdoctoral
research will normally be expected' but with no further
restrictions. The closing date was 30 Sept 1993.
In 1995 offered a Stokes Research Fellowship in mathematics
or physics (closing date 17 Feb 1995), candidates
should be under 30 but `a body of published work'
is expected.
Correspondence to `The Tutorial Office, Pembroke College, CB2 1RF'.

\noindent
{\bf Peterhouse}
Applications in by 6 February 1998. (Forms to obtained by 31 Jan 1998.)
Restricted to Oxford and Cambridge graduates and research
students under 28 on 1 October 1998.
Correspondence to `The Master, Peterhouse,
Cambridge, CB2 1RD'.

\noindent
{\bf Queen's College} A research fellowship
in pure mathematics 
closing date for applications 14 October 1996. (presumably there
will be maths research fellowships only every few years).
Applicants must be under 30.
Correspondence to
`Clerk to Tutors, Queen's College, Cambridge, CB3 9ET',
or e-mail {\tt at115@@cam.ac.uk}.

\noindent
{\bf Robinson College}
Offered a research fellowship (not available to mathematicians
so perhaps the next one will be) with closing date
9 December 1991.
Only restriction:- `Applicants must have submitted for
their doctoral degree before they take up their fellowship'.
Correspondence to `The Warden, Robinson College,
Cambridge, CB3 9AN'.

\noindent
{\bf St Catharine's College}
Closing date 26 December 1996.
No restrictions except that candidates must be graduates
of a university and under 29 on
1 October 1997.
Correspondence to `The Secretary for Research Fellowships,
St Catharine's College, Cambridge, CB2 1RL'. 

\noindent
{\bf St Edmund's College}
Non-stipendiary. 
No restrictions.
For two years with possibility of
renewal for another year. Closing date for applications
including CV, 1000 word proposal and names of two referees by
3rd March 1997.
Two `Semi-stipendiary' (up to \pounds5000 for up to two years)
restricted to Cambridge research students.
Closing date for applications including CV, short description of
research, and sample of work of up to 5000 words
28 February 1997. Two references to reach College by same date.
Correspondence to `The Master,
St Edmund's College, Cambridge'. 
Cambridge, CB2 0BN'.

\noindent
{\bf St John's College}
Closing date 10 February 1997. Application forms 
from the domestic bursar's office.
Restricted to graduates of UK universities
and/or graduate students at Cambridge 
who have been engaged in research for no more
than the equivalent of four full time years.
Correspondence to `The College Office,
St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP'. 

\noindent
{\bf Selwyn College}
Applications in by 28 October 1995.
`Candidates must either be completing a PhD 
or have completed within the last three years'
but no further restrictions.
Correspondence to `The Master,
Selwyn College, Cambridge, CB3 9DQ'. 

\noindent
{\bf Sidney Sussex College}
Offers from time to time (every three years?) a Knox Shaw
Research Fellowship in Mathematics. Last time, applications and
references by 31 December 1996.
Offered a research fellowship in Science (including Mathematics)
and one with out subject restriction 
closing date Friday 11th September 1998. (No application form
but a longish list of things to be included.)
Correspondence to `Senior Tutor, Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge, CB2 3HU'.
 

\noindent
{\bf Wolfson College}
Non-stipendiary, initially for one year, renewable for two more.
Applications by 22 January 1998. (The dates when
Wolfson offers such things seems to wander a great deal
from year to year.)
Only restriction:-`Applicants should have obtained a PhD
or equivalent within the last five years or be in the process
of completing their doctoral dissertation.'
Correspondence to `The College Secretary,
Wolfson College, Cambridge, CB3 9BB'. 


\vspace{2\baselineskip} I am sometimes asked about other
posts and fellowships in Cambridge and the UK generally.
Most posts and fellowships in the British University system
are advertised in the `Times Higher Educational Supplement'
and more general opportunities may be advertised in
the `New Scientist'. Both journals appear weekly
and may well be in your University library or the offices
of the British Council. The London Mathematical Society maintains
a very useful web site
\[\text{http://www.lms.ac.uk/jobs/}\]
with positions in mathematics in the UK.

\vspace{2\baselineskip}

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Also available:-

`An Unofficial Guide To Part~III',

`How to Write a Part~III Essay',

`In Praise of Lectures' (how to listen to a mathematics lecture)

`A Supervisor's Primer'.]
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