Francis Patrick "Frank" Kelly, CBE, FRS (born 28 December 1950) is professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Frank Kelly was elected a Research Fellow of Christ's College in 1976, and served as Director of Studies in Mathematics and a Tutor. He was elected the 37th Master of the College in December 2006.[College Web]
His research interests are in random processes, networks and optimisation, especially in very large-scale systems such as telecommunication or transportation networks. In the 1980s, he worked with colleagues in Cambridge and at British Telecom's Research Labs on Dynamic Alternative Routing in telephone networks, which was implemented in BT's main digital telephone network. He has also worked on the economic theory of pricing to congestion control and fair resource allocation in the internet. From 2003 to 2006 he served as Chief Scientific Advisor to the United Kingdom Department for Transport.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. In December 2006 he was elected 37th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to mathematical science.[Wiki]
Emma Wesley (b. 1979) is a portrait painter who lives and works in London. She studied English Literature at Selwyn 1997-2000 followed by postgraduate studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art in conservation of easel paintings.
She has exhibited widely and shows her paintings regularly with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, to which she was elected a member in 2007. She has work in many private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, London. She undertakes commissions from small head studies to large group portraits, and is particularly interested in painting people in their working environment, surrounded by the tools of their trade.
