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Olaf Dreyer (a.k.a. "The German") is a German theoretical physicist, currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Imperial College, London. His previous postdoc was at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

After Olaf Dreyer had proposed a connection between the Barbero-Immirzi parameter in loop quantum gravity and the asymptotic behaviour of black hole quasinormal modes (in numerical general relativity), building on the previous insights due to Shahar Hod, Lubos Motl wasted no time proving that the exact asymptotic behaviour of the quasinormal modes of the Schwarzschild black hole was as predicted numerically.

Olaf Dreyer's advisor was Abhay Ashtekar.

Ruth Nye is a notable pianist and teacher of Australian origin. She was a pupil and companion of the great pianist Claudio Arrau for some 30 years up until his death in 1991. Nye had a career as a concert pianist before turning her attention to teaching. She has built a widespread reputation as one of the world's foremost piano teachers. Ruth Nye is currently on the faculty of the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, UK and the Royal College of Music in London, UK. She also gives many masterclasses and talks throughout the world.