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Mr Andreas Demetriades, Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, outgoing President at European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (Trinity 1997)
On Saturday 3 February 2024 in central Tokyo.
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Mr Andreas Demetriades video event with Trinity Japan
All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:
All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:
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Professor Sarah Teichmann FRS (Trinity 1993), Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge
Professor Sarah Teichmann (Trinity 1993), Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, Director of Research at the Cavendish Lab, and alumna of Trinity, has kindly agreed to give us a video talk and discussion on her work.
Professor Sarah Teichmann’s principles: Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be Kind.
17:00 Tokyo time, Tuesday 3 Oct 2023 start
9:00am UK time, Tuesday 3 Oct 2023
17:15 – 18:00 (Tokyo time) Professor Sarah Teichmann “Mapping the human body: one cell at a time” (zoom)
9:15am – 10:00am (UK time)
18:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
10:00am – (UK time)
Prior registration required until Monday 2 October 2023. For registration you can use the form below.
Professor Sarah Teichmann FRS
Sarah heads Cellular Genetics / Teichmann Lab at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, is Director of Research at the Cavendish Lab in Cambridge, and visiting research group leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge.
From 2005 to 2015, Sarah was Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity.
In 2020, Sarah was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
Sarah completed her Natural Sciences Tripos at Trinity with a first class BA in 1996, followed by her PhD at the LMB (Laboratory of Molecular Biology).
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Tobias Wolff (Trinity 1995) has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on his work as Intendant (director) of the Opera House Leipzig.
16:00 Tokyo time, Tuesday 11 July 2023 start
9:00am Germany time
8:00am UK time
16:15 – 17:00 (Tokyo time) Tobias Wolff, Intendant, Opera House Leipzig (zoom)
9:15 – 10:00am Germany time
8:15 – 9:00am UK time
17:00 – 17:30 (Tokyo time) discussions
10:00-10:30am Germany time
900 – 9:30am UK time
Intendant Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff (Trinity 1995) studied for his MA in Music at Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1995-1998.
Tobias Wolff studied music at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1995 to 1998, and viola at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. He gained initial professional job experience at the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Since 2002 Tobias Wolff has been living in Leipzig, where he initially worked as a freelance musician, concert promoter and music journalist, e.g. for the Leipziger Volkszeitung and MDR Kultur. In 2006, Tobias Wolff joined the Theater Altenburg-Gera as Chief Dramaturg and Marketing Manager. For the 2010/11 season, he took over the management of the five-branch theatre as Administrative Director and successful crisis manager. He concurrently completed an MBA at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 2011, and in the same year was appointed Managing Director of the Göttingen International Handel Festival, one of the world’s longest-standing festivals for baroque music. The cultural manager re-positioned the festival internationally, introduced unconventional formats, and strategically promoted young talent and music education – receiving e.g. no less than two Helpmann Awards, the Music Education Award of the State of Lower Saxony, and EU funding for the eeemerging scholarship programme, which he co-initiated. In the Covid year 2020, Tobias Wolff was engaged in cultural politics as co-founder and spokesman of the Forum Musik Festival, an alliance of over 100 festival organisations throughout Germany.
On August 1, 2022, Tobias Wolff took over the post of the artistic director of Leipzig Opera House. He opened his first season with »Future: Now!«, an open-air spectacle in cooperation with Theater Titanick with the participation of over 220 children and students from Leipzig. Together with his management team, he initiated a consistent course of sustainability that has been awarded, among other things, funding from the Fonds Zero of the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Next Stage Grant of the Fedora network and the eku – Zukunftspreis 2023 of the Free State of Saxony. Oper Leipzig is the pilot institution of a climate calculator specially developed for the cultural sector, an innovation project of the cities of Leipzig and Dresden. Together with the National Opera of Iceland, Oper Leipzig is investigating the life cycle of costumes in the Sustainable Costumes project and will present its first climate-neutral opera production in December 2023 with Mary Queen of Scots. Oper Leipzig is currently striving for a DIN 20121 certification for its entire operations.
Leipzig Opera is the third oldest civil music theatre in Europe, founded in 1693, following the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice and the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg.
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Sir Laurie Bristow (Trinity 1983) regularly writes on Russia and international security issues.
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Sir Laurie Bristow (Trinity 1983) has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on 22 June 2023. Sir Laurie today is President of Hughes Hall following a very distinguished and challenging career in Her Majesty’s Foreign Service, including posts as HM Ambassador to Russia, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
17:00 Tokyo time, Thursday 22 June 2023 start
9:00am UK time, Thursday 22 June 2023
17:15 – 18:00 (Tokyo time) Sir Laurie Bristow (zoom)
9:15am – 10:00am (UK time)
18:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
10:00am – (UK time)
Sir Laurie Bristow
Sir Laurie Bristow, appointed President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge in 2022, was a British diplomat for 32 years. He was Ambassador to Afghanistan during the fall of the Republic to the Taliban in 2021, the UK’s Ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020, and Deputy Ambassador to Russia from 2007 to 2010. He was Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2004 to 2007. Sir Laurie regularly writes and comments on Russia and national and international security issues. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, and a Senior Associate Fellow of the European Leadership Network.
Sir Laurie read English, and completed a PhD on Ezra Pound, the American poet, at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Prior registration required until Wednesday 21 June 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.
We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording:
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All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome
Special dinner with The Revd Dr Michael Banner “Trinity and Slavery” 14 June 2023Special dinner with The Revd Dr Michael Banner “Trinity and Slavery” 14 June 2023
On Wednesday 14 June 2023 at 6:00pm we will have a special dinner event with The Revd Dr Michael Banner in Tokyo.
Dr Michael Banner will update us on developments at Trinity and will give us a talk on “Trinity and Slavery”
6:00pm – 6:45pm Dr Michael Banner developments at Trinity and “Trinity and Slavery”, discussion
6:45pm – 9:00pm dinner
9:00pm – nijikai
Cost of this meeting will be YEN 10,000 per person including Kaiseki banquet-style dinner and unlimited drinks from a fixed list, nijikai is extra. We will meet in central Tokyo.
Registration and prepayment until Wednesday 7 June 2023. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.
Given the Covid-19 situation we will follow all Government and restaurant rules on hygiene. If the situation changes and it becomes necessary to postpone I will notify those who have registered.
The Revd Dr Michael Banner
Dean of Chapel and Fellow, Director of Studies in Theology, Chair of Alumni Relations and Development, Trinity College
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Emiko Jozuka (Trinity 2006): opening of an exhibition commemorating photographs by Joe Honda, and celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Le Mans car races
Emiko Jozuka (Trinity 2006) organized a number of exhibitions commemorating in her efforts to honor the legacy of her father Joe Honda, legendary photographer, famous for his dramatic photographs of every type of motorsports and archive that charts the culture, evolution and developments of this global industry.
The exhibition is held in parralel at La Maison Franco-Japonaise and Fuji Motorsports Museum, and reflects back at the “golden age” of Le Mans, market by the final years of the dramatic Ford-Ferrari duel, until Porsche arrived on the scene with the 917.
Established in 1923 as a “Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency,” Le Mans allowed car manufacturers to prove the durability of their machines in competition. The endurance race – famous for its legacy of brutally testing drivers and their teams – has one condition for victory: the car that covers the greatest distance in 24 hours is the winner.
24 Heures du Mans: To the Limit — and Beyond by Joe Honda (1967 – 1971) | 100th anniversary
Maison Franco-Japonaise Tokyo
Opening reception: June 8, 2023, 17:30-18:45
Speakers: Masanori Sekiya (first Japanese Le Mans winner); Hiroshi Fushida (first Japanese Le Mans entrant), and Emiko Jozuka
Joe Honda, born in 1939 in Tokyo, is known as Asia’s father of motorsport photography. His archive spans the grit and glamor of motor racing’s golden years into a technological arms race funded by big business. But the cars were only ever one part of the human narrative he wanted to tell. His images — captured over close to five decades — range from the visceral to the purely functional, immortalizing the raw experiences, developments and memories of the international world of motorsport through one artist’s perspective.
Emiko Jozuka is a Field Producer for CNN, based in the network’s Tokyo bureau, and Director of the Joe Honda Archive.
Emiko Jozuka graduated with a BA in Modern & Medieval Languages, French, Spanish, Portuguese, literature and film from Cambridge University and Trinity College, and an MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, Anthropology/Film from the University of Oxford.
Emiko Jozuka 24 Heures du Mans: To the Limit – and Beyond, by Joe Honda, 8 June 2023Emiko Jozuka 24 Heures du Mans: To the Limit – and Beyond, by Joe Honda, 8 June 2023Emiko Jozuka 24 Heures du Mans: To the Limit – and Beyond, by Joe Honda, 8 June 2023Emiko Jozuka 24 Heures du Mans: To the Limit – and Beyond, by Joe Honda, 8 June 2023Emiko Jozuka (Trinity 2006) 24 Heures du Mans: To the Limit – and Beyond, by Joe Honda. Masanori Sekiya (left), Emiko Jozuka (center) and Hiroshi Fushida (right). Photograph by Rodrigo Reyes Marin (All rights reserved)
All Trinity members, Fellows and students globally are very welcome to pre-register, and I will send a registration link if there are still places available.
Photograph credit: Photograph with Masanori Sekiya (left), Emiko Jozuka (center) and Hiroshi Fushida (right), by Rodrigo Reyes Marin (All rights reserved)
Professor Eilís Ferran ‘Looking Outwards from Cambridge’
Professor Eilís Ferran talks about her experiences as Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust and University pro-vice chancellor for international relations, and her research on international capital market competitiveness.
Professor Eilís Ferran FBA PhD, Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow of St Catharine’s College and the Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust.
Professor Eilís Ferran has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom event:
16:00 Tokyo time, Wednesday 10 May 2023 start
8:00am UK time, Wednesday 10 May 2023
16:15 – 17:00 (Tokyo time) Professor Eilis Ferran “Looking Outwards from Cambridge” (zoom)
8:15am – 9:00am (UK time)
17:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
9:00am – (UK time)
Professor Eilís Ferran
Professor Eilís Ferran, FBA PhD is Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She is also the Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust, which provides scholarships for postgraduate study at Cambridge funded by a major donation from the Gates Foundation.
Between 2015 and 2021 she was the University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations. As Pro-Vice-Chancellor she had strategic responsibility for Cambridge University’s staff policies and significant international academic partnerships. She led the modernisation of career paths, co-ordinated the University’s response to covid as an employer, and was instrumental in the development of the University’s Strategic Partnerships Office. Between 2012 and 2015 she served as Chair of the University’s Law Faculty.
In her research, Eilís has written extensively on UK, EU and international financial regulation, company law and corporate finance law. Her publications include Principles of Corporate Finance Law (OUP, 2023, co-authored, forthcoming), Brexit and Financial Services (Hart Publishing, 2017 co-authored), The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (OUP, 2015, co-edited) and The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (CUP 2012, co-authored). She has advised UK Parliamentary committees and served as an academic member of the Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority.
Eilís is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple. She is an independent non-executive director of Euroclear Holding SA/NV and Euroclear SA/NV, and is the Chair of their Nomination and Governance Committees. She is also a non-executive director of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge.
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Kiyotaka Akasaka (Trinity 1972) is distinguished Japanese career diplomat, and has worked many years in leadership positions at the UN, the OECD and other international organizations, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry. Kiyotaka Akasaka has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on the topic “Has the UN been doing a good job for the war in Ukraine and other global challenges?”. Kyotaka may also include climate changes, since in December 1997, he was one of the top negotiators at the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change.
6pm Tokyo time, Thursday 13 April 2023 start
10:00am London Time, Thursday 13 April 2023
6:15pm -7:00pm Kiyotaka Akasaka “Has the UN been doing a good job for the war in Ukraine and other global challenges?”
7:00pm – discussions
Kiyotaka Akasaka 赤阪清隆 (Trinity 1972)
Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka (Trinity 1972) is President of the Nippon Communications Foundation (Nippon.com). He held the position of United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information for five years from 2007 to 2012. He was in charge of the UN Department of Public Information. In December 1997, Kiyotaka was one of the top negotiators at the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change.
Before joining the UN, Mr. Akasaka held the position of Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in charge of development, environment, and sustainable development. Mr. Akasaka was also Japan’s Ambassador to the UN in 2000 and 2001.
After retiring from the UN in 2012, he held the position of the President of the Foreign Press Center of Japan, a non-profit foundation for assistance to foreign journalists in Japan till 2020. He became President of the Nippon Communications Foundation in 2022.
He is the author of several books relating to the UN and other global affairs.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in law from Kyoto University in 1971. 1972 he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in economics.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 9 February 2007 announced the appointment of Kiyotaka Akasaka of Japan as Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information (Kiyotaka Akasaka’s profile on the UNIC website on the occasion of his appointment):
The GATT and the Uruguay Round Negotiations (in Japanese)
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (in English)
Registration and enquiries:
Prior registration required until Wednesday 12 April 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.
We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording:
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All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome
On Friday 31 March 2023 at 6:00pm we will have our hanami-season (cherry blossom season) Trinity Japan dinner in Tokyo.
6:00pm – 8:30pm dinner
nijikai
Cost of this meeting will be YEN 10,000 per person including Kaiseki banquet-style dinner and unlimited drinks from a fixed list, nijikai is extra. We will meet in central Tokyo.
Registration and prepayment until Friday 24 March 2023. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.
Given the Covid-19 situation we will follow all Government and restaurant rules on hygiene. If the situation changes and it becomes necessary to postpone I will notify those who have registered.
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All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:
Allegra Spender is the independent Member for Wentworth (Australia). She is a local resident who loves the environment our community is lucky enough to share. Her passion to make sure her kids and future generations continue to enjoy that beauty motivated her to run for parliament on a platform of climate action, political integrity, gender equality and decency. She was elected as part of a wave of so called “Teal” independents who swept into the crossbench in May 2022.
Allegra went to Ascham School Edgecliff, has an Economics degree from Cambridge University and Trinity College, an MSc from the University of London, and has completed business courses at Harvard and Dartmouth College. Before parliament Allegra worked as a business analyst at McKinsey, a policy analyst with UK Treasury and later Managing Director at Carla Zampatti Pty Ltd, her family’s fashion label. Allegra was also the chair of the Sydney Renewable Power Company, and CEO of the Australian Business and Community Network, which addresses educational disadvantage by partnering low socio-economic schools with leading Australian businesses.
As an MP she has taken a leading role with the crossbench in passing a legislated target for reducing Australia’s CO2 emissions, the establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Commission and critical examination of the government’s new Industrial Relations legislation.
She is on the Senate Standing Committee on Economics, The Joint Standing Committee on Migration, and is co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Entrepreneurs, Small and Medium Business, Uluru Statement from the Heart and International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
All Trinity members, Fellows and students globally are very welcome to pre-register, and I will send a registration link if there are still places available.
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Daan Frenkel, Honorary Fellow at Trinity, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University
Professor Daan Frenkel, Honorary Fellow at Trinity, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on his work using computer simulations for a very wide range of problems in chemistry:
5pm Friday 3 March 2023 start
5pm Tokyo time, 8am UK time, 0:00midnight SF time
5:15pm -6:15pm Professor Daan Frenkel
6:15pm – discussions
Professor Daan Frenkel
Daan Frenkel develops computer simulations which he applies to understand and solve a very wide range of problems in chemistry, materials science and biology.
Daan was Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, where was Professor since 2007, now Emeritus Professor. Daan is Honorary Fellow at Trinity.
Order, disorder and entropy (Lecture – 01) by Daan Frenkel
From self-assembly to cell recognition (Lecture – 02) by Daan Frenkel
Entropy production and phoretic transport (Lecture 3) by Daan Frenkel
Registration and enquiries:
Prior registration required until Thursday 2 March 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.
We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording:
All Trinity members, Fellows and students globally are very welcome to pre-register, and I will send a registration link if there are still places available.
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The Master, Dame Sally Davies, will join us for dinner with Trinity Fellows, alumni, students, former Fellows and Fellow Commoners and other members.
Location: in the center of Tokyo, I will inform registered participants of the location
Tuesday 28 February 2023
6pm – 7pm drinks
7pm – 9pm dinner with The Master (full Japanese style kaiseki dinner)
from 9:30pm nijikai (not included, costs shared by participants)
This event is free of charge, the cost will be covered by Trinity College. Registration is required until Tuesday 21 February 2023. For registration please use the form below, please enter which event you are registering for, and if you have not attended our events before, please tell us your connection to Trinity College Cambridge. When registering please let us know any dietary requirements.
Since we need to pay the restaurant for all booked seats, if you cancel your registration after Tuesday 21 February, or if you have registered and do not take part in the dinner (no-show) you will be required to pay the cost.
Dame Sally Davies FMedSci DBE FRS, Royal Society Fellow elected 2014 (attribution The Royal Society, Creative Commons license)
Professor Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College
Dame Sally Davies is the 40th Master of Trinity College Cambridge.
Dame Sally was appointed as the UK Government’s Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in 2019.
Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England, and Senior Medical Advisor to the UK Government 2011-2019.
Antimicrobial Resistance: The End of Modern Medicine? – with Dame Sally Davies
Q&A – Antimicrobial Resistance: The End of Modern Medicine? with Dame Sally Davies. Dame Sally Davies answers questions from the audience following her talk.
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Gerhard Fasol’s welcome address to The Master, Dame Sally Davies, at the Trinity Japan dinner on 28 February 2023
Dear Master, Dame Sally, welcome to Trinity in Japan, and thank you and Trinity College for the great support.
With the support of then Master Lord Martin Rees, I founded Trinity in Japan on 5 September 2014. I was about 13 years at Trinity, first for my PhD, then as Research Fellow, then Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies, in parallel to my University Lectureship at the Cavendish. I came first to Japan in 1984 as a Trinity Research Fellow to build research cooperation projects first with NTT Research Labs and later with Tokyo University, and RIKEN.
Since September 2014 we had 69 dinner events, and 40 zoom events, in total more than 100 events.
I founded Trinity in Japan with triple purpose:
1. Serve the Trinity community.
Here some results: for our Trinity Japan zoom conferences I invite selected Japanese research leaders. To my knowledge, this seems to have led to a cooperation between one of the Trinity Fellows, and one of his companies, and a Japanese research leader, who I had invited to one of our Trinity Japan zoom conferences. Or as another example, former Visiting Fellow Commoner Professor YF invited alumnus mathematician AG to a mathematics conference he organized in Kyushu.
2. Make Trinity known in Japan, which serves us all.
You may be surprised, but Trinity with more Nobel Prize winners than all of Japan, is not known in Japan. As example, a Japanese investment banker with whom I recently had lunch, told me that “Trinity College Cambridge is not known to the Japanese Elite”. I invited him to one of our Trinity Japan zoom events, so now at least he knows about Trinity, and I hope he will spread the message to his friends.
In my experience, too many Japanese people when they hear about Cambridge Colleges think about Harry Potter first. We have to change that, and I have a number of ideas for that. So my second purpose is to create mind-share, foot print for Trinity in Japan to help opportunities grow.
By the way, I am doing this in parallel with the Ludwig Boltzmann Forum, which I am building as a global leadership forum, here in Tokyo with the Austrian Embassy, and other locations, and in parallel on zoom, in honor of my great-grandfather Ludwig Boltzmann who is one of the most important physicists. (https://boltzmann.com/forum/)
3. Lastly, UK investment into Japan is dramatically lower than Japanese investment in UK. Japan is difficult, our Trinity community can help.
Gerhard Fasol (Trinity 1978, PhD, and former Fellow), Founder and Chair, Trinity in Japan
See also: “The Fountain, Boltzmann anD Japan” in The Fountain, Issue 29, Summer 2020
If you are Trinity College Cambridge Fellow or member living in or visiting Japan please join us. To register your interest, or for any enquiries contact us here:
Oliver Smith, Architect, Founding Director of 5th Studio
Oliver Smith, Architect and Founding Director of 5th Studio has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on renovating some of Trinity’s historic buildings:
Friday 24 Feb 2023, 7:00pm Tokyo time, start
Friday 24 Feb 2023, 5:00am New York
Friday 24 Feb 2023, 10:00am Cambridge/UK time
7:15pm -8:15pm Oliver Smith
9:15am – discussions
Retrofitting Trinity
This presentation will describe the projects of 5th Studio to retrofit two buildings within the central Trinity College site and explore the different issues involved in the low-carbon retrofit of both historic buildings – and those of the later C20th and the balancing the concerns of character, heritage, and sustainability.
I’ll discuss why this is necessary, how it can be delivered, and the lessons that we have learned and that can be applied to other projects.
Using the completed projects for the retrofit of the Wolfson Building, but more particularly of the Grade 1 Listed buildings at New Court, I will describe the principal risks to the project– arising from the proposed fabric improvements to the building – and how these were addressed:
Risk to character and heritage significance
Risk to building fabric
Risk from planning and listed buildings process
I’ll finish with a description of the project outcomes, which range from the delivery of successful projects, to the application of the developed methodology to other projects and to local and central government policy formulation – and will close by setting out some of the lessons learned and how these have allowed us to streamline the process, timescale, and costs for other projects.
5th Studio’s retrofitting of New Court, Trinity College, wins Editor’s Award of Architecture Today Awards 2022
Oliver Smith is an architect and founding director of 5th Studio, a 25-strong practice with studios in Cambridge, London and Oxford. For many years Oliver combined practice with studio teaching at the University of Cambridge – focussing on attitudes to materiality and construction and particularly on research and the development of practice of sustainable construction with particular emphasis on the retrofit of existing buildings.
This research has informed the practice’s work on a range of other heritage retrofit projects, and has underpinned the strategies for estate decarbonisation that the practice are developing for a number of academic and commercial estates – combining demand reduction through retrofit of historic built fabric with supply of onsite renewable energy.
Taken together with new-build low-carbon accommodation and workplace projects that include the innovative use of MMC and renewable heat sources, this work has establishing the practice’s innovative approach to low-carbon buildings, estates, and cities and Oliver’s status as an AJ Climate Champion.
Oliver is an adviser on sustainable retrofit to the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Climate Change Committee. He is convener of the NHS Retrofit Advisory Panel. Oliver is a founder member of the Cambridgeshire Quality Panel, advising on the sustainable growth of the city-region – including on the University developments at Eddington and the West Cambridge Site. He is a member of The Edge, AECB and UKGBC.
5th Studio are a unique spatial design agency, working across the fields of architecture, urban design, infrastructure and landscape. We work with our clients and commissioners to create beauty and enduring value from complex situations, for new and existing buildings, through to larger-scale urban strategies.
Our work is anchored by the experience of working and thinking across this spectrum of scales, disciplines and projects: we are skilled at thinking strategically, whilst also maintaining a meticulous attention to detail. With studios in London and Cambridge we are able to maintain a close connection to the people and environments with which we work.
Prior registration required until Thursday 23 February 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.
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Iain Drayton, Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs
Iain Drayton, alumnus of Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on his work in investment banking:
10pm (Tokyo time) Wednesday 15 February 2023 start
10pm Tokyo time, 9pm Hong Kong time, 1pm London/UK time, 8am NY time, 5am SF time
10:15pm – 11:15pm Iain Drayton
11:15pm – discussions
Iain Drayton
Iain is head of the Investment Banking Division (IBD) in Asia Ex-Japan (AEJ) at Goldman Sachs. He is member of the Partnership Committee, Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee, IBD Executive Committee, Asia Pacific Management Committee, IBD Council for Advancement of Racial Equity, EMEA and Asia Pacific Inclusion and Diversity committees and Investment Banking Services (IBS) Leadership Group. Iain serves on the Board of Advisors for Launch with GS, Goldman Sachs’ commitment to investment in companies and investments managers with diverse leadership, and he is also a sponsor of the Asia Pacific Black and Hispanic/Latinx Network. Previously, he was head of the Financial and Strategic Investors Group in Asia Pacific and head of IBS in AEJ. Iain joined Goldman Sachs in Tokyo as a managing director in 2006, relocated to Hong Kong in 2010 and was named partner in 2014.
Prior to joining the firm, Iain worked in London and Tokyo for SBC Warburg from 1995 to 2000 and Nikko Citigroup from 2000 to 2006.
Iain serves on the board of the China Development Foundation, a nonprofit focused on reducing the opportunity gap between rural and urban schools in China. He is a founding member of the American Ballet Theater Global Council, and is a co-founder of RIAC UK, a nonprofit focused on driving next generation board membership in the UK arts sector.
Iain earned a diploma in Mandarin and Economics from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing in 1991 and an MA, first class honors with distinction, in Japanese Studies from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, in 1995.
Iain Drayton – Why I’m backing Black access campaign Get in Cambridge
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All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome
On Friday 3 February 2023 at 6:00pm we will have our annual Trinity in Japan bonenkai (year end party) in Tokyo. (please note the date change from earlier announcements).
6:00pm – 8:30 discussion and dinner
nijikai
Cost of this meeting will be YEN 10,000 per person including Kaiseki banquet-style dinner and unlimited drinks from a fixed list, nijikai is extra. We will meet in central Tokyo.
Registration and prepayment until Friday 27 January 2023. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.
Given the Covid-19 situation we will follow all Government and restaurant rules on hygiene. If the situation changes and it becomes necessary to postpone I will notify those who have registered.
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Peter Littlewood: The transition to renewable energy
Peter Littlewood, Chair of Physics, University Chicago, and Exec Chairman of the Faraday Institution, and former Fellow of Trinity College
Professor Peter Littlewood, Chair of Physics, University of Chicago, and executive founding chairman of the Faraday Institution (“powering Britain’s battery revolution”), and former Trinity Fellow, and former Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on “the transition to renewable energy”:
Thursday 2 Feb 2023, 8:00am Tokyo time, start
Wed 1 Feb 2023, 5:00pm Chicago time
Wed 1 Feb 2023, 11:00pm Cambridge/UK time
8:15am -9:15am Professor Peter Littlewood on “the transition to renewable energy”
9:15am – discussions
Professor Peter B Littlewood
Peter B Littlewood is Professor and Chair of Physics at the University of Chicago, who was previously Director of Argonne National Laboratory, and before that a Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory. He began his career with almost 20 years at Bell Laboratories, ultimately serving for five years as head of Theoretical Physics Research. He is the founding executive chairman of the Faraday Institution.
His research interests include superconductivity and superfluids, strongly correlated electronic materials, collective dynamics of glasses, density waves in solids, neuroscience, and applications of materials for energy and sustainability. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences). He serves on advisory boards of research and education institutions and other scientific organizations worldwide. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Sciences (Physics) and a Doctorate in Physics, both from the University of Cambridge.
Senior Scholar, Trinity College Cambridge, 1974–76
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Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Trinity Fellow and Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge
On Thursday 19 January 2023 at 6:00pm (Tokyo time), 9:00am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Trinity Fellow and Director of Medical Studies, Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge, and Director of the CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection Institute, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion of her work.
5pm (5pm Tokyo time, 9am UK time)- starts
5:15pm -6:15pm Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald
6:15pm – follow-on discussions
Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald OBE FMedSci,
Founder & Director of the new Early Cancer Institute at Cambridge
Fellow and Director of Medical Studies at Trinity
Professor of Cancer Prevention and Program Leader at the MRC Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge
Director of the CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection Institute
Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge
Prior registration required until Wednesday 18 January 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.
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All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome
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On Friday 16 December 2022 at 6:00pm we will have our annual Trinity in Japan bonenkai (year end party) in Tokyo.
6:00pm – 8:30 discussion and dinner
nijikai
Cost of this meeting will be YEN 10,000 per person including Kaiseki banquet-style dinner and unlimited drinks from a fixed list, nijikai is extra. We will meet in central Tokyo.
Registration and prepayment until Friday 9 December 2022. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.
Given the Covid-19 situation we will follow all Government and restaurant rules on hygiene. If the situation changes and it becomes necessary to postpone I will notify those who have registered.
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Professor Jason Chin is Fellow of Trinity, and has just been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his work on genetic code reprogramming, CSO & Founder of constructive.bio
On Friday 9 December 2022 at 5:00pm (Tokyo time), 8:00am (London/Cambridge time), 0:00midnight (SF time) Professor Jason Chin, joint Head of Division of the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PNAC) Division at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Fellow of Trinity, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on his work. Jason Chin has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2022.
5pm (5pm Tokyo time, 8am UK time, 0:00midnight SF time)- start
5:15pm – 6:15pm Professor Jason Chin
6:15pm – 6:45pm discussions
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Head, Centre for Chemical and Synthetic Biology, and Joint Head, Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Associate Faculty in Synthetic Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Fellow in Natural Sciences, Trinity College, Cambridge
CSO & Founder of the company constructive.bio
Professor Jason Chin at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Jason Chin: A virus-resistant organism — and what it could mean for the future (TED talk)
Jason Chin: Reprogramming the genetic code
A virus-resistant organism — and what it could mean for the future (TED talk)
Registration and enquiries:
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