On Friday 12 August 2022 at 6pm (Tokyo time), 10:00am (London/Cambridge time) John Ramsden (Trinity 1969), has kindly agreed for a zoom event with us, to discuss his most recent book “The Poets’ Guide to Economics”.
6pm (6pm Tokyo time, 10am UK time)- starts
6:15pm – 7:15pm John Ramsden “The Poets’ Guide to Economics”
7:15pm – follow-on discussions
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John Ramsden on his newest book: “My book is an introduction to poets who wrote seriously about ‘political economy’ (as it used to be called). They range in time from Defoe (1690s) to Pound (1940s). They left us works like ‘Vulgar Errors Concerning Taxation’, ‘The ABC of Economics’ or ‘Economics for Helen’. Why did they write them and what did they say? It’s not a book with some simple ‘message’ about today’s problems. I try to let the poets speak for themselves; and to keep it all readable and entertaining. But I’ll be glad to explain what I see as some ‘lessons’ for our own times; and very interested in any subsequent discussion among your members”
“The Poets’ Guide to Economics” by John Ramsden has been published by Pallas Athene Publishers on 16 June 2022:
After reading history & economics at Cambridge and two years in a merchant bank, John Ramsden joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975. He was posted in Dakar and Vienna, and then spent two years in Hanoi (chronicled in Hanoi After the War, Skira 2017). He spent the rest of his career in Europe, including a secondment to the Treasury and posts in Berlin (1990-93), the UN in Geneva and Croatia (as Ambassador from 2004-2008). He has also written The Box in the Attic, based on letters from relatives who took part in some of the great events of the last century.
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On Friday 8 July 2022 at 7:00pm we will meet here in Tokyo:
7:00pm – 10:00 pm dinner
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Ms Mikwi Cho, PhD candidate at Trinity College and Cambridge University
On Thursday 30 June 2022 at 6:00pm (Tokyo time), 10:00am (London/Cambridge time) Ms Mikwi Cho (Trinity 2017), currently PhD candidate at Trinity College and Cambridge University (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on the migration of Koreans to Japan – the subject of her PhD research work, and also to give us a glimpse into her direct personal experience in this field.
6pm (6pm Tokyo time, 10am UK time)- starts
6:15pm – 7:15pm Ms Mikwi Cho
7:15pm – follow-on discussions
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Migration of Koreans to the Japanese metropole and living legacy of Japanese colonialism
Summary:
This talk will cover the migration of Korean people to imperial Japan during Korea’s colonial period (1910-1945) and the social, economic, and political situation of resident Koreans in postwar Japan. In the same way that Japanese people began to settle in Korea from the late 19th century, Korean people began to cross the Korea Strait to imperial Japan for a variety of reasons during the colonial period. When Korea was liberated from the Japanese empire in 1945, there were two million Koreans, primarily in the working class, residing in Japan. Among them, more than 600,000 Koreans permanently remained in Japan and came to be known as zainichi Koreans. While they were deemed ‘legal aliens’ and lost Japanese nationality upon the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951, first-generation zainichi Koreans also perceived Korea as their homeland and saw Japan as a temporary country of residence. As they struggled to be included in the ‘homogenous‘ country, they chiefly entered the non-manufacturing and service industry as self-employed. Today, the Korean markets in Ueno of Tokyo and Ikuno of Osaka, pachinko parlors, and yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurants are particularly symbolic of zainichi-owned businesses. Moreover, as people on the peninsula were ideologically split due to the division of Korea between the North’s communist system and the South’s capitalist system, so were zainichi Koreans in Japan. This led to the establishment of pro-North and pro-South organizations, where each founded schools for children to learn the language, history, as well as political ideology of their ‘imaginary homeland.’ In addition to my autobiography, this talk will end with suggestions for peacebuilding between the younger generation of zainichi Koreans and the Japanese mainstream population.
Mikwi Cho (Trinity 2017)
Mikwi Cho is a PhD candidate who examines the migration of Korean people to Japan from 1910-1945. To depart from the overemphasis on Koreans in the labouring class and women who served the Japanese Imperial Army during the colonial period, her study casts a spotlight on overseas students, Christian adherents, and women as a minority within a minority in imperial Japan. In 2019, she published her first article in European Journal of Korean Studies. She will soon publish another work on the migration of Korean overseas students to imperial Japan in an edited volume titled, Competing Imperialism in Northeast Asia: New perspectives, 1894-1953, by Routledge. Upon graduation, she will go to Earlham College as an Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies.
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Gavin Gordon, partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP
On Thursday 23 June 2022 at 17:00 (Tokyo time), at 9am (Cambridge/London, UK time) Trinity alumnus Gavin Gordon (Trinity 1993), partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
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Thursday 23 June 2022 at 17:00 (Tokyo time), at 9am (London/Cambridge time) – start
17:15 – 18:00 (UK: 9:15-10am) Gavin Gordon: “Private Equity – the continued move to private capital”
18:00 – 19:00 (UK: 10-11am) discussions
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Gavin Gordon (Trinity 1993) is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group of the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP. He focuses his practice on leveraged buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, and infrastructure transactions. Gavin has advised private equity funds and corporate clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions.
Gavin is rated among the leading private equity practitioners by Chambers UK (2022), The Legal 500 (2022), IFLR1000 (2022), Best Lawyers (2022) and Super Lawyers. Chambers has described him as “excellent” and “very commercial” highlighting that “he is praised by sources for his depth of knowledge in the private equity space” and “commercial, responsive and extremely knowledgeable”.
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Dr Emily Shuckburgh (Trinity 1994), Director of Cambridge Zero
On Friday 17 June 2022 at 5:00pm (Tokyo time), 9:00am (London/Cambridge time) Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero and alumni of Trinity, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about Cambridge Zero and working towards a zero-carbon emission world.
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5:15pm – 6:15pm Dr Emily Shuckburgh
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Cambridge Zero: Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope in conversation with Dr Emily Shuckburgh
Cambridge Zero
Dr Emily Shuckburgh (Trinity 1994), Director of Cambridge Zero
Dr Emily Shuckburgh (Trinity 1994) is the Director of Cambridge Zero, Cambridge University’s program towards zero carbon emission. She is Reader in Environmental Data Science in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, previously she worked in the British Antarctic Survey, where she was leader of a national programme on polar climate change. She graduated from the Part III Mathematics Tripos as student of Trinity, followed by a PhD in atmospheric dynamics at Trinity and at DAMTP (Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University), and was a Senior Rouse Ball Scholar at Trinity as well.
Dr Emily Shuckburgh – Data Anaytics for Climate Decision Making – CSaP Lecture
How Can We Create a Resilient, Sustainable Future? – Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Cambridge Zero
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Professor Louise Merrett, Vice-Master of Trinity, Professor of International and Commercial Law, and Barrister at Fountain Court
On Thursday 9 June 2022 at 5:00pm (Tokyo time), 9:00am (London/Cambridge time), Professor Louise Merrett, Vice-Master of Trinity, Professor of International and Commercial Law at Cambridge University and practicing Barrister at Fountain Court, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about her work in Law and her thoughts on her work as new Vice-Master of Trinity.
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5:15pm – 6:15pm Professor Louise Merrett
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Professor Louise Merrett, Vice-Master, Trinity College
Professor Louise Merrett is Professor of International Commerical Law at Cambridge University, and in parallel practices law as Barrister at Fountain Court. Professor Louise Merrett was recently elected as Vice-Master of Trinity.
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Cambridge University, Faculty of Law, and list of publication
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On Friday 3 June 2022 at 6:00pm we will meet here in Tokyo:
6:00pm – 9:00 pm dinner
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Jeremy Gunawardena (Trinity 1977), Harvard Medical School – “Learning and cognition in single biological cells” (2 June 2022)
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On Thursday 2 June 2022 at 9pm (Tokyo time), 1pm (London/Cambridge/UK time), 8am (EDT/US East Coast/Boston MA), 5am (US West Coast) Jeremy Gunawardena, Associate Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, and former Trinity Research Fellow, has very kindly agreed to join us for a video presentation and discussions on “Learning and cognition in single biological cells”.
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The meeting will be on ZOOM on Thursday 2 June 2022 as follows (we will have no in-person meeting this time):
9pm (Tokyo time)- event starts (1pm (London/Cambridge/UK time), 8am (EDT/US East Coast/Boston MA), 5am US West Coast)
9:15pm – 10:15pm Jeremy Gunawardena – “Learning and cognition in single biological cells”
10:15pm – follow-on discussions
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Abstract “Learning and cognition in single biological cells”
The question of whether single biological cells can learn – and what it means to “learn” – has been the subject of controversy for over a century. The consensus remains that individual cells are not capable of complex forms of learning, such as Pavlovian conditioning. I will suggest that it is time to reconsider this question in the light of progress in cognitive science, which offers a definition of learning in terms of information processing that is applicable not just to organisms with nervous systems but also to machines and even to individual cells. From this perspective, cells may be seen as agents that construct internal representations of their external environments to achieve their goals. Reconsidering the fundamental units of life in this way may have profound consequences for how we think about living organisms.
related publication:
J. Gunawardena, “Learning Outside the Brain: Integrating Cognitive Science and Systems Biology,” in Proceedings of the IEEE, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2022.3162791
Abstract: Learning is commonplace in organisms such as ourselves and even in organisms as far distant as the bee and the octopus. Such learning is implemented by brains, or neuronal networks, and has been extensively studied within ethology, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Whether learning also takes place in nonneuronal settings has remained a matter of sustained controversy, too often dominated by ideological views. In this survey, I will explain how learning can be rigorously interpreted as a form of information processing and then explore the evidence for whether learning also takes place in organismal contexts outside the brain, such as physiology, development, and individual cells. I will try to explain why it is important to build bridges in this way between cognitive science and systems biology, why concepts and methods from various branches of engineering may be helpful in this task, and what the eventual impact may be on how we think about the organism. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9764721&isnumber=4357935
Professor Jeremy Gunawardena (Trinity 1977)
Jeremy Gunawardena (Trinity 1977) is Associate Professor of Systems Biology in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He is a pure mathematician by training. He undertook his PhD with Frank Adams at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was elected to a research fellowship. He spent several years in industry at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs and founded the company’s basic research programme in Europe. He returned to academic life at Harvard, where his research group studies cellular information processing using a combination of theoretical, computational and experimental methods.
Jeremy Gunawardena did Part III Maths at Trinity, followed by his PhD and was elected to Trinity Research Fellow in 1981, which he deferred for two years to work as Dickson Instructor at Chicago University, returning to Trinity 1983-1987 as Trinity Research Fellow.
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Professor Martin Morris, History of Architecture, Chiba University, Japan
On Friday 20 May 2022 at 18:00 (Tokyo time), at 10am (Cambridge, UK time), Martin Morris (Trinity 1976), Professor Emeritus, Chiba University (Japan), Graduate School of Engineering, Architecture Course, Research Field: History of Architecture and Architectural Conservation, has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
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Friday 20 May 2022 at 18:00 (Tokyo time), at 10am (London/Cambridge time) – start
18:15 – 19:00 Martin Morris: Japanese Traditional Architecture
19:00 – 20:00 discussions
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Martin Morris (Trinity 1976) is Professor Emeritus, Chiba University Graduate School of Engineering, Architecture Course, Research Field: History of Architecture and Architectural Conservation.
Martin previously was for many years Professor of History of Architecture at Chiba University, Graduate School & Faculty of Engineering, in the fields of History of architecture, urban history, history of artificial environments, conservation and restoration of historic architecture, architectural design based on historical learning.
Major subjects of research:
Historical development of domestic architecture, focused on Japan from the Kofun Period to the end of the Edo Period. Analysis of the patterns of development and interaction between the house-types of different social groups & classes through time to achieve a grasp of the processes, social and technical, underlying the generation of house-types. Also engaged in East-West cross-cultural comparison of the development of lifestyles, at the level of both settlement and architecture, with a view to identifying the nature and significance of underlying similarities and differences, research into the development of building types and the impact of architecture on the environment through the ages.
Fascinated by history from childhood, combined this with architecture, studied at University, to research and teach the history of architecture and conservation of historic buildings. As a postgraduate researcher at Tokyo University in the 1980s & ‘90s, studied the development of the house in Japan, focusing on the relationship between elite and vernacular dwellings. From 1996, at Chiba University, involved in teaching History of Architecture (in Japan & globally), History of Residential Architecture, Conservation & Renovation of historic buildings, and related design courses. Currently working on historical study of Japanese house types in English. Interest in comparative analysis of architectural development through history in East and West and lessons of historic architecture for today’s world.
Born in Cambridge, England, UK. Graduated, 1979 (Architecture, Cambridge University), Dipl. Architecture, 1982 (Cambridge University), Monbusho Scholar from 1983 (Tokyo University), Master of Engineering, Architecture, 1986 (Tokyo University), Dr. of Engineering, Architecture, 1995 (Tokyo University), Lecturer, History of Architecture, 1996 (Chiba University), Associate Professor, History of Architecture, 2001 (Chiba University), Professor (2007 – 2022, retiring March, 2022)
Representative research papers, reports & translations:
「一宮町の歴史的建造物調査報告書（平成27年度版）」、東上総文化遺産総合活性化事業実行委員会（もば建築文化研究所、千葉大学モリス研究室編）、平成26年度文化庁文化芸術振興費補助金（文化遺産を生かした地域活性化事業）、全65 pp. （2016年3月）
「一宮町の歴史的建造物調査報告書（平成26年度版）」、東上総文化遺産総合活性化事業実行委員会（もば建築文化研究所、千葉大学モリス研究室編）、平成26年度文化庁文化芸術振興費補助金（文化遺産を生かした地域活性化事業）、全70 pp. （2015年3月）
“顧想園 Guide to Kosōen” （Registered Tangible Cultural Property Higashi Kurume City, Tokyo, Original Text by Ryūichi Mayuzumi）,（2014年7月）、全8ページ
“From Village Farmhouse to Suburban Oasis: reflecting upon Kosōen”, Martin Morris, The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, fifth series, vol. 6, 2014 pp.195-213
“Nihon Minkaen: Japan Open-air Folk House Museum English Guide Book”, 監修、共同訳、マーティン モリス、発行：川崎市立日本民家園、全74pp. (2011年2月)
「ハンマービームトラスの由来と特性」、マーティン モリス、「千葉県指定有形文化財千葉教会教会堂保存修理工事報告書」、編集：岩瀬建築有限会社、発行：日本基督教団千葉教会 pp. 46-62 (2010年4月)
“The shop-houses of Hanoi’s 36 Guild Streets Area – thoughts on their development, place in history and potential”, Martin Morris, 「開発著しいハノイ都市圏における近郊農村・下町・新住宅地の町づくり研究―生活調査と町づくり活動報告」昭和女子大学国際文化研究所紀要、Vol.13/2009における第2部第2章、編集発行人：金子朝子（ISSN 1341-0431） pp.73-106 （2010年3月）
“Reading a minka frame – the lessons of the Yoshida House”, Martin Morris, 『建築史攷』(“Studies in Architectural History”)、編集：鈴木博之先生献呈論文集刊行会、中央公論美術出版（ISBN 978-4-8055-0622-6）pp.165-186 (2009年10月)
Kyo-Machiya: Tracing the Development of the Traditional Town Houses of Kyoto through the Medieval Centuries， Vernacular Architecture Vol 37， 1-23， 2006、
From the Ground up: the Reconstruction of Japanese Historic Buildings from Excavated Archaeological Data， Nichibunken Japan Review， No. 11， 3 – 30， 1999、
Houses of the People， Kitchens of the Great: A Japanese Enigma， Architectural Research Quarterly， 52-63， 1997年、
近世初期上層住宅の台所と庶民住居、建築史学、第２７号、2-33， 1996年
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Julian Huppert on Science, Politics and the future of Cambridge
On Friday 6 May 2022 at 17:00 (Tokyo time), at 9am (Cambridge, UK time) Trinity alumni Julian Huppert (Trinity 1996), BA in Natural Sciences, PhD at Trinity in Chemistry, former Trinity Fellow, and former Member of Parliament for Cambridge (2010-2015), and now Director of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College Cambridge has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
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Friday 6 May 2022 at 17:00 (Tokyo time), at 9am (London/Cambridge time) – start
17:15 – 18:00 Dr Julian Huppert on Science, Politics and the future of Cambridge
18:00 – 19:00 discussions
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Dr Julian Huppert (Trinity 1996) is Director of the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge Julian was at Trinity as an undergrad, PhD student (with the now Sir Shankar Balasubramanian) and then Research Fellow, working on understanding unusual structures of DNA and how they affect gene expression. He juggled his scientific research with political engagement, serving as the youngest elected Councillor (and Leader of the Opposition) on Cambridgeshire County Council, and then as the Member of Parliament for Cambridge. He now runs an interdisciplinary centre at Jesus College, Cambridge, as well as working in the NHS. He also holds numerous other roles across the public and private sectors.
In this interactive talk he will discuss his research and political careers, and speculate on the potential future for Cambridge and the UK.
Julian Huppert – Maiden Speech as MP for Cambridge in the House of Commons
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Alastair Morgan CMG (Trinity 1976) will discuss with us his time as British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and views from his distinguished career with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
On Thursday 14 April 2022 at 18:00pm (Tokyo time), 10am (London/Cambridge time) Alastair Morgan CMG, alumnus of Trinity, with a long career with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about his time as British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
6pm (6pm Tokyo time, 10am UK time)- starts
6:15pm – 7:00pm Alastair Morgan
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Alastair’s career was with the British Foreign & Commonwealth office (FCO) and the home civil service. Alastair started with the DTI (Department for Trade and Industry), and strictly speaking was seconded to the FCO.
Alastair Morgan pursued a very distinguished career in Foreign & Commonwealth Office serving as British Consul-General in Guangzhou (China) from 2010 to 2014, as Commercial Counsellor and Director of Trade & Investment for China at the British Embassy in Beijing from 2007 to 2010.
From 2015 to 2018, Alastair was British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, stationed in Pyongyang.
He was regional security expert and Coordinator of the UN 1874 Panel of Experts on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sanctions from 2019 to 2021.
Currently Alastair Morgan is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) of Kings College London, and a Tokyo College Ushioda Fellow of the University of Tokyo, affiliated with Tokyo University’s Graduate School of Public Policy.
From 2002 to 2006 Alastair was First Secretary for Trade Policy and Director of Inward Investment at the British Embassy in Tokyo. Alastair worked also on secondment to Japan’s METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) from 2001 to 2022.
Alastair was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Honours for 2019.
Alastair (Trinity 1976) graduated in English Literature from Trinity.
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Alex Davies: Founding lead of AI for Maths initiative at DeepMind
On Friday 8 April 2022 at 18:00 (Tokyo time), at 10am (Cambridge, UK time) Trinity alumni Alex Davies (Trinity 2010), project lead on the Sciences team at Deepmind has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, former Fellows, students, alumni and members very welcome.
Friday 8 April 2022 at 18:00 (Tokyo time), at 10am (London/Cambridge time) – start
18:15 – 19:00 (10:15-11:00am London) Alex Davies
19:00 – 20:00 (11:00-12:00am London) discussions
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Alex Davies (Trinity 2010), Founding lead of AI for Maths initiative at DeepMind
Alex Davies received his PhD in machine learning from Trinity College, Cambridge under Zoubin Ghahramani and is currently a project lead on the Sciences team at DeepMind. Previously he has built ML (machine learning) systems at Google, generated lyrics for a west-end musical and appeared on the BBC as an “emoticon expert”.
Alex is lead author of the recent Nature publication “Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI”, which featured on the title page of Nature Vol 600, No. 7887:
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“Quantum engineer interested in how quantum physics informs bio. Fearlessly leading the Quantum Biology Tech Lab (QuBiT) at UCLA” (Clarice Aiello (Trinity 2004) on Twitter)
On Thursday 24 March 2022 at 8:00am (Tokyo time), Wednesday 23 March 2022 at 11:00pm (London/Cambridge time), Wednesday 23 March 2022 at 4pm (Los Angeles time) Trinity alumni Professor Clarice Aiello (Trinity 2004) Principal Investigator of the Quantum Biology Tech Lab (QuBiT) at UCLA, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about her new field of Quantum Biology.
All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, former Fellows, students, alumni and members very welcome.
Thursday 24 March 2022 at 8:00am (Tokyo time), Wednesday 23 March 2022 at 11:00pm (London/Cambridge time), Wednesday 23 March 2022 at 4pm (Los Angeles time)- start
8:15am – 9:00am Professor Clarice Aiello on Quantum Biology
9:00am – 10:00am discussions
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Professor Clarice Aiello (Trinity 2004) is Principal Investigator at the Quantum Biology Tech Lab (QuBiT), at UCLA. UCLA assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, and Leader of the new Quantum Biology Center at UCLA.
She was previously Postdoctoral fellow in Bioengineering at Stanford and did her Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at MIT, and graduated with an MPhil in Physics from Trinity College and Cambridge University (Cavendish Lab).
Clarice Aiello on Twitter:
“Quantum engineer interested in how quantum physics informs bio. Fearlessly leading the Quantum Biology Tech Lab @QuBiT_UCLA All sums up to awareness+learning”
Clarice Aiello (University of California, Los Angeles) | Quanta Seminar, Cambridge Quantum Information Group
Exploring Biology at the Nanoscale with Quantum Sensors
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Trinity Japan: Dominic Lieven “The Ukrainian crisis: the view of an imperial historian”, video talk and discussion (17 March 2022)
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On Thursday 17 March 2022 at 8pm (Tokyo time), 11am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Dominic Lieven, Historian and Honorary Fellow of Trinity, has very kindly agreed to join us for a video presentation and discussions on “The Ukrainian crisis: the view of an imperial historian”.
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8:15pm – 9:15pm Professor Dominic Lieven “The Ukrainian crisis: the view of an imperial historian”
9:15pm – follow-on discussions
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Professor Dominic Lieven, Trinity Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow
Dominic Lieven is Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy, and Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dominic Lieven was Distinguished Professor in International History at the London School of Economics LSE, 1978-2011.
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Mr Andreas Demetriades (Trinity 1997) Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, MB.BChir, MPhil, FRCS (Neuro surg), Diplomate (EANS), President at European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
On Friday 11 March 2022 at 6:00pm (Tokyo time), 9:00am (London/Cambridge time) Mr Andreas Demetriades, Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, MB.BChir, MPhil, FRCS (Neuro surg), Diplomate (EANS), President at European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, former Fellows, students, alumni and members very welcome.
6pm (6pm Tokyo time, 9am UK time)- start
6:15pm – 7:00pm Mr Andreas Demetriades
7:00pm – 8pm follow-on discussions
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After graduating from Cambridge (Trinity College), he completed Basic Surgical Training at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.
After obtaining Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh, he entered the Higher Surgical Training programme on the prestigious South London circuit and trained as a Senior Registrar at King’s College Hospital, St George’s Hospital, and Brighton/Sussex University Hospitals.
Then completed fellowships in skull base surgery in Tokyo; Neurosurgical Spine in Munich; & Orthopaedic Spine in Oxford.
Currently he is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh; the National Clinical Lead and Chairman of the Scottish Acquired Brain Injury Network (SABIN), and the current President of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS).
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“Drug discoverer. Science lover. Combining both as Exec VP at AstraZeneca to transform how we understand and tackle diseases and treat patients in a digital age” (Sir Menelas “Mene” Pangalos on Twitter)
On Friday 25 February 2022 at 5:00pm (Tokyo time), 8:00am (London/Cambridge time) Sir Menelas Pangalos, Exec Vice-President & President BioPharmaceuticals R&D at AstraZeneca, and leading the creation of AstraZeneca’s new R&D Centre in Cambridge, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about health, the pharma industry, and AstraZeneca’s new Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge.
All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, former Fellows, students, alumni and members very welcome.
5pm (5pm Tokyo time, 8am UK time)- start
5:15pm – 6:00pm Sir Menelas Pangalos
6:00pm – 7pm follow-on discussions
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Prof Sir Menelas N Pangalos DSc PhD FRSB FMedSci HonFBPhS EVP & President BioPharmaceuticals R&D
Sir Mene was appointed as Executive Vice-President, R&D BioPharmaceuticals in January 2019 and is responsible for BioPharmaceutical R&D from discovery through to late-stage development covering Cardiovascular, Renal, Metabolism, Respiratory, Immunology, Microbial Science and Neuroscience areas. Prior to this, he served as Executive Vice-President of AstraZeneca’s Innovative Medicines & Early Development Biotech Unit and Global Business Development.
Since joining AstraZeneca in 2010, Mene has led the transformation of R&D productivity through the development and implementation of the “5R” framework resulting in a greater than four-fold increase in success rates compared to industry averages. In parallel, he has championed an open approach to working with academic and other external partners, changing the nature of academic-industry collaboration. Mene previously held senior R&D roles at Wyeth and GSK.
Mene holds Honorary Doctorates from Glasgow University and Imperial College, London, is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Biology and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and is a Visiting Professor at The Wolfson Centre at Kings College. He co-chairs the UK Life Sciences Council Expert Group on Innovation, Clinical Research and Data and is a member of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy Implementation Board. He is also on the Boards of The Francis Crick Institute, The Judge Business School, Cambridge University and Dizal Pharma, and is a member of the Life Sciences Vision Advisory Group. Mene was awarded the 2019 Prix Galien Medal, Greece for his scientific research and named Executive of the Year at the 2019 Scrip Awards. In 2019, Mene was awarded the honour of a Knighthood by Her Majesty The Queen for his services to UK science. In 2021 Mene was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society.
Mene also oversees the creation of AstraZeneca’s new Global R&D Centre in Cambridge – a state of the art facility designed to stimulate collaborative scientific innovation and which will play an important role in the future success of the UK life science industry which has started occupation this year.
Since the start of 2020, Mene has led and overseen AstraZeneca’s R&D response to COVID-19; maintaining existing clinical trials and delivery of medicines to patients, responding to the UK government’s call for supporting our national testing effort, and discovering and developing new preventative and treatment approaches to the disease. This work has involved partnering with Oxford University in the global development of a vaccine and ensuring broad an equitable access at no profit during the pandemic, the discovery and development of a long-acting antibody combination for those who can’t be vaccinated, as well as exploring our existing portfolio as potential treatment options against the disease.
AstraZeneca’s new Cambridge Discovery Centre (DISC)
“Drug discoverer. Science lover. Combining both as Exec VP at AstraZeneca to transform how we understand and tackle diseases and treat patients in a digital age”
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Author of “2030”: “How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything”
On Friday 11 February 2022 at 6:00pm (Tokyo time), 9:00am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Mauro Guillén, the new Dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
6pm (6pm Tokyo time, 9am UK time)- start
6:15pm – 7:00pm Professor Mauro Guillén
7:00pm – 8pm discussions
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Dean of Cambridge Judge Business School since 2021 Professor of Management Studies Fellow of Queens’ College
Previous appointments include:
Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania): Dr Felix Zandman Endowed Professorship in International Management (2003-2021), Professor of Management (2003-present), Associate Professor of Management (2000-2003), Assistant Professor of Management (1996-2000).
MIT Sloan School of Management: Assistant Professor of Management (1996-2000). Edward Pennel Brooks Career Development Assistant Professor of International Management and Sociology (1992-1994).
MA, MPhil, PhD (Yale University), Doctorate (cum laude) (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Mauro Guillén – Dean of Cambridge Judge Business School
Mauro F. Guillén | 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide | Talks at Google
Look Forward, Faster: Mauro Guillén
4 Tips to Lead in a Crisis — Mauro Guillén
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All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome
On Friday 14 January 2022 at 7:00pm we will have our bonenkai year end dinner party here in Tokyo:
7:00pm – 9:30pm dinner
nijikai
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Cost of this meeting will be YEN 10,000 including Kaiseki banquet-style dinner and unlimited drinks from a fixed list, nijikai is extra. We will meet in central Tokyo.
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Mikael “Mickey” Adolphson, Trinity Fellow, Professor/Chair of Japanese Studies, Head of the Department of East Asian Studies, and Co-Chair of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, and currently in parallel Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden.
All Trinity Fellows, Former Fellows, alumni, students and members are very welcome.
Thursday 16 December 2021 at 19:00 (Japan time),
Thursday 16 December 2021 at 10:00am (London/Cambridge),
Thursday 16 December 2021 at 11:00am (Uppsala)
Mickey Adolphson has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion, on “Japan’s Medieval Economic Miracle”
19:00 Japan time (10am London/Cambridge)- starts
19:15 – 20:15 (Japan time) Mickey Adolphson
20:15 – (Japan time) follow-on discussions
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Mickey Adolphson is Keidanren Professor of Japanese Studies at Cambridge University, where Mickey has also created the “Japan and the World” program, and many other initiatives.
Mickey is Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College.
Currently, in parallel to his positions at Cambridge University and Trinity, Mickey is Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden, where Mickey is pursuing research on the development of coins and monetised economies comparing medieval Scandinavia and medieval Japan. See:
5th Ishibashi Foundation Lecture – Lecture 2: Mikhael Adolphson
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All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome
On Friday 10 December 2021 at 7:00pm we will have our bonenkai year end dinner party here in Tokyo:
7:00pm – 9:30pm dinner
nijikai
Cost of this meeting will be YEN 10,000 including Kaiseki banquet-style dinner and unlimited drinks from a fixed list, nijikai is extra. We will meet in central Tokyo.
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JC de Swaan (Trinity 1993), Partner at Cornwall Capital and Lecturer at Princeton University, Dept of Economics, graduated from Trinity with an MPhil in International Relations
All Trinity Fellows, Former Fellows, alumni, students and members are very welcome.
Thursday 9 December 2021 at 9:00am (Japan time),
Thursday 9 December 00:00 midnight (London/Cambridge time with apologies),
Wednesday 8 December 7pm (NY time)
JC de Swaan has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion, based on his recent book “Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry (Cambridge University Press)”, and other topics
9am Japan time (00:00 midnight London/Cambridge time with apologies, 7pm New York time)- starts
9:15 – 10:15am (Japan time) JC de Swaan
10:15am – (Japan time) follow-on discussions
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JC de Swaan is a lecturer in the economics department at Princeton University. He also teaches at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. In the past he has taught at Yale University, Hong Kong UST, and Cheung Kong Business School in Beijing. Separately, he is a Partner at Cornwall Capital, an investment fund based in New York. Prior to Cornwall, he was a senior advisor on China at a global macro fund, an investment professional at an Asia-dedicated hedge fund, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
He received his B.A. from Yale University in Political Science, an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School. He is the author of Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry (Cambridge University Press).
JC graduated with an MPhil in International Relations from Trinity.
Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University): Seeking Virtue in Finance, JC de Swaan, Princeton University
The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard: Interview between Knut A. Rostad and Jean Christophe de Swaan
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“The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism”, 19 Nov 2021 – Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, FBA FBPsS FMedSci, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge, Director of the Autism Research Centre, and Fellow of Trinity
Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, “The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism”. Special guest: Sir Shankar Balasubramanian
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On Friday 19 November 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 10:15am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on: “The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism”.
7pm (7pm Tokyo time, 10am UK time)- starts
7:15pm – 8:15pm Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen: “The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism”
8:15pm – follow-on discussions
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Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind, MIT Press
The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain, Penguin
Autism and Asperger Syndrome. Facts. Oxford University Press
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty (in USA: The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Human Cruelty) , Penguin
The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention (USA: The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention), Basic Books
and many more co-authored books
Simon Baron-Cohen: How Autism Drives Invention | WIRED Health 2021 | Baron-Cohen explores the fascinating link between that very human ability for invention and autism.
The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention – with Simon Baron-Cohen
The British Academy – Leaders in SHAPE: Simon Baron-Cohen
Zero Degrees of Empathy
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All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome
On Friday 5 November 2021 at 5pm (note this is earlier than usual) we’ll have the first in-person dinner meeting again in central Tokyo after a long break:
5:00pm – 7:00pm dinner
nijikai
Cost of this meeting will be YEN 10,000 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 29 October 2021. 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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Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, recent winner of the 2020 Millenium Technology Prize and the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
On Friday 22 October 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 11:15am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Fellow of Trinity, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
All Trinity Fellows, members, students and alumni very welcome!
7pm (7pm Tokyo time, 11am UK time)- starts
7:15pm – 8:15pm Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian
8:15pm – follow-on discussions
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Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian (together with Sir David Klenerman) have been awarded the 2020 Millenium Technology Prize “their innovation of Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), technology that enables fast, accurate, low-cost and large-scale genome sequencing”. Sir Shankar is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and Trinity Fellow.
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian (together with Sir David Klenerman and Pascal Mayer) were awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Interview with Professor Shankar Balasubramanian – Part 1
Interview with Professor Shankar Balasubramanian – Part 2
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Professor Heonik Kwon (권헌익), Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Trinity College
On Thursday 14 October 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 11:15am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Heonik Kwon (권헌익), Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Trinity College since 2011, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about “The Cold War and Japan”.
All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome
7pm (7pm Tokyo time, 11am UK time)- starts
7:15pm – 8:15pm Professor Heonik Kown
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Professor Heonik Kwon (권헌익), Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Trinity College
Heonik Kwon has been with Trinity College since 2011 in the capacity of Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology. Author of prize-winning books on the historical memories of the Vietnam War, Asia’s Cold War, and the Korean War, he is currently working on the history of cultural internationalism in the twentieth century and beyond.
Professor Kwon is currently engaged in a five year international research project Beyond The Korean War, funded by the Korean Sciences Academy.
Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Book 27), Cambridge University Press
The Other Cold War (Columbia Studies in International and Global History), Columbia University Press
After the Korean War: An Intimate History (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare), Cambridge University Press
North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Book 14), University of California Press
Prof. Heonik Kwon (권헌익): Experiencing the Korean War – Perspective on South Korea-US Relations since the Korean War, Part 2 (Center for Korean Studies at UCLA)
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