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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…
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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),…
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Sir Simon Baron-Cohen on “The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism” and neurodiversity, 19 Nov 2021
“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 All Trinity Fellows, Former Fellows, alumni, students and members are very welcome. On Friday 19 November 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 10:15am…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Professor V S Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California San Diego, and Trinity PhD V S Ramachandran; MBBS, FRCP (London), PhD( Trinity ) DSc, Distinguished Professor, UCSD ( La Jolla), Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute , La Jolla CA,…
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Professor Grae Worster, Professor of Fluid Dynamics at Cambridge University (DAMTP) and Vice-Master of Trinity: why airplanes fly, how ice melts, climate change – and on Trinity On Friday 24 September 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 11:15am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Grae Worster, Professor of Fluid Dynamics at Cambridge University (DAMTP) and Vice-Master of Trinity, has…
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3 Sept 2021: “In the Shadow of the Gods. The Emperor in World History” Professor Dominic Lieven on his latest book All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Friday 3 September 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 11:15am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Dominic Lieven, Historian and Honorary Fellow of Trinity, has very…
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Richard Turnill, Senior Bursar of Trinity College – video discussion on Thursday 22 July 2021 at 19:00 (Tokyo time) All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Thursday 22 July 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 11:15am (London/Cambridge time) Richard Turnill, Senior Bursar of Trinity, has very kindly agreed to join us…
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Sir Richard Friend FRS, FREng, Cavendish Professor of Physics and Honorary Fellow at Trinity – video discussion on Friday 18 June 2021 at 19:15 (Tokyo time) All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Friday 18 June 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 11:15am (London/Cambridge time) Sir Richard Friend has very kindly…
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Lord John Eatwell, former Fellow at Trinity and former President of Queens’ College Cambridge – video discussion on Friday 28 May 2021 at 19:15 (Tokyo time) All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Friday 28 May 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 11:15am (London/Cambridge time) Lord John Eatwell has very kindly…
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Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy emeritus and emeritus Fellow of Trinity College in video discussion on Friday 30 April 2021 at 19:15 (Tokyo time) All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Friday 30 April 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 11:15am (London/Cambridge time) Huw Price has very kindly agreed…
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Sir Gregory “Greg” Winter, former Master of Trinity, scientist and entrepreneur, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies” will kindly join us for a video discussion All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Friday 19 March 2021 at 7pm (Tokyo time), 10am (London/Cambridge time)…
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Dame Sarah Worthington QC(Hon), Fellow of Trinity, Downing Professor of the Laws of England at Cambridge University All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome The discussion will be on ZOOM only on Friday 26 February 2021 at 6pm (Tokyo time), 9am (London/Cambridge time). No in-person meeting this time. Prior registration required…
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All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Friday 18 December 2020 at 7:30pm we will have our bonenkai year end party: 7:30pm – 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…
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Didier Queloz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star” All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Friday 6 November 2020 at 7pm we will meet in central Tokyo. Professor Didier Queloz, the most recent Trinity Fellow to be awarded…
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Hermann Hauser is co-founder of Acorn Computers, Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) and arguably the most distinguished leader of Cambridge’s Venture Ecosystem. All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Thursday 17 September 2020 at 6pm we will meet in central Tokyo. Hermann Hauser has very generously agreed to hold a video…
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Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize 2009 for elucidating the ribosome, macromolecular machines reading the genetic code from DNA via messenger-RNA to produce proteins All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Friday 28 August 2020 at 6pm we will meet in central Tokyo. Venki Ramakrishnan has very generously agreed…
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Friday 31 July 2020 at 7pm in central Tokyo: video discussion with Lord Martin Rees All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome On Friday 31 July 2020 at 7pm we will meet in central Tokyo. Lord Martin Rees, former Master of Trinity, has very generously agreed to hold a video discussion…
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Simon Denyer shares Pulitzer Prize “for a groundbreaking series that showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperatures on the planet” by: Gerhard Fasol Simon Denyer (1984) is part of the team of journalists who wrote a series of articles for which Staff of The Washington Post was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize…
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Trinity Fellow Didier Queloz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star” Didier Queloz worked with his PhD supervisor Michel Mayor – who shares the 2019 Physics Nobel Prize with Didier Queloz and Jim Peebles. Mayor had developed the COREVAL photoelectric Doppler spectrometer to measure…
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Very sad to let you know that our founding member and steering committee member Ken Shibata (Trinity 1960) passed away on 28 February 2020. Ken Shibata graduated 1955 from Nagoya University’s Department of Earth Science, and in November 1956 he joined the Geological Survey of Japan. In 1993 he joined the Faculty of Science of…
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John MacGinnis: “excavating a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire”. Introduction by Chikako Watanabe With deep apologies, this meeting has been cancelled because of the current health situation Trinity in Japan history and archaeology festival: John MacGinnis (Trinity 1982) will talk on “excavating a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire” On Monday 23 March 2020…
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