Category: Trinity Japan
-
[Trinity Japan] Alastair Morgan CMG, former British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (14 April 2022)
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 Details (c) 2022 Gerhard Fasol All Rights Reserved
-
[Trinity Japan] Alex Davies: DeepMind, AI and Mathematics (8 April 2022)
Alex Davies: Founding lead of AI for Maths initiative at DeepMind Details (c) 2022 Gerhard Fasol. All Rights Reserved.
-
[Trinity Japan] Clarice Aiello on Quantum Biology and the new Quantum Biology Center (QuBiT) at UCLA (23 / 24 March 2022)
“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) Details (c) 2022 Gerhard Fasol. All Rights Reserved.
-
[Trinity Japan] Dominic Lieven – The Ukrainian crisis: the view of an imperial historian (17 March 2022)
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. Details (c) 2022 Gerhard Fasol. All…
-
[Trinity Japan] Mr Andreas Demetriades, Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon and President at European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) (11 March 2022)
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) Details (c) 2022 Gerhard Fasol. All Rights reserved.
-
[Trinity Japan] Prof Sir Menelas N Pangalos DSc PhD FRSB FMedSci HonFBPhS on AstraZeneca’s new Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge (25 February 2022)
“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) Details (c) 2002 Gerhard Fasol. All Rights Reserved.
-
[Trinity Japan] Mikael “Mickey” Adolphson: “Japan’s Medieval Economic Miracle” 16 Dec 2021
Mikael “Mickey” Adolphson 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. See: https://japanandtheworld.org/adolphson-inaugural/ Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-mikael-adolphson Mickey is Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College. Currently, in parallel to his positions…
-
[Trinity Japan] JC de Swaan, “The Social Value of Investments”, 8/9 Dec 2021
JC de Swaan (Trinity 1993) 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…
-
[Trinity Japan] Sir Simon Baron-Cohen “The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism”, 19 Nov 2021
Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen Sir Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge, Director of the Autism Research Centre, and Fellow of Trinity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baron-Cohen https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-academics-recognised-in-2021-new-year-honours https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?sb205 https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/staff/simon-baron-cohen/ Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an alumni group. Chair and Founder:…
-
[Trinity Japan] Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, inventor of Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), 22 Oct 2021
Sir Shankar Balasubramanian 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…
-
[Trinity Japan] Heonik Kwon (권헌익), “The Cold War and Japan”, 14 Oct 2021
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…
-
[Trinity Japan] V S Ramachandran on “Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, explored through synesthesia, mental calendars, and body image distortions”, 6/7 Oct 2021
Professor V S Ramachandran V S Ramachandran; MBBS, FRCP (London), PhD( Trinity ) DSc, Distinguished Professor, UCSD ( La Jolla), Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute , La Jolla CA. V S Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San…
-
[Trinity Japan] Grae Worster, Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Trinity’s Vice-Master: why airplanes fly, how ice melts, 24 Sept 2021
Professor Grae Worster, Professor of Fluid Dynamics at Cambridge University (DAMTP) and Vice-Master of Trinity Professor Grae Worster at the Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/person/mgw1 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grae_Worster Publications: http://www.itg.cam.ac.uk/people/grae/publications.html Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an…
-
[Trinity Japan] Dominic Lieven, on his book “In the Shadow of the Gods. The Emperor in World History” 3 Sept 2021
Professor Dominic Lieven, Trinity Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Lieven Professor Lieven at LSE Professor Dominic Lieven at Harvard And here, Dominic Lieven on “The European Crisis” in Nikkei Professor Dominic Lieven’s most recent book Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia was selected as FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR…
-
[Trinity Japan] Richard Turnill, Senior Bursar Trinity College, investing and net zero carbon emissions, 22 July 2021
Richard Turnill Richard recently joined Trinity as Senior Bursar and therefore has responsibility for Trinity’s financial wellbeing. Previously Richard worked many years at BlackRock as Global Chief Investment Strategist, and Head of Global Equity. Richard graduated with a BA in Economics from Cambridge University. Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially…
-
[Trinity Japan] Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, “The modern day alchemist”, 18 June 2021
Sir Richard Friend Sir Richard Friend FRS, FREng is maybe best known for his breakthrough discoveries of light emitting polymers, inventions which led to the development of OLED (organic light emitting diodes), and to his founding of several companies Cambridge Display Technology ( https://www.cdtltd.co.uk ) and Plastic Logic ( https://www.plasticlogic.com ) and more… Sir Richard…
-
[Trinity Japan] Lord John Eatwell on “Piero Sraffa: the Trinity enigma who placed a time bomb under economic theory”, 21 May 2021
Lord John Eatwell Lord John Eatwell was Fellow of Trinity College, Lecturer at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Economics and Politics, Professor of Financial Policy at the Cambridge Judge Business School, and President of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the…
-
[Trinity Japan] Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy (em) on Boltzmann’s time bomb and on time’s arrow, 30 April 2021
Professor Huw Price Huw Price is emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor for Philosophy at Cambridge University, co-Founder with Lord Martin Rees of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge, and emeritus Fellow of Trinity College. Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University…
-
[Trinity Japan] Sir Greg Winter, Nobel Prize 2018, on antibody therapies, 19 March 2021
Sir Greg Winter Sir Greg is former Master of Trinity College Cambridge, he is both scientist and entrepreneur. As researcher, Sir Greg humanized antibodies for therapies using phage display, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018. As entrepreneur, Sir Greg founded and built the companies Cambridge Antibody Technology, Bicycle Therapeutics and…
-
[Trinity Japan] Dame Sarah Worthington QC(Hon), Downing Professor of the Laws of England at Cambridge on Equity and Business Law, 26 Feb 2021
Dame Sarah Worthington QC(Hon) Dame Sarah Worthington QC(Hon) is Trinity Fellow, Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge, and Founder and Director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre. Dame Sarah Worthington is Barrister, called to the Bar at Middle Temple, and was President of the The Society of Legal Scholars,…
-
[Trinity Japan] Didier Queloz, Nobel Prize in Physics 2019, on exoplanets and extraterrestrial life, 6 Nov 2020
About Didier Queloz: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/queloz/facts/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Queloz Didier Queloz, Nobel Lecture: 51 Pegasi b and the exoplanet revolution, Rev. Mod. Phys. 92, 030503 – Published 22 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.92.030503 Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an alumni group. Chair and Founder: Gerhard Fasol…
-
[Trinity Japan] Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize 2009, President of the Royal Society, about the Ribosome, the Royal Society and the virus crisis. 28 Aug 2020
Venki Ramakrishnan Venki is Fellow of Trinity College, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 for his work on “the structure and function of the ribosome.”: Nobel Lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2009/ramakrishnan/lecture/ In 2015 was elected President of the Royal Society (UK’s National Academy of Sciences). Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College…