Programme www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk of events Alumni Weekend in Oxford 19–21 September 2014

How to book 1 Browse the brochure and use the handy pull-out planner to help decide which sessions to attend. You can now search for programme content by college and subject division (see pp37–47). 2 Book online at www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk OR complete the booking form and return it by Friday 12 September. We recommend that you book early, as some sessions sell out quickly. 3 We’ll send you a booking confirmation as soon as your registration has been processed. Final event details will be sent in early September. Booking opens: 7 July 2014 Booking closes: 12 September 2014

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Booking your place 2 Now in its eighth year, our annual Meeting Our main venue this year will be the recently- Minds event continues to showcase the best opened Mathematical Institute – the Andrew Friday 19 September 5 and brightest of Oxford – past, present and Wiles Building - on the Radcliffe Observatory Saturday 20 September 13 future. Quarter off Woodstock Road and within easy reach of the city centre and most colleges. Sunday 21 September 29 All of our Meeting Minds events (and you The building’s design demonstrates how can now enjoy these occasions in Asia, Europe Family-friendly events 35 mathematical ideas are part of everyday life and North America as well as in Oxford) shine from the paving, featuring patterns dreamt up Colleges 37 a spotlight on the real-world impact of University by Oxford mathematician Sir Roger Penrose research, through a programme of lectures Subjects 45 (one of our featured speakers), to the crystal- and panel discussions. like canopies and windows. We’ll be running Weekend resources 48 Our 2014 programme will cover a range of tours of the building throughout the Weekend themes, from the topical – Living with Flooding, for you to appreciate the whole space. Cybersecurity, and Understanding Fracking – Whether you can join us for three days, or only to the specialist –WB Yeats in Contemporary can drop in for a couple of hours, we hope that American Literature and Culture, Blackholes: you’ll find something in our programme to where Physics reaches its limits and A history tempt and inspire you. of the first sexual revolution. If you’d like to focus your Weekend around a particular area * New for 2014 * of research, you can turn to p45 for an index • Sessions focusing on topics of the programme content by subject area. related to the WWI Centenary • Social Enterprise Forum • Weekend guide by subject 2 Booking

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3 Booking Personal Stories from Downing Street to the Trenches 1914–1916 THE GREAT WAR

An exhibition in the Bodleian Library until 2 November

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Chemistry at the Garden: Friday Self-guided walking trail 19 September Oxford Botanic Garden Discover a tree that smells of caramel, learn how lotus leaves repel raindrops, and see the natural world in an unexpected new way. If you visit the Oxford Botanic Garden during the Weekend, be sure to ask for a copy of the Chemistry at the Garden Discovery Audio Trail. This guided walk was put together by scientists in the Department of Kevin Nixon/Oxford University Images Chemistry, and it features exciting inventions and research based on the plants we find in nature. Rob Judges/Oxford University Images University Judges/Oxford Rob

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11 Friday Wolfson College hosts: Social Enterprise Forum

Wolfson College is pleased to present some of the University’s leading researchers and practitioners in the field of social investing, social finance and impact investing, at the Meeting Minds: Social Enterprise Forum.

Saturday Professor Dame Hermione Lee, President of Wolfson 2.30 – 3.45pm: The Commercial Evolution of Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine and Microfinance – From Donor Dependence to Fellow of Magdalen Sustainable Social Investments Institutions (p22) Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford 3.45 – 4.15pm: Tea break Pamela Hartigan, Director, Skoll Centre for Social 4.15 – 5.30pm: Innovation in Financing Human Well- Entrepreneurship being – A Panel Discussion (p25) Dr Ira Lieberman (Wolfson, 1982) 6pm: Reception and networking session (p25) Juan Guerra, Founder of StudentFunder OPEN HOUSES & ALL DAY ACTIVITIES

Chemistry at the Garden: 10–11.15am 10am–2pm Saturday Self-guided walking trail and 2.30–3.45pm Theoretical Physics 20 September Oxford Botanic Garden Biochemistry Open House Open House Black Holes: Where physics Discover a tree that smells of Department of Biochemistry, reaches its limit caramel, learn how lotus leaves repel Science Area raindrops, and see the natural world Denys Wilkinson Building, The spectacular new Biochemistry in an unexpected new way. If you Department of Physics, building – opened in 2009 – is visit the Oxford Botanic Garden Keble Road proving to be a superb environment during the Weekend, be sure to for research and teaching. During Members of the Rudolf Peierls ask for a copy of the Chemistry at the Weekend, we will have an Centre for Theoretical Physics the Garden Discovery Audio Trail. open house with lectures covering host a morning of Theoretical This guided walk was put together some current research highlights, Physics, with three talks pitched by scientists in the Department of and teaching activities from senior to explain an area of our research Chemistry, and it features exciting members of staff. A number of to an audience familiar with inventions and research based on graduate and undergraduate physics at about the second-year the plants we find in nature. students will be on hand to meet undergraduate level and is open with alumni, as well as faculty to all alumni. Followed by a members, and we welcome sandwich lunch. any alumni of the University to drop by and meet with us. Light refreshments will be available. Please do join us this year, as it is our 50th anniversary since the department was founded. Please check with our department website for other events (www.bioch.ox.ac.uk).

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EXOTIC DESTINATIONS AND INTRIGUING HISTORIES – EXPLORE THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF AN OXFORD TRIP SCHOLAR

From medieval French cathedrals to the lemurs of Madagscar, the hidden tombs of Egypt to sacred Tibetan sites, this Sunday morning of lectures is sure to take you on a journey far from Oxford and back again. 10 - 11.15am Black Land, Red Land: The Nile Valley and Egypt’s Western Desert (p31) Professor Mark Smith, Lady Wallis Budge Fellow in Egyptology Borderlands: Medieval Alsace-Lorraine (p31) Dr Rowena E. Archer, Fellow and Lecturer in Medieval History 11.45am - 1pm The biogeography of Madagascar, a Gondwanan island (p32) Dr Matt Friedman, Lecturer in Palaeobiology Sacred Landscapes, Buddhist Temples: a case study from Central Tibet (p32) Ulrike Roesler, Associate Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies 1.15pm Oxford Alumni Travellers lunch (p34) OPEN HOUSES & ALL DAY ACTIVITIES

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Explore Harcourt The Start of the Great 21 September Arboretum War in West Africa and its Philatelic Consequences Lynne Daley, Education and Outreach Officer, University Chris Jackson (Trinity, 1962) of Oxford Harcourt Arboretum and Malcolm Nickolls Tour departs from the Maths Trinity College Institute promptly at 10am Following the declaration of war and returns to the Maths between Britain and Germany on Institute at 1pm. 4 August 1914, British and French Harcourt Arboretum is a stunning forces invaded the German colony 130 acre site that has been part of Togo in West Africa. Togo was of the University of Oxford since administered by the British and 1963 but includes exotic trees that French for the rest of the war. Togo were planted in the mid-1800s as quickly ran out of postage stamps well as native woodland and a wild and the authorities attempted to flower meadow. This tour will take in fill this shortage by overprinting seasonal highlights of the Arboretum stamps from the neighbouring British as well as providing background colony of the Gold Coast and using information on the history of the them in Togo. This overprinting site and exciting ongoing projects. was a complete failure and the Transport to the Arborteum will be exhibition displays the many errors provided from the Maths Institute. made by the authorities in supplying overprinted Gold Coast stamps to Fee: £15 the occupied territory. The exhibition will include a 30 minute slide presentation on the military invasion and its philatelic consequences at 3pm on both days. 29 Botanic Gardens/Oxford University Images University Gardens/Oxford Botanic John Cairns 30 Sunday James Martin Fellow and International Relations and of Politics Department Researcher, Leveringhaus Alex Church of Christ Fellow and Theology Pastoral and Moral Nigel Biggar of Lincoln Fellow and Philosophy Fabre Cecile of Conflict Ethics 10–11.15am of, armies. regular instead sometimes and alongside, corporations military of private use growing the and of drones; use the intervention; humanitarian raise: they issues ethical the and challenges of those some considers panel This address. must conflict of ethics the on reflection serious any which challenges moral new however, raised have they decades, three or two last the In ubiquitous. been always have conflicts Military Institute Maths , Regius Professor of of Professor , Regius , Professor of of , Professor , Postdoctoral Postdoctoral ,

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Welcome pack Refreshments take place after selected lectures – see Please bring your personal itinerary, which will Tea and coffee will be available in the Maths www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk for a listing. be issued to you in the week before the event, Institute on Friday (1pm–6pm), Saturday as proof of booking and for access to sessions. (9am–5pm) and Sunday (9am–1pm). Oxford University shop Access to sessions will also be monitored by staff Visit the University’s shop’s pop-up store at The Maths Institute Café will be open throughout with an attendee list. You can collect your 2014 the Maths Institute or see www.oushop.com. the Weekend and here are a range of cafés and Welcome Pack from the main foyer of the Maths restaurants nearby. Institute on the Friday (1pm–6pm), Saturday Getting around (9am–5pm), or Sunday, (9am–1pm). This year’s event will be concentrated around Oxford Alumni Card the Maths Institute at the Radcliffe Observatory Don’t forget to bring your Oxford Alumni On-the-day tickets and ticket swaps Quarter. Oxon Carts, a company of five bicycle Card along to the Weekend to secure discounts A range of sessions will be bookable on-the-day, rickshaws, will make a welcome return if you at a range of local shops, cafés, and hotels. for alumni to purchase on a first-come, first- need transport between sessions; they can Please see www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/card for served basis. If you have paid for a Weekend Pass be hailed at the main venues or booked via the full listing of discounts available. Alumni or a Weekend Bundle in advance, you can swap rickshaw staff at the Maths Institute. A list of taxi Card-holders are also entitled to privileged your sessions for those with places still available.* companies and local bus timetables will also be access to many colleges. Full details of access Come to the Information Point in person or follow available at the Information Point. The University policies for Card-holders can be found at our Twitter account, @OAWeekends #OAW14, website has a range of useful information www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk. to post tickets you’re planning to return, and to concerning transport to, in and around the city. find out what sessions still have places available. See www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/ Blackwell shop and book signings maps_and_directions/index.html. Your Alumni Card also entitles you to Information Point a 15% discount at Blackwell bookshop. Staff will be available at the Information Point in In addition to their main shop in Broad Street, the main foyer of the Maths Institute 1pm–6pm Blackwell will have a mini shop at the Maths on Friday, from 9am–5pm on Saturday and Institute where you can purchase titles 9am–1pm on Sunday. If you have any questions relevant to a variety of Weekend sessions. about the event, we’ll be happy to help you. See www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/blackwell for more details. Book signings will also

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