TRINITY HALL CAMBRIDGE TRINITY HALL NEWSLETTER SPRING 2004 Newsletter SPRING 2004 The Trinity Hall Newsletter is published by the College. Printed by Cambridge Printing, the printing business of Cambridge University Press. www.cambridge.org/promotional Thanks are extended to all the contributors and to the Editor, Liz Pentlow Trinity Hall Newsletter SPRING 2004 College Reports ............................................................................ 3 Trinity Hall Association & Alumni Reports............................. 35 Lectures & Research .................................................................. 53 Student Activities, Societies & Sports ...................................... 75 The Gazette .............................................................................. 109 Keeping in Touch & Reply Slips ........................... Cream Section Section One: College Reports 3 The Master Professor Peter Clarke MA PhD LittD FRHistS FBA Professor of Modern British History Fellows and Fellow-Commoners Professor John Denton MA PhD FREng FRS Vice Master, Professor of Turbomachinery Aerodynamics Professor Colin Austin MA DPhil FBA Praelector, Graduate Mentor, Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics; Professor of Greek Graham Howes MA Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences; Tutor for Board of Continuing Education David Fleming MA LLB Tutor and Staff Fellow in Law Professor Thomas Körner MA PhD ScD Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics; Professor of Fourier Analysis Dr David Rubenstein MA MD FRCP Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine; Associate Lecturer and Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Dr David Moore MA PhD Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering; University Reader in Engineering Dr Peter Hutchinson MA PhD LittD Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages; University Reader in Modern German Studies Dr Christopher Padfield MA PhD Tutor for Graduate Students, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering; Director of the University’s Corporate Liaison Office Professor Paul Smith MA PhD Professorial Fellow; Professor of Spanish Dr Alison Liebling MA PhD Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow in Social and Political Sciences; University Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Prisons Research Centre Professor Michael Kelly MSc MA PhD ScD FRS FREng Graduate Mentor, Professorial Fellow; Prince Philip Professor of Technology Dr Simon Guest MA PhD Tutor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering; University Senior Lecturer in Engineering Dr Michael Hobson MA PhD Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Physical); University Reader in Astrophysics and Cosmology Dr P John Clarkson MA PhD Tutor and Staff Fellow in Engineering; University Reader in Engineering Design Dr James Montgomery DPhil Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Oriental Studies; University Reader in Classical Arabic 4 Dr Florian Hollfelder MA MPhil PhD Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological); University Lecturer in Chemical Biology Dr Drew Milne MA PhD Fellow Librarian, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in English; Judith E Wilson University Lecturer in Drama and Poetry; Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of English Professor Brian Cheffins MA LLM Professorial Fellow; S J Berwin Professor of Corporate Law Dr Juliet Fleming MA PhD Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in English; University Lecturer in English Dr Simon Moore MA MEng PhD Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Computer Science; University Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Dr Sarah Cooper MA MPhil PhD Tutor, Staff Fellow, Newton Trust College Lecturer in Modern and Medieval Languages Dr R Vasant Kumar MA BTech PhD Tutor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Physical); University Senior Lecturer in Materials Science & Metallurgy Dr Nick Bampos MA PhD Senior Tutor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Chemistry); Assistant Director of Research in Chemistry Angus Johnston MA LLM BCL Graduate Mentor, Tutor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Law; University Lecturer in Law Dr John Bradley MA DM FRCP Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine; Associate Lecturer in Medicine and Consultant Physician, Director of Renal Medicine and Director of Research and Development, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Dr Louise Haywood MA PhD Tutor and Staff Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages; University Senior Lecturer in Medieval Spanish Studies Dr Martin Bucher MS PhD Graduate Mentor, Stephen Hawking Fellow and College Lecturer in Mathematics Dr J Clare Jackson MA MPhil PhD Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in History; University Lecturer in History Dr Jan-Melissa Schramm MA LLB PhD Graduate Mentor, Tutor, Staff Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in English Revd Dr Jeremy Morris MA DPhil Graduate Mentor, Dean and Chaplain, Secretary to the Governing Body, Robert Runcie Fellow and Director of Studies in Theology John Pegler MA ACA Staff Fellow, Bursar and Steward Dr Mario Kozah MA PhD Gott Research Fellow in Oriental Studies Dr Andrew Harkins MA PhD Walter Grant Scott Research Fellow in Mathematics Dr Richard Baker MA PhD Fellow-Commoner in Music 5 Dr Graham Pullan MA PhD Rolls Royce Fellow-Commoner in Turbodynamics Dr Richard Miles PhD FSA Admissions Tutor, Staff Fellow and College Lecturer in Ancient and Early Medieval History; Director of Studies in Classics John Armour BCL LLM Staff Fellow in Law; University Lecturer in Law Dr Ian Wilkinson MA DM MRCP Staff Fellow in Clinical Medicine; University Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Dr Samantha Williams MSc PhD Staff Fellow in History; University Lecturer in History Dr Cristiano Ristuccia MA DPhil Tutor, Staff Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Economics; University Senior Research Associate in Applied Economics Dr Annette Imhausen PhD Thole Research Fellow in Egyptology Dr John Pollard MA PhD FRHS Archivist and Staff Fellow in History Matthew Conaglen LLB(Hons) LLM John Collier Fellow in Law; City Solicitors Educational Trust Lecturer in Law Dr Dirk Slotboom MSc PhD Research Fellow in Biochemistry and Structural Biology Jan Gilbert MPhil Research Fellow in Medieval Spanish Literature Dr Nigel Chancellor MA PhD DL Graduate Mentor, Fellow-Commoner in History Dr Kylie Richardson MA PhD Staff Fellow in Modern and Medieval Lanuages (Slavonic); University Lecturer in Slavonic Linguistics and Philology Dr Jerome Jarrett MA MEng PhD Staff Fellow in Engineering; University Senior Research Associate in Engineering 6 Emeritus Fellows Richard Newton MA John Collier MA Dr Bill Grundy MA MD BCHIR Clifford Pratten MA David Marples MA Dr Sandra Raban MA PhD Dr Malcolm Gerloch MA PhD ScD Dr David Thomas MA LLD QC Professor Jonathan Steinberg MA PhD Honorary Fellows Revd Professor Owen Chadwick OM KBE MA DD LittD(hon) FBA Rt Hon Lord Simon of Glaisdale PC MA LLD(hon) Rt Hon Sir Robert Megarry PC MA LLD FBA Sir Robert Honeycombe DSc PhD FRS FREng Professor William Alexander Deer PhD FRS Professor Lionel Elvin MA Shaun Wylie MA Rt Hon Lord Oliver of Aylmerton PC MA LLD(hon) Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool KBE MA PhD FRS Rt Revd Lord Sheppard of Liverpool MA LLD(hon) DTECH(hon) DD(hon) Professor Stephen Hawking CH CBE PhD DSc(hon) FRS Rt Hon Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead PC MA Professor Sir Philip Randle MA PhD MD FRCP FRS Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE MA PhD ScD FRS Professor Guy Jameson MA PhD Revd Professor Keith Ward MA PhD DD FBA Dr Kenneth Miller CBE MA PhD FREng Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon CH QC Hon Mr Justice Corbett Hon Donald Macdonald PC LLM Hamish Maxwell LLD(hon) Rt Hon Lord Millett of St Marylebone MA PC Sir Mark Tully KBE OBE MA Dr Graham Storey OBE MA PhD LittD Sir Derek Thomas KCMG The Very Revd John Drury Brigadier Paul Orchard-Lisle CBE MA TD DL Graham Ross Russell MA MBA Professor Sir Roy Calne MA FRCS FRS Professor Alexander Goehr MA MusD(hon) Professor John Langbein MA PhD Sir John Lyons MA PhD LittD FBA Dennis Avery LLM His Honour Alan King-Hamilton QC Rt Hon The Lord Justice Thomas 7 Report from the Master This is the fourth time that I have introduced our Newsletter and it will be the last – this time next year Maria Tippett and I will have left the Lodge. We will do so with very mixed feelings: looking forward to more time for our own writing; looking back upon a very happy time in a College that was new to us four years ago but is now peopled with so many old friends. And of course we shall keep in touch. The election of Professor Martin Daunton as my successor is described elsewhere in the Newsletter and I will not repeat here what the Vice Master and I say there, except to give advance notice that it's all very favourable and bodes well for Trinity Hall. In the Newsletter two years ago I gave a preview of the Strategic Plan, which the College was then drawing up. It has guided our planning and priorities ever since, with the big building project at Wychfield conspic- uous at the centre of the picture. So in last year's Newsletter I tried to explain why it was so necessary for us to go ahead with this expensive commitment despite all the worries that now cloud any discussion of university finance. Personally, as you all know, a new generation of students will face a regime of fees and loans; institutionally, the College has to reckon with the aftermath of a dramatic decline in equities. But on both scores the outcome is less fraught than it may have looked a year ago. In Cambridge we are committed to protecting students from poorer homes from financial disincentives – indeed they may end up better off here than they are at present. In this the College will continue to play a big part, enabled to do so by the generosity of former benefactors. Likewise, our stewardship of past benefactions is attested to by the way that our own equity portfolio has out-performed its benchmarks through astute financial management.