Editors: Jess Hrivnak Andrew Prentice Sophia Smith wins the RIBA Richard Jebb Dean Hawkes President’s Medal Newsletter of Darwin College The editors especially welcome short Jess Hrivnak, Darwin Alumna (2003 articles, pictures, artwork and news Autumn 2006 - 2005), was awarded the Diploma in from our overseas alumni. Architecture in 2005. Her disserta- Correspondence to: tion was the best in the year and was [email protected] chosen by the Department of Archi- New Sponsorship for Darwin Boat Club tecture to represent Cambridge in the The relationship with Darwin Col- annual competition for the President’s lege Boat Club has also proved to be Medal of the Royal Institute of British a great vehicle for hospitality events Architects. In this competition work for CfEL delegates and contributors. is submitted by all of the schools of During this summer, CfEL were able architecture in the United Kingdom. to co-ordinate one of their teaching Jess’ dissertation, ‘Is Relative Sustain- programmes with DCBC’s participa- ability Relevant?’ was awarded the consultancy, Bioregional, where she tion in the May ‘Bumps’ on 15th medal and she received this from the is now Supply Manager and Prod- June. The Cambridge Summer Forum President, Jack Pringle, at a ceremony uct Specialist for a UK government was conceived as an opportunity for held at the RIBA headquarters in funded project, ‘One Planet Prod- practitioners and policymakers to learn about what makes such enter- Portland Place, London. ucts’, which aims to make sustainable The issue of sustainability is now prising places as Cambridge work. building products more competitive at the forefront of architectural edu- CfEL offered a two-day module in cation and practice and Jess’ research in the construction industry. This entrepreneurship aimed at profes- made a detailed study of a restaurant presents her with the opportunity sionals working in this field. During pavilion recently built in St. James’ to develop further her interests and the programme, delegates were Park, London to the design of Sir expertise in sustainable construction. invited to a special networking dinner Michael Hopkins. In this she explored On a more personal note, Jess has The Darwin College Boat Club has Jost Schatzman, Mens Captain at Darwin College attended by the DCBC President, Dr Chester White, how the term sustainability may be recently become engaged to be mar- been supported during 2006 by a one DCBC said “We are absolutely de- Dr Shai Vyakarnam, and CfEL En- effectively quantified and how the ried to Andy Macintosh who is also a year sponsorship deal with the Centre lighted about the deal with the CfEL impact of a sustainable building trepreneurs in Residence Jack Lang, graduate of the M.Phil and Diploma for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) because it allows us to continue to might be measured. Calendar of alumni events part of the Judge Business School, put out some of the fastest crews Alan Barrell and John Snyder among in Architecture courses in Cambridge. Upon graduation Jess worked in University of Cambridge. The CfEL in Cambridge and also because the others. Following that, CfEL invited Sir Michael Hopkins’ practice, but at 2006 sponsorship deal, set up by the DCBC events and programmes run by the key contributors, entrepreneurs and the beginning of June 2006 she took committee and Dr Shai Vyakarnam CfEL will be interesting to many of us delegates along to a day at the boat up a new post at the environmental Dean Hawkes (pictured above), Director of CfEL and in DCBC and the rest of Darwin.” races which was organised with help Friday 17th November from the Darwin Boat Club Commit- Reunion Dinner (1978-85) - 7.30pm Senior Member at Darwin provides The Centre for Entrepreneurial the Boat Club with a generous con- Learning (CfEL) aims to spread the tee. The day was a great success for Darwin Magazine Puzzle by Groucho all those involved and an inspiration Friday 1st December tribution that enables it to maintain spirit of enterprise to the University of for future events. Former Fellows’ Reunion - 7.30pm and improve the high standards of Cambridge and beyond by delivering equipment and coaching. In return, a range of educational activities to Shai Vyakarnam is married to Darwin alumna Anna Vyakarnam 2007 the relationship with Darwin helps inspire and build skills in the practice to raise awareness of the activities of entrepreneurship. The Centre col- (1977-81) of the Centre to key undergraduate laborates with over 200 experienced Saturday 10th March and graduate audiences within the entrepreneurs, innovators and other Former Fellows’ Buffet Lunch - 12.45pm University. practitioners to provide relevant, Friday 16th March credible and practical training. The Darwin Society Dinner / Reunion Dinner programmes offered include elec- (1983-1990) - 7.30pm tive modules in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Univer- Friday 18th May sity, weekly lectures and workshops, Darwin Society Dinner - 7.30pm as well as open programmes such as Enterprise Tuesday, CfEL Summer Figure 1. A big rectangle filled with little rectangles. All the red rectangles have integer height. (For Friday 8th June example, the bottom-left red rectangle has height 8.) All the green rectangles have integer width. School and Enterprisers. Guest night and Former Fellows’ A number of small rectangles perfectly tile a big rectangle. If the small rectangles all have the Reunion - 7.30pm Inside property that at least one of their sides is an integer, can you show that the big rectangle also has at least one integer side? That is, either the width of the big rectangle is an integer, or its height is Friday 15th June Darwinian Achievements 2 Message from the Alumni Office 4 Darwin’s Green Credentials 7 an integer, or both. Reunion Dinner (1988-95) - 7.30pm Ugandan Gathering 2 Overseas Alumni Groups 4 Staff News 8-9 For various solutions please see: Hungary - 50 Years On 2 Boat Club News 5 The Total Eclipse 10 www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/abstracts/rectangles.html Friday 13th July 2006 Lecture Series 3 Book Review 6 Around Calcutta 11 David Mackay (Darwin College Fellow) asserts they can all be understood by a 10-year old, but the Old Darwinian Summer Party editors are inclined to dispute this! From the Emails 3 The Giving Back Awards 7 Profile - Patrick Mixon 11 2 11 Darwinian Achievements The Darwin and The Vice-Master, Prof Andy Fabian and Old Darwinian Dr Ann Prentice (1975-8) were both awarded the Order of the Cambridge British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s 80th Birthday Honours list. Amir Shirzadi (Research Associate) has been awarded the Armourers and Brasiers Fellowship. This is a National Fel- Community lowship which has been awarded for the first time ever, in recognition of outstanding and continuing contributions to Materials Science. around Calcutta Prof Sally Shuttleworth (1975-80) has been appointed the Chair and Divisional Head of Humanities at Oxford University. In January 2006, Harry Bhadeshia She is a Fellow of St. Anne’s College (see separate article). (Darwin College Fellow) visited Tata Steel in Jamshedpur, the Indian Above: At the British Council offices in Bangal. Centre (in yellow Sari) is Sohini Baner- Professor Dame Jean Thomas FRS (1967-69) has just been elected as Master of Catz. Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, jee, the secretary of the Darwin College India Society. Second from the right is Professor Shiv Brat Singh and third from right is Harry Bhadeshia. Jess Hrivnak (2003-05) has won the Dissertation Prize in this year’s RIBA President’s Medals awards (see separate article) the Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) at Shipur and the Below: From right to left, Judge Bose, Sohini Banerjee and her husband. Virologist Dr Nancy Cox (1970-75) has been named as one of Time Magazine’s 100: People who Shape our World and British Council/Darwin College Society one of Newsweek’s 15 People Who Make America Great (see separate article). in Calcutta. The list of the Cambridge contacts he met illustrates the depths Dr Anne Ferguson-Smith (Fellow) has been appointed to a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship of the links – and these are only in and has also been elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organistaion (EMBO). the field of engineering and materials Dr Paul Robertson (Research Fellow) was awarded the World Leadership Forum Award for the Lecturer of the Year. science! In Calcutta, Sourabh Chatterjee (current PhD student at Darwin). At Tata Steel in Jamshedpur, Saurabh Old Darwinian gathering in Uganda Kundu (current PhD student at Dar- win), Dr Debashish Bhattacharjee (did Roger Whitehead (former Vice-Mas- his PhD at Churchill College), now ter) invited Ugandan ODs to a meal Director of Research at Tata Steel, at the Guest House of Makerere Jamshedpur. At the Indian Institute Chattopadhyay, Bengal Engineer- cal University, Singapore, did his PhD University, Kampala. Left to Right: of Technology, Kharagpur, Prof Shiv ing and Science University, spent at Queen’s College. Prof Datta, BESU, John Kakitahi (1974-5) is Associate Brat Singh, (obtained his PhD at six months in Cambridge and had who contributed to the special issue Professor of Public Health Nutrition at Darwin). Sohini Banerjee, who did frequent meals in Darwin. He initi- of ISIJ International on Neural Net- Makerere University Medical School. her law degree in Cambridge, now ated the now highly successful Neural works, organised in 1991 by Harry is a lecturer in law, and the founding Joseph Luswata (2003) is an advocate Networks and Genetic Algorithms Bhadeshia and Prof Hidetoshi Fujii Secretary of the Darwin College India activity at the BESU. Prof Marimuthu of Osaka University (formerly visiting in a leading Ugandan law firm.