King’s College, Cambridge Annual Report 2013 Annual Report 2013 Contents The Provost 2 The Fellowship 5 Undergraduates at King’s 21 Graduates at King’s 25 Tutorial 29 Research 40 Library and Archives 42 Chapel 45 Choir 49 Bursary 52 Staff 55 Development 57 Appointments & Honours 64 Obituaries 69 Information for Non Resident Members 239 Hostel, offering a standard of accommodation to today’s students that will The Provost amaze products of the 60’s like myself; and a major refurbishment of the refreshment areas of the Arts Theatre. The College has done so much to support this theatre since its foundation and has again helped to facilitate these most recent works. I am also happy to report that a great deal of 2 As I write this I am in a peculiar position. asbestos has been removed from the basement of the Provost’s Lodge, and 3 THE PROVOST My copy must be in by 1 October, which is the drains have been mended, which gives me and my family comfort as the day I take up office as Provost. So I have we prepare to move in at the end of September! to write on the basis of no time served in office! This is not to say that I have had no THE PROVOST There are a number of new faces among the Officers since the last Report. experience of King’s in the last year since While Keith Carne remains at the helm of the Bursary, Rob Wallach my election. I have met a great number of succeeded Basim Musallam as Vice-Provost in January. On the Tutorial front, Fellows, students and NRMs, have attended Robin Osborne comes to the end of his five-year term as Senior Tutor in meetings of the Council and some December. His valedictory report is below. I know that Robin has had a very Congregations, and have been participating significant influence on teaching in the College. He tells me that no fewer than Professor Mike Proctor in planning for fund-raising initiatives. 40 Fellows have been appointed during his tenure to give College teaching; Most recently I have attended two Alumni this must be a record, and is a testament to his skill in finding and recruiting Weekend reunion dinners. So although I don’t feel altogether ready, at able supervisors for the College. He will be succeeded by Perveez Mody. In least I am not arriving utterly unprepared. fact it is all change in Tutorial: Stefan Uhlig, Mike Sonenscher and David Munday stand down as Admissions Tutor, Assistant Tutor and Bursarial In fact I have not come from far away. I have been teaching in the Tutor, respectively. I thank them all for their service to the College. Mathematics Faculty here since 1977 and researching the origin and dynamics of magnetic fields in the Earth, Sun and stars. For the same Their successors, like them, will be focused on the performance of King’s period (until now) I have been a teaching Fellow of another, larger, College undergraduates, a subject that has featured regularly in the Provost’s a short distance to the North. It’s a short step by road from one to the reports from past years. The performance tables, though an interesting other, but a significant distance in culture and outlook. The unusual snapshot, are highly sensitive to fluctuations, especially in small subjects, history of King’s, its small size until the end of the nineteenth century, the and probably only rolling averages are meaningful; in any event, they tradition of friendly interaction between Fellows and students, and above should not be the sole determinant of policy. The College is justly proud of all its unwillingness to accept the status quo and insistence on a radical its skill in unlocking the ambition of bright students with modest approach (I have found that ‘radical’ is an often used term of approval), educational opportunities, and nurturing them with dedicated teaching. give King’s a distinctive flavour, and one that I have appreciated more and The results we get, ‘in the pack’ overall, but rather better in value added more as time has gone by since my election last October. terms, are testament to this dedication. Others will be able to write fully about what has happened in and around I write this on the eve of my assumption of office. Tomorrow (1 October) the College since last year. I can report the completion of the Bene’t Street I am to be given the password to the Provost’s email account! It’s a prosaic event, but an appropriately modern rite of passage, to contrast with my formal admission on 15 October in the Chapel. It is a moving moment after The Fellowship a year as Provost-Elect, and I look forward to the next year with some trepidation but great enthusiasm. 4 Mike Proctor New Life Fellows 5 Professor Ross Harrison, Professor Mike Bate, Dr Basim Musallam THE FELLOWSHIP Fellows moving on: The following left their Fellowships in King’s in the last year: THE PROVOST • Alexander Etkind • Tawfique Hasan • Richard Jozsa • Yanki Lekili • Mairead McAuley • Elizabeth Murchison • Jonathan Pridham • Megan Vaughan New Provost Mike Proctor (Provost, Applied Mathematics) Michael Proctor is the son of a farmer. He grew up in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and was educated at Shrewsbury School. He came up to Cambridge in 1968 to read Mathematics at Trinity College; as an undergraduate he was treasurer of the Student Union and also did a lot of rowing. He stayed on to study Part III Mathematics. In 1972, he was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship and spent a year at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked with W.V.R. Malkus on nonlinear models of the geodynamo. He then returned to complete his PhD research in Applied Mathematics under the supervision of H.K.Moffatt. He became a Research Fellow of Trinity in 1974, and returned to MIT in 1975, ultimately New Fellow commoners as an Assistant Professor. After two years, he was appointed to an Assistant Lectureship in Applied Mathematics at the Cambridge Department of Morris ZukerMaN Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMPT), and also became Mr. Zukerman is Chairman of M.E. Zukerman Investments plc in London a Teaching Fellow of Trinity. He held many offices in the College including and New York as well as a Director of Affiliates of Shell Oil, Conoco Phillips, 6 Director of Studies, Praelector, Tutor and (Lay) Dean. He was Vice-Master and Exxon Mobil which are joint venture partners of ME Zukerman Energy 7 THE FELLOWSHIP of the College from 2006-2012. In this position, he was responsible for Investors. Mr. Zukerman previously was a Managing Director of Morgan drawing up new formal arrangements for the election of the Master. In Stanley & Co. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Zukerman served as an DAMPT, he was successively Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and Reader, and economist in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in Washington, became Professor of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics in 2000. Most recently D.C. under its Director, George P. Shultz, 1970-1972. THE FELLOWSHIP he was the Department’s Director of Graduate Research. Mr. Zukerman graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Mike’s research centres on the generation and dynamics of magnetic fields Administration with High Distinction (Baker Scholar). Following his in astrophysical bodies such as the Earth and Sun. He pioneered the study graduation from Harvard University with an A.B. magna cum laude, he of magnetic back-reaction in mean-field models of the geodynamo and came up to King’s College, Cambridge University in 1966 as a Knox Fellow solar dynamo in his thesis work with Malkus and Moffatt. Subsequently he from Harvard. began a long collaboration with N.O.Weiss on the interaction of magnetic fields and thermal convection (magnetoconvection), with application to Mr. Zukerman has served as a member of the Board of Overseers of the outer regions of the solar atmosphere; they were pioneers in the area Harvard University, a Trustee of Phillips Academy, and a Trustee of The of numerical simulation of magnetoconvection in compressible fluids. Spence School in New York. He currently serves on the Harvard University They have recently completed a major book on the subject. He is also Resources Committee, a Fellow of The Pierpont Morgan Library, and a interested in the 11-year solar cycle and has helped to develop simple Member of the Metropolitan Opera Council for Artistic Excellence in New mathematical models to explain the origin of the cyclical behaviour and its York. He was appointed a Member of the Vice Chancellor’s Committee for modulation. More generally, he has contributed to the theory of pattern Cambridge University’s 800th Anniversary 2006-2010. formation and bifurcations with symmetry, in particular the effects of multiple bifurcation with strong spatial resonance, and the effects of BriaN cLark symmetry on long-term near-recurrent behaviour. He was elected to the Brian Clark is Professor Emeritus of Biostructural Chemistry, the Royal Society in 2006, and has served on several committees. department he founded in 1974 at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He was a Research Associate at MIT (1961-62) and a Visiting Fellow at Away from mathematics, Mike is a Trustee of the Gladstone Memorial NIH (1962-64). In 1964 he became a Scientific Group Leader at the British Trust, offering travel awards to undergraduates, and is a Governor of Mill Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology, working in Hill School (where he was formerly Chairman), Shrewsbury School and the Division of Molecular Genetics.