King’s College, Cambridge Annual Report 2017 Annual Report 2017 Contents The Provost 2 The Fellowship 5 Tutorial 22 Undergraduates 35 Graduates 39 Chapel 45 Choir 49 Research 55 Library and Archives 58 Bursary 61 Staff 64 Development 67 Major Promotions, Appointments or Awards 93 Appointments & Honours 94 Obituaries 99 Information for Non-Resident Members 247 on the Cranmer Road site. Work will start as soon as planning consent The Provost has been obtained. Our ultimate aim is to be able to house all graduate students in College premises. Plans for improvements to the Chapel lighting are also well advanced; these too have benefited from a generous donation. 2 I am coming to the end of my fourth year as 3 THE PROVOST Provost. Since arriving I have moved from a It has been a very good year for philanthropic donations to the College, position of some confusion about how thanks to the efforts of the Development Office under the energetic things were organised here to a position of leadership of Lorraine Headen, our new Development Director. It is complete identification with the philosophy THE PROVOST very gratifying that King’s is very near the top of the College table for and outlook of this most remarkable donations in the year just gone. We are enormously grateful to those who College. King’s is not the largest, nor is it the generously support the College’s purposes in this way, and every donation, richest of the Colleges, but its international large or small, is very greatly appreciated. I can also report that after profile and outstanding intellectual and a number of false dawns the production of the Register is entering its musical tradition place it in the first rank, final phase and it seems very likely that it will appear in the next calendar Professor Michael Proctor and I am proud to be associated with it. I year. I know that the patience of subscribers has been sorely tried, but I am have since my arrival been concentrating sure they will be pleased with the final product. Because of new data principally on matters of governance and, inevitably, fundraising, and I protection regulations due to take effect in May it seems unlikely that there am most grateful for the support of the Fellows, who have elected me to a will be another Register in the current form after this one. second five-year term; I now retire in 2023. I hope to use the next period to help develop a strategic direction for the College so that it can navigate I was hoping to report that the King’s community orchard, which has come through what will certainly be choppy waters ahead. on greatly since being planted, had yielded a cornucopia of fruit for the benefit of students, staff and the Catering Department. Sadly, however, all 2017 has been a good year for repairs. The back gate has been under the produce was stolen overnight in early September in what was clearly reconstruction for some time, to preserve it from falling into the ditch. One an organised raid. This is enormously disappointing for the gardening side is complete and works on the other side are under way. Improvements staff, who have worked so hard to bring the trees on, and measures will are being made to the Gatehouse and Porters’ Lodge. One consequence has have to be taken to prevent a repetition next year. been the temporary installation of the very stylish ‘Portercabin’ on the Cobbles in front of the College. Webb’s Court has been beset by scaffolding A major step was taken with the decision to commemorate, a little due to the renewal of the Library roof; a similar fate awaits Bodley’s in the belatedly, the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing. An annual lecture next year or so. It is also hoped to start repairs and improvements to the series has been established, with the first lecture, on Turing’s Gibbs staircases and basements in the near future. mathematics, given by Leslie Valiant FRS, Honorary Fellow. It is hoped that Andrew Hodges, Turing’s acclaimed biographer, will be the next A number of new initiatives are in the offing. Thanks to a very generous lecturer. In addition we intend to establish funds for Alan Turing research pledge, we have the funds to construct new accommodation for graduates scholarships and a visiting professorship. Finally and rather differently, the leading sculptor Antony Gormley has offered at cost a standing figure sculpture in memory of Turing, which will be created when sufficient The Fellowship funds have been raised. This time last year I reported that the public display of Class Lists, and the 4 Baxter Tables, were likely to disappear. In the event the Student Union, It is with great sadness that the College announces the death, peacefully on 5 THE FELLOWSHIP which had originally asked for the change, modified its position after 1 August 2017, of Professor Sir Patrick Bateson FRS, Provost 1988–2003. a referendum and the proposal was defeated on a ballot of the University. A full obituary will appear during 2018. So things are as they were, for now at least. But the increasing number New life Fellows THE PROVOST of students opting out of disclosure of their results will eventually make it difficult for the relative performances of Colleges to be measured. Professor James Fawcett Professor Iain Fenlon Our results as indicated in the Tables are further improved from last year: King’s is eighth overall, the best result we have had in 23 years. We are Fellows moving on better in Arts and Humanities than in the Sciences. Engineering, English, The following left their Fellowships in the last year: Economics, Human Social and Political Sciences, History and Medicine all Siobhan Braybrook performed particularly strongly, and we topped the table for Arts finalists averaged over the last three years. We are most grateful for all the hard Valentina Migliori work put in by the Directors of Studies and Tutors, and particularly by Oscar Randal-Williams Perveez Mody, the Senior Tutor, who is stepping down after four years of Alexander Stevic great dedication to the teaching and welfare of our students. She will be succeeded by Tim Flack, presently Financial Tutor. Yasir Suleiman Hanna Weibye I should like to end by paying tribute to all the staff who keep the College Stephen Wertheim (intermitting 2017–2018) going. Many of them labour unseen and we sometimes take them for granted, but without them the College would simply not function. They are New Fellows very much part of the King’s community, and I thank them warmly for all JasoN sharMaN (Fellow, Politics) they do for us. Jason Sharman is the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Michael Proctor Cambridge. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, and his undergraduate degree in History and Politics from the University of Western Australia. Previously, Sharman worked at American University in Bulgaria, the University of Sydney and Griffith University, and he has spent shorter periods as a visitor at St Petersburg State University, Columbia University and mentored many undergraduates. The reward of participating in a and the London School of Economics. student’s intellectual growth is a privilege that I greatly value. Sharman’s research interests range from the study of international Academic recognitions include a Faculty Research Award from Google corruption, money laundering and tax havens, to the global politics of the (first recipient from India), a Hamied Visiting Lectureship to Cambridge 6 early modern world. His most recent books are International Order in University, an Indo-US Science and Technology Fellowship to Princeton 7 Diversity: War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean (2015, co-authored and New York Universities, and an Oustanding Investigator Award from THE FELLOWSHIP with Andrew Phillips) and The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management: the Government of India. My work has been covered several times in the On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption (2017). international media, including the BBC, Time magazine, and TED. roNoJoy adhikari (Fellow, Mathematics) Other interests include applying physico-chemical transformations to soft THE FELLOWSHIP I was born in Calcutta, India and spent my childhood in Ndola, a city in the and liquid materials with their eventual consumption as goal, playing a 25- Copperbelt province of Zambia, where my father, a metallurgist, had taken stringed Indian musical instrument, and reading the ancients. a job. I have fond memories of school in Africa, in the midst of teachers and students of many nationalities. Upon returning to India, I completed Mark aiNslie (Fellow, Engineering) my education at universities in Calcutta, Madras and Bangalore. I spent a Dr Mark Ainslie is an Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPSRC) Early few years in Scotland as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Career Fellow in the Bulk Superconductivity Group, part of Division C Edinburgh before returning to India to a Faculty position at the Institute (Mechanics, Materials and Design) of the Department of Engineering. He of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai. I have recently been appointed as received BE (Electrical & Electronic) & BA (Japanese) degrees from the Lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical University of Adelaide in 2004, an MEng in Electrical Engineering from Physics and look forward with great excitement to life in Cambridge. the University of Tokyo in 2008, and took his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Cambridge in 2012. I trained as a theoretical physicist specialising in statistical and condensed matter physics.