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DAVID TENNETT
War Studies celebrates 50th anniversary
at l’École de Guerre in Paris, Professor Brian Holden-Reid, Head of Department 2001–07, was unable to attend. Pictured (left to right): Professor
at a special event on 27 January, attended by current and former staff, students and heads of Department (pictured). Due to a prior engagement
CERN search for Maxwell’s ‘magnetic monopole’
Visiting Professor and MoEDAL spokesperson, summarised the experiment: ‘A MoEDAL discovery would constitute a revolutionary contribution to our understanding of the universe in one or more of the following fundamentally important arenas: the origin of mass, new symmetries, extra dimensions, theories of everything, the nature of dark matter and the early universe.’ Professor Mavromatos commented: ‘It is only right that King’s should play a leading role in the search for magnetic charge that is motivated by Maxwell’s work on electricity and magnetism.’ John Ellis, James Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, added: ‘As Maxwell’s successor at King’s I am really excited to be part of the MoEDAL team.’
On 8 February, the Principal Professor Rick Trainor hosted a reception at Church House in Westminster, during the meeting of the Church of England’s governing body the General Synod, to mark the appointment of three King’s alumni as Bishops of three of the oldest dioceses Pictured with the Principal (left to right): the Rt Revd Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester (MTh 1987); the Rt Revd Christopher Lowson, Bishop of Lincoln (AKC 1975); the Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam FKC, Bishop of Salisbury (BD AKC 1978). Also in attendance were other alumni associated with the General Synod; staff from the College Chaplaincy, Department of Theology & Religious Studies and Department of Education & Professional Studies; representatives of the KCLA and AKC Alumni Group and current students.
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Professor Nick Mavromatos, Professor John Ellis FRS and Dr Malcolm Fairbairn from the Department of Physics have joined MoEDAL – the latest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project at CERN – to expand King’s participation at the LHC that began earlier in 2011 when particle theorist Dr Bobby Acharya, a member of ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus), joined the Department. The MoEDAL (Monopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC) experiment will search for the ‘magnetic monopole’, the hypothetical particle that was proposed by the unified theory of electricity and magnetism developed by Professor James Clerk Maxwell when he was at King’s (1860–5). Professor James Pinfold,
Sir Lawrence Freedman; Professor Mervyn Frost, current Head of Department; Professor Christopher Dandeker; Professor Brian Bond
Three alumni appointed as Bishops
INDIKA ARACHCHI APPUHAMILAGE
Pictured (left to right): Dr Malcolm Fairbairn; Dr Bobby Acharya; Professor James Pinfold; Professor Nick Mavromatos; Professor John Ellis FRS
Sir Michael Howard; Professor Denise Lievesley, Head of the School of Social Science & Public Policy; Professor Sir Michael Laurence; Professor
The Principal pictured with King’s alumni who have been appointed as Bishops
BAFTA win for former composer in residence John Browne, former composer in residence at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, composed the music for The Itch of the Golden Nit, which was awarded a BAFTA in the ‘Interactive’ category at the 2011 British Academy Children’s Awards. The film, produced by Aardman Animations in collaboration with the Tate Movie Project, featured drawings, sound effects and story ideas by more than 34,000 young people from across the UK and was screened in Trafalgar
Square at the launch of the cultural Olympiad. Mr Browne, whose film compositions include songs written for Catherine Tate and Vic Reeves, said: ‘The film is the first of its kind – a crowd-sourced animation, with children aged five to 13 involved throughout the process. My compositions were based on ideas contributed by children, and for the most part were performed by young people, including the National Youth Orchestra and young folk musicians.’
HELEN ARGO
Established in 1962, the Department of War Studies has become a world leader in the study of war, peace and security. The landmark was celebrated
Composer John Browne with his BAFTA award
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