This single-shot life
The night before defending my Masters thesis, I ran out of shampoo. I ran out late enough that I wouldn’t defend from beneath a mop like Jack Sparrow’s; but, belonging [...]
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Faculty Lunch and Discussion
Faculty Lunch and Discussion Date Speaker Location June 3 Xie Chen 114 East Bridge May 13 Dave Hsieh 114 East Bridge April 29 Jason Alicea 114 East Bridge April [...]
How to build a teleportation machine: Teleportation protocol
Damn, it sure takes a long time for light to travel to the Pegasus galaxy. If only quantum teleportation enabled FTL Stargates… I was hoping [...]
Reading the sub(linear) text
Physicists are not known for finesse. “Even if it cost us our funding,” I’ve heard a physicist declare, “we’d tell you what we think.” Little wonder I irked the porter [...]
Diversity
Transforming the STEM Pipeline into a River The traditional metaphor of the “leaky pipeline” tracks the number of students entering the educational system and emphasizes points at [...]
Research Highlights
Research Highlights and Key Outcomes 2020 Annual Report – IQIM Year 3 IQIM spans Caltech's departments of physics, applied physics, computer science, electrical engineering, materials science and [...]
Frozen children
A few weeks ago, my friend Amanda, an elementary school teacher who runs a children’s camp during the summer break, suggested that it could be fun for me to come [...]
Jason Alicea
Faculty, Topological Quantum Physics
Where are you, Dr. Frank Baxter?
This year marks the 50th anniversary of my first publication. In 1964, when we were eleven-year-old fifth graders, my best friend Mace Rosenstein and I launched The Pres-stein Gazette, a [...]
The theory of everything: Help wanted
When Scientific American writes that physicists are working on a theory of everything, does it sound ambitious enough to you? Do you lie awake at night thinking that a theory of [...]