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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Eiger et al.
When I was a graduate student, on my second year I was put in an office that was shared with two postdocs – Arne Brataas and Stefan Kehrein. It made [...]
Jason Alicea
Faculty, Topological Quantum Physics
Superconductors in the Summer
As a little girl I would play school with the neighborhood children. Ever since fourth grade I knew I wanted to be a teacher in a classroom full of eager-to-learn [...]
Three Questions: Zach Korth, LIGO
Who are you? My name is Zach Korth. I’m a graduate student here at Caltech, working in Prof. Rana Adhikari’s group on experimental gravitational wave physics. The bulk of my [...]
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 [...]
Celebrating Theoretical Physics at Caltech’s Burke Institute
Walter Burke Editor's Note: Yesterday and today, Caltech is celebrating the inauguration of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics. John Preskill made the following remarks at a [...]
Remembering Arthur Wightman
Arthur Wightman Arthur Wightman passed away this past January, at age 90. He was one of the great mathematical physicists of the past century. Two [...]