BICEP2 and soccer
I'm a Caltech physics graduate student who has been working on BICEP2/Keck Array since 2009. BICEP2 reported the first detection of B-mode polarization on degree angular scales, which John Preskill [...]
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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 [...]
Defending against high-frequency attacks
It was the summer of 2008. I was 22 years old, and it was my second week working in the crude oil and natural gas options pit at the New [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It takes a physicist to explain these Super Heroes
Spiros Michalakis, IQIM’s Manager of Outreach and Staff Researcher, was involved in discussions with Marvel about Ant Man and the science behind the extreme changes in his size. The new [...]
How to build a teleportation machine: Intro to entanglement
Oh my, I ate the whole thing again. Are physicists eligible for Ben and Jerry’s sponsorships? I’m not sure what covers more ground when I go for [...]
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 [...]
Science books for kids matter (or used to)
The elementary school I attended hosted an annual book fair, and every year I went with my mother to browse. I would check out the sports books first, to see [...]
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 [...]