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The campus community biweekly September 18, 2003, vol. 3, no. 13 A swarm at St. Luke's DuBridge lecture series features Jack Valenti
Lee A. DuBridge, a physicist and Caltech's president from 1946 to 1969, was considered an exemplary research university president in an era of vast scientific, societal, and educational change. As a memorial to him, Caltech established the Lee A. DuBridge Distin Professor to teach guished Lecture Series to bring to cam pus prominent speakers of national and/ South Africa course or international importance. Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Pic South African sociologist Wilmot James ture Association of America, will visit has been appointed Caltech's Moore Caltech to deliver a DuBridge Distin Visiting Professor of History and Sociol guished Lecture on Thursday, October 2, ogy. He will offer courses this fall and at 8 p.m. in Beckman Auditorium. James spring on his country's recent political Bates, entertainment reporter for the Los history and on race and skin color. Angeles Times, will join Valenti onstage James's fall-term course, "South Afri for an informal conversation. can Politics and Culture before and dur In his role as CEO and president of the ing Its First Ten Years of Democracy," will MPAA, Valenti bas been hig hly effective study key personalities, including former in guiding the agency that watches over president Nelson Mandela, and will ex the U.S. motion picture and television plore the current climate of economics, industries. With Hollywood as a domi education, racial reconciliation, and other nant force shaping and reflecting Ameri factors affecting the country's post-apart can culture, he is in a uniquely influential heid transition to democracy. position. In the spring, his "Racial Variation and Valenti's career has taken him close to the Evolution of Skin Color" course will A worker prepares to remove a beehive from the cross atop the former hospital, now owned by centers of power; he was closely associ focus on the treatment of "race" over Caltech. The 17-foot cross was later taken down and is expected to be given to a local religious ated with Lyndon Johnson before and time, by Linnaeus, Mendel, Darwin, the organization. see Valenti, page 6 eugenics movement, and Nazism, through to molecular biology and the Human Genome Sequencing Project, and Dabney Hall gets ··aubbloy" is latest Caltech invention will consider the implications of the mod ern science of race, skin-color variation for the sociology of race, and racism an overhaul First there was liquid metal, that won Bubbloy is made of palladium, nickel, itself. drous substance from Bill Johnson's copper, and phosphorus. This particular A former dean of humanities and pro Amid buildings dedicated to chemistry, materials science lab that is now used to alloy was already known as one of the fessor of sociology at the University of math, and physics, Caltech's Dabney Hall make golf clubs and tennis rackets. Now best bulk metallic glasses around, but Cape Town, James is now an executive has been a home for literature, history, a couple of Johnson's enterprising grad Veazey and Welsh's contribution was and philosophy. This month, the elegant students have come up with a new inven figuring out how to get the stuff to foam. see James, page 6 but aged building began undergoing a tion-liquid metal foam. Other researchers have previously fig renovation that will last through August According to Chris Veazey, who is ured out how to foam metals like tita 2004. working on his doctorate in materials nium and aluminum, but bubbloy will Like the science buildings around it, science, the new stuff is a bulk metallic have big advantages in the strength-to Dabney Hall was designed by architect glass that has the stiffness of metal but weight ratio. Program cuts child Bertram Goodhue with pueblo-style the springiness of a trampoline. "You can How good is good? Veazey and care costs forms and Mayan-inspired decoration. squish it and the metal will spring back," Welch's preliminary castings result in a Funded by a gift of $250,000 from Joseph says Veazey, who has given the stuff the bubbloy that is light enough to float in Many parents feel the heavy weight of and Louise Dabney and completed in tentative name "bubbloy," a combination water, yet is quite strong and elastic. their child-care bills every month, but 1928, the hall served for 40 years as a of "bubble" and "alloy." The researchers' "To make it really well is a challenge," that burden just got lighter for many hub for the humanities and for distin material was featured in an article and on Welch says. members of the Caltech community. With guished teachers such as Shakespeare the cover of Applied Physics Letters in see Bubb/oy, page 6 the introduction of the Child Care Assis scholar and Norton Anthology editor January. tance Program, participants who meet Hallett Smith and medieval historian Greg Welsh, the coinventor and also a financial criteria won't have to worry John Benton. It was a place to gather, doctoral student in materials science, about paying a hefty chunk of next year's relax, play music, and read. adds that bubbloy is made possible by a bills. As the Institute's needs developed, process that foams the alloy so that tiny The program is open to Caltech faculty however, the humanities library was bubbles form. Preliminary results show and staff members, postdoctoral schol relocated and offices began replacing the that if the bubbles nearly touch, the sub ars, and students who have dependent library reading room, multipurpose Trea stance will be especially springy. children up to five years old. These mem sure Room, and lecture rooms. With "We think it might be especially useful bers of the Caltech community are urged continuing expansion of the division, for the crumple zone of a car," says to sign up for coverage of child-care most faculty moved their offices to Veazey. "It should make a car safer than expenses accrued in 2004. Baxter Hall of the Humanities and Social one where the structures in the crumple see CCAP, page 6 Sciences, built in the 1970s. zone are made of conventional metals." see Dabney, page 6 2 Caltech 336, September 18,2003
students and as vice president for student affairs. He received his BS from Caltech in 1962 and his Honors and awards PhD from Cornell in 1966. Warren Brown, associate professor of history, NewsBriefs Oscar Mandel became professor of literature, Ada Chan, Harry Bateman Research Instructor in emeritus, on July 1. He received his BA from New Mathematics, John Eiler, associate professor of York University in 1947, his MA from Columbia in geochemistry, James Eisenstein, professor of 1948, and his PhD from Ohio State in 1951, and physics, and Ritsuko Hirai Toner, lecturer in first came to Caltech as a visiting professor in Japanese, have received 2003 ASCIT (Associated 1961. He joined the Institute's faculty as an asso Students of Caltech) Teaching Awards. Awards ciate professor of English in 1962, becoming for teaching assistants went to grad students professor in 1968 and professor of literature in Katalin Grubits, physics, Robert Forster, 1980. physics, and Brian Kwan, chemistry. Mark Wise, McCone Professor of High En Anne McMenamin, associate director of gift and ergy Physics, has received the 2003 Graduate estate planning and manager of trusts and be Student Council Teaching Award, and Re'em quests, has been appointed director of gift and Sari, associate professor of astrophysics and estate planning (GEP). Over the past six years planetary science, the Mentoring Award. Grad she has managed a growing pool of life-income students Kumar Manoj Bobba, aeronautics, gifts-gifts that now total over $130 million. As and Justin Bois, chemical engineering, have director, she will be leading the six-member GEP received the awards for teaching assistants. team. Details about the awards plus individual citations can be found online in the minutes from Re'em Sari, who has held research and lecture the faculty meeting at which the awards were positions at Caltech since 1998, has been ap announced: http://oof.caltech.edu/pdf/Faculty/ pointed associate professor of astrophysics and Minutes/Faculty%20Meeting%20Minutes% planetary science, effective June 15. Known for 2006-11-2003.pdf. his contributions to understanding gamma-ray bursts as well as to understanding the dynamics of planets in the early solar system, Sari received his BSc from Ben-Gurion University in 1992 and his PhD from Hebrew University in 1998. Caltech shows the way Early Thursday, August 14, flames broke out in a storage shed near the central engineering machine shop. The Pasadena, Retirements Caltech's home page has been used as an illus Burbank, and Glendale fire departments responded with seven tration of what the properly designed Web page units, dousing the fire by 7:34 a.m. No one was hurt; damage to Timothy Abney retired on August 1 after 14 should look like. With the lead-in "A typographi the shed was estimated at $35,000. years at Caltech. An employee of Campus Facili cally effective Web page," the caption for Figure ties, he worked in the area of facilities systems. 5.2-in A Concise Guide to Technical Communi cation, by Laura J. Gurak and John M. Lannon tant, chemistry and chemical engineering; Renella Dudek, a member of the support staff reads, "This Web site uses typography effectively Personals Alejandro Hernandez, security officer, Campus for the Administrative Technology Center, retired for the screen. The stretched sans-serif font is Security and Parking Services; Joel Miranda, on June 1. She had worked at Caltech for 24 clear and readable; the design and color scheme years. Welcome to Caltech unit chef manager, Dining Services; Michael is aesthetically pleasing to the eye and draws the Rupp, director of sports information, Student reader's attention to the Caltech logo." Mary Gilmore will retire on October 1 after 12 June Affairs; Dean Soares, security officer, Campus Security and Parking Services; Athena Trentin, years at Caltech. She was an administrative assistant in Human Resources. Bernard Yurke joined Caltech effective June 1 as international-student advisor, Human Resources Frosh wins gold and Campus Services, have joined Caltech. a Moore Distinguished Scholar in computation Richard Gomez, a photo lab supervisor with and neural systems. Graphic Arts, retired on August 1. He had been at Axline scholar and incoming freshman Pavel New positions Caltech for 30 years. Batrachenko was awarded a gold medal at the July 34th International Physics Olympiad, held in Jehoshua Bruck, Moore Professor of Computa Harry Hu retired on September 1. An assistant Taipei, Taiwan, August 2-11 . National Taiwan tion and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineer Nathan Dunfield has joined Caltech as an librarian, he had worked at Caltech for 22 years. Normal University, a leading university in train associate professor of mathematics, effective July ing, has been appointed director of information ing and programs for high-school teachers, science and technology, effective July 1. He 1. A specialist in the field of three-dimensional Sylvia Jacoby retired on September 1 after 24 coordinated the event, with support hom received his BSc from the Technion-Israel Insti manifolds, he is noted for his use of comprehen years at Caltech. She was a senior administrative Taiwan's Ministry of Education and National tute of Technology in 1982 and his PhD from sive computer experiments, combined with secretary in chemistry. Science Council. Founded in Warsaw in 1967, the analytical techniques, in extending the range of Stanford in 1989, then joined Caltech as an asso Olympiad has become an annual event for sec ciate professor in 1994, becoming professor in problems that can be worked on. He received his Janet Jenks, an associate librarian, retired on ondary-school students around the world 1998 and Moore Professor in 2001 . BS from Oregon State University in 1994 and his September 1 after 29 years with the Institute. participants this year came from 68 countries. PhD from the University of Chicago in 1999. Individual competition took place on two of Emmanuel Candes, assistant professor of Josefa Meraz, a custodian, retired on Septem the days, with contestants being tested on theo applied and computational mathematics, has Sunil Golwala joined the Institute on July 19 as ber 1 after 16 years at Caltech. retical problems one day and experimental an assistant professor of physics. Recognized in been appointed associate professor of applied problems on the other. Batrachenko was and computational mathematics, effective July 1. both the particle-physics and cosmology commu Gloria Morales, a member of the staff of the awarded first place on the theoretical exam and A member of the Caltech faculty since 2000, he nities as a first-rate experimenter, he is also Provost's Office, retired on September 1. She had tied for first on the experimental exam, thereby received his dipl6me from Ecole Polytechnique in expected to play a role in the development of been at Caltech for 19 years. earning a gold medal and boosting the cumula advanced detection techniques. He received his 1993 and his PhD from Stanford in 1998. tive U.S. score sufficiently high to also win a BA from the University of Chicago in 1993 and his William Wong retired on September 1 after 24 gold. One of only 20 contestants to receive a Donald Cohen became Charles Lee Powell PhD from UC Berkeley in 2000. years at Caltech. He was a manager in Physical gold, Batrachenko also received a certificate, a Professor of Applied Mathematics, Emeritus, on Plant. trophy, and prizes, including a digital camera and Jennifer Lee has joined Caltech as a senior July 1. He joined the Caltech faculty in 1965 as an camcorder. "I was very surprised," Batrachenko assistant professor, becoming associate professor said of his success. research fellow in chemistry, effective July 1. Deaths in 1967, professor in 1971, and Powell Professor Originally from Moscow, 16-year-old Yves Leroy has been appointed Millikan Visiting in 1998, and he served terms as executive officer Batrachenko has had an eventful summer. In Carlos Baldoceda died August 5 at his home, Professor of Aeronautics, effective July 15. Direc for applied mathematics and as chair of the addition to his accomplishments at the Olym near Chicago, of a brain tumor; he was 22. He tor of research, Centre National de Ia Recherche engineering and applied science division. He piad, he has received an Axline scholarship from would have been a Caltech senior in electrical Scientifique, he received his MSc from the Uni received his ScB from Brown University in 1956, Caltech, which brought with it the opportunity to engineering this year. He graduated cum laude in versity of Sherbrooke in 1984 and his PhD from his MS from Cornell in 1959, and his PhD from participate in Caltech's Summer Undergraduate 1999 from Oak Park and River Forest High School, Brown University in 1989. New York University (Courant Institute) in 1962. Research Fellowships (SURF) program. Working where he served on the student council and with astronomy professor S. George Djorgovski played football, basketball, and tennis. In 1998 he Robert McQuinn came to Caltech in July as John Eiler, assistant professor of geochemistry, and senior postdoctoral scholar Ash ish Mahabal, and fellow classmates placed fourth in the Rube associate vice president for development. He was has been appointed associate professor of Batrachenko is helping to develop algorithms for Goldberg Award competition sponsored by previously associate vice president for develop geochemistry, effective August 1. He received his the classification of galaxies. Argonne National Laboratory. A dean's list stu ment at Williams College, where his accomplish BS from the University of Iowa in 1989 and his dent, he was also a Hispanic National Merit ments included planning and managing the PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Scholar finalist and an Illinois State Scholar. He development effort for Williams's next compre in 1994, joining Caltech that same year as a received a full Caltech scholarship and was a hensive campaign. Prior to joining Williams, research fellow and becoming assistant professor member of Fleming House. Passionate about McQuinn served as senior associate dean for in 1998. music, he played a number of instruments. He is development and public affairs at USC, where he Telephone Office survived by his father, Carlos; his mother, received his bachelor's degree and where he also Kenneth Farley, Keck Foundation Professor of Margarita; two sisters, Ursula and Blanca; and his earned a master's degree in corporate finance. Geochemistry, has been appointed director of the moves grandparents, Gonzalo and Blanca Mejia. Tectonic Observatory, effective August 1. A mem ber of Caltech's faculty since 1993 and appointed August The Telephone Office has moved Keck Foundation Professor this year, he received Eric Tse, a PhD student in biology who came to the Institute in 1999, died in August. Enrolled in from Dabney Hall to room 111 in the Joon Kang joined Caltech as a research aide A, his BS from Yale in 1986 and his PhD from UC the MD/PhD program at Caltech in conjunction biology. San Diego in 1991. Administrative Technology Center, with the USC Medical School, he had earned two 263 South Chester. The new mail bachelor's degrees at USC. He will be awarded a Manuel Vargas has been appointed a visiting Seyed-Aii Hajimiri. assistant professor of elec posthumous master's degree in biology by code is 111-10; phone extensions assistant professor of philosophy, effective Au trical engineering, has been appointed associate Caltech in June 2004. remain the same. gust 1. An assistant professor at the University of professor of electrical engineering, effective May San Francisco, he received his AB from UC Davis 1. He received his BS from Sharif University of • in 1995 and his PhD from Stanford in 2001. Technology in 1994 and his PhD from Stanford in 1998, and he joined the Caltech faculty that same September year.
Jonathan Bird, research assistant, physics, Gary Lorden, professor of mathematics, has mathematics and astronomy; Ulyana Dyudina, been appointed executive officer for mathemat assistant scientist, geological and planetary ics, effective August 1. A member of the Caltech sciences; Marcy Fowler, administrative assis- faculty since 1968, he has served as dean of the acad em ic week at ca It ec h is a printed version of selected events from the online @Caltech calendar, http://atcaltech.caltech.edu/calendar/. To publish events online, register as an event planner on the @Caltech calendar. If unable to submit electronically, please call (626) 395-3630. For further information or a schedule of deadlines, call (626) 395-3630, fax (626) 449-2159, write 336 Calendar, 1-71, California
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Tuesday, September 23 Wednesday, October 1 Stephen Hawking Lecture Beckman Auditorium, 8 p.m.-"Godel and General Biology Seminar Environmental Science and the End of Physics," Stephen Hawking, 119 Kerckhoff, 4 p.m.-" Genetic Analysis Engineering Seminar Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Uni of Systemic RNAi in C. elegans: Insights 142 Keck, 4 p.m.-" Indirect Effects of versity of Cambridge. The lecture is free. into Intercellular Trafficking of RNA," Craig Aerosols on Climate," Professor Brian Guaranteed-admission tickets will be Hunter, associate professor of molecular Toon, director, Program in Atmospheric distributed at the auditorium beginning at and cellular biology, Harvard University. and Oceanic Science, University of Colo 9 a.m. Tickets will be void at 7:45 p.m. and rado, Boulder. Refreshments, Keck lobby, seats given to those waiting without tick 3:45p.m. ets. The talk will be broadcast (audio only) outside the auditorium. Information: Wednesday, September 24 395-4652, 1 (888) 2CALTECH, or events@ caltech.edu. Individuals with a disability: Organic Chemistry Seminar Thursday, October 2 395-4688 (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). 147 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall, 4 p.m.-" Application of o-Quinone Chemical Engineering Seminar Methides and p-Ouinol Derivatives in 106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Synthesis of Natural Products," Professor Seminar Room, 2 p.m.-"Molecular Thomas R. R. Pettus, department of chem Engineering of Gene and Stem Cell Award-winning istry and biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara. Therapies for the Nervous System," Professor David Schaffer, department biographer to lecture of chemical engineering, UC Berkeley. Refreshments, 113 Spalding Lab, 3 p.m. Brenda Maddox, author of Rosalind Friday, September 26 Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, will Biophysics Lecture discuss the pioneering biologist whose High Energy Theory Seminar 153 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall, work was essential to, but largely over 469 Lauritsen, 11 a.m.-Topic to be an 4 p.m.-Topic to be announced. Profes shadowed by, Watson and Crick's dis nounced. Yoichi Kazama, professor of sor Steven Chu, department of physics, covery of the structure of DNA. The free physics, University of Tokyo. Informa Stanford University. public lecture will begin at 8 p.m. on tion: www.theory.caltech.edu/people/ Tuesday, October 7, in the Beckman seminar/schedule.html. Physics Research Conference Institute auditorium. 201 E. Bridge, 4 p.m.-" Neutrino Astron On April 25, 1953, James Watson and omy," David Saltzberg, associate profes Francis Crick published their ground sor of physics and astronomy, UCLA. breaking discovery of the double-helix Monday, September 29 Refreshments, 114 E. Bridge, 3:45p.m. structure of DNA, the molecule essential Information: www.pma.caltech.edu/ for passing on human genetic informa Thesis Seminar -physcoii/PhysColl.html. tion. Their breakthrough, however, de 151 Crellin, 4 p.m.-"Development of New pended on previous work by Rosalind Asymmetric Organocatalytic Methods and Social and Information Sciences Franklin. In her book, Maddox resurrects Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Laboratory Seminar Series the reputation of a scientist of great Guanacastepene A," Wendy Jen, graduate 25 Baxter, 4 p.m.-Topic to be announced. achievement, portraying an intelligent student in chemistry, Caltech. Vineer Bhansali, executive vice president and highly principled young woman who and portfolio manager, Pacific Investment helped change the course of genetic Management Company. knowledge before her death at age 37. Maddox's work has been translated Tuesday, September 30 into 10 languages. Her book Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce won the Los Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Friday, October 3 Angeles Times Biography Award, the Series Silver PEN Award, and the French Prix William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa High Energy Theory Seminar du Meilleur Livre Etranger. The Married Barbara Street, 4 p.m.-" Internal Dynam 469 Lauritsen, 11 a.m.-"Biack Hole Man: A Life of D. H. Lawrence, won the ics, Structure, and Formation of Dwarf Singularity in AdS/CFT," Veronika Whitbread Biography Award in 1994, Elliptical Galaxies," Marla Geha, Carnegie Hubeny, Stanford. Information: and her work Yeats's Ghosts, on the Observatories. Refreshments, 3:30 p.m. www.theory.caltech.edu/people/ married life of W. B. Yeats, was short seminar/schedule.html. listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar 1998. A past chair of the Association of 147 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall, Fluid Mechanics Seminar British Science Writers, she is a member 4 p.m.-"Nanoparticle Optics for Sur 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota of the Royal Society's science and soci face-Enhanced Sensing and Spectros Lecture Hall, 3 p.m.- Topic to be an ety committee. copy," Richard Van Duyne, Morrison nounced. Professor Michael Brenner, The event is cosponsored by the Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern Division of Engineering and Applied Women's Center, President's Office, University. Sciences, Harvard University. Informa Office of the Faculty, Division of Biology, tion: www.galcit.caltech.edu/Seminars/ History and Philosophy of Science Pro Fluids/CurrentFiuids/index.html. gram, and Caltech Bookstore. • CampusEvents
Monday, September 22 Amnesty International Monthly Meeting Monday, September 29 Thursday, October 2 Caltech Y lounge, 7:30 p.m.-Caltech/Pasadena Baby Furniture and Household Equipment AI Group 22 holds its monthly meeting to discuss Baby Furniture and Household Equipment Caltech Shorinji Kempo Club Pool current activities and plans. All are welcome. Pool Brown Gymnasium, 7 p.m.-Learn effective self 234 S. Catalina, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.-Loans Refreshments. Information: (818) 354-4461 or 234 S. Catalina, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.-Loans defense and martial arts. Sessions are free. No of kitchen and household necessities and baby [email protected]. of kitchen and household necessities and baby experience required. Wear comfortable clothing. furniture are made to members of the Caltech furniture are made to members of the Caltech community. Information: 584-9773. community. Information: 584-9773. Lee A. DuBridge Distinguished Lecture Beckman Auditorium, 8 p.m.-Jack Valenti, head Friday, September 26 Sign-Ups for Men's Glee Club and the of the Motion Picture Association of America Chamber Singers (MPAA). author, and special adviser to President Tuesday, September 23 Women's Club Welcoming Coffee Student Activities Center, 1 to 4:30p.m.-The Lyndon Johnson, joins Los Angeles Times enter Red Door Cafe, 9 to 10:30 a.m.-An opportunity Men's Glee Club is open to all Caltech and JPL tainment reporter James Bates in an open-ended Preschool Playgroup to meet new friends, welcome newcomers, and community members. The Chamber Singers are conversation. Admission is free. Information: Tournament Park, 10 a.m. to noon-Song and learn more about the Caltech Women's Club. open to Caltech students only, both men and 395-4652, 1 (888) 2CALTECH, or events@caltech. storytime, crafts and free play for toddlers and Information: Carol Andersen, (818) 790-8175 or women. Sign-ups and auditions will be held in edu. Individuals with a disability: 395-4688 (voice) preschoolers (from walking to age 4) . Informa [email protected]. practice room 3. Information: Don Caldwell, or 395-3700 (TDD). Visit Public Events at www. tion: 792-7808 or [email protected]. [email protected] or 395-6197. events.caltech.edu. Caltech Tai Chi Club Caltech Shorinji Kempo Club Winnett lounge, 7 p.m.-Meets Tuesdays and Women's Glee Club Sign-Ups, Auditions, Brown Gymnasium, 7 p.m.-Learn effective self Fridays weekly. Sessions are free. Information: and First Rehearsal defense and martial arts. Sessions are free. No www.its.caltech.edu/-taichi. Student Activities Center, 3 to 6 p.m.-The Friday, October 3 experience required. Wear comfortable clothing. Women's Glee Club is open to all Caltech and Volleyball JPL community members. Sign-ups and audi Caltech Tai Chi Club Caltech Tai Chi Club vs. Cal Lutheran, 7:30p.m. tions will be held in rehearsal room 1. The first Winnett lounge, 7 p.m.-Meets Tuesdays and Winnett lounge, 7 p.m.-Meets Tuesdays and rehearsal will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. Informa Fridays weekly. Sessions are free. Information: Fridays weekly. Sessions are free. Information: tion: Desiree LaVertu, [email protected] or www.its.caltech.edu/-taichi. www.its.caltech.edu/-taichi. 395-6260. Saturday, September 27 Volleyball Volleyball Auditions for Concert Band, Jazz Bands, vs. Pomona-Pitzer, 7:30p.m. vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 7:30p.m. Cross Country and Chamber Music at Cal Lutheran, 9 a.m. Student Activities Center, 4 to 6 p.m.-Band auditions will take place in room 15, chamber Men's Soccer music auditions in room 12. Sign-up sheets will Saturday, October 4 Wednesday, September 24 vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 11 a.m. be posted on the doors. Auditions are friendly and informal. A very short prepared piece is Men's Water Polo Baby Furniture and Household Equipment preferred, but not required. Questions or to Men's Water Polo Classic, 8 a.m. Pool borrow an instrument: William Bing (bands). at 234 S. Catalina, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.-Loans Sunday, September 28 [email protected]; Delores Bing (chamber Cross Country of kitchen and household necessities and baby music). at [email protected]. at Biola, 11 a.m. furniture are made to members of the Caltech Men's Water Polo community. Information: 584-9773. vs. alumni, 11 a.m. Auditions for Concert Band, Jazz Bands, Men's Soccer and Chamber Music at Whittier, 11 a.m. Wednesdays in the Park Auditions for Concert Band, Jazz Bands, Student Activities Center, 8 to 10 p.m.-Band Tournament Park, 10 a.m. to noon-Every and Chamber Music auditions will take place in room 15, chamber Volleyball Wednesday there's conversation and coffee for Student Activities Center, 2 to 5 p.m.-Band audi music auditions in room 12. Sign-up sheets will at Whittier, 7:30p.m. parents and ca regivers and playtime and snacks tions will take place in room 15, chamber-music be posted on the doors. Auditions are friendly for children. Information: 403-7163 or ktclark@ auditions in room 12. Sign-up sheets will be and informal. A very short prepared piece is Caltech-Occidental Chamber Orchestra ca ltech.edu. posted on the doors. Pianists interested in cham preferred, but not required. Questions or to Ramo Auditorium, 8 p.m.-The Caltech-Occidental ber music should sign up for a time between 3 borrow an instrument: William Bing (bands), at Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Allen Asbestos Awareness Training and 5 p.m. Auditions are friendly and informal. [email protected]; Delores Bing (chamber Robert Gross, will present works by Vaughan 118 Keith Spalding Building, 3 p.m.-This course A very short prepared piece is preferred, but not music). at [email protected]. Williams, Telemann, Bartok, and Beethoven. Infor is designed to enhance employee awareness of required. Questions or to borrow an instrument: mation: 395-4652, 1 (888) 2CALTECH, or events@ asbestos and its potential health hazards, as William Bing (bands). at [email protected]; caltech.edu. Individuals with a disability: 395-4688 well as to provide guidelines for safely working Delores Bing (chamber music). at dbing@its. (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). Visit Public Events at around asbestos-containing materials. The Insti caltech.edu. Tuesday, September 30 www.events.caltech.edu. tute procedures for identifying and managing asbestos-containing building materials will also Sign-Ups for Men's Glee Club and the Preschool Playgroup be discussed. Registration: 395-6727 or safety. Chamber Singers Tournament Park, 10 a.m. to noon-Song and train i [email protected]. Student Activities Center, 2 to 5 p.m.-The Men's storytime, crafts and free play for toddlers and Sunday, October 5 Glee Club is open to all Caltech and JPL commu preschoolers (from walking to age 4). Informa Men's Soccer nity members. The Chamber Singers are open to tion: 792-7808 or [email protected] ltech.edu. Men's Water Polo at Occidental College, 4 p.m. Caltech students only, both men and women. vs. Cal Maritime, 11 a.m. Sign-ups and auditions will be held in practice Caltech Shorinji Kempo Club Free Summer Salsa Lessons room 3, and will continue on September 29 from Brown Gymnasium, 7 p.m.-Learn effective self Caltech Shorinji Kempo Club Winnett lounge, 7 to 10 p.m.-Learn fundamentals 1 to 4:30p.m. Information: Don Caldwell, dgc@ defense and martial arts. Sessions are free. No Braun Gym, multipurpose room, 3:30p.m. of Cuban-style salsa dancing and incorporate them its.caltech.edu or 395-6197. experience required. Wear comfortable clothing. Learn effective self-defense and martial arts. into a Rueda de Casino ("casino wheel": rueda is a Sessions are free. No experience required. Wear circular style of salsa dancing involving frequent Women's Glee Club Sign-Ups and Placement Caltech Tai Chi Club comfortable clothing. partner exchanges and coordinated group move Auditions Winnett lounge, 7 p.m.-Meets Tuesdays and ments). The beginners' session starts at 7 p.m. The Student Activities Center, 3 to 5 p.m.- Fridays weekly. Sessions are free. Information: intermediate/advanced lesson starts at 8:30p.m. The Women's Glee Club is open to all Caltech www.its.caltech.edu/-taichi. and JPL community members. Sign-ups and auditions will be held in rehearsal room 1. Infor Volleyball mation: Desiree LaVertu, [email protected] vs. Occidental College, 7:30p.m. Celebrate the Moon Thursday, September 25 or 395-6260. Festival Video Compression for Presentations, Web, Caltech Shorinji Kempo Club and CD/DVD Braun Gym, multipurpose room, 3:30p.m. Wednesday, October 1 NewMedia Classroom, 363 S. Hill Avenue, 10 a.m. Learn effective self-defense and martial arts. The Caltech C, the Institute's association of to noon-Learn why and how video is compressed Sessions are free. No experience required. Wear Baby Furniture and Household Equipment Chinese students and scholars, invites the cam for playback on a computer. There will be hands comfortable clothing. Pool pus community to a Chinese Moon Festival on exercises with Cleaner 5 software, and demon 234 S. Catalina, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.-Loans celebration on Saturday, October 4. strations of other compression software such as Auditions for Concert Band, Jazz Bands, of kitchen and household necessities and baby Also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Premiere and Sorenson Squeeze. Fee: $50. Reser and Chamber Music furniture are made to members of the Caltech Moon Festival is one of the most important vations: [email protected]. Information: http:// Student Activities Center, 7 to 10 p.m.-Band community. Information: 584-9773. Chinese holidays, taking place on the 15th day of muri.caltech.edu/nmc/index.htm. auditions will take place in room 15, chamber the eighth lunar month each year. Rich in history, music auditions in room 12. Sign-up sheets will Wednesdays in the Park folklore, and color, it is a time to celebrate the Caltech Architectural Tours be posted on the doors. Auditions are friendly and Tournament Park, 10 a.m. to noon-Every harvest and reunite with family and friends. Athenaeum, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.-Meet in the informal. A very short prepared piece is preferred, Wednesday there's conversation and coffee for Starting at 6 p.m. in Winnett lounge, Caltech's entry hall of the Athenaeum. Led by members of but not required. Questions or to borrow an instru parents and caregivers and playtime and snacks Moon Festival party will feature a variety of the Caltech Architectural Tour Service. Reserva ment: William Bing (bands). at [email protected]. for children. Information: 403-7163 or ktclark@ Chinese dishes, including the traditional moon tions: Susan Lee, 395-6327 or [email protected]. edu; Delores Bing (chamber music), at dbing@ caltech.edu. cakes-round pastries filled with lotus seed its.caltech.edu. paste and sweet red beans, almonds, or pine Caltech Shorinji Kempo Club Men's Soccer nuts, and often elaborate in design. The evening Brown Gymnasium, 7 p.m.-Learn effective self vs. Redlands, 4 p.m. will also include performances by Caltech C defense and martial arts. Sessions are free. No members and other local Chinese American experience required. Wear comfortable clothing. artists, as well as movies, karaoke, and games. For more information, contact Chang lin Pang at [email protected] or visit www.its.caltech . edu/-chinese. Cosponsored by Student Affairs, the Graduate Student Council, the Caltech Y, and International Student Programs. Caltech 336, September 18, 2003 5
you'll need another excuse not to enjoy A 40th birthday for the evening. Then on Saturday, October Summer scenes on campus lithe Cake" 11, guests can salsa away to the jazzy Afro-Cuban sounds of percussionist Bobby Matos and his band. Both events, Caltech Public Events' 2003-04 season cosponsored by KKJZ-FM, will begin at marks a milestone anniversary for one of 8 p.m. Tickets are available at 1 (888) campus's best-known landmarks. 2CALTECH, (626) 395-4652, or events@ Dedicated in February 1964, Beckman caltech.edu. Individuals with a disability: Auditorium was the gift of alum Arnold 395-4688 (voice) or 395-3700 (TOO). Beckman, PhD '28, and his wife, Mabel. October continues to dish up a smor Architect Edward Durrell Stone's distinc gasbord of Beckman events with the tive circular white structure-dubbed the annual Biology Forum on the 14th. Panel Wedding Cake by many a Techer-has ists Scott Fraser, Caltech's Rosen Profes been the Institute's premier venue for sor of Biology; John Mazziotta, UCLA four decades. Upon its stage have trod professor; and Jeffrey Cummings, direc musicians and longtime Caltech employ tor of UCLA's Alzheimer's Center will ees, Nobelists and actors, a prince and a discuss Alzheimer's disease. The next U.S. president, in innumerable perfor evening, President David Baltimore mances, lectures, films, and programs. opens the fall Watson Lecture series with The American Astronomical Society's second Some of the eminent academics ap Women in Astronomy conference brought a timely talk on viruses. On October 18, pearing over the years have been anthro dozens to campus in June to assess the progress the child-friendly Saturdays at 2 series pologist Louis Leakey, who filled the women have made in the field in the past 10 will feature the Tweaksters, who dance, years. house twice in one day in March 1966; juggle, and tumble in seeming defiance inventor, engineer, and cosmologist of the laws of physics. And the following Buckminster Fuller (1973); astronomer week, political pundit AI Franken (Octo Carl Sagan and NASA administrator Dan ber 22) and 1940s-style radio show hosts Goldin (1992); regular visitor Stephen the Flying Leap Players (October 25) will Hawking (most recently in 2002); and appear onstage. biologist James Watson with President For more information or to see all David Baltimore (2003). public events currently scheduled, visit From the arts world have come actors www.events.caltech.edu. and performers, including a range of musicians: composers Igor Stravinsky • and Robert Craft, who conducted Caltech's 75th Anniversary Chamber About 150 children from the Pasadena LEARNs (Leading Educational Achievement-Revitalizing Orchestra in 1966; Peter Schickele, aka Neighborhoods) summer program toured P.D.Q. Bach, in his first university perfor Caltech's wind tunnel, water tunnels, and other mance in the western United States facilities in July. Bruce Brunschwig (center), with grad (1967); folk singer and activist Pete students Libby Mayo and Brian Leigh, was Seeger (1975); and "Weird AI" Yankovic "officially" welcomed as director of the and radio personality Dr. Demento (1997). Beckman Institute's Molecular Materials Also appearing have been actors Lillian Research Center when his office was set afloat in the Gene Pool in July. Gish (1969) and Bette Davis (1978); Patrick
Stewart, performing A Christmas Carol Graduate student Sundeep Mukherjee annually from 1990 through 1993; Vincent measures a giant sequoia in the Sierra Price, as Oscar Wilde in Diversions and National Forest, hoping to identify It as Delights (1983); John Houseman, who part of the Caltech Centennial Grove. The Caltech Y, International Student visited in conjunction with the release of Programs, the Gnome Club, and the his memoirs in 1983, 1984, and 1985; and Alumni Association sponsored the June mime extraordinaire Marcel Marceau trip, in which 48 students, staff, and (1971). In addition, Beckman hosted the alumni participated. 1980 West Coast premiere of The Empire Talented high Strikes Back and the 1995 premiere of school juniors and HBO's Tuskegee Airmen, about African seniors came to American fighter pilots who broke color campus for several barriers during World War II. weeks in July for the Young Other notable events have included Engineering and the Viking I Mars landing live videocast. Science Scholars which was the first public interplanetary (YESS) Program, a live video feed at Beckman (1976); visits kind of boot camp by Governor Jerry Brown (1979), Prince that provides an intense experience Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1982), and in scientific President Bill Clinton (2000); the Michelin research and Distinguished Visitor's Lectures, which analytical skills. since 1992 have brought artist David Hackney, playwright Tom Stoppard, ar chitect Frank Gehry, and director Oliver Stone, among others; and the DuBridge Lectures, inaugurated in 1996 with jour nalists Walter Cronkite and Jess Marlowe "Bob" (left), a 1996 Chevrolet Tahoe, will be Caltech's weapon of and continuing next month with Jack choice in a race for autonomous off-road vehicles, which is being Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Asso sponsored by the Department of Defense. A team of students is equipping Bob with software used in JPL planetary rovers in the ciation of America (see page 1 ). hope that the vehicle will successfully steer itself from Los Angeles to This year's Caltech Presents lineup will Las Vegas and win the $1 million prize. continue Beckman Auditorium's star studded tradition. Humorist Garrison Arizona State University Keillor, author of Lake Wobegon Days planetary geologist Phil and host of public radio's A Prairie Home Christensen discusses recent images and results from the Companion, will read from his new THEMIS (thermal emission novel, Love Me, Monday, October 6, at 8 imaging system) camera, p.m. The free public event is presented in part of the Mars Odyssey collaboration with Vroman's Bookstore mission launched in 2001. and Caltech's Words Matter program. His presentation was part of the Sixth International The following weekend will bring two Conference on Mars, held nights of dancing under the stars on the on campus in July. auditorium's front lawn. On Friday, Octo ber 10, Michael Andrew and Swingerhead will bring swing, cha-cha, mambo, and more to Beckman Mall. You can't dance, you say? With the Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association providing a lesson, 6 Caltech 336, September 18,2003
Dabney, from page 1 CCAP, from page 1 James, from page 1 The rehabilitation will both restore The filing deadline for 2004 funding director for social cohesion and integra Dabney Hall to its early grandeur and falls on Tuesday, September 30. Details, tion research at the Human Sciences recentralize the humanities in their origi including CCAP policies, care-provider Research Council, which conducts stud nal home. Among the faculty who will criteria, and an online application, are ies and programs that support develop reside there are recently hired professors available on the Web at http://cit.hr. ment in Africa. The council recently John Brewer, a British historian, and caltech.edu/ccap_program.htm. Members cosponsored the African Human Genome Mordechai Feingold, who studies 17th who do not have online access may use Initiative, an international conference on and 18th-century science. Since 1929, the the computer kiosks in the Human Re the genome project's significance for the division has grown to include history of sources office. continent. science; U.S. cultural history; U.S., Euro The program was established by the James has authored or served as edi pean, and Chinese demographic history; Institute to provide relief to parents. Ac tor of numerous books. Most recently, he 18th- through 20th-century literature; cording to Robert Carter, interim director coedited and contributed to Nelson philosophy of science and of cognitive of employee relations, monthly child-care Mandela: From Freedom to the Future, a science; and neuroscience. Humanities bills of $1,800 per child are not unheard collection of Mandela's most famous research at Caltech includes interdiscipli of. speeches and tributes from friends, in nary work within the Institute, as well as "Child-care costs are extraordinary for cluding his wife, Grar;a Machel; South Pianist in residence James Boyk (left) and Mike Vanier from computer science play one last time collaborations with outside organizations working parents. I think the range is quite African Archbishop Desmond Tutu; in Dabney Lounge as workers ready the space for such as the Huntington Library. wide," he said, adding that CCAP is United Nations Secretary-General Kofi construction. Both the humanities library and Trea unique in that it is open to the entire Annan; Bill Cosby; and Bill Clinton. sure Room will return to Dabney, and the Caltech campus community. During South Africa's first democratic Hixon Writing Center and classrooms will "The Child Care Assistance Program is elections in 1994, James served as head be expanded. Dabney Lounge will also the only financial assistance program for of electoral information for the Western benefit from a facelift, with enhanced child care that offers assistance to stu Cape. He chaired the government's Rehab will limit lighting, refinished floors and fixtures, dents," he said. Similar programs at Green Paper Task Team on International and new rest rooms. The restoration will other academic institutions restrict their Migration and was project leader of the Dabney access "not only help reclaim the beauty of an coverage to faculty and staff. Ministry of Education's Values in Educa extraordinary building" but will also "in Based on the parents' income, the tion Initiative. The former executive di Access to Dabney Hall and its lower gar vigorate the humanities for students number of eligible children, and their rector of the Institute for Democracy of den will be restricted during construc through space enlivened by study, re age, CCAP may provide a total of up to South Africa, James is a trustee of the tion, according to Reza Ohadi, associate search, lectures, and performance," says $3,500 per year to families who qualify. Ford Foundation and serves on a number director of campus operations. Fencing Caltech president David Baltimore. "We acknowledge that child care is of other boards. He holds a PhD in sociol on the west and south will allow access The $12 million rehabilitation-includ necessary for children age 12 and under, ogy and African history from the Univer only around the building's southwest ing an upgrade of Millikan Library, where but the funding for this CCAP program is sity of Wisconsin-Madison and has held corner. In the gardens, a fence will block Development staff members have relo fixed, so we made it available to that visiting positions at Yale University, Indi off the lower portion; the upper garden cated from Dabney-is funded in part by population who had the most need," ana University, and the American Bar may still be entered through the east and the Ahmanson Foundation, a longtime Carter said. Foundation. west wall gates. Walkways to the east Caltech ally that has supported capital Participants who receive funding must • and north of the building will remain projects, student financial aid, academic sign up for Caltech's Dependent Care open but will close periodically for con research, and a humanities fellowship. Spending Account. Once a family is struction. Please refer any questions Others donors to date include alumnus awarded money, the assistance is made resulting from restricted access to the Martin Gray (BS '71), staff member Evelyn available via reimbursement. Most par Be a mentor or Facilities Management service center at Cederbaum, and Dabney family members ticipants will be receiving these funds . ext. 4717 or to Bradley Smith at ext. 6092. Tom and Diane Kettering . through their DCSA, Carter said. ga1n one • • "Tom Schmitt, the associate vice president for human resources at Now accepting applications, the Women Caltech, oversaw development of this Mentoring Women program matches program," he said. "This initiative was postdoctoral scholars with graduate stu Valenti, from page 1 Bubb/oy, from page 1 conceived by an ad hoc committee of the dents in a formal, one-to-one mentoring Bubbloy was one of several advances after Johnson's inauguration as president Faculty Board to meet the child-care experience. The goal is to support female that were showcased at the September of the United States in 1963. Valenti needs of the Caltech community." graduate students in their academic, 15 conference at Caltech titled "Materials served as the president's special assis The current application period runs professional, and personal development. at the Fore." It was the third annual tant until he left to join the MPAA in 1966. through to the September 30 deadline. A Each pair will meet monthly or biweekly meeting of the Center for the Science and In that role, he established the movie period for new applicants is scheduled over a one-year period, and may attend Engineering of Materials at Caltech. rating system, which is still used in es for May 2004. Eligible participants must workshops, discussions, and networking Julia Kornfield, professor of chemical sentially its original form. Valenti has reapply every year, whether or not they socials with other mentoring pairs; coffee engineering at Caltech and director of the written extensively for newspapers and have received CCAP assistance in a previ stipends, books, and other resources will center, presented the opening remarks magazines, and he has authored four ous year. also be available. Matching and orienta and an overview of the conference. Pre books. • tion will take place in early October. sentations included "Nano-scale Me Prior DuBridge lecturers in the series For more information, contact Candace chanical Properties," by Subra Suresh have been veteran journalist Walter Rypisi at [email protected]. The of MIT; "Synthesis and Assembly of Bio Cronkite, financier Warren Buffett, and program is supervised by the Women's logical Macromolecules: DNA and Be Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume. Center; the Caltech Postdoc Association; yond," by Steve Quake of Caltech; This event is rated G, is free, and is open the Graduate Student Council; Women in "Thermoelectric Devices," by Sossina to the public. Tickets and reservations are Engineering, Science and Technology; Haile of Caltech; and others. not required. the Om buds Office; the Staff and Faculty • • Consultation Center; and the Student Counseling Center. • Caltech 336 ......
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