The California Tech Volume CXIX Number 22 Pasadena, California [email protected] April 4, 2016 Grand Canyon visit among Caltech Y alternative spring break trips MATTHEW CEDENO of Sedona. The group enjoyed a Trail at the Grand Canyon while went to the Grand Canyon after provided a majestic view for the Contributing Writer night under the stars with a warm the rest took the scenic route to a 100-mile drive, enjoying the students. After packing up camp, campfire and s’mores. Sedona. From Camp Verde, the view of Arizona’s mountains and everyone finished the morning For spring break 2016, plains. Once at Grand Canyon with another hike along the two 21 Techers left campus to National Park, everyone split main trails. Shortly after departing explore Sedona and the Grand into groups to take on the from the national park, the group Canyon. Led by students different trails of the park. met up at a pizza place for lunch Xaomi Du, Tyler Okamoto One group took the Rim and relaxation. The delicious pizza and Matthew Cedeno, along Trail to see all of the different was a great way to chat as a group with Caltech Y staff member overlook points at the top about the experiences of the trip Greg Fletcher, these students of the Canyon. Others went and to fuel up for the ride back got the chance to explore on the South Kaibab or the home. The drive back to Caltech Grand Canyon National Park Bright Angel trails to get was long, but stops along the way and its many trails. The group different breathtaking views took people to different points in left campus early morning from within the canyon. After Arizona and California. Most of the on March 17. Everyone split a gorgeous sunset, all of the group had dinner at the Barstow into five cars fully packed students met back at Maswik station before returning to campus. with Techers and equipment Lodge for a well-earned Overall it was an exciting three- for the cold nights. From dinner at the Maswik Food day trip into Arizona and the A few of the 21 students who went to the Grand Canyon are enjoying one of their many hikes Pasadena, the cars went to the of the trip. Court. Everyone then retired Grand Canyon. For some it was a California-Arizona border for Photo Courtesy of Greg Fletcher/Caltech Y for the night back at the park’s new experience camping, and for lunch and a nice stretch. After campsite, but not before others it was a tough challenge to an eight-hour car ride, the group A van of Techers left before students drove to Cathedral Rock, another campfire and round of get as far down into the canyon finally arrived, setting up camp in sunrise to tackle as many a popular photo spot in Red Rock s’mores. The night was chilly, but as possible. The views and hiking Camp Verde, AZ, 30 miles south checkpoints along the Bright Angel State Park. From there, the group everyone slept well in their zero- trails were experiences no one will degree sleeping bags and tents. ever forget. The Alternative Spring To get a good view of the Break trip to the Grand Canyon sunrise, travelers drove out of the was able to overcome many logistic News briefs from around the globe campsite early to get to Yaki Point, challenges to create a memorable the park’s best spot for the event. adventure into one of America’s A brief list of events from the past week, compiled by the editors The South Kaibab Trailhead also great national parks.

Tesla Model 3 electric car debuts 276k already pre-ordered; deliveries to begin in late 2017 [BBC]

First commercial flight leaves Brussels 11 days after terror attack, airport resumes operations, expected to be at 20 percent in a week [TIME]

Khalid al-Barnawi, head of Ansaru, arrested A group of 12 Techers visit Catalina Island as part of the Caltech Y’s Alternative $5M bounty placed on head of al-Qaida–linked group in 2012 [BBC] Spring Break. Photo Courtesy of Caltech Y

Batman v Superman falls in second weekend at box office 68-percent drop in sales worse than industry average of 60 percent [LA Times]

South Pacific island of Vanuatu struck by earthquake 6.9-magnitude quake rocks island; no casualties reported [CNN]

Plane crashes into car on I-15 1 killed, 5 injured as small plane hits freeway 50 miles north of San Diego [TIME]

Amtrak train derails outside Philadelphia Ten students got the opportunity to practice their Spanish and their Health Ad skills on a weeklong trip to Lima, Peru. Students volunteered with Medlife, an organization that provides free medical services to underserved communi- 2 killed, 31 taken to hospital as train slams into backhoe that was sitting on the tracks ties in Peru, Ecuador and Tanzania. The Techers shadowed doctors, worked in triage taking blood pressures, set up the clinics and even formed a bucket while traveling from New York to Savannah, GA [TIME] brigade to carry concrete up to a staircase building site. In between, they tried the best coffee in Lima (verdict: Café Bisetti) and went to the beach. — Suzannah Osekowsky Photo Courtesy of Jenny He

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BOLTON BAILEY that makes no sense in the usual “Internal Set”: Just as “closed SEAN MCKENNA the necessity of political relations Contributing Writer English definition of these words. sets” are exactly those sets which Contributing Writer in order to deal with migration, For this reason, it would seem are the “closures” of other sets in dictate that we should engage with I’m here to talk to you today that renaming “open” sets to the usual mathematical parlance, President Obama visited Cuba this country instead of isolating it about stupid mathematical something else would be best for an “internal” set is one which is on March 21 and 22, becoming further. terminology. clarity of learing for students first the “interior” of some set in the the first sitting president to visit Continued isolation will only Chapter 1: Open and Closed Sets hearing these terms. Here are some normal terminology. Furthermore, Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in prolong the time that Cubans are Given a topology (under the possible candidates: this reflects the key idea behind the 1920s. This is the next step oppressed, so it is self-defeating standard “open sets” definition), we “Neighborhood Sets”: This term the natural analytic definition of in the progression of the Obama to require that relations are only call sets belonging to the topology has the benefit of already being in an open set in a Euclidean space: administration’s policy toward the normalized after oppression has “open” and their complements wide use as a way of describing sets Each point in the set has a radius nation. The president announced ended. As long as the regime can use “closed.” I’m no historian, but it’s which are almost always open. An around it which is contained in 2014 that the executive branch the U.S. embargo as a propaganda easy to see how this terminology “open neighborhood” of a point within that set. Thus, every point would normalize relations between tool, it has power over its citizens to arose — “closed” sets are called is an open set containing that is surrounded by the set, and the the two countries. That decision persuade them to buy into Cuba’s “closed” because they are closed point. Unfortunately, this word point is therefore “internal” to the and the decision to visit Cuba have status quo. A leader’s rallying cry under the taking of limits. This does arise from Felix Hausdorff’s set in this sense. drawn sharp criticism from many that “we are doing our best even term is actually quite natural to neighborhood definition of Thus, we propose the new other lawmakers, notably the Cuban in the face of the Great Power’s the English language: If we take a topologies, which, while archaic, terminology: American duo of Ted Cruz and oppression” will stir up resilience sequence of elements of a closed uses the word in a different way. A topology is a collection of Marco Rubio. President Obama’s among the subjects. Conversely, set, that sequence can never “go “Boundary-disjoint Sets”: The subsets of a space, called the next goal is to convince Congress evidence of economic freedom will out of” the set (in the sense that a boundary of a set is the set of “internal sets” (instead of “open”), to lift its embargo on Cuba, but motivate social change. sequence “goes to” its limit), and points which are a limit point of such that the union of any collection Congress is generally weary over When the Berlin Wall came so we think of the set as “closed” both the set and its complement. of internal sets is internal, any taking action. A common criticism down, many observers said they because a sequence cannot leave it. Thus, open sets are those which intersection of a pair of internal is that the U.S. and Cuba should were shocked to see East Berliners “Open” sets are open because open are disjoint from their boundary. sets is internal and the empty set not resume relations while Cuba’s wearing the same clothes and is the opposite of closed. Unfortunately, this is something and the space are internal. The Marxist government continues to listening to the same music as But this notion of being an of a mouthful, and the concept of a complement of an internal set is oppress its citizens. Westerners. Historians argue that opposite is exactly the problem boundary is not very important or called closed. Alternatively it is This criticism is flawed on they had been able to pick up radio behind this definition: Being a central to openness. closed if it is closed in the traditional several fronts. First, we should not and TV signals from the West “complement of a closed set” “Topology Sets” or “Topological sense of closure under the taking believe that the United States is so despite the physical separation, and being “not a closed set” are Sets”: After all, open sets are sets of limits. A set is called open if it lofty as to only engage nations with and what they saw had motivated completely distinct properties. which belong to the topology. is not closed. We intuitively call a flawless human rights records. their desire to end the communist In many natural examples of Unfortunately, this doesn’t evoke sequence an opening of a set if that Russia has shown egregious regime. While America is far from topologies that arise throughout any concept commonly used in sequence witnesses that the set contempt for human rights in perfect, most would agree that mathematics, there are both closed English to help learners understand is open (that is, if it is a sequence Ukraine and supported Bashar we would prefer Cuba’s political sets whose complements are what the word means. which converges to a limit outside Assad’s similar attack on human system to look like our own as closed (in fact, the very definition “Co-closed Sets”: This would the set). A set which is both internal rights in Syria, yet Secretary of opposed to its current state. Most of topology says that the empty set clarify the point that open sets and closed is called internal-closed. State John Kerry has met routinely would also agree that there is no and the universe of the topology are complements of closed sets. The union of all internal subsets of with his Russian counterpart this desire for regime change á la Iraq. are such sets) and sets which are However, it doesn’t scan well to a set is called the interior of the spring. The United States has an So, it only makes sense that sharing not closed and the complements define one of the foundational set (consistent with the current obvious interest in engaging with our way of life with the Cuban of which are not closed. This leads objects in topology in terms of a definition of interior). Russia, and we should observe that people will whet their appetite for to ridiculous terms like “clopen” more advanced object. the same can be said for Cuba. The a change of regime from within. for sets which are both “closed Here is the solution I think is the economic potential for the U.S. to and open,” which is a combination best: expand into this market, as well as A psychedelic experience with punk ethic: Painting With by Animal Collective

CRYSTAL LIANG 2012 Animal Collective followed into its own world as immersive floating dizzyingly high amidst the group, which is somewhat Contributing Writer that up with Centipede Hz, which and creatively rendered as the best samples of birds, whistles and bells, infamous for its dopey, quirky critics met with a less-than-thrilled video game levels. In fact, the first with low-frequency oscillators persona. Although Panda Bear’s Baltimore-originated reception, citing its cluttered sound track, “FloriDada,” evokes cartoons (LFOs) burping like frogs far below. songwriting unfortunately feels psychedelic pop band Animal and weaker songwriting — a painful like Adventure Time and retro “Lying in the Grass” plays out like stagnant (with a few exceptions), Collective may be one of the most blow for Animal Collective fans. video games with its boingy synths, a swampy fever-dream of exotic Avey Tare is as thoughtful and iconic musical groups of the past The closing (and my personal electric energy and beat that skips woodwinds and underworldly creative as ever. But for better or decade. The feel to the band’s favorite) track on Centipede Hz, playfully along. Avey Tare is an mutterings, and “The Burglars” for worse, the band has reined in music could be described as “Amanita,” had as one of its last animated its once unbridled energy childish, jubilant, unpretentious lines, “I’m gonna come back storyteller that had allowed the group to and playful. Ambition seems to be and things will be different” — here, his vocals attain the ecstasies (e.g., “In absent as a driving force for the and indeed they are in Animal ranging from a the Flowers” on Merriweather) group’s musical output. Rather, Collective’s newest album, Painting wistful croon and reach the critical levels of it seems that the members are With, released on Feb. 19. The to a manic earnestness (e.g., “Banshee and have always been (since their group has cleared away the sonic rap, giddily Beat” on Feels, “For Reverend teenage years, when the childhood splatter of its last two releases to describing the Green” on Strawberry Jam) for friends began collaborating) reveal a new radiant palette. It “everywhere which many cherish the band. motivated by a pure desire to seems to me that the band has place” (part In contrast, the songs on make music that sounds good, abandoned the dreamy, reverb- of the Dadaist Painting With are more mature, interesting and new to them — heavy headspace of traditional theme of the their shapes and textures and, as of late, a need to provide for psychedelia and turned the album) while crafted with a surer hand. The their families, which some lament attention to a less explored aspect Panda Bear spruce vocals that follow the as a damper on their creativity. of the psychedelic experience: chips in with modulation in “Hocus Pocus” Over the past 15 years or so, perceiving things with intense his boyish with almost English propriety the group has released a string of clarity and almost cartoonish voice like would not have been possible acclaimed albums, each with its vividness. While synths, sound somewhere on previous albums, nor would own distinctive characters, from effects and vocals used to drown who was the frosty irony in “Bagels the tribal, freak-folk Sung Tongs in an all-encompassing soupiness, there, too. in Kiev” or elegant cadence to the futuristic, rocky Strawberry here each sound seems more In the next and melodies in “Vertical.” Jam, culminating in 2009 with carefully chosen and distinct thanks track, “Hocus -http://pitchfork.com One of the triumphs of the Merriweather Post Pavilion, an to the minimal, lucid production. Pocus,” we’re album, the effervescent “On album of transcendentally joyful The songs themselves are starker, greeted by a prickly electronic revs up and shoots forward like a Delay,” unfurls like a Japanese pop songs that has been hailed as more compact and immediate, arrangement that pays tribute cosmic racer on the Rainbow Road. ukiyo-e painting, vibrant yet cool, “one of the landmark American like a “techno Ramones,” as the to both IDM godfather Richard Oddly, Animal Collective combining jagged electronics albums of the century so far” and group described in an interview. James and neo-medieval prog displays a maturity and grace in with dainty piano flourishes. drawn comparisons to The Beach Indeed, each song seems to group Gryphon. “Vertical” features this album that one would never Boys’ masterpiece Pet Sounds. In almost instantly warp the listener counterpoint vocals, the melodies have dreamed to associate with Continued on page 7 feature 4 april 4, 2016 THE CALIFORNIA TECH ASCIT Formal at the Sofia Ballroom at Noor

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Chou and Burleson was erased when he was thrown in West Region led off the second inning with a out trying to advance to third and a PASADENA, Calif. (Mar. 26, single and walk, respectively, but leadoff single by sophomore Chris GOCALTECH.COM ever win over a nationally ranked 2016) – Freshman Mark Burleson were stranded and the Beavers McCarren went for naught when he Actual Sports Content Editor team back on Feb. 26. They are 4-4 broke out with a triple-slash line would not score until the bottom of tried to reach third on a throwing in regional play, with all but one of of .429/.500/.714 in Caltech the fourth. Freshman Tucker Reese error, but was also gunned down. SKILLMAN, those defeats baseball’s first SCIAC weekend led off with a single up the middle The Beavers finally lit up the N.J. 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feature THE CALIFORNIA TECH april 4, 2016 7 Painting With contains Animal Collective’s strongest pop songs round like a forgotten machine album succeeds as an interesting criticism, which seems to pine for Best tracks: Continued from page 3 until, at last, it breaks down. and worthwhile listen. Some duds the now trite washy, sentimental “FloriDada” I cannot help but wonder if are, of course, inevitable with indie aesthetic of the 2000s, “Hocus Pocus” In the irreverent spirit of the surprising number of major any experimentation. But to me and continues in new directions. “Vertical” Dadaism, the band also indulges music reviewers so vehemently the album contains some of the “On Delay” in some self-reference, a departure opposed to the album were simply strongest pop songs in the band’s Worst tracks: “Golden Gal” from its usual childlike sincerity. determined to dislike it. By now it entire catalog. I hope that the “Natural Selection” “Golden Gal” begins with a sample is, after all, no longer fashionable to band is not too discouraged by the “Summing the Wretch” from the sitcom The Golden Girls: like Animal Collective, which the “No, Blanche, she’s upset because band itself seems to implicitly they keep changing the taste of accept with that last track. And coke!”, foreseeing how the band’s in our current cultural climate, dramatic stylistic change would be denigrating the all-white male received by certain fans and critics. group is a strategic move: edgy The sense of loss and longing in the without being racist or sexist. bridge of the otherwise exuberant Critics point to the alleged “FloriDada” becomes more painful overuse of hocketing, uninspired when one realizes that the band melodies and arrangements, and may be singing not only about a crowded gimmicks — but these young man leaving home to travel certainly don’t comprise the bulk the world, but also about the band of the album, and truly egregious itself and its relationship to its fans. moments (e.g., the choice Most sobering of all is the of following “Spilling Guts” closer, “Recycling,” penned by the with “Summing the Wretch”), ever self-deprecating Panda Bear. which these critics generalize The autumnal track, which reflects to the entire album, are few on being a musician and the cycles and far between. Particularly of creation and fame, is filled with nostalgic critics and fans seem cyclic sounds — one of which sounds to melodramatically conflate like a ghost of the luminous synth the band’s new emotional arpeggios that featured heavily on continence, which works to Merriweather — as we drift away the band’s advantage on this on Panda Bear’s resigned vocal album, with “lifelessness.” melodies and dreamy, morphing Marrying the crisp, high- synths. The song ends with a definition aspect of the spare assortment of wooden and psychedelic experience with the metal noises, cycling round and stripped-down punk ethic, the

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