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The campus community biweekly May 3, 2001, vol. 1, no. 9 Scientists achieve Climbing the walls breakthrough in fuel-cell technology

Gasoline averaging $3 per gallon? Oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife reserve? It seems the long-term future of fossil fuels is bleak. One promising solution scien­ tists have been studying is fuel cells, but they've had limitations too. Now, in the April 19 issue of the science journal Nature, Caltech's Sossina Haile reports on a new type of fuel cell that may Shirley Marneus, right, gives a post-performance resolve these problems. critique to Alan Aida, left, as Ed Lewis, Caltech's Unlike a car engine, where fuel is Morgan Professor of Biology, Emeritus, looks on. burned and expanding gases do the work, a fuel cell converts chemical energy directly into electrical energy. Fuel Feynman on stage cells are pollution-free, and silent. The most common type now being developed Shirley Marneus, director of Theater Arts for portable power-the type used in at Ca/tech (TACIT), became friends with today's fuel-cell-powered prototype Richard Feynman over the 10 years he see Fuel Cell, page 2 performed in Ca/tech productions. Here she offers her views on QED, the current play based on Feynman's life. About two years ago, Alan Aida and The fixer Gordon Davidson, artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, got Javier Marquez together to produce a play about Richard Feynman at the Taper. Davidson and Herb Adams picked up what looks like a Peter Parnell, the playwright, came to brushed-metal die from his worktable in Alex Shim, a freshman physics major, scales the climbing wall at Caltech's annual Health Fair, held April 25. The event was sponsored by the Caltech Y, Human Resources, and Student Affairs. campus to talk to me about Dick's in­ the machine shop at Central Engineering volvement in Caltech theater, which they and looked approvingly through the hole had heard about from Ralph Leighton. that bisects it. Caltech students Moore to speak at They asked to see Ramo Auditorium, Whether adjusting the dials and knobs because they wanted to see where Dick on the heavy machinery he works like awarded Fulbrights commencement had performed, and we went over there musical instruments, or piecing together and talked. I told a few stories about the tiny parts they produce, his hands Yuki Takahashi's curiosity about outer Feynman's time in the theater, and they move with alacrity and precision. If it's space was sparked after he read 250 II.. ._ used some of that in the play, OED. true that with time the body forms its pages of an astronomy encyclopedia. He ..r. .• I thought Alan Aida gave a wonderful own kind of memory, then Herb Adams's was nine at the time. Such is the kind of - I: performance in QED. Obviously he has hands can tell a thousand stories. intellectual verve two Caltech students studied the films and photos, heard the One would be about how he helped have shown in receiving prestigious recordings, and read the stories, but build the Neutron Probe, a device that 2001-2002 Fulbright Scholar awards. Gordon Moore, cofounder of Intel Corpo­ beyond that, he shows an intuitive under­ made the flight on the last Apollo lunar Takahashi, a senior graduating in the ' ration, will be the keynote speaker at standing of the character that transcends landing in 1972. The machine drilled spring, and PhD candidate Jeffrey Caltech's 2001 commencement. The cer­ what he has to work with in the script. He seven feet into the moon's craggy crust to Linhardt will use the awards to spend the emony will take place on Friday, June 15, has the dazzling energy, the focus, and measure the satellite's radiation levels. academic year studying abroad. at 10 a.m. on Beckman Mall. the charm-and with Feynman that's big­ Another would be about how he devel­ Linhardt will spend time in two sepa­ Moore earned his PhD in chemistry and time charm. He's not Feynman and he oped "Herb's Hoop," a cylindrical frame rate labs in the Netherlands, with the physics from Caltech in 1964. He is retir­ doesn't try to be-it's an interpretation, outfitted with a speaker. It recreates the ongoing goal of designing new vaccines ing this month as chair emeritus of Intel, not an impersonation-but he does cap­ slightest sounds, such as the soft stirring that induce a particular immune response. which he cofounded in 1968. In 1965 he ture the essence of his personality. When of a mouse. Researchers use it to test the His research is concerned with dendri­ formulated the now-famous Moore's Law, he cradles his head in his arms or talks ability of owls to hear these rustlings and mers, spherical polymers that can serve which predicted that the number of tran­ about the death of his first wife, Arline, or pinpoint them in the dark. as a kind of scaffolding for different vac­ sistors that could be placed on a computer his father's death, and his voice trails off There are many other stories that cines. The dendrimers contain various chip would double each year. It has be­ into silence, there are depths suggested don't get as much attention, stories of antigens on their surfaces that bind to a come a computer industry guideline in in these silences. This is very powerful everyday innovations and minor break­ variety of different antibodies. Linhardt delivering increasingly powerful semicon­ stuff in the theater-someone is having throughs that are a routine part of his hopes to develop a number of such syn­ ductor chips at decreasing cost. deep insights, but it's we, the audience, job. For Adams is a member of a team of thetic vaccines, eventually testing them on Moore stepped down in January as who are internalizing them and complet­ craftsmen that Caltech's research elite­ humans. chair of Caltech's board of trustees. He ing the process. It's a measure of Aida's primarily biologists-call on when they Linhardt, 28, and his wife, Dawn, will continues serving on the board, as well as faith in his audience that he trusts us to need concrete fixes to esoteric problems. spend the year in Europe. Then, follow­ on those of Varian Associates, Gilead fill in the blanks. ''I'm known for a quick turnaround and ing his postdoctoral work, he will seek a Sciences, Inc., and Transamerica Corpora­ There's enough science in the show to for perfection," Adams said. "They come position with a U.S. university. He wants tion. A member of the National Academy intrigue the people who see it and ease into these labs from all over the world, to start his own lab and continue his of Engineering and a fellow of the IEEE, them into reading more about Feynman and they come to me with their ideas." research in biomedical engineering, and Moore received the National Medal of and his work. Dick once told me, "I wrote There's a certain pride in that state­ he looks forward as well to teaching and Technology in 1990 from then-President OED [his book for laypeople on the ment that is due partly to the nature of mentoring students. George Bush. see OED, page 6 see Adams, page 6 see Fulbrights, page 6 • 2 Caltech 336, May 3, 2001

Thoughts on an one another through the bars. One of the three border guards on the U.S. side of alternative spring the wall informed us that the wall would NewsBriefs soon be torn down and replaced with a break bigger, stronger one. The community center plays an essen­ Kids come to work on campus Nathan Wozny tial role in the lives of the children of Tecolote. With no government funding, The Caltech Y recently sent a group of few resources, and a small volunteer 14 students to a community center in staff, it is a far cry from the average U.S. Tecolote, Mexico, as a part of the annual school. Yet the people who work at the Alternative Spring Break trip. The pro­ center are so dedicated that they are able gram is an opportunity to spend time to use what they have to give the chil­ away from academics, meet new friends, dren opportunities that would otherwise and make a difference in a community. To be unreachable. Although our work plays me, it was also an opportunity to experi­ only a small part in the goals of the com­ ence a different way of living. After cross­ munity center, we left Tecolote knowing ing the U.S.-Mexico border, we passed that the children are one step closer to through the sights and sounds of Tijuana, becoming stable, independent adults which was as ready as ever to entertain who could live a healthy life without tourists. After only a few miles further, trying to challenge the wall. the billboards and restaurants and Nathan Wozny is a Ca/tech sophomore, crowded streets disappeared. A glance at majoring in physics. the old buildings, the trash-filled ditches • lining the dirt roads, and the sickly dogs roaming the streets convinced us that we had entered a different world. Perhaps the only tokens of the place we had left behind were the pristine factories loom­ ing above the town on the hills, which Fuel Cell from page 1 many residents rode up in the bus each cars-is a polymer electrolyte fuel cell. morning to begin their day of work. An electrolyte is a chemical that can con­ For four nights, we slept on the floor duct electricity, and is at the heart of the of a room in the local community center, fuel cell. Polymer electrolytes must be a place for children to go after school, humidified in order for the fuel cell to which lasts only half a day due to funding function, can only operate over a limited constraints. During the days of our visit, temperature range, and are permeable. we laid tile on the concrete floors of two As a consequence, polymer electrolyte classrooms, tilled the soil of a lot where fuel-cell systems require many auxiliary the children will help plant a garden and The annual Take Your Children to Work Day received rave reviews all around. Children of Caltech components and are less efficient than grow food, and planted trees at a nearby community members visited their parents' work sites, toured labs, and enjoyed pizza and a musical other types of fuel cells. orphanage. performance by Joe Cook and Scott Van Essen. The CAPSI contribution-where kids made their own Haile, an assistant professor of materi­ " Caltech comet" ice cream-was a big hit. Said Amber Hedges, 10-year-old daughter of Media Like many of the other community als science, has taken a completely differ­ Relations staff member Debi Williams-Hedges, "I had a great time. I especially liked making ice cream. service projects I have done through the ent tack, developing an alternative type And I went to the Cold Room [in geophysics researcher Hermann Engelhardt's lab), and I w asn't even Caltech Y, the trip gave me the opportu­ cold." The event was sponsored by Human Resources and Public Relations. Photos, clockwise from of fuel ce ll that is based on a so-ca lled nity to make a difference. However, top: Visiting kids just hanging out; Efrain Hernandez, staff member in custodial services, and his solid acid. Solid acids are chemical Tecolote was unique in that I felt like we daughter, Jasmine, enjoy the day; making ice cream in the Beckman Institute courtyard. compounds, such as KHS0 (potassium became a part of the community. Not 4 hydrogen sulfate). Their properties are only were we volunteering our time for a intermediate between those of a normal group of people, but we were also inter­ acid, such as H S0 (sulfuric acid), and a Keith Taylor, a member of the professional staff acting with them and living the way they 2 4 Honors and awards normal salt, such as K S0 (potassium in astronomy, has received the Astronomical lived. We played with the children, ate at 2 4 Society of the Pa cific's 2001 Maria and Eric sulfate). Solid acids can conduct electric­ the local taco stands, and worked with John Baldeschwieler, Johnson Professor and Muhlmann Award, for his " unique contributions ity at similar values to polymers, they Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, received the other volunteers at the community cen­ to astronomical instrumentation at various don't need to be hydrated, and they can American Ch emical Soci ety's 2001 Award for observatories." ter. Visiting Tecolote was an experience Creat ive Invention at the society's April 3 meeting function at high temperatures, up to that let me see through the eyes of in San Diego. He was honored for his role in 250° C. Solid acids are also typically another group of people. creating new methods for "seeing" the structure inexpensive compounds that are easy to After our last day of work was com­ and act ion of molecules. Personals manufacture. pleted, the director of the community But until now, solid acids have not Philip Hoffman, professor of history and social center took us to the U.S.-Mexico border science, has been named a Fellow of the John New positions been examined as fuel-cell electrolytes at the Pacific Ocean. A wall, reaching as Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His because they dissolve in water and can high as 25 feet in places, stretched about project for the fellowship period will be "The Role Peter Schroder has been appointed professor of lose their shape at even slightly elevated computer science and applied and computational 100 feet into the ocean to prevent illegal of Cri ses in Economic and Financial Develop­ temperatures. To solve these problems, ment," on which he will collaborate with UCLA mathematics, effective April 1. He was formerly attempts to enter the U.S. On the wall an associate professor in those areas. Haile and her colleagues operated the professor of economics Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. were the words "Alto a Guardian"-Stop Togethe r with Gilles Postel-Vi nay, Hoffman and fuel cell at a temperature above the boil­ for the Guardian, a United States pro­ Rosenthal coa uthored Priceless Markets: The Paul Wennberg, formerly an associate professor ing point of water and used a solid acid, of atmospheric chemistry and environmental gram to prevent illegal immigration. The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870 CsHS0 , that is not very prone to shape engineering sci ence, has been appointed profes­ letters were made from several hundred 4 (University of Chicago Press, 2000). changes. sor, effective Apri I 1. skulls, each representing a person killed The next challenge, says Haile, is to Shri Kulkarni, MacArthur Professor of Astron­ in an attempt to cross the border. One omy and Planetary Science, has been invited to reduce the electrolyte thickness, improve section of the wall had enough space give t his year's Sackler Lecture at Princeton Ramo user fees waived the catalyst performance, and, most im­ As of mid-April, Caltech's administrators, aca­ between the metal bars for separated University's department of physics. He will also portantly, prevent the reactions that can demic divisions, and campus student groups families to meet on weekends and talk to give a colloquium and interact with faculty and occur upon prolonged exposure to hy­ students. have been able to use Ramo Auditorium for free. The basic half-day use fee assessed to occupy drogen. Still, she says, solid-acid fuel Andrew Lange has been named the Marvin L. the 380-seat hall can reach as high as $1 ,000. cells are a promising development. Goldberg er Professor of Physics, effective July 1. These charges will now be waived for eligible "The system simplifications that come This title replaces that of professor of physics. users. The move was spurred by the desire to about (in comparison to polymer electro­ increase Ramo's accessibility to internal groups. lyte fuel cells) by operating under essen­ John Preskill, professor of theoretical physics, External groups will continue to be charged the tially dry and mildly heated conditions has bee n invited to be the 2002 Lorentz Chair at standard rates, and rental of equipment beyond t he University of Leiden. Described as "the most basic sound and lighting systems, projectors, and are tremendous. While there is a great pre stigious visiting professorship in the Nether­ tables will still be charged for all users. Groups deal of development work that needs to lands," the ch air since its founding in 1955 has wishing to reserve Ramo may contact Debbie be done before solid-acid-based fuel cells White, operations coordinator, at ext. 4688. been held by 10 Nobel Prize winners. can be commercially viable, the potential payoff is enormous." Wallace Sargent, Bowen Professor of Astron­ omy, has been selected as the fourth lcko I ben, Baltimore presents book prize The Department of Energy, as part of Jr., Distinguished Astronomy Lecturer, which will President David Baltimore presented the Sci­ its promotion of energy-efficient science involve his going to the University of Illinois at ence and Technology award at the 21st annual research, recently awarded Haile an esti­ Urbana-Ch ampaign late in October to deliver a Los Angeles Times Book Prizes on April 28. The mated $400,000 to continue her research public lecture, give a joint colloquium to the w inning author was James Le Fanu, for his book in fuel cells. She also recently received astronomy and physics departments, and interact The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine with faculty, staff, and students. The lectureship The event, which was emceed by Caltech the J. B. Wagner, Jr. Award of the Electro­ Undergrads Susan Ayer, Katie Homann, and brings world-renowned astronomers and astro­ alum Sandra Tsing Loh '83, was held at Royce chemical Society (High Temperature Daniel Wu plant trees at an orphanage near physicists to the university. Hall, on the campus of UCLA. Materials Division). Tijuana, Mexico. • the academic week at ca I tech is a printed version of selected events from the online @Caltech calenda r, http://atcaltech.caltech.edu/calendar/. To publish events online, register as an event planner on the @Caltech calendar. 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May 7-13, 2001

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Monday, May 7 Tuesday, May 8 Mathematical Physics Seminar Physics Research Conference 351 Sloan, noon-"Hilbert-Schmidt 201 E. Bridge, 4 p.m.-"Gauge Theory Aeronautics Seminar Caltech Library Systems Presents Dynamical Localization and Absence of and String Theory: A New Synthesis," 101 Guggenheim Laboratory, Lees­ Sherman Fairchild Library, multimedia Slow Time Behavior in Waves in Random Hiroshi Ooguri, professor of physics, Kubota Lecture Hall, 1 p.m.- Topic to conference room, noon to 1:30 p.m.­ Media," Abel Klein, professor of mathe­ Caltech. Refreshments, 108 East Bridge, be announced. Fred Culick, Hayman Pro­ "Web of Science for Science and Engi­ matics, UC Irvine. Information: www.math 3:45 p.m. Information: www.pma. fessor of Mechanical Engineering and neering." Learn tips and tricks for .caltech.edu/events/mathphys.html. caltech.edu/-physcoii/PhysColl.html. professor of jet propulsion, Caltech. effectively searching Web of Science databases. Reservations: http://library. Geology Club Seminar Von Karman Lecture Series Computation and Neural Systems caltech.ed u/learn i ng/form. htm. 151 Arms, Buwalda Room, 4 p.m.- Von Karman Auditorium, JPL, 7 p.m.­ Seminar " Internal Structure and Post-Earthquake "The Beginnings of a Legacy: Stories 24 Beckman Labs, 4 p.m.-"Evolution William Bennett Munro Memorial Healing of Landers and Hector Mine Rup­ from JPL's Early Years," speaker to be of Learning Mechanisms and the Role of Seminar ture Zones From Fault-Zone Trapped announced, JPL. Admission is free. Infor­ Synaptic Community," William G. Wright, 206 Thomas, 3 p.m.-"Lessons Learned Waves," Dr. Yong-Gang Li, department of mation: (818) 354-0112 or www.jpl.nasa. associate professor of biology, Colorado from the Space Shuttle Accident," Rosa earth sciences, USC. Information: www. gov/lecture/. State University. Refreshments, 3:45 p.m. Lynn Pinkus, director, Consortium Ethics gps.caltech.edu/seminars/geoclub/ Program, Center for Bioethics and Health geoclub.html. Geological and Planetary Sciences Law, University of Pittsburgh. Refresh­ Friday, May 11 Seminar ments. Astronomy Colloquium 155 Arms, Robert Sharp Lecture Hall, 155 Arms, Robert Sharp Lecture Hall, Institute for Quantum Information 4 p.m .-" Kinematics of Active Deforma­ Carnegie Observatories Colloquium 4 p.m .-"The Stellar Evolution Revolu­ Seminar tion in the Mediterranean: Quantitative William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 tion: Nucleosynthesis for Dummies," Dr. 102 Steele, 3:30 p.m .-"Hiding Classical Constraints from In Situ 36C1 Cosmo­ Santa Barbara Street, 4 p.m.-" An John Lattanzio, department of mathemat­ Data in Quantum States," Debbie Leung, genic Dating of Limestone Fault Scarps," Introduction to Planets, Dust, Sun, and ics and statistics, Monash University, postdoctoral fellow, physics of informa­ Dr. Lucilla Benedetti, Lawrence Livermore Stars," Gerald J. Wasserburg, John D. Victoria, Australia. tion group, T. J. Watson Research Center, National Laboratory. Refreshments, 151 MacArthur Professor of Geology and Geo­ IBM. Arms, 3:45p.m. physics, Caltech. Information: 577-1122. Environmental Engineering Science and Global Environmental Science Caltech/JPL Association for German Film Series Chemical Physics Seminar Seminar Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Judy Library, 110 Baxter, 4 p.m.-Fading 147 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall, 142 Keck, 4 p.m.-Topic to be announced. Series Traces: Postscripts from a Landscape of 4 p.m.-Topic to be announced. Martin C. D. Keeling, professor of oceanography, Von Karman Auditorium, JPL, 4 p.m.­ Memory (Switzerland, 2000). First-person Gruebele, professor of chemistry and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC "Gravitational Waves from Stellar Core accounts by survivors of the Western biophysics, and full-time faculty member San Diego. Refreshments, lobby, 3:45 p.m. Collapse, " Dr. Chris Fryer, UC Santa Ukranian Jewish community, destroyed in in the Beckman Institute photonic sys­ Cruz. the Holocaust, are blended with Yiddish tems group, University of Illinois, William Bennett Munro Memorial songs and writings by Joseph Roth, Isaak Urbana-Champaign. Seminar lnorganic-Organometallics Seminar Babel, Martin Buber, and others. Journal­ Judy Library, 110 Baxter, 4 p.m.-"Ethnic 151 Crellin, 4 p.m.-"Properties of ist and author Dr. Walo Deuber, the film's General Biology Seminar Cleansing and Mexican American Identity Photogenerated Side Chain Radicals in director and producer, will discuss the 119 Kerckhoff, 4 p.m.-"When Water in South Texas, 1900-1930," Benjamin H. Rhenium-Modified Copper Proteins," film after its presentation. In German, Rules: The Coordination Chemistry of Johnson, instructor in Western history, William Wehbi, graduate student in with English subtitles. Admission is free. Sensors, Tracers, and Gene Expression," Caltech. Refreshments. chemistry, Caltech. Refreshments. Thomas Meade, senior research associ­ ate in biology, Caltech. Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series Von Karman Lecture Series Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Beckman Auditorium, 8 p.m.-" In Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colo­ 147 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall, 4 p.m.­ John D. Roberts Lecture Praise of Permissiveness: Coaxing Cells rado, the Forum (south of Colorado on " Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions Involv­ 22 Gates Annex, 4 p.m.-"The Chemis­ to Make Novel Macromolecules," David Bonnie), 7 p.m.-"The Beginnings of a ing Metal Complexes: From Organic Radical try and Engineering of Polyketide Natural Tirrell, Ross McCallum-William H. Legacy: Stories from JPL's Early Years," Chemistry to the Marcus Cross Reaction," Product Biosynthesis," Chaitan Khosla, Corcoran Professor and professor and speaker to be announced, JPL. Admis­ Professor James M. Mayer, department of professor of chemical engineering, chair of chemistry and chemical engi­ sion is free. Information: (818) 354-0112 chemistry, University of Washington. chemistry, and biochemistry (by cour­ neering, Caltech. Information: 395-4652, or www.jpl.nasa.gov/lecture/. tesy), Stanford University. Refreshments. 1 (888) 2CALTECH, or events@caltech. Solid State Sciences Seminar Series edu. Individuals with a disability: 395-4688 (SA5) Mathematics Colloquium (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). Visit Public Saturday, May 12 102 Steele, 4 p.m.-"Dielectric Micro­ 151 Sloan, 4:15 p.m.-"Random Planar Events at www.events.caltech.edu. cavities and Microlasers: Putting Wave Curve and Conformal lnvariance," Southern California Applied Chaos To Work," A. Douglas Stone, profes­ Wendelin Werner, professor of mathemat­ Mathematics Symposium sor of applied physics and physics, Yale ics, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay. Thursday, May 10 101 Guggenheim Laboratory, Lees­ University. Refreshments, Watson foyer, Kubota Lecture Hall, 9:30 a.m. to 3:45p.m. Information: www.its.caltech Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar 5:30 p.m.-The first SoCAMS sympo­ .edu/-s5. Wednesday, May 9 25 Baxter, 4 p.m.-"Do People Have a sium will bring together applied math­ Taste for Doing Good, or Do They Have a ematicians in Southern California. Applied and Computational MAC OS X Technical Briefing Taste for Punishing Others for Not Doing Sponsored in part by applied and compu­ Mathematics Colloquium Beckman Institute auditorium, 8:30 a.m. Good, Which Is Why They Do Good?", tational mathematics, Caltech, and the 306 Firestone, 4:15 p.m.-"Optimal to 12:30 p.m.-A technical briefing on Susanne Lohmann, professor of political Southern California section of the Society Aerodynamic Shape Design via Control Mac OS X, Apple Computer's new science, UCLA. Refreshments. for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Theory," Antony Jameson, professor of Mach/BSD-based operating system. (SIAM). Fee of $20 includes box lunch, engineering, department of aeronautics RSVP Scott Hayes at Apple, shayes@ Civil Engineering Seminar coffee, and refreshments. Registration and astronautics, Stanford University. apple.com. Sponsored by Caltech Wired. 206 Thomas, 4 p.m.-" A Software Frame­ and information: www.hypatia.caltech. Refreshments, 204 Firestone, 3:45 p.m. work for Earthquake Engineering Simula­ ed u/soca ms/reg iste r. htm I. tion," Gregory L. Fenves, professor of civil engineering, UC Berkeley. Refreshments, 210 Thomas, 3:45p.m. 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 cal endar. If unable to submit electronica lly, please call (626) 39 5-3630. For further inform ati on or a sc hedule of deadlines, call (626) 395-3630, fa x (626) 449-2159, write 336 Calendar, 1-71 , Californ ia

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May 14-20, 2001

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Monday, May 14 Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Thursday, May 17 Friday, May 18 William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Aeronautics Seminar Barbara Street, 4 p.m.- " Gravitational Sensor Networks Conference Fluid Mechanics Seminar 101 Guggenheim Laboratory, Lees­ Microlensing: From Dark Matter to As­ Beckman Institute auditorium, 8 a.m . to 101 Guggenheim Laboratory, Lees­ Kubota Lecture Hall, 1 p.m.-Topic to be tronomy," Bohdan Paczynski, professor 5 p.m.-A forum for members of industry Kubota Lecture Hall, 3 p.m.- Topic to announced. Chris Krok, research engineer, of astrophysics, department of astro­ and academia to discuss the impact of be announced. Zellman Warhaft, profes­ Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, physical sciences, Princeton. Informa­ distributed sensors on a broad range of sor of mechanical and aerospace engi­ Caltech. tion: 577-1122. industrial applications and on society. neering, Sibley School of Mechanical Information and registration: 395-2246, and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell Geological and Planetary Sciences Chemical Physics Seminar [email protected], or www.cnse. University. Seminar 147 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall, ca ltech.edu/7thaic.html. 155 Arms, Robert Sharp Lecture Hall, 4 p.m.-"Spatiotemporal Wavepacket lnorganic-Organometallics Seminar 4 p.m.-Topic to be announced. Roger Imaging, Spatiotemporal Femtosecond Chemical Engineering Seminar 151 Crellin, 4 p.m.-" Synthesis and Summons, Australian Geological Survey Pulse Shaping, and Spatiotemporal Co­ 106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Kinetic Studies of Alkyl Zirconocene Organizat ion, Canberra. Refreshments, herent Control," Keith A. Nelson, profes­ Seminar Room, 4 p.m.-" New Materials Cations Relevant to Ziegler-Natta Poly­ 151 A rms, 3:45 p.m. sor of chemistry, MIT. and Strategies for Miniaturized DNA Se­ merization of a-Oiefins," Sara Klamo, quencing," Annelise E. Barron, professor graduate student in chemistry, Caltech. Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar of chemical engineering, Northwestern 147 Noyes, St urdivant Lecture Hall, Wednesday, May 16 University. Refreshments, 113 Spalding LIGO Science Talk 4 p.m.-"Spectroscopic and Kinetic Lab, 3:30p.m. 155 Arms, Robert Sharp Lecture Hall, Investigations of Soybean and Human Sensor Networks Conference 4 p.m.-"Simulation and Data Analysis Lipoxygenase," Ted Holman, assistant Beckman Institute auditorium, 8 a.m . to Civil Engineering Seminar in Interferometric Gravitational-Wave professor, department of chemistry, 5 p.m.-This two-day conference provides 206 Thomas, 4 p.m.-" Probabilistic Seis­ Detectors," Andrea Vicere, LIGO Lab­ UC Santa Cru z. a forum for members of industry and mic Analysis of Highly Nonlinear Struc­ oratory, Caltech. Information: www. academia to discuss t he impact of distrib­ tures with Application to Professional ligo.caltech.edu. Applied and Computational uted sensors on a broad range of indus­ Guidelines," Allin Cornell, professor of Mathematics Colloquium trial applications and on society. Requires civil engineering, Stanford University. Applied and Computational 306 Firestone, 4:15p.m.-" Accelerated registration. Fee: $175 for two days, $100 Refreshments, 210 Thomas, 3:45p.m. Mathematics Colloquium Molecular Dynamics Methods," Arthur for one day. Information and registra­ 306 Firestone, 4:15 p.m.-"Coarse­ F. Vot er, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos tion: 395-2246, [email protected], or Geology Club Seminar Grained Molecular Dynamics: Theory National Laboratory. Refreshments, www.cnse.caltech.edu/7thaic.html. 151 Arms, Buwalda Room, 4 p.m .­ and Applications," Steven Orszag, 204 Fire stone, 3:45 p.m . " Geology and Forensic Science: Getting senior faculty member, department of A Celebration of John Todd's 90th the Dirt on the Bad Guys," Jay Siegel, mathematics, Yale University. Refresh­ Astronomy Tea Talk Birthday professor of forensic science and associ­ ments, 204 Firestone, 3:45 p.m. 106 Robinson, 4:15 p.m.-"The Cosmic Ramo Auditorium, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; recep­ ate director, School of Criminal Justice, Web: The Connection Between Galaxies tion 5:30 p.m.; and dinner 6:30p.m.; the Michigan State University. Information: and the Intergalactic Medium at z- 3," celebration continues Thursday, May 17, www.g ps.ca ltech .ed u/sem ina rs/geocl u b/ Ch arles C. Steidel, professor of astronomy, 9 a.m. to noon-" Numerical Analysis, geoclub.html. Caltech. Linear Algebra, and Computations," a celebration of the 90th birthday of John William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar Day Todd, professor of mathematics, emeritus, Seminar Tuesday, May 15 Caltech. Reservations and information: Judy Library, 110 Baxter, 4 p.m.-"The 2001 www.cacr.caltech.edu/todd. Battle of Beer and Wine in Europe, Thesis Seminar 800-1600," Richard W. Unger, professor Saturday, May 19 151 Crellin, 11 a.m .- " lmaging Transient Mathematical Physics Seminar of medieval and early modern economic Molecular Structures with Ultrafast Elec­ 351 Sloan, noon-"Propagator Expan­ history, and history of technology, Univer­ Deadline for reservations is t ron Diffraction," Hyotcherllhee, graduate sions for Damped Wave Equations," sity of British Columbia. Refreshments. Monday, May 7 Michael Hitrik, department of mathemat­ student in chemistry, Caltech. For more information, visit ics, UC Berkeley. Information: www.math. Physics Research Conference www.its.caltech.edu/% 7Ealumni/ 201 E. Bridge, 4 p.m.-"Telling Teller from Caltech Library Systems Presents caltech.edu/events/mathphys.html. programs/seminarday.htm Sherman Fairchild Library, multimedia Anti-Teller: First Results on CP Violation conference room, noon to 1:30 p.m.­ Astronomy Colloquium From BABAR," David G. Hitlin, professor or contact " Structure Searching in Beilstein and 119 Kerckhoff, 4 p.m.-" AII Sky Monitor­ of physics, Caltech. Refreshments, 108 the Caltech Alumni Association at Gmelin." Learn to search chemical struc­ ing for Variability," Bohdan Paczynski, East Bridge, 3:45 p.m . Information: www (626) 395-8366 or -8364, t ures and reactions, as well as to display professor of astrophysics, department .pma.caltech.edu/-physcoii/PhysColl.html. or by e-mail at and print compound records. Class in­ of astrophysical sciences, Princeton. [email protected] cludes comparisons of Beilstein and Thesis Seminar Gmelin, the Combined Chemical Dictio­ Environmental Engineering Science 151 Crellin, 4 p.m.-"Chemical Physics nary (CCD), and SciFinder Scholar. Regis­ and Global Environmental Science of Droplets and Clusters," Julio D. Lobo, tration: http://l ibrary.ca ltech.edu/learni ng/ Seminar graduate student in chemistry, Caltech. form.htm. 142 Keck, 4 p.m.-" Radical Chemistry in Sea-Salt Particles," Cort Anastasio, assis­ Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar tant professor and assistant tropospheric 25 Ba xter, 4 p.m.-Topic to be announced. chemist. atmospheric science group, Jennifer Todd, senior lecturer, politics UC Davis. Refreshments, lobby, 3:45p.m . department, University College Dublin, Ireland. Refreshments. Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar 147 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall, 4 p.m.-" Metal Chalcogenides," James A. lbers, Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University. Caltech 336, May 3, 2001 5 CampusEvents Watching the moon for earthshine

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Badminton Student Chamber Music Concert Caltech Y Volunteer Project: Union Station Brown Gymnasium, 9:30a.m. to noon-Bring Dabney Lounge, 3:30p.m.-The 1910 short silent 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.-Caltech Y volunteers will help your own racket. Information: 355-6158. film What the Daisy Said, starring Mary Pickford, prepare and serve meals for homeless men, will be accompanied by a string quartet perform­ women, and children at the Union Station shelter Baby Furniture and Household Equipment ing Maria Newman's score for the movie. Caltech in Pasadena. Information: 395-6163 or kabbott@ Pool students will also perform music by Mozart, caltech.edu, or visit the Caltech Y at www.y. 234 S. Catalina, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.-Loans of Dvorak, and Shostakovich. Admission is free. caltech.edu/vol u nteer/. Scientists have revived and modernized a nearly kitchen and household necessities and baby Information: 395-4652, 1 (888) 2CALTECH, or forgotten technique for monitoring Earth's climate furniture are made to members of the Caltech [email protected]. Individuals with a disability: Ballet Dance Class by carefully observing "earthshine," the ghostly community. Information: 584-9773. 395-4688 (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). Visit Public Braun Athletic Center, aerobics room, 1 to glow of the dark side of the moon. Events at www.events.caltech.edu. 4 p.m.-A free ballet class, sponsored by the Earthshine measurements are a useful Ballroom Dance Club Caltech Dance Troupe. Beginners: 1 to 2 p.m. complement to satellite observations for deter­ Winnett lounge, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.-Argentine Interme-diate: 2 to 3 p.m. Advanced: 3 to 4 p.m. mining Earth's reflectance of sunlight (its albedo). tango for beginners, a series of five weekly No special clothing or shoes are required for the an important climate parameter. Long-term obser­ lessons professionally taught. No partner or Monday, May 14 beginners' class. Open to all adult members of vations of earthshine thus monitor variations in experience is required. $4 per class for Caltech the Caltech community. cloud cover and atmospheric aerosols that play a undergraduates, $6 for others. Refreshments. Badminton role in climate change. Information: 791-3103 or www.its.caltech.edu/ Brown Gymnasium, 9:30a.m. to noon-Bring Spring Concert Earthshine is readily visible to the naked eye, - ballroom/index.html. your own racket. Information: 355-6158. Ramo Auditorium, 8 p.m.-The Caltech Glee most easily during a crescent moon. Leonardo da Clubs will join the Caltech-Occidental Orchestra in Vinci first explained the phenomenon, in which Baby Furniture and Household Equipment performances of selections from Carmina Burana, the moon acts like a giant mirror showing the Pool as well as A Sprig of Thyme, a British folk-song sunlight reflected from Earth. The brightness of Wednesday, May 9 234 S. Catalina, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.-Loans of cycle by John Rutter. Admission is free. Informa­ the earthshine thus measures Earth's reflectance. kitchen and household necessities and baby tion: 395-4652, 1 (888) 2CALTECH, or events@ In the current issue of the refereed journal Baby Furniture and Household Equipment furniture are made to members of the Caltech caltech.edu. Individuals with a disability: 395-4688 Geophysical Research Letters, a team of scientists Pool community. Information: 584-9773. (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). Visit Public Events at from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and 234 S. Catalina, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.-Loans of www.events.caltech.edu. Caltech reports on earthshine observations show­ kitchen and household necessities and baby Ballroom Dance Club ing that Earth's albedo is currently 0.297, give or furniture are made to members of the Caltech Winnett lounge, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.-Argentine Folk Music Society Presents Dave Para and take 0.005. community. Information: 584-9773. tango for beginners. Second of five weekly les­ Cathy Barton The early-20th-century French astronomer sons taught by a professional instructor. No Dabney Lounge, 8 p.m.-The versatile duo draws Andre-Louis Danjon undertook the first quantita­ Skeptics Society Lecture partner or experience is required. $4 per class for inspiration from the rich cultural diversity of tive observations of earthshine. But the method Baxter Lecture Hall, 7 p.m.-" Atom: Odyssey Caltech undergraduates, $6 for others. Refresh­ Missouri. Admission is $12 for adults and $4 for lay dormant for nearly 50 years, until Caltech from the Big Bang to Life on Earth and Beyond," ments. Information: 791-3103 or www.its.caltech. children and Caltech students. Tickets and infor­ team leader and professor of theoretical physics Lawrence Krauss, physicist, Case Western Re­ edu/-ballroom/index.html. mation: 395-4652, 1 (888) 2CALTECH, or Steven Koonin coauthored a paper in 1991 de­ serve University, and author of The Physics of [email protected]. Individuals with a disability: scribing its modern potential. The present data Star Trek. Donation is $8 for nonmembers and $5 395-4688 (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). Visit Public are the first that are precise and systematic for members and non-Caltech students. Free to Events at www.events.caltech.edu. enough to infer the relative health of Earth's the Caltech/JPL community. Tickets and informa­ Wednesday, May 16 climate. tion: 794-3119 or [email protected]. "Earth's climate is driven by the net sunlight Baby Furniture and Household Equipment that it absorbs," says Philip Goode, NJIT's Distin­ Chamber Music Concert Pool Sunday, May 20 guished Professor of Physics and team leader, Dabney Lounge, 8 p.m.-Music by Mozart, Haydn, 234 S. Catalina, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.-Loans of and director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory. Danzi, and J. C. Bach. kitchen and household necessities and baby Skeptics Society Lecture "We have found surprisingly large-up to 20 furniture are made to members of the Caltech Baxter Lecture Hall, 2 p.m.-"The God Mono­ percent-seasonal variations in Earth's reflec­ community. Information: 584-9773. logue: A Work in Progress," Julia Sweeney, actor tance. Further, we have found a hint of a 2.5- and comedian. Donation is $8 for nonmembers percent decrease in Earth's albedo over the past Thursday, May 1 0 and $5 for members and non-Caltech students. five years." Free to the Caltech/JPL community. Tickets and A 2.5-percent change in reflectance may not Introduction to Modern Dance Thursday, May 17 information: 794-3119 or [email protected]. seem like much, but if Earth reflected even 1 Braun Athletic Center, aerobics room, 9 to percent less light, the effect would be significant 10:30 p.m.-A free modern dance class for Introduction to Modern Dance Student Chamber Music Concert enough to be a concern when studying global beginners, taught by a professional instructor. Braun Athletic Center, aerobics room, 9 to Dabney Lounge, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.-Caltech stu­ warming. Sponsored by the Caltech Dance Troupe. No 10:30 p.m.-A free modern dance class for dents will present a variety of music for small Koonin notes that "studies of climate change experience or special clothing or shoes are beginners, taught by a professional instructor. ensembles, including Beethoven's Trio op.1, no. 3 require well-calibrated, long-term measurements required. Open to all adult members of the Sponsored by the Caltech Dance Troupe. No and Haydn's "London Trio." Admission is free. of large regions of the globe. Earthshine observa­ Caltech community. experience or special clothing or shoes are Information: 395-4652, 1 (888) 2CALTECH, or tions are ideally suited to this, because, in con­ required. Open to all adult members of the [email protected]. Individuals with a disability: trast to satellite determinations of the albedo, Caltech community. 395-4688 (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). Visit Public they are self-calibrating, easily and inexpensively Events at www.events.caltech.edu. performed from the ground, and instantaneously Friday, May 11 cover a significant fraction of the globe." The new albedo measurements are based on Badminton Friday, May 18 about 200 nights of observations of the dark side Brown Gymnasium, 9:30a.m. to noon-Bring of the moon at regular intervals over a two-year your own racket. Information: 355-6158. Badminton period, and another 70 nights during 1994-95. Brown Gymnasium, 9:30a.m. to noon-Bring Using a 6-inch refractor telescope and precise your own racket. Information: 355-6158. CCD at the Big Bear Solar Observatory, the researchers measure the earthshine's intensity. Saturday, May 12 Student Chamber Music Concert By simultaneously observing the bright Dabney Lounge, 8 p.m.-Caltech students will "moonshine" from the crescent, they compensate Ballet Dance Class perform music for small ensembles by Bach, for the effects of atmospheric scattering. The Braun Athletic Center, aerobics room, 1 to Beethoven, Schubert, and Martinu. Admission is study relies on averages over long periods 4 p.m.-A free ballet class, sponsored by the free. Information: 395-4652, 1 (888) 2CALTECH, or because the albedo changes substantially from Caltech Dance Troupe. Beginners: 1 to 2 p.m. [email protected]. Individuals with a disability: night to night with changing weather, and even Intermediate: 2 to 3 p.m. Advanced: 3 to 4 p.m. 395-4688 (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD). Visit Public more dramatically from season to season with No special clothing or shoes are required for the Events at www.events.caltech.edu. changing snow and ice cover. beginners' class. Open to all adult members of The researchers plan continuing observations the Caltech community. from Big Bear. "These, supplemented with addi­ tional observations from a planned worldwide Bandorama network, will allow even more precise, round­ Beckman Auditorium, 8 p.m.-The Caltech­ the-clock monitoring of the earth's reflectance," Occidental Concert Band will perform Handel's Goode says. "That precision will also make it Cathy Barton and Dave Para will be playing their Royal Fireworks Music, with special laser-light possible to test connections between solar activ­ eclectic tunes Friday, May 19, courtesy of the effects, and the premiere of a work for concert ity and Earth's climate." Caltech Folk Music Society. band and candy wrappers. Music by John Says Koonin, "It's really amazing, if you think Coltrane and Count Basie will be played by about it, that you can look at this ghostly reflec­ the jazz bands. Admission is free. Information: tion on the moon and measure what Earth's 395-4652, 1 (888) 2CALTECH , or events@caltech. climate is doing." edu. Individuals with a disability: 395-4688 (voice) The study was funded by both NASA, begin­ or 395-3700 (TDD). Visit Public Events at www. ning in 1998, and the Western Center for Global events.caltech.edu. Environmental Change, during 1994-95. Beyond Goode, other members of the NJIT team are Jiong Oiu, Vasyl Yurchyshyn, and Jeff Hickey. Beyond Koonin, other members of the Cal tech team are C. Titus Brown, Edwin Kolbe (now at the University of Basel), and Ming Chu (now at the Chinese University of Hong Kong) . • 6 Caltech 336, May 3, 2001

QED. from page 1 Adams, from page 1 "strange theory of light and matter"] for in The Lady's Not for Burning, and as the his work and partly to the caliber of the people like you. Do you understand it?" I Sewer Man, a rather mysterious, charis­ researchers who count on him. The fact told him that while I was reading it, I had matic character in The Madwoman of that Adams has mastered a field in which the illusion that I understood it, and that Chaillot. Obviously, they played to his he's had no formal college training might was good enough for me, but that he strengths, and he was memorable in both. also contribute to the satisfaction he gets. shouldn't ask me to explain it. "Oh," he He was always comfortable and confident He also has a singular modus operandi. said, "then I'm not good enough." Because on stage, but he knew these were good When he was assigned recently to he took pains with that kind of thing. He roles and he really worked at them. devise a platform that holds eggs for wanted physics and the excitement and Dick's last TACIT appearance was in scanning in an MRI machine, all he Herb Adams discipline that goes into it to be accessible. How to Succeed in Business Without wanted to know was what the thing was Feynman was incredibly disciplined. He Really Trying. We had a custodians' kick­ supposed to do and the amount of room plete. But a fish-egg holder he was build­ liked to present himself as this rowdy char­ line in that show, but he said, "I'm throw­ he had to work with. He found a sheet of ing suffered a setback. The grooves that acter, but inside there was this hard, clear ing it in, Shirley; I'm not a good kicker paper on his table and looked it over. would hold the caviar were too far apart, core. I wish the play brought this out anymore." He did go on as one of the "I don't like drawings," he said, refer­ allowing individual eggs to slosh freely more-at times, Aida, if not the script, does custodians, but instead of kicking, he ring to the rough sketch. "I very seldom about. But Adams was unfazed. give us a glimpse of this side of the man. grabbed the wastebasket and drummed. make any sketches because I'm a horrible "If it doesn't work right the first time, This play is what I call an audience And when the next year rolled around-it draftsman. I tell them 'I don't want any we toss it in the basket and start over," pleaser. The first act works on every level, was late 1987-1 called him to do Oliver fancy drawings because I'll probably make he said. "My interest is to see that the but when you get to the second act and his and he said, "No, I don't think so this something that won't look like it anyway."' doctors accomplish what they want." encounter with the female physics student time, Shirley." And I said, "Okay, next Adams works at an interesting mid­ Since April, Adams has been working from Pasadena City College, it may be that year." And he said, "I don't think so, point between extremes: he creates tan­ exclusively on an on-call basis, primarily they're trying too hard to please. I found Shirley." And I said, "Dick?" And he said, gible solutions from something as to work with the doctors he considers the actress and her role disappointing. I "Yeah." And-there was a silence. insubstantial as ideas. He also acts as the valued clients. mean, does this man really decide to have • catalyst between blocks of metal and the This change has not resulted in much do-or-die surgery because a young woman ungainly shop machines, from which he leisure time. Adams has no patience for comes into his office a little drunk, takes off teases finely crafted parts. television or books, as if his schedule her shoes, and dances for him? Maybe Fulbrights. from page 1 The way he approaches his tasks re­ would permit those pursuits. Happily for that's how some people make decisions. "I've always felt that one of the beautiful minds him of his childhood in Kansas. On him, he has equipped his Glendora home But I'm dubious; I think there was more to things about life is that it's not predestined, Sundays, when relatives dropped by for a with its own machine shop in which he it than that. but is a dynamic path that's constantly visit, his grandmother would head for the does his magic for outside clients. But the play does seem to be a work in being redefined by our exposure to new kitchen to whip up a meal. It's there that he designs and tests progress; I hear there's some talk of tak­ experiences," says Linhardt, "so I'm confi­ "She'd say 'I don't know what I'm gonna equipment for industries and entrepre­ ing it to New York. If there are changes, I dent that my life will be enriched by my make, but I'll start with a pot of boiling neurs, a few of whom are Caltech grads hope they will be in the direction of mak­ research experience in the Netherlands." water,"' he recalled. "I'm the same way, but who have started their own operations. A ing the play a bit harder and more dry­ Takahashi's research interest concerns I start with a block of metal." roster of global customers calls on him overall, less comfortable for the audience. the origin of the universe. He will pursue Adams is blessed with the uncanny regularly for his services. There is a hint of this in one lovely short a master of philosophy degree in astro­ ability to picture something in his mind in But soon, some of those calls may not section where Dick is on the phone with physics at Cambridge University in three dimensions, and use that, instead get a quick response. With summer fast his wife, Gweneth. He's talking about the England. He chose Cambridge, he says, of a sketch, as his model. These images approaching, Adams may turn his sights surgery and his prognosis. She tells him because of its "multicultural atmosphere usually come to him at night after his to the road as he and Gwen, his wife of that he has to have hope. He replies, and its strength in the observation of ideas "roll around in my head." 57 years, drive their motor home across "What do you mean, I should have hope? cosmic microwave background, the relic "I've always been able to visualize the country to visit his brothers in Kan­ Hope? That's not me." That's the real radiation from the Big Bang." Upon his something before I make it," he said. "I sas, a sister in Kansas City, and a daugh­ Feynman-beyond the gestures and the return from England, Takahashi will pur­ study the application they want to use it ter in South Carolina. anecdotes. sue his PhD at UC Berkeley. In the mean­ for and then I make it." • What was Dick himself like as an ac­ time, he continues working on a proposal Adams has worked this way at Caltech tor? We're not talking Paul Scofield here, to NASA for establishing an international for the past 30 years. Only recently has but I have seen professional actors who observatory on the moon, and he re­ he cut back on his hectic schedule. He'll were not as good. He was a wonderful mains hopeful that he will one day fulfill turn 81 in June. Dancing dragon performer who would have been a de­ his lifelong ambition to be an astronaut. A veteran of the Navy who served be­ light in any community theater. He was "The more I think about it, the more fore, during, and after World War II, so flexible and creative-full of ideas I'm convinced that changes are what Adams first came to Caltech in 1947 and about his parts and always eager to hear make life fulfilling," he says. "So I'll worked here for three years. He left for a what others had to say. I'd be sitting in always be proactive about trying new series of jobs in the booming California my office and he'd stick his head in the things. And I try to make my decisions aeronautics industry and returned in 1970. door and say, "Shirley, I got this idea. with the idea of making my life and the "I prefer being here because I'm in Let's go have soup and talk." lives of others more dynamic." contact with these doctors and students," Dick's first experience in the theater The Fulbright award is the U.S. he said. "I like the direct association with was as a bongo player in Caltech's pro­ government's premier scholarship pro­ them." duction of Guys and Dolls, and it was then gram. It was established by Congress in For the past three decades, Adams has that he said, " How come nobody ever told 1946 to foster mutual understanding often been seen riding his bike on campus, me about this drama stuff before? It's among nations through educational and most often to the behavioral biology labs. fun!" He would have liked to do more cultural exchanges. Linhardt's Fulbright is It's there that he can consult, confabulate, with TACIT, and I would have loved to sponsored by the Netherland-America and troubleshoot with the researchers. have stretched him more as an actor, but Foundation, which seeks to promote rela­ Which is what he was doing with the The ever-popular Chinese dragon makes an his time was usually so limited. I was able tions between the United States and the speckled quail egg he cradled in his appearance at the International Week food fair in to cast him in two fairly substantial Netherlands. fingers. His egg-holder, which can Avery courtyard on April 20. The week of cultural parts-as Matthew Skips, the town bum, • accommodate specimens that differ events was sponsored by the Caltech Y. incrementally in size, was almost com-

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