The California Tech Volume CXIX Number 1 Pasadena, California [email protected] September 28, 2015 Convocation welcomes new students to campus CALTECH MEDIA your division, and together to test RELATIONS and sharpen your ideas.” Added Rosenbaum: “You This article was originally need to move beyond simple published online at caltech.edu. coursework and delve deeply into a subject on the boundaries On Sunday, September 20, of discovery—an opportunity Caltech extended a formal welcome provided by performing research to new undergraduate students, both in the summer, through graduate students, parents of SURF [Summer Undergraduate new students, and postdoctoral Research Fellowships], and during scholars at its 2015 Convocation the year. You need to understand at Beckman Auditorium. Joseph other cultures and perspectives. E. Shepherd, vice president for … You need to take advantage of student affairs and the C.L. Kelly theater, music, and art on campus, Johnson Professor of Aeronautics to explore Pasadena’s treasures and Mechanical Engineering, … and to sample the cultural presided over the ceremony, accoutrements of the second during which speakers urged the largest city in the United States: incoming freshman class—now Los Angeles.” 54 percent male and 46 percent Following Rosenbaum’s female students—to embrace welcome, Shepherd introduced a fully Caltech’s intellectually and scientific talk and presentation, culturally rich community by taking “Army of Mice or the Big Lion: advantage of the diverse research Engineering in the 21st Century,” opportunities and extracurricular delivered by Ali Hajimiri, the activities that the Institute and the Thomas G. Myers Professor of surrounding area provide. Electrical Engineering, executive “There are many things you officer for electrical engineering, cannot learn except by exploring and director of Information and experimenting,” President Science and Technology. Hajimiri Thomas F. Rosenbaum, professor of shared some highlights from his physics and the Sonja and William scientific research—which range Davidow Presidential Chair, said from terahertz-wave imaging during his remarks to the several to solar power generation in hundred people in attendance. space to biomedical devices to “In this welcome, I should like to handheld diagnostic devices. He offer a few guideposts along the also imparted some final words of road of your exploration. The first advice to the newest members of guidepost is the necessity to engage the community. with a wide diversity of peers and “I’ve been here for 17 years, and teachers, to venture outside of the it’s an incredible place,” Hajimiri comfort zone of your house and said. “You are in the company of Upperclassmen volunteered to help freshmen move on campus and guide them through the new student orientation. great minds. Be one.” Photos Courtesy of Bob Paz Caltech Robotics Team places in international competition LORI DAJOSE initial placement of scratch by the software team, led Caltech Media Relations the vehicle into the by Kushal Agarwal, a junior in water. computer science. The electrical This article was originally The Caltech team team, led by Torkom Pailevanian, published online at caltech.edu. was divided into three a senior in electrical engineering, The Caltech Robotics Team — groups, responsible designed an inertial measurement composed of 30 Caltech undergrads for the mechanical, unit consisting of gyroscopes and and recent alumni — placed fourth electrical, and accelerometers that allow the robot in the 18th Annual International software systems to orient itself in 3-D space. RoboSub Competition, held July of the robot, which Started in 1998, the Annual 20–26 in San Diego, California. they named Crush. RoboSub Competition is designed The competition, hosted by the A fourth group to introduce young students into Association for Unmanned Vehicle managed the team’s high-tech STEM fields such as Systems International (AUVSI) fund-raising and maritime robotics. This year’s team Foundation and cosponsored by outreach efforts. The from Caltech was led by Justin the U.S. Office of Naval Research, mechanical team, led Koch—who graduated in June with challenges teams of student by Edward Fouad, a his BS in mechanical engineering— engineers to perform realistic senior in mechanical and advised by Joel Burdick, missions with autonomous engineering, was the Richard L. and Dorothy M. underwater vehicles (AUVs) in an responsible for Hayman Professor of Mechanical underwater environment. Thirty- building grippers, a Engineering and Bioengineering. seven teams from across the globe The Caltech Robotics Team’s RoboSub, Crush, placed fourth in the international RoboSub propulsion system, “Last year, as a first-year team, competed in this year’s event. competition. and a pressure hull we placed seventh overall and were The challenge was to build Photo Courtesy of The Caltech Robotics Team to house the robot’s awarded Best New Entry,” says a robotic submarine that could driving through a gate, bumping dropping markers into designated electronics. The Koch. “I’m definitely very excited autonomously navigate an obstacle into colored buoys, shooting bins. The only human involvement autonomous capabilities of the with how we did as only a second- course, completing tasks such as torpedoes through holes, and during the competition was the robot were programmed from year team!”

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The TECH opinion THE CALIFORNIA TECH September 28, 2015 3 Chvrches’ echoes band’s first NAILEN MATSCHKE instrumentals, particularly the give credit to Mayberry for selling of synths and samples, resulting lines. It’s a beautiful moment, and Contributing Writer synths, which had plenty of power them well, and her performance in a funky, infectiously danceable an excellent closer for the album. and used it when necessary. is technically pristine, but her tune that reminds me more than I found this release by Chvrches Something I remember very Chvrches is by no means lacking presence is better at completing a little of The Weeknd’s “Can’t to be underwhelming, but at clearly from September 2013, in the pop sensibility department, the sound than enhancing it. It’s Feel My Face.” When Chvrches the same time I don’t dislike it. when I came to Caltech, is how so it seems like mixing in more of also only a part of a general issue members are on their songwriting Rather, I’m mostly disappointed it seemed as though I couldn’t the distorted, almost aggressive the band has with extending habits game, they are an unstoppable with how little the band seems to go anywhere without hearing elements present on tracks like that already made their first album pop force capable of churning have learned since its first release. something of Chvrches’ debut “Gun” and “Lungs” would elevate bland to their second. The formulaic out masterful earworms and then Chvrches had a lot of potential album, The Bones of What You the band’s sound to a new level. and invariant song structure wisely rationing them to listeners. and I think the group could have Believe. The Glaswegian band’s What we get on Every Open Eye, produces a large amount of filler They do also throw a handful of dropped something amazing this sound was easy to soak up, with however, is an even more saccharine songs with simple, repetitive hooks new ideas into the mix, such as time around by just being a bit layers of bright yet punchy synths and smoothed-out performance and melodies. “” and “,” which spends its more adventurous, but it’s almost and poppy, danceable beats laying that often wouldn’t feel out of “” come to mind as two first two minutes building up to a as though the members didn’t even the foundation for frontwoman place in the Top 40. The chorus that had me tired of them midway loud, off-the-wall energetic drop try. Every Open Eye has some ’s soaring, of “Playing Dead,” for instance, through my first listen. Even if the (think My Chemical Romance’s great tracks on it that I’m sure earnest vocals. What truly made struck me as being influenced by somewhat sterile sound of Every “Planetary (GO!)”). This pattern is we’ll all be hearing more of in the Chvrches an overnight success, circa-2000 mainstream pop, or Open Eye does end up pleasing almost duplicated in “Down Side coming weeks, but as far as what it though, was the group’s ability to even progenitors such as ABBA. Chvrches’ fans, TBOWYB left so of Me,” which is based around means for Chvrches is concerned, I produce memorable parts for each It’s a catchy enough melody to much room for the group to push a hauntingly beautiful, thickly hope it’s not a sign that the band is member and massive hooks with remember, but so ordinary it easily their boundaries regarding sounds, harmonized vocal passage for its succumbing to its one-trick-pony- consistency. It has certainly been fades into the background, like the moods, or something else, and they first half and then switches toa ism. It’s not a bad album, but I’m fair to accuse Chvrches of recycling Muzak you hear in supermarkets. squandered every opportunity on long build-up driven by some dark not feeling it. the same ideas in just about every The mix itself seems flatter as well, its successor. synth stabs. song, but at the same time it’s replacing the deep oceans of sound Thankfully, Chvrches nailed the Closer “Afterglow” is difficult to dislike an album that’s that TBOWYB lead singles “The important pieces of its sound on its also a hard one to forget, basically 50 percent single-quality Mother We Share” and “Recover” debut, and one can imagine that as it is the most emotional tracks. Almost exactly two years brought to the table with some very “more TBOWYB” is an idea bound and intimate track the later, we’ve gotten the group’s monotonous, toothless production. to generate some solid material. band has released. follow-up, Every Open Eye, and This regression in the band’s “” has an absurdly Contrary to most of her it’s not quite what I was hoping for. individuality isn’t helped by my catchy hook that gets even better singing, Mayberry comes The root of this lies in what I other main gripe with the album ― as it moves from its first half to its off as vulnerable here as would have wanted to see when it fails to present any new side of second, and it’s followed by “Keep she is presented dead it comes to the progression of the Chvrches. Every aspect of the band’s You On My Side” with its epic, in the spotlight, atop a band’s style on this album. Instead music that didn’t trend toward driving chorus that belongs in an sparse layer of swirling of taking a step forward in any one the mainstream just stayed the ’80s action movie score; only a synths, with her voice direction, the band has gone to the same, which is especially obvious few tracks later is “High Enough to so much the center of side, or perhaps even backward. in the vocals that still have lyrics Carry You Over,” in which Martin attention that one can One of my favorite things about you could easily swap for Linkin Doherty takes on lead vocals in easily hear the breaths TBOWYB was its dynamic Park’s without many noticing. I do addition to his usual contribution she takes in between -http://www.stereogum.com Join the Meditation Mob! Tuesdays, 12:00 - 12:50 Want to learn more about mindfulness meditation? It’s a great way to improve your attention and to become more grounded in the present moment.

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Mailing list and MP3 archive: counseling.caltech.edu/students/meditation Feature 4 September 28, 2015 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Frosh camp viewed through the lens of The California Tech

Frosh learn about collaboration and help each other out in this obstacle course during the session for Study Habits. Photo Courtesy of Nehaly Shah

Team BPQ cheers as their boat wins the final round of the annual design competition. Junior Kit Chinetti and sophomore Carly Robison organized the event. Photo Courtesy of Neera Shah

Frosh get cozy with their Freshman Camp Counselor, senior Cat Jamshidi, and work to One group of frosh tries to take over another during a tandem bicycle obstacle course as station leader junior Kai untangle themselves from a “human knot.” Chang guides them through a Study Habits task. Photo Courtesy of Nehaly Shah Photo Courtesy of Neera Shah

Senior Catherine Pavlov helps her group put together puzzle pieces that were retrieved from the bottom of the Incoming freshmen Tyler Port and Noah Huffman have fun at the ballroom dance lesson hotel swimming pool. Sophomore David Kawashima (left) was in charge of this part of Study Habits. given by the Ballroom Dance Club. Photo Courtesy of Nehaly Shah Photo Courtesy of Neera Shah Sports THE CALIFORNIA TECH September 28, 2015 5 Men’s water polo places fifth at Citrus Tournament GOCALTECH.COM nature to know when he is open on unanswered goals in the final Actual Sports Content Editor the 6-on-5.” four minutes, with two each from Once on the scoreboard, the Blackwood and Bradley. Freshman GLENDORA, Calif. (Sept. 12, Beavers gained more momentum Billy Bloomquist out with a late goal 2015) – The Caltech men’s water through the second quarter, in the third quarter and another polo team picked up three wins outscoring the Owls 3-1 to narrow strike in the fourth while Bradley to place fifth at the Citrus College the margin to three at 7-4 by the netted two more. Ross finished Tournament this past Friday and break. Bradley capped the half with an impressive performance in net Saturday. a 5-meter penalty conversion just with 12 saves and two steals. Junior Christopher Bradley and 19 seconds from the whistle. Caltech 11, Santa Monica 5 senior James Blackwood carried As the third quarter got The Beavers entered Day Two the Beavers on offense, combining underway, Blackwood, Bradley and refreshed from the big win over for 29 goals and 12 assists over the freshman Eshan Govil each found Miramar, jumping out to a 3-0 four-game tournament. the back of the net, but Citrus was lead on their first three possessions After dropping the opener to able to muster four goals to extend over the first two minutes vs. Santa the host Owls, 17-10, the Beavers the lead and sealed the victory with Monica, thanks to several quality closed out the event with three a seven-goal fourth quarter, led plays. Bradley connected on a pass straight dominant wins over by All-American Jonathan Lotero. to junior Tomas Tussie at the 7:22 San Diego Miramar College (11- Bradley notched a pair of goals and mark and, after a pair of successful 4), Santa Monica College (11-5) Eck added one for the Beavers in defensive stands, Blackwood and Grossmont College (12-5) to the final period. Freshman Shaurya found the back of the net on a “Ball is life.” ― James “Jim” Blackwood improve to 4-2 to start the season. Gilani made six saves in net over counterattack from the hole set 40 -http://gocaltech.com Citrus 17, Caltech 10 the first half while freshman John seconds later and Tussie converted The Beavers opened the Lloyd recorded two in the second out of hole set on a nice step-out Caltech 12, Grossmont 5 Lloyd combined to stop 17 shots tournament with a slow start half. shot. Santa Monica pulled one back After defeating Grossmont by and Baer led the defense with four against the hosts, falling behind Caltech 11, Miramar 4 before the end of the quarter, but a lone goal just one week prior, steals. 5-0 in the first quarter. A timeout Although Caltech got off to a Bradley went off for a whopping five the Beavers knew what they were “We are getting a lot better at team allowed Head Coach Jon Bonafede slow start in the second game, Govil goals in the second quarter to stake facing in Grossmont and took defense and counterattacking, and to adjust the defense and Caltech handed the Beavers the lead with Caltech to an 8-2 lead heading into control from the outset. Blackwood that showed in the score difference began to pull back into the the only strike of the quarter at the halftime. With the busy weekend netted the first goal just 35 seconds just a week after beating them game. Senior Patric Eck drew an 3:44 mark. Freshman Charles Ross slate, the Beavers rotated players into the game and, after Grossmont on our first day of competition,” exclusion with 1:30 left in the first kept Miramar off the board with a a bit more than usual and senior equalized, stretched out to a 4-1 Bonafede said. “Guys are starting quarter and then scored with the huge save on a breakaway and the Matthew Cedeno came up with a lead by the end of the first quarter to build chemistry in their playing man advantage on a post shot off Beavers extended the margin to big goal from the post on an assist and 8-1 at halftime. The Griffins styles and it is creating a lot of good a beautiful pass from Blackwood. two by halftime, courtesy of a pair from sophomore Henry Baer just mustered two more goals in each of scoring opportunities. We had a “I have been making that same of goals by Blackwood. 27 seconds from the final whistle. the final quarters, but the Beavers really good shooting day and were pass to Pat for a long time now,” Caltech pulled away in the Lloyd and Gilani combined to were never in danger of letting the working hard to get good looks.” Blackwood said. “It is like second third quarter, capped by four make nine saves in goal. lead slip away as Ross, Gilani and Ball, Wilkening score in Maiyuran, Vetrivel OT defeat at Cal Lutheran lead volleyball to set win against Provi- dence Christian GOCALTECH.COM 14 points on kills, with Maiyuran Actual Sports Content Editor tallying eight of her assists in the set. PASADENA, Calif. (Sept. 15, Caltech hung close early in 2015) – Senior Harinee Maiyuran the second set but PCC broke a made a career-high 20 assists as 7-7 tie with a ridiculous 18-3 run the Caltech volleyball team took to level the match. The third set a set against Providence Chris- was far closer but the Sea Beggars tian College in the Beavers’ home still controlled play throughout to opener on Tuesday night. take a 2-1 lead in the match. The Caltech outlasted PCC in a Beavers stormed out to a 7-3 lead 26-24 first set victory, but the Sea to open the fourth set, but PCC Beggars posted a dominant 25-10 recovered to cruise to the match- second set to level the match and clinching victory, with Caltech clinched with 25-16 and 25-14 only mustering a late 5-2 run wins in the third and fourth. before succumbing. The Beavers are now 0-5 on the Vetrivel led the Beavers with season. 12 kills while sophomore Mayra The Sea Beggars jumped out Melendez and senior Meghana to an 8-2 lead to open the match Pagadala recorded 13 and 12 digs, This picture is not from the Cal Lutheran game, but that is Teo Wilkening with the ball, so at least we got that part right. and held the margin until 14-8. respectively. Senior Amarise Little added three block assists. -http://gocaltech.com The Beavers then struck for seven of the next eight the pressure on, netting the go- Wilkening rose up to head it into points to tie the GOCALTECH.COM ahead goal in the seventh minute. the back of the net for his second game at 14-14, Actual Sports Content Editor The Beavers leveled nine minutes goal of the season. The Kingsmen capped by an ace later as junior Alec Sands headed searched furiously for an equalizer and kill by fresh- THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. a pass down to senior Adam Ball, and found it in the 64th minute man Subhadra (Sept. 23, 2015) – The Caltech who popped a shot past the goal- courtesy of Kearney’s second goal, Vetrivel. The men’s soccer team took host Cal keeper to make it 1-1. CLU contin- immediately after which Wilken- teams traded Lutheran University to overtime ued to enjoy the majority of pos- ing nearly put Caltech back on top points until before falling, 3-2, on a hat trick session for the remainder of the with another shot on target. CLU Caltech pulled by SCIAC-leading goalscorer Bran- half, but neither team managed to would continue to apply pressure ahead at 22-20 don Kearney on Wednesday night. put another shot on target before but the Beavers defense held firm and withstood a The Kingsmen improve to 2-5-1 halftime. in front of Feist to turn away every late PCC charge overall and 2-3 in the SCIAC while Caltech struck again two min- opportunity. to take the set the Beavers drop to 0-5 (0-5). utes into the second half to take The game headed to overtime, on back-to-back Harinee Maiyuran is trying to remember whether or not Junior J.D. Feist was called the 2-1 lead when freshman where Kearney would complete his errors. Vetrivel notched five of she locked her door when she left. upon to make a save just one min- Jack Banaszak played a ball into hat trick on the only shot of the pe- the Beavers’ final Photo Courtesy of Michael L. Wong ute into play and Cal Lutheran kept the box, where senior Theodore riod to hand CLU the win. Announcements 6 September 28, 2015 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Caltech community members remembered after passing CALTECH MEDIA RELATIONS Written by Kathy Svitil: Rosetta mission, which including those of Capital Research Charles A. Barnes, professor continues to explore and Management Company and of physics, emeritus, at comet 67/P Churyumov- American Funds Distributors, Inc., Caltech and an expert Gerasimenko, and was and he was a portfolio counselor in the study of both the the last project manager for the Growth Fund of America weak nuclear force— for the Cassini mission to and vice chairman of the Growth one of the fundamental Saturn. She also worked Fund of America and Fundamental forces of nature—and on the Galileo mission to Investors. of the nuclear reactions Jupiter. Rothenberg was elected to the that produce the majority In addition to her Caltech Board of Trustees in 2006. of the elements in our career on JPL’s technical He chaired the board’s Business universe, passed away on staff, Alexander and Finance Committee, served Friday, August 14, 2015. advocated for STEM as vice chair of the Development He was 93. activities and for the Committee, and was a member He came to Caltech as empowerment of young of the Investment Committee. He a research fellow in 1953 women preparing for has played a key role in the life of and became a senior careers in science. She the Institute as campaign co-chair research fellow in 1954, was also a book author, and as a member of the Caltech an associate professor in having written a number Associates. 1958, and a professor in of children’s 1962. An experimental and popular Claudia Alexander physicist who specialized -http://caltech.edu science books. in nuclear physics, Barnes performed was in the study of the so-called Written by Rod Pyle: Eric H. Davidson pioneering research in nuclear weak force, which governs James F. Rothenberg, -http://caltech.edu two key areas. The first the radioactive decay of elements chairman of the Los The following are excerpts from and is responsible for the Angeles–based Capital the full obituaries published online fusion of protons to form Group Companies, Inc. at caltech.edu. deuterium. This fusion and Caltech trustee, releases the energy that died suddenly of a heart is the source of heat from attack on Tuesday, July Eric Harris Davidson, Caltech’s our sun and other stars. 21, 2015. He was 69. Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Barnes retired in 1992. As chairman of the Biology, passed away on Tuesday, Capital Group, where he September 1, 2015. He was 78 years Written by Rod Pyle: held leadership positions old. Claudia Alexander, since 1970, Rothenberg Davidson, a developmental a longtime employee oversaw the firm’s rise biologist, was a pioneer researcher of JPL, died July 11 to what would become and theorist of the gene regulatory of cancer at the age of the largest stock mutual networks that perform complex 56. She was the U.S. fund in the world. He biological processes, such as the project scientist for the also served on several transformation of a single-celled European Space Agency’s corporate boards, James F. Rothenberg egg into a complex organism. His Photo Courtesy of Capital Group work helped to reveal how the DNA sequences inherited in the genome The California Tech are used to initiate and drive Editors-in-Chief forward the sequence of steps that Neera Shah result in development. Charles A. 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The Student-Faculty Programs office would like to publicly thank the 2015 SFP House Ambassador Committee for successfully building and fostering a welcoming and inclusive student community this summer! Generating creative ideas to organically bring students together combined with hard work, focus, and teamwork, the House Ambassadors enriched the summer experience for all students at Caltech. Thank you SFP House Ambassadors!

2015 SFP House Ambassador Committee

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