The Tech Volume CXIX Number 4 Pasadena, California [email protected] October 19, 2015 Alumnus Arthur McDonald wins Nobel Prize in Physics DOUGLAS SMITH and it slowly became apparent that planet, Kajita and his colleagues The conclusion, for which a postdoctoral researcher under Caltech Media Relations as few as one-third of the neutrinos concluded that the extra distance McDonald and Kajita were Barnes. “It is a shame that Charlie the theorists said the sun should had given them a little extra time awarded the Nobel Prize, was that didn’t get to see Art receive this This article was originally be emitting were actually being to change their identities. neutrinos must have a nonzero tremendous honor.” published online at caltech.edu. observed. Various theories were McDonald’s SNO, built 2,100 mass. Quantum mechanics A native of Sydney, Canada, proposed to explain the deficit, meters deep in a nickel mine, began treats particles as waves, and McDonald received his bachelor Arthur B. McDonald (Ph.D. ’70), including the possibility that the taking data in 1999. It has two the potentially differing masses of science and master’s degrees, director of the Sudbury Neutrino detectable electron neutrinos were counting systems. One is exclusively associated with muons and taus both in physics, from Dalhousie Observatory (SNO) in Ontario, somehow transmuting into their sensitive to electron neutrinos, gives them different wavelengths. University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Takaaki Kajita, at undetectable kin en The probability in 1964 and 1965, respectively. the University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, route to Earth. waves of the three After receiving his doctorate, Japan, have shared the 2015 Nobel Solving the particle types are he worked for the Chalk River Prize in Physics for the discovery mystery of the aligned when the Laboratories in Ontario until 1982, that neutrinos can change their missing neutrinos particle is formed, when he became a professor of identities as they travel through would require but as they propagate physics at Princeton University. He space. extremely large they get out of left Princeton in 1989 and became McDonald and Kajita lead two detectors in order sync. Therefore, a professor at Queen’s University in large research teams whose work to catch enough of there is a one-third Kingston, Canada; the same year, has upended the standard model of the elusive particles chance of seeing any he became the director of the SNO. particle physics and settled a debate to get accurate particular neutrino In 2006, he became the holder of that has raged since 1930, when statistics. Such in its electron form. the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair the neutrino’s existence was first sensitive detectors Because these in Particle Astrophysics, a position proposed by physicist Wolfgang also require particles have this he held until his retirement in 2013. Pauli. Pauli initially devised enormous amounts nonzero mass, their Among many other awards the neutrino as a bookkeeping of shielding to avoid gravitational effects and honors, McDonald is a fellow device—one to carry away surplus false readings. on the large-scale of the American Physical Society, energy from nuclear reactions in The University behavior of the the Royal Society of Canada and stars and from radioactive decay of Tokyo’s Super- universe must be Great Britain’s Royal Society. He processes on Earth. In order to Kamiokande taken into account ― a is the recipient of the Killam Prize make the math work, he gave it no neutrino detector, Caltech alum Arthur B. McDonald (Ph.D. ’70) was awarded the Nobel profound implication in the Natural Sciences; the Henry Prize in Physics this year. charge, almost no mass, and only which came online Photo Courtesy of Queen’s University for cosmology. Marshall Tory Medal from the the weakest of interactions with in 1996, was built McDonald came Royal Society of Canada, its highest ordinary matter. Billions of them 1,000 meters underground in which are the type emitted by the to Caltech in 1965 to pursue a award for scientific achievement; are coursing through our bodies a zinc mine. Its detector, which sun; the other records all neutrinos Ph.D. in physics in the Kellogg and the European Physics Society every second, and we are entirely counts muon neutrinos and but does not identify their types. Radiation Laboratory under the HEP Division Giuseppe and unaware of them. records their direction of travel, The SNO also recorded only about mentorship of the late Charles Vanna Cocconi Prize for Particle There are three types of neutrinos found fewer cosmic-ray neutrinos one-third of the predicted number A. Barnes, professor of physics, Astrophysics. ― electron, muon, and tau ― and coming up through the Earth than of solar electron-type neutrinos ― emeritus, who passed away in To date, 34 Caltech alumni and they were, for many years, assumed from any other direction. Since but the aggregate of all three types August 2015. “Charlie Barnes was faculty have won a total of 35 Nobel to be massless and immutable. they should not be affected in measured by the other counting a great mentor who was very proud Prizes. Last year, alumnus Eric The technology to detect electron any way by traveling through the systems matched the theory. of his students,” said Bradley W. Betzig (B.S. ’83) received the Nobel neutrinos emerged in the 1950s, 12,742-kilometer diameter of our Filippone, professor of physics and Prize in Chemistry. Students present summer research at SURF Seminar Day NEERA SHAH biological processes, such as those CHING-YUN (CHLOE) HSU of yeast, so it is less harmful for the Editor-in-Chief environment. Page Editor Sophomore Arjun Goswami is another first-timer who was able On Oct. 17, undergraduates to gain exposure to his field and who were part of this year’s learn more about what research is Summer Undergraduate Research like. He stayed true to his physics Fellowship (SURF) program major and worked on a project presented their research at SURF designing a radiation shield for Seminar Day. This annual event Angle-Resolved Photoemission is open to the public and allows Spectroscopy (ARPES). Goswami students to share their work with helped build a computer model of a peers and community members. shield that could shield black body For many, this was their first radiation during measurements. SURF experience, while others are Debugging and other constraints veterans of the research program. have prevented the group from Sophomore Lani Kim described implementing the model, but her first experience this year as Goswami is continuing his SURF a great learning experience. “In research to follow this project high school, I didn’t have much through. lab experience, I got to get more When asked what his favorite experience in the wet lab here and part of his SURF project was, I learned techniques like PCR,” sophomore Arjun Bose paused she said. While she is majoring in for a while, as if mulling over his chemical engineering, her project entire summer, and then there was was in bioengineering. Kim worked his half-serious answer, “Perhaps to make the conversion of methane writing the proposal.” Although Sophomore Lani Kim completed her first SURF this year and studied the process of converting methane gas to methanol. gas to methanol better using Continued on page 2 Photos Courtesy of Ching-Yun (Chloe) Hsu and Neera Shah

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The TECH opinion THE CALIFORNIA TECH October 19, 2015 3 Julia Holter’s Have You in My Wilderness tells emotional stories CRYSTAL LIANG with an easy-listening vibe, which The prominence of the vocals vocals really shine here, conveying I was lost or if I was running away Contributing Writer grows unsettling until collapsing is also particularly effective in the narrator’s desperation in again” with disdainful apathy. into a chaos of schizophrenic “Everytime Boots,” an off-kilter addressing Betsy. The vocals The title track forms bookends Julia Holter is an experimental vocals, distortion and relentlessly banger, and “Betsy on the Roof,” falters in the end, however, as they with the opener, providing a pop artist who made her debut sawing strings. Similarly, “Lucette a soulful piano ballad. Featuring lose some energy and the track poignant answer to the latter. The in 2007 with the ambient work Stranded on the Island” hides a punk-rock beat, “Everytime becomes overlaid with distracting instrumentation is stripped down Tragedy (inspired by the Greek Lucette’s trauma under layers Boots” crackles with manic energy distortion. in contrast to the dense soundscape play Hippolytus), establishing of sonic gauze and dreams that and a boldness unprecedented in The drama of “Betsy” is followed of “Feel You.” It begins with just her erudite and aloof persona in gradually unravel. Holter shifts Holter’s work. The childlike quality by “Vasquez,” an epic tribute to the Holter’s voice, singing tenderly the music world. Contrary to her seamlessly from third person of her voice serves her well here; historical bandido. The electrifying from the perspective of the woman’s reputation, she does not see her to first, singing distantly “Can singing of cattle rides, motorcycles, synths that flash like lightning in lover. Holter is accompanied only music as academic. Rather, her anybody help her?” by what sounds like a choirboy artistic intent is more in line with and later speaking in a cavernous church, perhaps that of singer-songwriters: she in near-monotone to evoke the concept of prayer wants to tell stories, relying more and increasingly in relation to the subject of the on intuition and the subconscious disturbing song: calling out to someone than any overly cerebral process. euphemisms as who may or may not hear you With her compositional skill and a fading Lucette. or choose to hear you. As the her ability to tap into intuition Meanwhile, the piano and strings swell to a and emotion, Holter has produced instrumentation heartrending climax and the music that is both melodic and darkens to match, and man sings in increasingly intriguing, as in her acclaimed 2013 the background vocals pained tones, “Tell me, why concept album on grow to resemble do I feel you running away?” the disorientation that one feels sirens and distressed we hear the airy voice of the in the heart of Los Angeles. With cries. woman coldly singing, “Oh, an eclectic choice of instruments, At the same time, shut up.” After their voices from the harpsichord to the jazzy the crispness of the fade away, the last thing we string bass, she evoked all the vocals, brought to hear is the choirboy singing a grandeur and chaos, all the space the spotlight for the single note, perhaps to signify and claustrophobia of her home first time, creates a the futility of the man’s prayer city. feeling of immediacy, and his abandonment in his Her newest album, Have You as if the characters wilderness. in My Wilderness, released on are personally telling Have You in My Sept. 25, continues to draw on the you their stories. Wilderness is a work of elements of her past works while Following the exquisite storytelling. taking them in a more pop-like confusion of “Lucette” Brimming with intricacies direction. As in Loud City Song, is a shock of clarity and lush instrumentation, Holter assumes multiple personas in the intrepid single it is definitely an album that and points of view to tell stories. “Sea Calls Me Home.” requires multiple listens to But while Loud City Song was a Against a backdrop be fully appreciated. All the novella, this new album is more of jaunty harpsichord musical details are allowed to like a collection of short stories and doo-wop shine fully thanks to the crisp with a handful of motifs: running harmonies, the plucky -http://thefourohfive.com/ and polished production of away, finding freedom, one person protagonist sets out this album. Exploring greater calling to another across vast into newfound freedom, both and rattlesnakes, we can imagine the chorus, the frenetic bluegrassy vistas of emotion with this new spaces, whether they be physical exciting and terrifying. There’s a the narrator starring as a restless strumming that accompanies a clarity and an ever expressive or psychological (the titular brief moment of safety in a whistled gamine in a western film. chase in the rocks and the soaring voice, Holter continues to evolve “wilderness”). interlude before plunging with the “Betsy on the Roof” is one of strings all add to the vast scope of as an artist. The album opens with the suddenness of a rollercoaster into Holter’s most overtly emotional the song and give us the sense that gorgeous, impressionistic pop a wild saxophone solo. As in “Feel songs and is one of the more we are in a land of legend. Holter Best Tracks: “Feel You,” single “Feel You,” ignited by a You,” the chorus repeats with conventional in melody, imaginatively takes on the voice “Vasquez,” “Have You in My baroque flourish of a harpsichord. new elements ― the saxophone chord progression and piano of the bandido, at times amused Wilderness” Holter’s ethereal background and dizzying, arpeggiating strings arrangement, all of which Holter and at others darkly resentful and Worst Tracks: “Night Song,” vocals and lofty strings immerse ― that express the protagonist’s executes beautifully. With little sardonic, but always blasé. For “How Long?” us in the sunny, exhilarating vertigo. to distract from them and much example, she sings “Wasn’t sure if Overall Rating: 8/10 atmosphere of the song. Her vocal to complement them, Holter’s delivery here is punchy, as she enunciates consonants with a light staccato. Taking on the persona of a flighty, absent-minded young woman, Holter sings of escape from the sun, “rush- hour car stares,” and arriving to empty rooms. The last minute of the song gives way to an atmospheric, spoken- word section ― the ’60s-pop strings in the chorus now take on a marching, minimalist quality, and ambient church bells and blurred background vocals come to the fore. These elements remain as the song closes with a repetition of the chorus and the woman disappears into the urban oblivion. “Feel You” proves to be the emotional high point of the album, as the rest of it explores darker territory and the psychological conflict within relationships. The next song, “Silhouette,” is about obsession ― it begins Feature 4 October 19, 2015 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Humans of Caltech: Elvira Serpa Flying solo: Reflections The California Tech brings you stories of Caltech community members on my SanPietro trip LINDA CHIO a Belgian beer with someone new I met that Contributing Writer day. My acquaintances included German students, Dutch music instructors and pilots As the days whittled down to my departure in training. for the Netherlands and Belgium, my My next stop was Belgium, and I ventured excitement barely masked my trepidation. I into the French-speaking Wallonia region was going to be traveling solo and in Europe of the country with a stop at Namur. Here for the first time. After three summers of I practiced my intermediate French and research, this trip was going to be an awesome learned to master the art of ordering food. adventure, but what if I got lost? What if my Towering over the somnolent city (whose hostels were uninhabitable? What if I’m mascot is the snail) is the Citadel. Namur is not able to communicate with the locals? I in a strategic intersection of the Meuse and spent the week between graduation and my Sambre rivers and had been conquered 18 flight learning Dutch on Duolingo, but all I times. could manage was “Spreekt tu Engels?” (Do There were not many other solo travelers you speak English?). It was surprising how in Namur, and I found it hard to make quickly all these fears melted away; I now feel friends with people who often did not speak empowered by my SanPietro trip. any English. Here solo travel became lonely, Elvira Serpa is a food service worker on campus. She is well-known among students for her warm I began my journey in Amsterdam. especially when I found no Americans with and sweet personality. Photo Courtesy of Katherine Guo Although the street signs are small and whom I could celebrate the Fourth of July. hidden against the walls of buildings, I However, I was quickly rejuvenated by my KATHERINE GUO What’s a game that you played when you learned to navigate the city by the many next stop, Ghent. Many other young travelers ALEXANDER HSU were young with your friends? monuments and landmarks. I quickly learned had stopped here to explore this hidden gem. Page Editor Skateboarding. that English was the most commonly spoken The ornate buildings locked together perfectly Contributing Writer Do you still skateboard? language, and I easily communicated with with the daily rituals of the locals. Students No… 61 years old too much. my roommates and locals. would sit and drink wine on the steps leading The following interview with Elvira was Can you teach me to skateboard? I was surprised by the friendliness to the Medieval Harbor. Commuters waited conducted with the help of Oswaldo Penaloza, Ooh my god… haha. of everyone at the hostel and made the for the bus in front of the Gravensteen Castle another food service worker on campus, for Were you born here? acquaintance of other solo travelers. On my that stood nonchalantly in the center of town. translation. No, in Cuba. first night, my Brazilian roommate offered Here, more than any other stop, was where I What age did you come? to take me around the city on the bike she felt the gravity of the history as more of an What are some favorite foods you like to Twenty-eight. rented. She was not used to riding with a explorer than an observer. I spent a whole eat when you were young, or now? Why did you come? passenger, so the first time we tried riding, day in the Ghent city museum, STAM, taking Flour, and ground beef. For freedom. I was dropped from the back of the bike and in the history and growth of the city without Dishes in particular? What’s the best gift that you have ever landed squarely on my behind. However, being rushed or disturbed by other tourists. A Cuban dish called arroz con pollo ― gotten? we quickly hit a stride and I felt like a local I sat in St. Bavo’s Cathedral for an hour in “chicken with rice.” Life. cruising alongside the canals on the back of front of one of the oldest oil paintings, the a bike. The city was a cultural center with Ghent Altarpiece, taking in every detail with art museums (don’t miss the Van Gogh the narration of an audio tour. Here I felt SAT • OCT 24, 2015 • 8PM Museum!) and markets, and everyone was at peace with my trip and appreciated the very friendly and laid-back. chance of being in the presence of history My second stop was Utrecht, a city full of that was older than the entire United States. happy coincidences. The Tour de France was My trip ended in Brussels, the bustling going to begin at Utrecht in early July. The capital of Belgium. In one day I took a free excitement for the race made the town much walking tour of the city and had a quick food more vibrant, and one of my roommates tour of the area as well. I had a €3 waffle informed me that the roads were newly piled high with strawberries and whipped paved just for the race. I also learned that the cream. The most savory fries I ever had were cartoon character Miffy was having her 60th at Café Georgette and had been double fried anniversary and that she originated from in beef fat. The quality of chocolate at Mary’s Utrecht, which explained why so many Miffy explained why it is the only chocolate shop dolls were around the Netherlands. I was frequented by the Belgian royal family. And surprised at how many things I could learn of course I did not miss out on my last chance while traveling and how even meticulous for having Belgian beer with friends! research cannot reveal everything about a On one of my last nights in Brussels, a location. free Dutch music festival took place in the I ended my time in the Netherlands at Grand Place. Here, in the shadows of the Maastricht, the city where local Europeans UNESCO-designated heritage site, there was vacationed. It is the Dutch city with the a public art installation where people were second highest number of historical invited to express themselves on a giant buildings, and there were apartments carved message board. My message there is one that out of fortress walls. Most of my evenings summarizes my trip well: “This has been the were spent on my hostel’s terrace watching best summer ever! Take chances, say yes, and the sun set on the Meuse River and sharing travel alone!!!”

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(Oct.11, a five-point run and took back the while Maiyuran 13-12, when the 2015) – The Caltech volleyball team lead at 20-19. and junior Kate Beavers took swept a doubleheader against Mills Another Jamshidi kill tied the Lewis combined the lead for College by identical 3-0 scores on game at 20-20, where the Cyclones for 29 of the good on four Sunday afternoon. went on another three-point run team’s season- consecutive The Beavers recorded season to make the score 23-20. The best 35 assists. points and highs in kills, digs, assists and aces Beavers did not give in, however, Freshman steadily in their first two victories of the as yet another kill Jamshidi led Subhadra outpaced the season, improving to 2-14 overall. the Beavers to a four-point run Vetrivel and Cyclones en Caltech 3, Mills 0 that turned the tables at 24-23. Jamshidi route to a 25-20 The Beavers came out on fire in Down but not yet out, the Cyclones recorded five and final. the first set as they scored the first registered a kill and benefited from four total blocks, Jamshidi four points of the game, including an attacking error, leading to set respectively, as again paced two service aces by senior Meghana point. the team also set the Beavers Pagadala. The Cyclones kept close An attack error by the Cyclones season highs in with 13 kills, until a kill by senior Cat Jamshidi gave the Beavers another chance kills (38), digs while Little led the Beavers to a six-point rally and they capitalized, with senior (51) and blocks added five and and eventual 25-18 victory. Harinee Maiyuran serving up a (8.0). the pair each The second set was a nail-biter clutch ace and setting up Pagadala Caltech 3, recorded two right from the start. Mills shrugged for the kill to clinch the exciting Mills 0 blocks. Senior off the first set to jump out to a 12-8 second set. Looking to The volleyball players do their best rampaging dinosaur impressions for their Amy Hu posted lead, but a kill by senior Amarise The third set stood in stark improve from victory celebration. her second Photo Courtesy of Michael L. Wong Little shifted the momentum in contrast to the second, with Mills their first match, double-digit favor of the Beavers, who scored surging ahead 10-5 before Caltech the Cyclones came out fired up to a 25-19 win. dig total of the season with a team- six unanswered points to take took over, scoring 20 of the final 26 as they took an early 8-6 lead in The third set was a true battle, high 10, while Jamshidi’s five aces the 14-12 lead. An attack error by points to seal the victory. the first set. A Mills attack error with the Cyclones scoring the first led Caltech to a season-high 19, the Beavers did not change the Jamshidi double-doubled for keyed a 10-1 run, including six two points of the set before a kill by with another four from Pagadala momentum as they bounced back the first time this season, smacking unanswered points, for the Beavers Little woke up the Beavers. Caltech and three each from Maiyuran, to run off another three straight a team-high 19 kills on a .292 hitting and Caltech rode the momentum to tallied four straight points to gain Pagadala and Lewis. Bradley regains SCIAC lead in Reed scores two in split with Chaffey, Ventura first start at forward GOCALTECH.COM Actual Sports Content Editor versus Whittier only three shots on target in the RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Ca- GOCALTECH.COM lif. (Oct. 10, 2015) – Junior Chris eighth minute to force a save. Actual Sports Content Editor Bradley regained the SCIAC lead Junior J.D. Feist made three with 60 goals on the season thanks saves before the Poets finally PASADENA, Calif. (Oct. 14, to a 13-goal haul as the Caltech breached the defense for their first 2015) – Junior Schaeffer Reed men’s water polo team split a pair goal in the 20th minute and again bagged a brace to reward Head of games at Chaffey College, 13-10, in the 35th. Reed responded just Coach Phil Murray’s decision to and against Ventura College, 10- three minutes later with a header field him as a forward for the first 12, on Saturday morning. off a free kick from freshman Jack time in his career against Whittier The Beavers are now 6-9 overall Banaszak to halve the deficit head- College on Wednesday afternoon. with one non-conference game re- ing into halftime. The Poets took an early lead and maining before SCIAC play begins. The visitors gained some fended off a late first half challenge Caltech 13, Chaffey 10 breathing room on a penalty from the Beavers to claim the 5-2 Caltech controlled play to pen Bradley winds up, undoubtedly to score another goal. He is the star of this ar- shot thanks to a handball in the victory. Whittier improves to 5-7- the first game, limiting Chaffey to ticle, but I’d like to take a moment in the caption to ask, what kind of city name 49thminute and added another 1 overall and 4-6-1 in the SCIAC just two shots in the first quarter. is Rancho Cucamonga? in the 66th to go ahead by three while Caltech is now 0-11 (0-11). That dominance led to three Bea- Photo Courtesy of Michael L. Wong at 4-1. Reed, having sent another vers goals, with Bradley netting a Whittier threatened to take Bradley to break the eight-minute struggled to maintain possession header just over the bar in the 63rd brace and assisting senior James control from the outset, but Reed scoring drought with 3:32 on the and create open looks. minute, hit his second goal on a Blackwood, who returned the favor and the rest of the Beavers offense clock, but Chaffey made one final Blackwood would find Bradley header off Banaszak’s corner to on Bradley’s second goal. The Pan- made a point of pushing up-field push with goals at 3:12 and 1:54 to again to cut the margin to one early again halve the deficit. The Poets thers converted their first attempt and the converted defender soon trim the deficit to two. The- Pan in the second quarter, but Ventura would seal the victory with their of the game at the 2:37 mark to put the first of his and the team’s thers forced a turnover on the Bea- opened up a four-goal lead before fifth goal in the 75th minute. cut the lead to two, but freshman vers’ next possession, but Bradley Caltech could get back on the board Shaurya Gilani stuffed the second sealed the game with a steal, drawn via a third Blackwood-to-Bradley shot with 19 seconds remaining for exclusion and his season-high connection. The Beavers pulled the first of an eventual 12 saves – eighth goal on another Blackwood back within two at 7-5 and 8-6 over the first double-digit total of his assist with 49 seconds left to play. the first four minutes of the second career. Bradley netted his eight goals half, but Ventura scored on three The Beavers extended the lead on 18 attempts without commit- consecutive possessions to take a to four with goals from Blackwood ting a single turnover, while Black- nearly insurmountable 11-6 lead and senior Patric Eck before the wood amassed three goals and four with just 1:59 left in the third. Panthers struck for their second. assists. Eck drew six exclusions, Caltech put together a rally Bradley netted two more on con- scored twice and made two assists down the stretch, outscoring Ven- secutive possessions to make it while freshman Eshan Govil built tura 4-1 in the quarter, but could 7-2 and Caltech followed Chaffey’s on his recent hot streak with two not capitalize on a breakaway op- third strike with two more be- assists, three steals and two field portunity to come within one in the fore the quarter ended. In the last blocks. final minute. minute, another three Bradley at- Ventura 12, Caltech 10 Bradley scored five goals on 10 tempts failed to find the back of the Just minutes after ending the attempts while Blackwood regis- net as the halftime score read 9-3. first game, Caltech found itself on tered two goals and another four Blackwood opened the scoring the opposite side of the coin in the assists. Eck drew a season-high- again three minutes into the sec- second game, falling behind 4-1 tying seven exclusions as sopho- ond half, but Chaffey began to rally midway through the first quarter more, Govil and junior Tomas Tus- with back-to-back goals and three before salvaging a second goal at sie netted once each. Freshmen straight between the late third the 2:20 mark. Bradley and Black- John Lloyd and Charles Ross made and early fourth quarters, pulling wood scored and assisted once a season-high 10 and six saves, re- “Y U take the ball frm me & run away liek that?” -- Hilarious Expressions Guy, within three at 11-8 with 5:20 re- each in the quarter as the offense spectively, in goal. on right. maining in the game. Eck assisted Photo Courtesy of Bob Palermini Announcements 6 October 19, 2015 THE CALIFORNIA TECH

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