The California Tech Volume CXViii number 29 Pasadena, California [email protected] June 1, 2015 HEAL hosts Caltech’s first Beaver 5K Run/Walk STEPHANIE HUARD with Caltech’s health educator, Contributing Writer Jenny Mahlum, to educate the community on matters pertaining It was a warm and exciting to overall health and Caltech- morning on Saturday, May 30, specific resources for maintaining when over 170 runners gathered a healthy lifestyle. Within HEAL, on Beckman Lawn for Caltech’s there are five subcommittees: first Beaver 5K Run/Walk. The Nutrition and Fitness, Mental participants, including members of Health Awareness, Stress and the faculty, staff, postdoc, graduate Sleep, Sexual Health and Healthy and undergraduate communities, Relationships, and Drugs and lined up at 10:30 a.m. near Broad Alcohol. The CCA is group of Center, and made their way twice community volunteers from the through a twisty-turny loop on Catalina Apartments that plan campus to reach 3.1 miles. events and act as representatives Over the course of the race, for the Catalina community. The volunteers were stationed CCA consists mostly of graduate around the course to provide students. encouragement to participants, HEAL and the CCA thank and to provide assistance in everyone who participated in the the event of injury or any other event for making it a success. Runners line up at the start by Broad Center. emergency. At the end of the race, the fastest woman and man in the undergraduate, graduate and faculty/staff/postdoc categories received a prize of a Jamba Juice gift card, and the fastest team and biggest team received trophies. Additionally, Ernie’s food truck was stationed at the end to provide runners with tasty nourishment at the end of the race. Even the trusty Caltech Beaver came out to congratulate runners and pose for pictures at the photo booth. The event was organized by the Health Education Advisory League (HEAL) and the Catalina Community Associates (CCA), to provide a healthy, fun event for the community. HEAL is an undergraduate and graduate student organization that works Friends pose with the Caltech Beaver after their run. Photos Courtesy of Stephanie Huard John Nash dies in NJ car accident Cast holds screening of CASEY HANDMER earning his Ph.D. in 1950 at the Prize in Economic Sciences in Contributing Writer age of 21. His 28-page doctoral Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994. Star Trek musical parody thesis (https://goo.gl/IJC4mB) Nash was hired by MIT in On May 23, John Nash and introduced non-cooperative games 1951. In 1952 he fathered and his wife, Alicia Lopez-Harrison de and the Nash equilibrium, for which subsequently abandoned his first Lardé, died in a traffic accident he subsequently was awarded one- son, John David Stier. His summer in New Jersey. Two other people third of The Sveriges Riksbank were injured. Nash was returning Continued on page 2 from a trip to Norway, where he had been awarded the Abel Prize in recognition of his extraordinary career and contributions to the field of mathematics. Nash’s life was memorialized by the 1998 book and 2001 film A Beautiful Mind. Nash was born in West Virginia in 1928, and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) where, his interests evolving, he switched majors from chemical engineering to chemistry, and (From left) Spock (Casey Handmer) and Takya (Holly Bender) finally to mathematics, graduating share an emotional connection during a song. in 1948 with a B.S. and M.S. 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His recently and volunteer opportunities. The Prepare and serve dinner to the was stripped of his clearance after following his release from his last declassified work on cryptography list is compiled by Neera Shah from homeless at Union Station Family being arrested in a homosexual hospitalization in 1970. in the early 1950s was decades information given by the Caltech Y Center in Pasadena. Food and sting operation at the height of the While he never stopped ahead of its time. His proposed and its student McCarthy-era hysteria. In 1956 he mathematical research entirely encryption/decryption algorithms, leaders. proved Hilbert’s 19th problem, only after the sudden onset of his while different from RSA or GPG, Founded to find an independent solution illness, his gradual recovery during are similarly based on the concept by students had been published by the Italian the 1970s and 1980s saw a second of computational hardness and in 1916, the Y mathematician Ennio de Giorgi blossoming of his mathematical have since been shown to be as was organized just months before. creativity and a series of productive effective. to provide Around this time, Nash met collaborations, initially using email. He made contributions to extracurricular Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé, an During the 1990s, he resumed some algebraic geometry and topology, activities planned MIT-educated physicist originally teaching duties at Princeton and, in and work in geometry produced and implemented from El Salvador. They married 2001, Nash and Alicia remarried. the Nash Embedding Theorem by students as in 1957 in a Roman Catholic Nash has stated that through his in 1966, which showed that every an opportunity ceremony, despite Nash’s atheism. recovery he learned to manage Riemannian manifold can be to learn In 1958 he was tenured at MIT, but the societally challenging aspects isometrically embedded into some leadership skills by 1959 his mental illness began to of schizophrenic behavior while Euclidean space. Constructive and discover manifest. Nash resigned from MIT trying not to restrict his incredible proofs soon followed and today it’s themselves. Volunteers help serve food at the Union Station Family and underwent sporadic treatment creativity. possible to visualize the embedding The mission of Center. for schizophrenia for much of the While Nash is best known for of a square torus in 3D space. today’s Y remains Photos Courtesy of Caltech Y next decade. His second son, John his work on games theory, with 21 the same—to provide opportunities that will materials are provided. The Family prepare students to become Center provides a home-like Honor Code amendments pass engaged, responsible citizens of environment for up to 50 parents the world. The Y seeks to broaden and children. It’s one of the only CONNOR ROSEN AND of amendments to the Board of and will give the dean a greater students’ worldviews, raise social, shelters in LA County that accepts ADAM JERMYN Control bylaws in a campus-wide ability to communicate faculty ethical, and cultural awareness single fathers with children. For JOHN DABIRI vote. We strongly believe these concerns to the Board as well as through teamwork, community more info and to RSVP email Contributing Writers changes will strengthen the Honor better communicate the Board’s engagement, activism, and Stephanie Hong (stephanie. 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