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Radio Stars

February 3, 2012, 8:00 am
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Caltech's newest astronomy professor searches for cosmic radio waves
News Writer: 
Marcus Woo

Growing up in rural northwest Ireland, beyond the reach of city lights, Gregg Hallinan fell in love with the night sky. "When you didn't have bad weather, and you didn't have clouds, the skies were nothing short of spectacular," he says. "From a young age, I was obsessed with astronomy—it's all I cared for. My parents got me a telescope when I was seven or eight, and from then on, that was it." Now, Hallinan has brought his celestial obsession to Caltech as a new assistant professor of astronomy.

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Modeling Markets

March 23, 2012, 7:00 am
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News Writer: 
Marcus Woo

Chris Shannon, the Richard Merkin Professor of Economics and Mathematics, is one of Caltech's newest faculty members. Her research involves developing mathematical models to understand financial markets and other mechanisms that allocate goods, such as auctions.

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Caltech Biologist Stephen Mayo Named Inaugural Bowes Division Chair

July 10, 2012, 7:00 am
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Bowes Foundation gift will seed innovative projects in the biological sciences
News Writer: 
Michael Rogers

Stephen L. Mayo, chair of the Division of Biology and Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry at Caltech, has been named the William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation Division Chair. The William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, based in San Francisco, endowed the new division leadership chair with a $5 million gift, supplemented by an additional $2.5 million provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Matching Program.

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New Professor Practices the Art of Organic Chemistry

July 11, 2012, 7:00 am
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Kimm Fesenmaier

Gregory C. Fu, a new faculty member and the Altair Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, uses his intuition and creativity to develop new chemical reactions that make chemical conversions more efficient—enabling organic chemists to convert reactants into their desired products in fewer steps or with higher yields than previously possible, for example. He talks about the creative aspects of organic chemistry, some of his current work, and making the move to Caltech.

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David Hsieh: Discovering Materials

September 14, 2012, 12:00 am
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Marcus Woo
David Hsieh, an assistant professor of physics, is one of Caltech's newest faculty members. Hsieh grew up in Hong Kong before hopping the Pacific to earn his BS in physics and mathematics in 2003 from Stanford. Hsieh then received his PhD from Princeton in 2009 and was a Pappalardo Fellow at MIT before joining Caltech's faculty on September 1. He recently answered a few questions about his work—and some culinary experiments.
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Working Optimally

September 26, 2012, 8:54 am
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News Writer: 
Kimm Fesenmaier
Credit: Engineering & Applied Science Communications Office
Venkat Chandrasekaran, an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences, arrived at Caltech in early September.
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Matthew Elliott: Modeling Networks

September 26, 2012, 9:33 am
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Marcus Woo
Matthew Elliott is Caltech's newest assistant professor of economics. Born in England, he earned his BA and MPhil from Oxford in 2002 and 2004. After receiving his PhD from Stanford in 2011, he spent a year at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before arriving in Pasadena this fall.
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Planetary Weatherman: An Interview with Andrew Ingersoll

October 14, 2012, 7:20 pm
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Shayna Chabner McKinney

Andrew Ingersoll, Earle C. Anthony Professor of Planetary Sciences, has been a leader in the investigation of planetary weather and climate for nearly five decades. His research has included studies of the so-called runaway greenhouse effect that is thought to have boiled away Venus’s oceans, the presence of liquid water on Mars, the supersonic winds on Jupiter's moon Io, and the atmospheric dynamics of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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Literature in the Middle Ages: An Interview with Jennifer Jahner

October 24, 2012, 2:33 pm
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Marcus Woo
This fall, Jennifer Jahner joined Caltech as an assistant professor of English. As an undergraduate, she planned to study environmental science at Western Washington University. But as a lifelong reader, she couldn't elude the lure of literature, and she ended up majoring in English instead, receiving her BA in 1998. Afterward, she spent several years as a book editor before returning to academia as a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she took a seminar on medieval literature—a class that she says changed her life. Discovering a passion for the time period and for studying old, rare manuscripts, she got her MA in 2005 and then went to the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her PhD last spring. Jahner recently answered a few questions about her research and her thoughts on joining Caltech.
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Diving Into the Unknown: An Interview with Andrei Faraon

November 12, 2012, 3:36 pm
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News Writer: 
Kimm Fesenmaier
Credit: Engineering & Applied Science Communications Office
This fall, Andrei Faraon (BS '04) returned to his alma mater to take a position as an assistant professor of applied physics and materials science. In his work, he builds devices that attempt to use light to manipulate single quantum systems in solids. Faraon recently answered some questions about his research and returning to Caltech.
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The Miracle and Beauty of Physics: An Interview with Cliff Cheung

December 5, 2012, 9:19 am
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News Writer: 
Marcus Woo
When you lift a paper clip off a table with a small magnet, you're accomplishing a remarkable feat: the tiny magnet is overcoming the gravitational pull from the entire Earth. Why does gravity seem so weak compared to electromagnetism and the other fundamental forces of nature? This vast discrepancy in scale—how a small magnet can beat out a whole planet—is related to what physicists call the hierarchy problem. Cliff Cheung—who joined Caltech this fall as an assistant professor of theoretical physics—is fascinated by this "very deep puzzle" (which may be solved through supersymmetry, a class of theories in which every fundamental particle has a partner particle, as well as by dark matter, the mysterious stuff that accounts for nearly a quarter of the universe). Recently, Cheung—who also plays guitar and piano, sings, and writes music—answered a few questions about coming to Caltech and his passion for physics.
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Radio Stars

February 3, 2012, 8:00 am
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Caltech's newest astronomy professor searches for cosmic radio waves
News Writer: 
Marcus Woo

Growing up in rural northwest Ireland, beyond the reach of city lights, Gregg Hallinan fell in love with the night sky. "When you didn't have bad weather, and you didn't have clouds, the skies were nothing short of spectacular," he says. "From a young age, I was obsessed with astronomy—it's all I cared for. My parents got me a telescope when I was seven or eight, and from then on, that was it." Now, Hallinan has brought his celestial obsession to Caltech as a new assistant professor of astronomy.

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From Theory to Reality: An Interview with Jason Alicea

December 18, 2012, 10:10 am
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News Writer: 
Marcus Woo
Quantum computers—computers that harness the bizarre laws of quantum mechanics to become vastly more powerful than conventional computers—have been touted as the next leap in technology. Although useful quantum-computing technology is probably years—and possibly decades—away, physicists like Jason Alicea, who joined Caltech's faculty this fall as an associate professor of theoretical physics, are working hard to make it a reality. Alicea's research involves translating purely theoretical ideas into real-life experiments and applications. He recently answered a few questions about himself and his research.
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Viewing the Cosmos from the South Pole: An Interview with Jamie Bock

February 5, 2013, 10:52 am
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News Writer: 
Marcus Woo

Almost immediately after the Big Bang—roughly after ten trillionths of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second—the universe suddenly grew. Very fast. The entire cosmos, which at the time was smaller than an atom, expanded to the size of a beach ball in less than a millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second—before settling down to a more leisurely rate of growth that continues to this day.

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Cause and Effect: An Interview with Frederick Eberhardt

October 1, 2013, 3:46 pm
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News Writer: 
Cynthia Eller
Credit: Lance Hayashida

Determining cause and effect is complex and fraught with difficulty, from our intuitive—but often mistaken—sense of the causes of events in our daily lives to the perils of structuring and interpreting scientific experimentation. One problem with teasing apart these relationships is that there are many cause-and-effect sequences that we can only observe; we cannot meaningfully intervene, which may make it more problematic to test causal relations.

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Minding the Gaps in the Genome: An Interview with Mitch Guttman

October 8, 2013, 8:34 pm
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News Writer: 
Kimm Fesenmaier

Mitchell Guttman is a new assistant professor of biology on campus. He just arrived last month, having recently completed a fellowship at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Guttman received both his BS and MS degrees in 2006 from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his PhD at MIT in 2012. Since then, he has received an NIH Early Independence Award and was included on Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30: Science and Healthcare list.

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Reducing Coincidence with Mathematics: An Interview with Nets Katz

October 17, 2013, 10:54 am
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News Writer: 
Jessica Stoller-Conrad
Raised in Grand Prairie, Texas, Nets Katz began pursuing mathematics at an early age, earning a bachelor's degree at the age of 17 and a doctorate at 20. He joined the faculty at Caltech in January 2013.
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Programming DNA for Molecular Robots: An Interview with Lulu Qian

October 22, 2013, 12:30 pm
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News Writer: 
Jessica Stoller-Conrad
Lulu Qian, assistant professor of bioengineering
Credit: Lance Hayashida/Caltech Marketing and Communications
New Caltech faculty member Lulu Qian performs research in the field of molecular programming to design synthetic molecular systems with neural-network-like behaviors and tiny robots from the programmed interactions of DNA molecules.
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Building the World's Most Sensitive Detectors: A Conversation with Rana Adhikari

October 28, 2013, 4:20 pm
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News Writer: 
Cynthia Eller
Credit: Lance Hayashida
Caltech professor of physics Rana Adhikari has been on a singular quest for 15 years: to detect gravitational waves.
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Interactions in Space: An Interview with Philip Hopkins

November 14, 2013, 11:57 am
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News Writer: 
Jessica Stoller-Conrad
Philip Hopkins, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics
Credit: Lance Hayashida/Caltech Marketing and Communications
"I work on a broad range of topics, but basically I like studying how big things form. I study how galaxies form, how stars form, and how supermassive black holes form. Recently, I started studying how planets form"
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