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Euclid Dark Energy Telescope Selects Deep Fields
The upcoming Euclid mission, whose US science center is based at IPAC, has selected sky areas for deeper study.
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Undergraduate Student
Yeorgia Kafkoulis
Even our most reliable ideas about how the universe works break down in certain domains. They can’t account for the weirdness of quantum mechanics or the recursive chaos of fractals. Hungry for answers, many researchers—including one Caltech undergraduate and her faculty mentor—aim to come up with a better explanation.
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Harold Brown Professor of Physics, Emeritus; Director, Spitzer Science Center
Tom Soifer
After nearly five decades at Caltech, Tom Soifer is still smiling. The former Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair of the division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy continues to advance our understanding of the universe by hunting for dust-obscured galaxies—DOGs—where others can’t see.
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Graduate Student in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Manuel Razo Mejia
Caltech graduate student Manuel Razo Mejia wants to predict how evolution occurs in organisms ranging from microbes to humans. Until recently, evolution has been considered a random process, but Razo Mejia believes we might detect certain patterns by applying the principles of physics and mathematics.
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Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry
Linda Hsieh-Wilson
Caltech surprised chemist and neurobiologist Linda Hsieh-Wilson when she arrived as a new professor in 2000. The unusually interactive campus felt like a community, even a family.
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Undergraduate Student
Damien Bérubé
Like many who come to Caltech to learn and explore, undergraduate Damien Bérubé dreams of changing the world with science and engineering. But his personal vision—the force that drives him in the classroom, the lab, and beyond—is an uncommon one.
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France Cordova at commencement: "I came here to be a scientist. I let nothing stop me."
![“This final concert is going to be very near and dear to my heart but also something that really shows off the orchestra. The Haydn is special. It’s his last symphony [Symphony No. 104], and he probably knew it was going to be his last symphony. For me, Haydn makes the world whole. And I thought, ‘OK, this is a good piece to end my career at Caltech with.’ It's a piece with a great sense of harmony in it. In the slow movement, Haydn seems to deliberately lose his way. He veers off into very strange harmonic territory. And it stops, and it tries to get back on track, and it does get back on track. So, it's very subtly poignant.” Allen Robert Gross is director of the Caltech Orchestra. In honor of his retirement after 36 years, the orchestra will present two performances on May 25 at 8 p.m. and 26 at 3:30 p.m. in Ramo Auditorium. The events are free and open to the public. Find more information: today.caltech.edu
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