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Born in St. Louis, Chu attended the University of Rochester where he was inspired by Caltech physicist Richard Feynman. He earned a BA in mathematics and a BS in physics. Chu pursued graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley, ...

By daveshields By way of background, I have a B.S. in Mathematics from Caltech, in 1966. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS) of New York University in 1983. The time delay in getting my Ph.D. is due to a combination of my limited skills in mathematics and a love...

By daveshields I left the lecture hall at noon just KNOWING quantum mechanics. But as I began the journey down the Olive Walk to my job as a waiter at the Caltech Faculty Club I felt the edifice — like the Tower of Babel — start to tumble. But at least — if only for a few minutes — I did understand quantum mechanics. I...

By daveshields I once picked up a fare going from the West Side to Midtown. We went through Central Park, where the traffic was very light. On learning that I was a Caltech graduate, my fare asked me to stop the cab so he could join me in the front seat, where we discussed physics and mathematics for the rest of th...

During his career at Bell Labs, he also held visiting professorships at Caltech, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford, UCLA and UC Davis. While at AT&T, he focused his efforts on the AMS and MAA, since many other Bell Labs mathematicians tended to be involved ...

It isn't often that four professors from a single institution are invited to one conference, let alone four from a single division. So Caltech may have achieved some kind of special status with oddsmakers by having four faculty from Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy invited to lecture...

By daveshields I have recently attempted to bring back the programming skills I last used in 2002. I have done this first as part of my need to find a job. My employer, IBM, laid me off in February, having decided that my B.S. in Mathematics from Caltech and my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Courant Institute of...

By daveshields By the way, those Sun employees should stay in California if at all possible. Until the last week of so, when I — with a B.S. in Mathematics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Courant Institute — told people that I had been laid off, they for the most part just clucked and said the ti...

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has selected two Caltech students as recipients of 200910 Hertz Fellowships. Chosen from a pool of 543 applicants, Amit Lakhanpal, a graduate student in biology, and Po-Ling Loh, a senior in applied mathematics, are among 10 fellowships awarded thi...

 NY Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech were the top five universities, while Duke, Michigan, Toronto, Waterloo, and Rochester rounded out the top 10. The Putnam exam is the premier undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. ...

Members of the Caltech/JPL community are invited to attend a gathering in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Max Delbruck, the creator of molecular biology. His influence on biology, especially at Caltech, continues to the present day in the vigorous and growing inter...