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By rss@youtube.com (douggrz) Feynman explains the failure of reflection symmetry in physics during one of his lectures at Caltech in 1961, using a clever anecdote about a martian. I couldn't find this on youtube so I figured I'd share it. Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tY1r1q7NQ

This is the intro to the Basic Physics lecture from the Feynman Lectures on Physics given in 1961 at Caltech. I highly recommend this lecture ... www.metacafe.com

This is from The Feynman Lectures on Physics given in 1961 at Caltech. I highly recommend this lecture series. While not all of it is understandable to the lay person, much of it is. Richard Feynman was an inspirational teacher and could illuminate many esoteric concepts in physics with his c...

By California Institute of Technology Lecture 22, Part 1: Thermal Noises in GW Interferometers The course is designed for physics graduate students or advanced undergraduates, and for scientists and engineers who have been working in other fields and are contemplating switching to gravitational-wave research -- exper...

By rss@youtube.com (riversonthemoon) This is from The Feynman Lectures on Physics given in 1961 at Caltech. I highly recommend this lecture series. While not all of it is understandable to the lay person, much of it is. Richard Feynman was an inspirational teacher and could illuminate many esoteric concepts in physics with his c...

By California Institute of Technology For more educational videos, visit: www.CosmoLearning.com Physics Lecture 39: Maxwell's Equations Maxwell discovers that displacement current produces electromagnetic waves or light. This series helps teachers demystify physics by showing students what it looks like. Field trips...

By California Institute of Technology For more educational videos, visit: www.CosmoLearning.com Physics Lecture 12: The Millikan Experiment A dramatic recreation of Millikan's classic oil-drop experiment to determine the charge of a single electron. This series helps teachers demystify physics by showing students wha...

Unknown length - 2008-07-22 an audio interview with Caltech Vice Provost and Professor of Physics Dr. David Goodstein, recorded April 16, 2006, about his then recently-published book about peak oil, "Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil"

Unknown length - 2008-05-11 a video interview with Caltech Vice Provost and Professor of Physics Dr. David L. Goodstein, in which he discusses his 2004 book, "Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil," and related issues

By rss@youtube.com (GIVEsymposiums) Dr. David L. Goodstein, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Caltech Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:30pm-7:30pm Author: GIVEsymposiums Keywords: Award David Goodstein Ali Sahabi Symposium Oil Gas Peak Caltech Professor GIVE give Added: May 6, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (asymptotia) Extract from a presentation Clifford Johnson gave at Caltech on 17/04/08. All about promising research on string theory models of a new phase of matter. Author: asymptotia Keywords: string theory quark gluon plasma physics black holes extra dimensions Added: April 18, 2008

By Etopia Media a June 27, 2006, video interview with California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Vice Provost and Professor of Physics David Goodstein, in which he discusses his 2004 book, "Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil," and other subjects dealing with global energy sustainability, includi...

Edward Stone, the David Morrisroe Professor of Physics at Caltech and former director of JPL, discussed the Thirty Meter Telescope in a lecture at Alumni College. Stone explained how if we collect and concentrate enough light from dim, distant bodies, we can observe them as they were nea...

Caltech alum David MacKay, PhD '92, has been appointed chief scientific advisor for the United Kingdom's Department of Energy and Climate Change. MacKay is currently a professor of natural philosophy in the physics department at Cambridge University and is author of the influential b...

Caltech grad student Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux has been awarded Mexico's most prestigious youth award, the Premio Nacional de Juventud (National Youth Prize) in Academic Activities for 2008. Pedro, a seventh-year graduate student in high energy physics, is working with Professor Har...

Scientists led by Nobel Laureate Robert Grubbs, the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, have made molecular "daisy chains" containing threaded rings that can be pulled taut or slackened by chemical stimuli. The polymers signify a step toward making materia...

Join Caltech Alumni Association members and their guests for a light supper prior to the Earnest C. Watson Lecture on October 14th. The evening's lecturer will be Christopher Martin, Professor of Physics, whose topic is "Exploring the Ultraviolet Universe."

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PhysOrg.com) -- Inside a mountain range in central Italy, Columbia researchers are trying to solve one of the most pressing questions in modern physics: What is dark matter? The riddle has obsessed astronomers and physicists since the 1930s, when Caltech professor Fritz Zwicky first p...

 Hong Kong After obtaining his degree in Electrical Engineering and Physics at MIT and his phd at Caltech, Sarpeshkar joined the technical staff at Bell Labs, Biological Computation department within its physics division. Since 1999, he has served in mit's ...

 IL Brent Fultz, a professor of materials science and applied physics at Caltech who also coauthored the research, continues, "Today, materials physics has some excellent computational tools for predicting the structure and properties of materials, ...

 UK Finding Hawking radiation would be a big boon for physics, says cosmologist Sean Carroll of Caltech. "For one thing, Stephen Hawking would win the Nobel Prize," Carroll told New Scientist. "But it would more just show us that we're on the right track. ...

press release) We intentionally picked chemical compositions that do not show Invar behavior because I thought it would confuse our interpretations," says Brent Fultz, a professor of materials science and applied physics at Caltech, and a coauthor of the PRL paper. ...

North County Times - Californian, CA Diamond, who spent last summer taking an astrobiology class at Harvard ---- he got an A ---- will attend Caltech in the fall and major in physics; he has plans to become a university professor. "Be daring," salutatorian Dominique Salazar urged her ...

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, ...

and I had to go to Caltech and interview a lot of people who both knew Feynman and understood his work, so I could really understand the physics. ... and more »

press release) These interactions, notes Oskar Painter, associate professor of applied physics at Caltech, and the principal investigator on the research, are the largest demonstrated to date. The device and the work that led to it are described in a recent issue of ...

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 CA Three seniors from the California Institute of Technology have received Fulbright Fellowships to pursue graduate work abroad, Caltech announced. Alex Hudson is beginning a one-year program in theoretical chemistry at the University of Oxford; ...

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 MA It was founded by Harry Atwater, the Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Material Science at Caltech (not to be confused with the Howard Hughes Professor of General Craziness and Fingernail Saving). Atwater's group investigates silicon but ...

H. Jeff Kimble of Caltech will describe a new effort to counteract thermal noise and improve the sensitivity of interferometers. He and his colleagues argue that a very slight thermally-induced movement of a mirror's surface owing to thermal noise is ...

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 CA Zewail is a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and director of the school's recently established Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

 WA Koonin's research interests have included theoretical and computational physics, as well as global environmental science. He did his undergraduate work at Caltech and has a doctorate from MIT. Harris was managing partner of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis ...

 TN Koonin's research interests have included theoretical and computational physics, as well as global environmental science. He did his undergraduate work at Caltech and has a PhD from MIT. -- Scott Blake Harris was Managing Partner of Harris, ...

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  Canada Described as a physics prodigy, he wrote his first scientific paper at 15 and received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech by age 20. Levy said Wolfram's approach breaks with the dominant thinking in Internet search over the past decade, ...

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subscription), MD WolframAlpha comes from Stephen Wolfram, 49, a British-born physics prodigy who earned a Caltech Ph.D. at age 20 and won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" at 21. The site computes the answers to queries using the collection of data the company, ...

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For decades of breakthroughs in bioinorganic and inorganic photochemistry powering his current work in renewable fuels, Harry Gray, the Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute at Caltech, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Welch Award in C...

 CA That EFRC will be headed by Harry Atwater, the Howard Hughes Professor and professor of applied physics and materials science. It is essential and very appropriate for a place like Caltech to serve as an intellectual center for fundamental scientific ...

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...

That EFRC will be headed by Harry Atwater, the Howard Hughes Professor and professor of applied physics and materials science. "It is essential and very appropriate for a place like Caltech to serve as an intellectual center for fundamental scientific ...

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...

New Zealand Herald Born in London in 1959, he was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech. He published his first scientific paper at the age of 15, and had received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech by the age of 20. Wolfram's early scientific work was mainly in ...

Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Caltech, has been named by President Barack Obama to the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). ...

Chemical & Engineering News “It is an exceptionally beautiful piece of synthetic chemistry,” comments Brian M. Stoltz, a chemistry professor at Caltech. “The paper vividly captures not only the trials and tribulations of complex-molecule synthesis, but also the highly ...

press release) The difference between porphyrins and corroles, says Harry Gray, Caltech's Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute, is that some corroles don't require a laser boost to turn lethal. ...

press release) The difference between porphyrins and corroles, says Harry Gray, Caltech's Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute, is that some corroles don't require a laser boost to turn lethal. ...

press release) The difference between porphyrins and corroles, says Harry Gray, Caltech's Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute, is that some corroles don't require a laser boost to turn lethal. ...

By daveshields Back in the 1960’s an apartment near the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California, was shared by several generations of graduate students in chemistry. No one knew how to list the phone number until one of them made the obvious suggestion, and after I heard the story I confirmed its accuracy...

press release), NY “In addition, we found that nicotine makes a strong hydrogen bond in the brain's acetylcholine receptors,” notes Dennis Dougherty, Ph.D., the George Grant Hoag professor of chemistry at Caltech. “This same hydrogen bond, in the receptors in muscle ...

press release), NY “In addition, we found that nicotine makes a strong hydrogen bond in the brain's acetylcholine receptors,” notes Dennis Dougherty, Ph.D., the George Grant Hoag professor of chemistry at Caltech. “This same hydrogen bond, in the receptors in muscle ...

press release), NY “In addition, we found that nicotine makes a strong hydrogen bond in the brain's acetylcholine receptors,” notes Dennis Dougherty, Ph.D., the George Grant Hoag professor of chemistry at Caltech. “This same hydrogen bond, in the receptors in muscle ...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Hsu) Instead of hitting the beach next week during spring break I'll be visiting Fermilab and Vanderbilt University to give the following talks. No fair peeking if you are from one of those institutions! Vanderbilt University physics colloquium: Black holes, information and entropy

By Michael A microfluidic chip that uses a novel technology to identify the presence of circulating proteins in a minuscule blood sample may lead to a new generation of quick and accurate diagnostic tests. The chip's technology is being developed by Caltech professor of chemistry Dr. James Heath an...

By Jennifer Ouellette Then there is this year's Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry, awarding one-half of the prize to one team of scientists for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and the other half of the prize to a second team for proving that it is not. (Snopes.com dismisses the "Coca-Cola kills...

By clementlawyer After nearly 30 years at Caltech as a professor of theoretical physics and, eventually, provost, Steven Koonin took a leave of absence in 2004 to become BP's chief scientist. After a year of study, he recommended a strategy for the company that has included investments in unconventional...

Susan Orlean of The New Yorker ripped into the world of origami with Robert J. Lang, a Caltech graduate who took his Ph.D in Applied Physics and folded it into a professional touring career as the world’s best origamist. ...

Caltech will host the 25th annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on February 19 and 20, in 151 Sloan. Information on the program, including the schedule, speakers, and topics, can be found at www.math.caltech.edu/events/wsmp07.html. For graduate students, admi...

The Pasadena Star-News recently featured a story about the High School Teacher Institute, part of the Caltech Precollege Science Initiative (CAPSI). Teachers were the students in this month-long program designed to demonstrate a new way of teaching science to high schoolers, who oft...

Caltech graduate student in chemistry John Keith has added his own score to the film to create a fantastic film experience for the Caltech audience. At 8 pm on November 16, in Beckman Institute auditorium.

Presented by Holly Hight from Bread for the World and the ONE Campaign, and Paul Cook, graduate student in physics, Caltech. At noon on November 14, in Center for Student Services, second floor common area.

Dr. H. David Politzer, professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, is honored at a press conference after being named a 2004 Nobel Laureate in physics. Caltech's President David Baltimore, Provost Paul Jennings, and McCone Professor of High Energy Physics Mark Wise discuss Politzer's...