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01/29/2008

Financier Munger Gives DuBridge Lecture

Jill Perry

Charles "Charlie" Munger, lifelong friend and business partner of Warren Buffett, will be the featured guest at the 2008 DuBridge Distinguished Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology at 8 p.m., March 11, in Beckman Auditorium, 332 S. Michigan Ave., on the Pasadena campus. The event is free and open to the public.

11/07/2007

Combat Correspondent Kevin Sites to Speak at Caltech

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Kevin Sites, award-winning journalist and news correspondent for the Yahoo! Hot Zone, will discuss his journalistic memoir, In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars, and the accompanying documentary, A World of Conflict, at the California Institute of Technology on Wednesday, November 14, at 8 pm, in Ramo Auditorium.

10/19/2007

Oil Expert Discusses End of Fossil Fuel

elisabeth nadin

With the price of oil at a record high of nearly $90 a barrel comes a natural question: How much oil is left in the world?

10/16/2007

Caltech Public Lectures Address Fossil-Fuel Supplies

elisabeth nadin

In his inaugural address, Caltech president Jean-Lou Chameau stressed the importance of taking the lead in addressing energy production and consumption and the environmental issues related to them.

05/07/2007

Watson Lecture: Brain Plasticity during Learning and Memory

John Avery

Everything we learn changes us, and our memories reflect the brain's ability to restructure itself in response to our experience. Neurobiologist Erin Schuman wants to know how memory works, and her research at the California Institute of Technology is helping to uncover the molecular basis behind learning. She will describe recent developments on Wednesday, May 9, in the fourth and final program of the winter/spring 2007 Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series.

04/25/2007

Watson Lecture: Cassini-Huygens at Saturn

John Avery

Saturn's iconic image as a ringed planet is both the symbol and the product of scientific discovery. For millennia the planet appeared to be just a drifting dot in the heavens, until a primitive telescope showed Galileo Galilei that Saturn had "ears." Since then each closer view of the planet with better technology has exposed new and unexpected features.

03/05/2007

Watson Lecture: Global Climate Change

John Avery

Pollution around cities like Los Angeles can be seen from space and is visible evidence of humanity's growing effect on Earth's atmosphere. Using a thousand-cubic-foot indoor smog chamber, John Seinfeld studies atmospheric gases and particles and their interaction with climatic factors such as clouds, rain, and sunlight.

01/31/2007

Jared Diamond Named Caltech Commencement Speaker

Jill Perry

American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction author Jared Diamond will be the keynote speaker at the 113th annual commencement ceremony at the California Institute of Technology at 10 a.m. June 8 on Beckman Mall. The commencement ceremony will be digitally recorded and made available for viewing online at http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement.

01/12/2007

Watson Lecture: Booming Sand Dunes

John Avery

Marco Polo heard the sounds and wrote of evil spirits that could fill the desert air with the emanations of musical instruments, of drums, and the clash of arms. Today's desert explorers still wonder at the booming sands: loud, low-pitched droning that accompanies the avalanching of sand down the leeward face of a large dune, and may continue to rumble for up to a minute after the avalanche stops.

12/04/2006

Watson Lecture: European Conquest

John Avery

How did the West conquer the world? The secret, says California Institute of Technology economic historian Philip T. Hoffman: technological innovation.

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Financier Munger Gives DuBridge Lecture

Combat Correspondent Kevin Sites to Speak at Caltech

Oil Expert Discusses End of Fossil Fuel

Caltech Public Lectures Address Fossil-Fuel Supplies

Watson Lecture: Brain Plasticity during Learning and Memory

Watson Lecture: Cassini-Huygens at Saturn

Watson Lecture: Global Climate Change

Jared Diamond Named Caltech Commencement Speaker

Watson Lecture: Booming Sand Dunes

Watson Lecture: European Conquest