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Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Celebrate the many ways in which scientists and artists share in the creative process and innovation. Join the @CaltechArchives, @NASAJPL, and CaltechLive for in-depth exploration and conversation at Caltech, part of Getty’s PST ART. More: More: events.caltech.edu/calendar/…
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Last week, you may have noticed a small patch of gold leaf on the bridge outside Caltech Hall last week. The test was in preparation for Lita Albuquerque's installation “This Moment in Time,” part of Caltech Archives’ participation in PST ART 2024. pst.art/en/exhibitions/cross…
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The galleries are open! The Diverse Environments of the Arroyo Seco: Paintings from the California Art Club, a juried, fine art exhibition is now on view from 12 to 5 pm Wednesdays-Sundays.
Image: Michael Obermeyer - Shady Path
ALT Michael Obermeyer: Shady Path, oil on canvas, 11" x 14"
Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
The Museum of Contemporary Art (@MOCAlosangeles) is launching MOCA Climate Conversations, debuting on September 30.
The series continues throughout the fall, including the second symposium of the season, “Urban Ecologies,” which will bring together artists Jessa Calderon and Carolina Caycedo, among others, on December 3rd.
Los Angeles-based Colombian artist Caycedo’s (@carolinacaycedo) artworks will be featured in “We Place Life at the Center,” an exhibition coming Fall 2024 for PST ART at the Vincent Price Art Museum (@vpam_arts), which directs dialogue and points of exchange among art, science, and environmental justice in the Americas.
For more details on the MOCA Climate Conversations series, visit moca.org/programs.
#pstART
Image: “Lake Elsinore #2,” detail, 1982, Anthony Hernandez. Gelatin silver print. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gift of The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection.
Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
The Caltech Library is happy to announce the publication of a new book by Biology and Biological Engineering Librarian Kristin Briney. The Research Data Management Workbook is intended to help researchers implement better data management. caltechlibrary.github.io/RDM…
Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Caltech Archives & Special Collections is seeking a current or recent graduate student in archives, library science, or museum studies to work as an Archival Processing Intern for a nine-month period (extendable to twelve). Learn more and/or apply: phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/…
Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Grovelling frosh (first year student) at @Caltech humbly seeks physics inspiration from the 'Oracle of Feynman' (a courtyard sculpture modified by students to include Richard Feynman as the central figure) at Dabney residence hall, 1965:
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Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Edray Goins of @pomonacollege remembers upbringing in LA, undergrad experience @Caltech, icosahedral Galois representations @Stanford, faculty appointment @Purdue_Math, partnering @NSF on math outreach, and tracing the rich history of Black mathematicians
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Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
A nearly 70-year-old, 800-pound machine found in a German basement last November turned out to be an innovation that changed the course of computer history. And it has its roots at Caltech.
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Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Our #pstART exhibition Crossing Over: Caltech and Visual Culture, 1920–2020 will open in September 2024. Mining the @CaltechArchives for objects, images, and stories, Crossing Over examines the roles images and artists play in scientific institutions. pst.art/en/exhibitions/cross…
Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Caltech is excited to be part of @PST_ART: Art & Science Collide. #pstART
"Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020" opens to the public in four spaces on campus in Sept. 2024.
Details at: pst.art/en/exhibitions/cross…
ALT Edith M. Wallace, Drosophila, 1934, ink and watercolor on paper, 19 x 14 inches, Caltech Archives and Special Collections
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The Caltech community was saddened to learn of the death of Gordon Moore (Ph.D., 1954), a pioneer of the modern electronics industry. @CaltechArchives has shared this video of Professor Carver Mead who relates the story behind Moore’s Law. youtube.com/watch?v=F5P5SAlE…
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Dave Bacon of @Google remembers neural networks @Caltech, decoherence-free subspaces @UCBerkeley, returning to @IQIM_Caltech and the pursuit of error correction, appointments @uwcse and @IonQ_Inc, and pursuing a "middle way" to scalable #quantum computing
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Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Alec Brooks, one of the pioneering engineers of electric vehicles, remembers aerodynamics @Caltech, the solar Sunraycer victory by @aerovironment in Australia, the EV1 concept by @GM, beating @Ferrari with the tZero roadster, and renewable energy @Google
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Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Astronaut Bob Behnken of @NASA_Johnson remembers upbringing in St. Louis, undergrad @WUSTL, service @usafrotc and @TeamEglin, mechanical engineering @Caltech, the sensation of #spacewalks, partnership with @SpaceX, and being married to a fellow astronaut
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Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Fifty years later, the first three Black women to enter Caltech as students look back on their experiences.
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Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Isaac Kim of @UCDavisCOE recounts thesis work with @preskill on many-body systems and #quantum information @IQIM_Caltech, the benchmarks required to create scalable quantum computing, the key role of #condensedmatter, and the engineering approach of @IBM
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Caltech Archives and Special Collections retweeted
Barry Simon of @Caltech PMA remembers upbringing in Brooklyn, college @harvardphysics, thesis @PrincetonPhys, the import of #Schrodinger Operators and spectral theory, #gematria and the Torah Codes controversy, and the power of youthfulness in mathematics
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