Caltech expert's study seeks to pinpoint which tall buildings ...
Pasadena Star-News, CA
By Dan Abendschein, Staff Writer Swaminathan Krishnan, civil engineering and geophysics assistant professor at Caltech, talks about research in quantifing the probability of tall building collapse in an earthquake at Caltech. (SGVN/Staff Photo by Sarah ...To be continued.
Magnitude 4.7 earthquake rattles the southland from Los Angeles to ...
Village News Network, CA
The "moderate'' 4.7 quake struck shortly before 8:40 pm, a mile east of Lennox, a mile south southeast of Inglewood and 10 miles south southwest of the Los Angeles Civic Center, according to Caltech. The rumbling lasted 10 to 15 seconds and was felt ...To be continued.
Social calendar, May 19
Pasadena Star-News, CA
8 pm, also Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 7 pm Gates Annex Patio, Caltech campus. $18; seniors and students, $9; youth, $5. (626) 395-3295 or www.events.caltech.edu. The 14th annual Los Angeles Public Library Awards Dinner hosted by the Library ...To be continued.
Wolfram Alpha "Answer Engine" Challenges Google Search
eWEEK Europe UK, UK
... whose career includes work on particle physics as a teen prodigy at Oxford University, and symbolic manipulation at Caltech, and a controversial theory that the universe is best described by simple mathematical systems, called cellular automata. ...To be continued.
890000 felt strong shaking from Sunday's quake
ScienceDude, CA
A new analysis by Caltech and the US Geological Survey says that approximately 890000 people — including tens of thousands in Orange County — experienced strong shaking from Sunday's 4.7 earthquake near Inglewood. And about 3 million additional period ...To be continued.
Brothers to attend science program at Caltech
Hi-Desert Star, CA
30 students selected from more than 750 applicants from high schools across the country to attend the three-week 2009 Caltech Young Engineering and Science Program. The brothers will attend the program, at the California Institute of Technology in ...To be continued.
DOE names Caltech professor as director of EFRC focusing on light ...
EurekAlert (press release), DC
"It is essential and very appropriate for a place like Caltech to serve as an intellectual center for fundamental scientific research in solar energy," says Atwater. "We have programs that support work on photovoltaic devices, but the Energy Frontier ...To be continued.
WolframAlpha, the Google killer?
Management Today, UK
The result, for now at any rate, is astonishingly highbrow – doubtless a reflection of the precocious intellect of Dr Wolfram, who was publishing papers on particle physics as a sixteen year old and got his phd from Caltech aged only 20. ...To be continued.
CalTech expert to discuss consciousness May 5
UTSA Today, TX
After four years at MIT, Koch joined Caltech in 1986, where he is the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology and professor of computation and neural systems. He lives in Pasadena, and loves to run and to climb. ...To be continued.
Caltech proves hospitable to filming
Variety, CA
But Caltech's most prominent use as an onscreen venue began four years ago, when it became a central location for the CBS series "Numbers" — even though the Pasadena campus was not the first choice. "Numbers" was originally to be set in Boston, ...To be continued.
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