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Attribution: - Design and Production: Caltech Academic Media Technologies - Diagrams: Richard Feynman, provided by Caltech Archives and Special Collections - Drumming and Percussion: Richard Feynman, with permission of Ralph Leighton - Photos: Caltech Academic Media Technologies, Caltech Marketi...

From: sciencestage.com on Mon, May 23 2011 6:41 AM

Attribution: - Design and Production: Caltech Academic Media Technologies - Hippotizer Visualization: Jon 9 - Music: Composed and performed by Lyle Mays. Mixed and mastered by Bob Rice. - Photos: Caltech Academic Media Technologies, Mary King Sikora, Christopher Sykes, Shannon West, Bill Youngbl...

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Angela Belcher is the WM Keck Professor of Energy, Materials Science

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Charlie Marcus is Professor of Physics at Harvard. His research focuses on fabrication of submicron electronic structures — semiconductor quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, and graphene-based microstructures -- and measurement of their electron transport properties at low temperatures. His sc...

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Nadine Dabby is a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, where she works on DNA nanotechnology and molecular programming in the Winfree Lab. Prior to attending Caltech, she completed a double major in Molecular and Cell Biology and English Literature at UC Berkeley. Nadin...

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Dennis Callahan is a third year graduate student in Materials Science at Caltech. His thesis is focused on exploring design limits for novel types of solar cells to achieve maximum efficiency with minimum cost and use of raw materials. He has created many types of scientific art, and his images ...

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Mark E. Davis is the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at Caltech and a member of the Experimental Therapeutics Program of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the City of Hope. He has over 350 scientific publications, two textbooks, and over 50 patents. He is the re...

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Stephen Quake studied physics (BS '91) and mathematics (MS '91) at Stanford University before earning his doctorate in physics from Oxford University as a Marshall scholar ('94). Thereafter, as a postdoc in Nobel Laureate Steven Chu’s group at Stanford, he developed techniques to ...

From: sciencestage.com on Mon, May 23 2011 6:41 AM

Eric Heller was born in Washington DC in 1946. He received his BS from the University of Minnesota in 1968, and his PhD in Chemical Physics in 1973 from Harvard University. After a postdoc at the University of Chicago, Rick joined the chemistry faculty at UCLA in 1975, becoming a Professor in 19...

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Scott Aaronson is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Scott’s research interests center around fundamental limits on what can efficiently be computed in the physical world. This has entailed studying quantum computing, the most powerful model of computat...

From: sciencestage.com on Mon, May 23 2011 6:41 AM

Attribution: - Design and Production: Caltech Academic Media Technologies - Photos: Caltech Archives and Special Collections, Christopher Sykes - Video and Audio: Ralph Leighton, Sound Photosynthesis, and Christopher Sykes On Friday, 14 January 2011, Caltech is hosting TEDxCaltech, an exciting o...

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Lyle Mays and friends explore music based on physics equations, Feynman’s speech patterns and more, using improvisation, algorithmic composition, live video mixing, and a custom designed linked laptop network. Lyle Mays has been an integral part of the Pat Metheny Group since its inception in 19...

From: sciencestage.com on Mon, May 23 2011 6:40 AM

Nadine Dabby is a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, where she works on DNA nanotechnology and molecular programming in the Winfree Lab. Prior to attending Caltech, she completed a double major in Molecular and Cell Biology and English Literature at UC Berkeley. Nadin...

From: sciencestage.com on Mon, May 23 2011 6:40 AM

Nadine Dabby is a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, where she works on DNA nanotechnology and molecular programming in the Winfree Lab. Prior to attending Caltech, she completed a double major in Molecular and Cell Biology and English Literature at UC Berkeley. Nadin...

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Alexander Szalay is the Alumni Centennial Professor of Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Alex is a cosmologist, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. He was born and e...

From: sciencestage.com on Mon, May 23 2011 6:40 AM

Stephen Quake studied physics (BS '91) and mathematics (MS '91) at Stanford University before earning his doctorate in physics from Oxford University as a Marshall scholar ('94). Thereafter, as a postdoc in Nobel Laureate Steven Chu’s group at Stanford, he developed techniques to ...

From: sciencestage.com on Mon, May 23 2011 6:40 AM

Rives is a poet by trade and a paper engineer by training. He has appeared on multiple seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and he was the host of Bravo TV's Ironic Iconic America, which required him to drive around the United States with a supermodel in a red '67 Cadillac El Dorado. He rea...

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Michael Roukes, TEDxCaltech co-organizer, is the Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering at Caltech. He was founding Director of Caltech’s Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI), and currently serves as its co-Director. Michael co-founded and is co-Director of the Al...

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IDEO Human-Centered Designer Chris Waugh is a Leader of IDEO’s Consumer Experience Design practice, to which he brings his expertise in innovation and human-centered design to consumer products. His particular areas of focus are innovation, behavioral change, wellness, and food and beverage. Whe...

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Principal Research Scientist at Apple Dr. Kim Silverman is Principal Research Scientist at Apple. His Ph.D. is from Cambridge University, and his post-doctoral research was conducted at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. By night Dr. Silverman studies the more esoteric arts. He is a p...