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Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman Joins Caltech as Associate Vice President and JPL Deputy Director
Deeply inspired by his venture to the furthest boundaries of human exploration, former NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman says he is now on a mission to extend humanity's horizons and understanding further. Wiseman will begin that mission soon as he joins the leadership team at Caltech and JPL as the Institute's associate vice president and JPL deputy director on November 30. "When I think about what I have seen and experienced firsthand in visiting the Caltech and JPL community, there are three things that immediately stand out: professionalism, a deep technical understandin
Caltech News · EN
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$27.5 Million Gift Expands Aerospace Prowess of Caltech and JPL
Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA, will expand aerospace research, hands-on training, and innovation on campus and at the Lab through two gifts totaling $27.5 million from philanthropists Foster and Coco Stanback. A $20 million gift through the Foundation for the Carolinas will create the New Space Makerspace at JPL and support education and workforce development programs led by Caltech. A separate $7.5 million gift will renovate and expand Caltech's hypersonic research facility and add a new shock tube for studying flight at extreme speeds. "Calte
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Remarks from Invited Speakers at Inauguration: Jacqueline Barton and Peter Dervan
October 29, 2026 - The Inauguration of President Ray Jayawardhana Peter Dervan: Dear Trustees, faculty, students, postdocs, staff and friends, Jackie and I never expected to be on stage today at the Inauguration of Caltech's next president, Ray Jayawardhana. We had lunch a few weeks ago with Ray at the Athenaeum. The hour flew by as we reflected on our careers at Caltech. We shared with Ray what we believed was the essence of Caltech culture and success. It was clear that Ray gets Caltech and what makes it so special. He is deeply committed to preserving that culture. How does a small institut
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"What Could We Not Do?": The Inauguration of Ray Jayawardhana as Caltech's 10th President
On a November evening more than a century ago, George Ellery Hale, one of Caltech's three founders, and his guests gathered atop Mount Wilson to witness the first light of the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, the world's most powerful at the time. Ray Jayawardhana, who took office in July, began his inaugural address on Thursday, October 29, recounting that moment after he was formally installed as Caltech's 10th president. "First light," he explained, "is the poetic term astronomers use for the moment a new telescope first opens its eyes to the cosmos. It marks both the culmination of years of inge
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Caltech Mourns the Passing of Ted Scudder, 1930–2026
Thayer (Ted) Scudder, Caltech's only professor of anthropology for the latter half of the 20th century, passed away October 22 at the age of 96. He was regarded as a leading specialist on dams and their lasting effects on communities and global ecosystems. "Ted will be remembered as a world expert on the subject of forced population resettlement due to the construction of large dam projects," says economic anthropologist Jean Ensminger, Caltech's Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus. "As a result of this work, Ted also developed a passion for the long-term study of a s
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MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
MIT News · EN
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MIT engineers design a safer, more efficient vaccination system for farmed fish
Water-resistant microneedles made from food-grade silk could deliver vaccines to help prevent the spread of disease in aquaculture.
MIT News · EN
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Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery
The MIT professors collaborated to identify the first AI-discovered antibiotic, a scientific breakthrough that is widely recognized as a milestone in AI-driven drug discovery.
MIT News · EN
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A flexible new route to designer materials built from nanoparticles
Pliable connector molecules could be key to creating nanoparticle-based materials for photonics, chemical catalysis, medicine, and more.
MIT News · EN
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Powering up for a pivotal moment
From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
MIT News · EN
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Jeffery Lim wants to open up cloud research
The Lincoln Laboratory scholar developed a hardware platform inspired by proprietary infrastructure, allowing researchers to design and evaluate their cloud technology in a realistic environment.
MIT News · EN
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Faces of MIT: Vera Grbic
IDHR communications officer Vera Grbic helps connect the MIT community with resources, support, and information through clear and accessible messaging.
MIT News · EN
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Lemelson-MIT brings invention education to classrooms from kindergarten to college
A new initiative in California, Tennessee, and New England puts learning by doing at the center of students’ STEM pathways, in step with MIT for America’s focus on helping students design, make, and innovate.
MIT News · EN
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The Situation at Columbia XXXVII
Ever since a new Columbia president (Jennifer Mnookin) was appointed by the trustees back in January, many have been wondering if she would do anything to try and change Columbia’s reputation as “Vichy on the Hudson”. The reason for this … Continue reading →
Not Even Wrong · EN
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A Modest Proposal
The announcement yesterday by OpenAI of a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier-Stokes problem has been causing a great deal of discussion among mathematicians. There’s a lot to be said about this story and its implications, most of which I’ll … Continue reading →
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Some HEP-TH News
In a previous posting, I’d noted that the number of arXiv hep-th preprints/month was significantly higher recently, clearly due to LLM use, but that I hadn’t heard of much in the way of significant new results coming from this. Around … Continue reading →
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Slopocalypse
OpenAI has just released a vast number of new results in preprint form, see here. These are the products of an internal frontier model. About the AGMAI, they say they “have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform … Continue reading →
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AI and Chiral Fermions
It turns out that yesterday there was another AI result coming out of OpenAI, quite different than the slopocalypse and of more interest to fundamental physics. Nathaniel Craig, a particle theorist now on a one-year visiting position at OpenAI, put … Continue reading →
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Vote!!
I’d like to echo the sentiment of Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: if you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for a party that has unified in … Continue reading →
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Secret Unified Physics Slop
OpenAI has announced a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of particle physics… Our models produced … Continue reading →
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OpenAI Conference at KITP
There was a conference held at KITP the week before last entitled Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics. The nature of this conference was somewhat of a mystery. As far as I can tell it never appeared in the list of forthcoming … Continue reading →
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The mathematics of “are we there yet?”
Will the Marvel Cinematic Universe outlast human civilization? Unlikely, but not impossible.
Math with Bad Drawings · EN