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The Newsletter for the EAS Community
Selected Upcoming Events
Every Wednesday, 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Walk-In Office Hours with the Director of EAS Programs for Student Success
Location: 149 Earle M. Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Consciousness & Reality (C&R) Colloquium: "Integrated Information Theory 4.0 - of Casual Borders and Casual Structures" - Larissa Albantakis, Professor of Computational Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Online
Thursday, January 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
EVOxZANKOU Seminar: "Developmental lineage tracing using high-throughput clonal barcoding with imaging readout" and "Evolutionary entrenchment of a myrmecophilous lifestyle: the basis of obligate parasitism in rove beetles" - Martin Tran and Joani Viliunas, Graduate Students, BBE, Caltech
Location: Chen 130
Friday, January 24, 2025, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Exploring Together: US-Japan Space Collaboration Symposium (register to secure your place)
Location: Ramo Auditorium and online
Join the 2025 EAS Graduate Student Advisory Board!
This pioneering initiative seeks dedicated and inspired graduate students to work closely with the Director of EAS Programs for Student Success (DPSS), offering crucial insights and feedback to elevate student life and enhance program quality across the Division. Eligibility: open to all graduate students with the EAS Division. Application period: December 6, 2024 - January 17, 2025. Please direct questions and comments to Yazmin Gonzalez, Director of EAS Programs for Student Success at yazminyg@caltech.edu. Apply here.
Funding Opportunity: Wilf Family Discovery Fund in the Search for Life, Water, or Habitable World
The Wilf Family Discovery Fund in Space Science, Planetary Science and Astrobiology is accepting proposals to fund one 2025 grant totaling up to $160k (direct cost) for innovative, early-stage research in the area of the search for life, water, or habitable worlds. The funding is designated for efforts on Campus (with Campus personnel), and the period of performance is two years. Proposals must have a Caltech Campus Principal Investigator (PI) who is a member of the faculty. Proposal due date: January 17, 2025.
Spotlight On Our People
Nathan Jones
Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering
My name is Nathan Jones, and I am a fourth-year PhD student in the Mechanical and Civil Engineering department working with Professor Ruby Fu. My research primarily focuses on the unstable flow of water into freezing porous materials, such as snow or firn, and the resulting thermal exchange and freezing dynamics. I use both computational and experimental techniques to better our understanding of the role of preferential flow in these systems, and to get more accurate predictions of effective snowmelt infiltration rates which contribute to both aquifer recharge in places like the Sierra Nevada, or even to global sea level rise from melt generation in Greenland. I enjoy the wide breadth of scales and complexity this problem entails, despite only looking at interactions between the deceitfully "simple" species of liquid water, ice, and air.
Indrasen Bhattacharya
Postdoctoral Scholar, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering
My research interests center on computational imaging, inverse problems and photonics. I graduated with an MS+PhD from UC Berkeley in Applied Science and Technology (equivalent to other Applied Physics programs). During grad school, I developed a photopolymerization-based volumetric 3D printing technique. This was partially inspired by cancer radiation therapy. I also fabricated and characterized nanophotonic devices compatible with a silicon platform. After my PhD, I worked as an internal scientific consultant in a major semiconductor company that develops inspection equipment for the chip manufacturing process. As an applied science researcher, I deeply appreciate and am inspired by progress in the fundamental sciences. In my free time, I find nourishment in science and engineering outreach activities, mentorship and making art that allows for a human, improvisational aspect.
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Calls for Nomination & Funding Opportunities
Caltech’s Office of Foundation Relations maintains an online database and email subscription service of primarily non-federal funding opportunities as a resource for the Caltech community. Opportunities include calls for proposals released by private foundations, public charities, associations, corporations, internal Caltech opportunities and federal limited opportunities.
Keep your contact info updated at access.caltech.edu.
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