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Women Mentoring Women
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Call for Chili Cooks!
Floorball
Amnesty International
Intellectual Property Law
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GSC BOD Meeting at Winnet
Thu Sep 6 12:00pm
Winnet
GSC Housing Committee Meeting
Thu Aug 23 12:15pm
Red Door Cafe
New Student Orientation
Meet the incoming students from your option!
Become a New Student Orientation Option Rep; you send a welcome email to incoming students from your option and attend a hello breakfast on September 25th (and you get a free t-shirt with this nifty design). Email gscvicechair@caltech if you're interested. The following options still have rep spots open:acm, am, ay, be, bmb, ce, cds, ee, ese
Parolees
Doctor of Philosophy Candidates - June 8, 2007
| DIVISION OF BIOLOGY | |
| Oscar Alvizo | (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) |
| Meredith Howard Ashby | (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) |
| Ulrik Ravnsborg Beierholm | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| John Andrew Bender | (Biology) |
| C. Titus Brown | (Biology) |
| Seth Alexander Budick | (Biology) |
| Michael Campos | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| Scott A. Detmer | (Biology) |
| Jolene Sabrina Fernandes | (Biology) |
| Nazli Ghaboosi | (Genetics) |
| Gregory Philip Henderson | (Biology) |
| Christian John Hochstim | (Biology) |
| Jean Jing Huang | (Biology) |
| Jongmin Kim | (Biology) |
| Jonathan Kyle Lassila | (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) |
| Pei Yun Lee | (Biology) |
| Carole Chih-Chen Lu | (Biology) |
| Davin Malasarn | (Biology) |
| Jennifer Pielstick Montgomery | (Biology) |
| Farshad Moradi | (Computation and Neural Systems and Computer Science) |
| Eric Ardon Mosser | (Biology) |
| Gavin Erick Murphy | (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) |
| Dylan Rhichard Nieman | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| Kerstin Preuschoff | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| Roger Revilla-i-Domingo | (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) |
| Tracy K. Teal | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING | |
| Theodor Agapie | (Chemistry) |
| Gitrada Arjara | (Chemistry) |
| Katherine Emily Augustyn | (Chemistry) |
| Ryan James Austin | (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) |
| William Clifford Balcerski | (Chemistry) |
| Derek William Bartlett | (Chemical Engineering and Biology) |
| Douglas C. Behenna | (Chemistry) |
| Jacob Myar Berlin | (Chemistry) |
| Jesse D. Bloom | (Chemistry) |
| Justin S. Bois | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Yuri Leonid Bunimovich | (Chemistry) |
| Jeffery Allen Byers | (Chemistry) |
| Jang Wook Choi | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Lucia Fernandez Ballester | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Timothy William Funk | (Chemistry) |
| Niki Chiyomi Galownia | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Nicole C. Goodwin | (Chemistry) |
| Nicholas A. Graham | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Jonathan Earl Green | (Chemistry) |
| Thomas W. Hamann | (Chemistry) |
| Andrew Hejl | (Chemistry) |
| Daven Ker Henze | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Jiyoung Heo | (Chemistry) |
| Soon Hyeok Hong | (Chemistry) |
| Aditya Satish Khair | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Nelly Khidekel | (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) |
| Inchan Kwon | (Chemical Engineerng and Chemistry) |
| Nathan Lamarre-Vincent | (Chemistry) |
| Lori Wai Hang Lee | (Chemistry) |
| Jian Liu | (Chemistry) |
| Tao Liu | (Chemistry) |
| Steven Wesley Millward | (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) |
| Andrew Keeler Mollner | (Chemistry) |
| Nga Lee Ng | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Yen Hoang Le Nguyen | (Chemistry) |
| Rachel K. Niemer | (Chemistry) |
| Neal Robert Scruggs | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Soojin Son | (Chemical Engineering and Biology) |
| Julius Tsu-li Su | (Chemistry) |
| Sarah Erin Tully | (Chemistry) |
| Christine Terumi Ueda | (Chemistry) |
| Rafael Verduzco | (Chemical Engineering) |
| Ryan K. Zeidan | (Chemistry) |
| Kechun Zhang | (Chemistry) |
| DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE | |
| Ehsan Afshari | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Cdric Robert Anen | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Andrea Martin Armani | (Applied Physics and Biology) |
| John King-Tai Au | (Applied Physics) |
| Peter Babilo | (Materials Science) |
| Frederick Kiguli Balagadde | (Applied Physics) |
| Xiaoyan Robert Bao | (Applied Physics) |
| Paul Edward Barclay | (Applied Physics) |
| Christophe Jean-Michel Basset | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Nawaf Mohammed Bou-Rabee | (Applied and Computational Mathematics) |
| Samuel Case Bradford V | (Civil Engineering and Geophysics) |
| Guillaume Alain Brs | (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Michal Amaris Brown | (Materials Science) |
| Lance Lin-Lan Cai | (Bioengineering) |
| Kate Marie Campbell | (Environmental Science and Engineering) |
| Lijun Chen | (Control and Dynamical Systems) |
| John Myun Choi | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Timothy Hahn Deut Chung | (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Lisa Cowan | (Materials Science and Chemistry) |
| Samantha Hayes Daly | (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Kaushik Dayal | (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) |
| Joanna Lynn Dodd | (Materials Science) |
| Patrick Werner Dondl | (Applied and Computational Mathematics) |
| Mostafa Said El-Khamy | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Mohamed Y. El-Naggar | (Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics) |
| Amir Farajidana | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Philip Xiao-Li Feng | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Jeffrey Paul Fingler | (Applied Physics) |
| Vikram Gavini | (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Carl Gold | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| Radhika Gowaikar | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Emilio Castao Graff | (Aeronautics) |
| Vijay Gupta | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Marcelo Ioel Guzman | (Environmental Science and Engineering) |
| Alan Nicols Hampton | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| Yong Hao | (Mechanical Engineering) |
| John Shelby Harmon III | (Materials Science) |
| Alex David Holub | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| Vivek Jayaraman | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| Xun Jiang | (Environmental Science and Engineering) |
| Zhipu Jin | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Arash Kheradvar | (Bioengineering) |
| Theresa Hiromi Kidd | (Aeronautics and Applied Physics) |
| Joseph Thomas Klamo | (Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics) |
| Robert D. Kolasinski | (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Abbas Komijani | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Yashashree Kulkarni | (Applied Mechanics) |
| Wei Lai | (Materials Science) |
| Marco Latini | (Applied and Computational Mathematics and Aeronautics) |
| Lun Li | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Mo Li | (Applied Physics) |
| Xin Liu | (Control and Dynamical Systems) |
| Boonrat Lohwongwatana | (Materials Science) |
| Laurence Loumes | (Aeronautics) |
| George Manuel Maltezos | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Alfredo Martinez Estrada | (Control and Dynamical Systems) |
| Sotirios Konstantinos Masmanidis | (Applied Physics) |
| Mortada Mehyar | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Shu Miao | (Materials Science) |
| Scott Brian Miserendino | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Judith Mitrani-Reiser | (Applied Mechanics) |
| Bradford S. Morris | (Aeronautics and Astronomy) |
| Seyed-Maziar Motahari | (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Christopher Andre Mouton | (Aeronautics and Social Science) |
| Matthew Mokihana Muto | (Civil Engineering) |
| Shreesh Pranesh Mysore | (Control and Dynamical Systems and Neurobiology) |
| Abbas Nasiraei Moghaddam | (Bioengineering) |
| Arun Sridhar Natarajan | (Electrical Engineering) |
| AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas | (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Joyce Kai See Poon | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Steven Edmund Pracko | (Applied Physics) |
| Chaitanya Kumar Rao | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Michael Bernard Reiser | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| Christine Esber Richardson | (Applied Physics) |
| Michael Thomas Rubel | (Aeronautics and Applied and Computational Mathematics) |
| Jennifer Lynn Ruglovsky | (Applied Physics) |
| Elijah Bodhi Sansom | (Bioengineering) |
| Rebecca Beth Schulman | (Computation and Neural Systems) |
| Nicole Smith Downey | (Environmental Science and Engineering) |
| Kazuo Sone | (Aeronautics and Applied and Computational Mathematics and Computer Science) |
| Abhishek Tiwari | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Angela Colleen Tooker | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Christopher Thomas Veazey | (Materials Science) |
| Robert Joseph Walters | (Applied Physics) |
| Bingwen Wang | (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Yajuan Wang | Environmental Science and Engineering |
| Xiaoliang (David) Wei | (Computer Science) |
| Masumi Yamada | (Civil Engineering and Geophysics) |
| Byung-Jun Yoon | (Electrical Engineering) |
| Xin Yu | (Computer Science) |
| Lei Zhang | (Applied and Computational Mathematics) |
| Zhaoyu Zhang | (Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics) |
| Siyang Zheng | (Electrical Engineering) |
| DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES | |
| Vala Hjrleifsdttir | (Geophysics) |
| Yongqin Jiao | (Geobiology) |
| Robert Evans Kopp III | (Geobiology) |
| Liming Li | (Planetary Science) |
| Sarah Ann Miller | (Geochemistry) |
| Elisabeth Sophia Nadin | (Geology) |
| Julie Ann O'Leary | (Geochemistry) |
| Zhimei Yan | (Geophysics) |
| DIVISION OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | |
| Delia Ruth Grigg Bailey | (Social Science) |
| Jon Xabier Eguia Egusquiza | (Social Science) |
| Lauren Elizabeth Feiler | (Social Science) |
| Sarah Anne Hill | (Social Science) |
| Ming Hsu | (Social Science) |
| Debrah C. Z. Meloso | (Social Science) |
| Deborah Elizabeth Sinclair | (Social Science) |
| DIVISION OF PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY | |
| Panagiotis Aliferis | (Physics) |
| George Dana Becker | (Astrophysics) |
| Andrew John Berglund | (Physics) |
| Mihai Bondarescu | (Physics) |
| Parsa Hassan Bonderson | (Physics and Mathematics) |
| Edward Tann Chen | (Physics) |
| Songye Chen | (Physics) |
| Megan Elizabeth Eckart | (Physics) |
| Rebecca Joan Erwin | (Physics) |
| Hua Fang | (Physics and Electrical Engineering) |
| Paul Daniel Grayson | (Physics) |
| Jennifer E. Kile | (Physics) |
| Inna Kozinsky | (Physics) |
| Geoffrey Mark Lovelace | (Physics) |
| Dnal O'Connell | (Physics) |
| Ryan Christopher Ogliore | (Physics) |
| Robert Philip Owen | (Physics) |
| Roberto Carlos Pelayo | (Mathematics) |
| Jonathan Robin Pritchard | (Physics) |
| Carlos H. Salazar-Lazaro | (Mathematics) |
| Michael Phillip Salem | (Physics) |
| Janet D. Scheel | (Physics) |
| Alicia Margarita Soderberg | (Astrophysics) |
| John Kenton Stockton | (Physics) |
| Benjamin Francis Toner | (Physics) |
| Ramon van Handel | (Physics) |
| Peng Wang | (Physics) |
| Min Yang | (Physics and Social Science) |
Master of Science Candidates - June 8, 2007
| MS Name | MS Option |
| Philipp Andreas Boettcher | Aeronautics |
| Travis Joseph Essl | Aeronautics |
| Daegyoum Kim | Aeronautics |
| Christopher Kovalchick | Aeronautics |
| Jeffrey Allen LeHew | Aeronautics |
| Olive Remington Stohlman | Aeronautics |
| Kevin Zhou | Aeronautics |
| Annamarie Ellen Askren | Aerospace Engineering |
| Angela Maria Capece | Aerospace Engineering |
| Paul Hebert | Aerospace Engineering |
| Devvrath Khatri | Aerospace Engineering |
| Francisco Lopez Jimenez | Aerospace Engineering |
| Ashley Moore | Aerospace Engineering |
| Celia Reina Romo | Aerospace Engineering |
| John Lewis Ziegler | Aerospace Engineering |
| Li Ni | Applied Mechanics |
| Xin Xu | Applied Mechanics |
| Michael E. S. Amori | Applied Physics |
| Ting Hong | Applied Physics |
| Fabio Altenbach | Astrophysics |
| Ann Marie Cody | Astrophysics |
| Mansi Manoj Kasliwal | Astrophysics |
| Yuebin Liu | Astrophysics |
| Hilke Elisabeth Schlichting | Astrophysics |
| Mary Aileen Devlin | Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics |
| Alexander Peter Lin | Bioengineering |
| Carl David Aschenbrenner | Chemical Engineering |
| Arwen Elizabeth Brown | Chemical Engineering |
| Martina Nini Carbone | Chemical Engineering |
| Arthur Wing Hong Chan | Chemical Engineering |
| Yvonne Yu-Hsuan Chen | Chemical Engineering |
| Puneet Singh Chhabra | Chemical Engineering |
| Leopold Daniel d'Espaux | Chemical Engineering |
| Andrew Joseph Downard | Chemical Engineering |
| Kate Elizabeth Galloway | Chemical Engineering |
| Albert Barrett Hicks III | Chemical Engineering |
| Heather Kristine Hunt | Chemical Engineering |
| Mary W. C. Louie | Chemical Engineering |
| Andrew Friedrich May | Chemical Engineering |
| Heather Catherine McCaig | Chemical Engineering |
| Havala Olson Taylor Pye | Chemical Engineering |
| Diana Sergeievna Smirnova | Chemical Engineering |
| James William Swan | Chemical Engineering |
| James Allen Van Deventer | Chemical Engineering |
| Michael Patrick Brochu | Chemistry |
| Sam Cheung | Chemistry |
| James Fredric Sanchez | Chemistry |
| Jinti Wang | Chemistry |
| Angela M. Cho | Civil Engineering |
| Jason Tyler Rolfe | Computation and Neural Systems |
| Cheng Hu | Computer Science |
| Alexander George McKenzie | Computer Science |
| Patrick Gary Mullen | Computer Science |
| Concetta Pilotto | Computer Science |
| Oluwatosin Helen Otitoju | Control and Dynamical Systems |
| Panagiota Stratou | Control and Dynamical Systems |
| Mohamed Alaa El-Dien Mahmoud Hussein Aly | Electrical Engineering |
| Yan Chen | Electrical Engineering |
| Carl Wing-Jang Chin | Electrical Engineering |
| William Kratz Coulter | Electrical Engineering |
| Luca Giacchino | Electrical Engineering |
| Christopher Peter Hiszpanski | Electrical Engineering |
| Chia-Lung Hsieh | Electrical Engineering |
| Chen An Andrew Huang | Electrical Engineering |
| Ruo-Gu Huang | Electrical Engineering |
| Richard Kalantar Ohanian | Electrical Engineering |
| Suk Won Kim | Electrical Engineering |
| Young Hyun Kim | Electrical Engineering |
| Chun-Hui Lin | Electrical Engineering |
| Mandheerej Singh Nandra | Electrical Engineering |
| Ruxandra Georgiana Paun | Electrical Engineering |
| Rizk Georges Saade | Electrical Engineering |
| Naresh Satyan | Electrical Engineering |
| Christopher Ian Walker | Electrical Engineering |
| Hua Wang | Electrical Engineering |
| Ching-Chih Weng | Electrical Engineering |
| Jie Wu | Electrical Engineering |
| Zhizhang Xia | Electrical Engineering |
| Anna Rose Beck | Environmental Science and Engineering |
| Claire Elizabeth Farnsworth | Environmental Science and Engineering |
| Andrew Richard Metcalf | Environmental Science and Engineering |
| Xinning Zhang | Environmental Science and Engineering |
| Ying Wang | Geochemistry |
| Sonja Spasojevic | Geophysics |
| Chen Li | Materials Science |
| Michael Lon Winterrose | Materials Science |
| Benjamin David Leitner | Mathematics |
| Thibaud Gallet | Mechanical Engineering |
| Ha Thanh Giang | Mechanical Engineering |
| Bonnie Colleen Gurry | Mechanical Engineering |
| Alexander Chi-Hung Ho | Mechanical Engineering |
| Daniel E. Hurtado Sepulveda | Mechanical Engineering |
| John Allen Meier | Mechanical Engineering |
| Farshid Roumi | Mechanical Engineering |
| Matthew Scott Eichenfield | Physics |
| Heather Mary Audrey Gray | Physics |
| Asa Sies Hopkins | Physics |
| David Lopez Mateos | Physics |
| Zachary Louis Marshall | Physics |
| Juan Pedro Ochoa Ricoux | Physics |
| Erik Wright Schomburg | Physics |
| Michael William Busch | Planetary Science |
| Nicholas Gray Heavens | Planetary Science |
| Eileen Yilin Chou | Social Science |
| Gabriel Katz | Social Science |
| Bong Chan Koh | Social Science |
| Margaret Anne McConnell | Social Science |
| Julian Neukom Romero | Social Science |
Women Mentoring Women
The research is in:Mentoring is critical in supporting academic and professional success. So don't wait-join the Women Mentoring Women program NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FROM POSTDOCS AND GRAD STUDENTS IN ALL FIELDS!
~ Program Highlights ~ Matches meet monthly over the academic year. Monthly academic, professional and social activities. $40 coffee stipends per match!. A monthly listserv discussion on issues pertinent to academic life. Books, resource articles, and more.
SIGN UP TODAY ! Apply at www.womenscenter.caltech.edu/wmw.htm Matches will be made mid-October
Call for Chili Cooks!
If you've got a great chili recipe, and would
like to participate in the first ever Caltech Chili Cook-Off, please
contact Anne Hergarden, hergarden@caltech.edu The event will take place
some time in October and your cooking expenses will be covered. This
event is sponsored by a Moore-Hufstedler grant.
Floorball
Floorball is a lightweight, non-contact version of indoor hockey played
in tennis shoes-no skates. Pickup games are in Brown gym on Monday
nights from 8 to 10pm during the summer. We're always happy
to get new players-no experience is necessary. There's a lot of
running, so dress comfortably. Questions? Email Andrew at
bandy@its.caltech.edu.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International Group 22 will have the following events:Tuesday, Aug. 14, 7:30 pm: letter-writing in the Athenaeum. We will meet in the Rath al Fresco on the lawn behind the building. (Look for a table with the Amnesty sign.) Join us for actions on human-rights violations around the world, talk, and refreshments.
Sunday, Aug. 19, 6:30 pm: Human-rights book discussion group meets at Vroman's Bookstore (695 E. Colorado Blvd in Pasadena), 2nd floor. This month our book is "The Coroner's Lunch" by Colin Cotterill, an engaging and evocative "detective" novel set in Laos soon after the Communist takeover, whose hero is an elderly doctor employed by the Party as national coroner. Come and join the discussion, even if you haven't read the book.
Thursday, Aug. 23, 7:30 pm: Monthly meeting in the CalTech Y (on San Pasqual between Hill and Holliston, on the south side behind the two curving walls). We will be discussing plans for the coming month.
Tuesday, Sep. 11, 7:30 pm: letter-writing in the Athenaeum. We will meet in the Rath al Fresco on the lawn behind the building. (Look for a table with the Amnesty sign.) Join us for actions on human-rights violations around the world, talk, and refreshments.




