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On January 26th 2016, Caltech hosted One Entangled Evening, a night of science and entertainment celebrating Richard P. Feynman’s quantum legacy. A sold-out crowd in Beckman Auditorium embarked on a journey through the quantum realm with IQIM Director John Preskill, Nobel laureate Dave Wineland, and Microsoft Senior Researcher Krysta Svore as their guides. Mirroring the predictions about quantum science made by Feynman 30 years ago, which are now being realized, these experts shared their own visions of the future.

In the true spirit of Feynman, the program also included artistic and humorous elements. The program opened with Feynman himself, played by amateur actor and NASA/JPL engineer Steve Collins, performing an excerpted monologue from one of the Messenger Lectures. John Preskill brought down the house in the second act singing “One Entangled Evening” with entertainer Gia Mora, but perhaps the most unexpected surprise in the evening’s program was a video chess match between the legendary physicist Stephen Hawking and actor Paul Rudd narrated by none other than Keanu Reeves.

The evening also included appearances by tech billionaire Yuri Milner and Caltech president Thomas F. Rosenbaum, a video from Bill Gates, and thoughtful remarks by Richard Feynman’s daughter Michelle Feynman.

Learn more: http://iqim.caltech.edu/one-entangled-evening

Lectures by Grant Jensen, Professor of Biology, Caltech; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Recorded at Caltech in 2013 -14.

Visit the course website: http://cryo-em-course.caltech.edu
Learn more about the Jensen Lab at Caltech: http://www.jensenlab.caltech.edu

On Friday, October 24, 2014, Thomas F. Rosenbaum was formally inaugurated as the ninth president of Caltech in a ceremony on Beckman Mall that brought together Caltech students, faculty, staff, and academic leadership along with local community members and leaders. Learn more at: http://www.caltech.edu/content/inauguration-president-ros...

On Friday, 18 January 2013, Caltech hosted TEDxCaltech: The Brain, an exciting one-day multidisciplinary public conference, which deconstructed, deciphered, and explored some of the greatest challenges, innovations, concepts, and potentialities of the brain. It was an awe-inspiring event that brought together international scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and civic leaders -- along with Caltech faculty, postdocs, students, alumni, and staff -- for an exhilarating day of conversation, stimulation, and learning. Visit TEDxCaltech.com for more details.

This is an introductory course by Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa on machine learning that covers the basic theory, algorithms, and applications. Machine learning (ML) enables computational systems to adaptively improve their performance with experience accumulated from the observed data. ML techniques are widely applied in engineering, science, finance, and commerce to build systems for which we do not have full mathematical specification (and that covers a lot of systems). The course balances theory and practice, and covers the mathematical as well as the heuristic aspects.
Find course materials in the iTunes U Course App - https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/machine-learning/id515... and on the CS156 website - http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

Outreach videos created by research groups at Caltech.