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The California Tech VOLUME CXXI NUMBER 20 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA TECH@CALTECH.EDU APRIL 2, 2018 Back to the 1900s: Birth of the Blitzkrieg March 21st marked the Contributing Writer declared war on Germany in April and infiltration tactics, allowing unsustainable and theirsupplylines beginning of Operation Michael, of 1917 and American soldiers them to bypass strongholds and failed to keep the armies equipped the first of several major operations would soon be arriving en masse sow chaos. Over the course of two The year War 1918, and it was unclear which side would win the First World War. that constitute the 1918 Spring on the Continent. For the German weeks, the German soldiers pushed Offensive. The offensive came military, it was now or never. If nearly 40 miles into British lines, at a critical time for Germany. they didn't achieve victory in early but at the cost of a quarter million Despite the victory over Russia, 1918, they would be swamped by a casualties. The French capital However, Operation Michael was only the first of several planned offensives. The Germans had grievously injured, but not In the early months of 1918 the ultimate outcome of the First World War still hung in the balance. Through a combination of military skill and ideological warfare, Germany had knocked Russia out of the war in 1917. Russia now devolved into a gruesome civil war, which would ultimately lead to the creation of the Soviet Union several years later. But more immediately, the defeat of Russia freed up one million German troops, soldiers which could now be deployed to the gruesome Western Front. knocked out, the British and the French. A few weeks later, the Germans launched Operation Georgette, a second punch to the Allied lines in northern France. The goal was to capture the ports along the English Channel that the British used to resupply their troops. The seizure of these critical ports would strand the British in France and choke off critical supplies. This offensive saw 26 German divisions push towards the Channel coast, causing the Allied lines to fold and buckle. But once again, the assault lost momentum The calm morning of March The losses were too high, and 21st 1918 was shattered by an the German advance quickly intense, though by First World outstretched their supply lines War standards brief, artillery barrage. Over the course of five hours, German artillery fired 1.1 million shrapnel, high explosive, and gas shells at the British positions in northern France. Near the town of Saint-Quentin, the earth was pummeled and the sky filled with smoke and clouds of wafting poison gas. When the guns By the early summer of 1918. the Spring Offensive had worn out and the Germans were facing the ever growing combined British French, and American armies. The Spring Offensive had failed, at the cost nearly 700,000 German casualties. The end of the First World War was about to begin. quieted, out from the smoke came hundreds of thousands of German stormtroopers. In many ways, their tactics and weapons were similar or even identical to those used in the Second World War. The British soldiers were about to endure the precursor to the infamous German Blitzkrieg that would rattle Europe two decades later. "Back to the Nineties" is a semi-regular column about historical events. This special piece was written in commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the German Spring Offensive. If you have feedback or ideas please follow the link here goo.gl/zee2Ez or email me at tsliu@caltech.edu Figure 1: German World War I lancer equipped with a gas mask and riding a horse. The early First World War was a collision between nineteenth century tactics and brutal, modern technology. The tactics deployed during Operation Michael were a drastic leap forward. Image courtesy of Wikimedia. the German people were war weary tsunami of American manpower. and beginning to starve. For the first time since 1914, the Germans The German soldiers burst possessed a numerical advantage through the British lines, aided over the French and British on the by a mist that concealed their Western Front. But this advantage movements. The soldiers had been was threatened and came under long range bombardment by the Germans. Despite the stunning advance, the German advance petered out after several weeks. The losses they accumulated were was fleeting; the United States had trained in special stormtrooper Taking MRI Technology Down to Micrometer Scales Caltech Strategic Communications between MRI In arecentstudypublished in the images and journal Nature Communications, what happens in Shapiro and his colleagues tissues at scales as introduced a method to correlate This article is adapted from a story that was originally published online at caltech.edu. small as a single magnetic field patterns in tissue, micrometer- which occur on micrometer scales, of unhealthy tissue. However, the exact level of MRI contrast depends on precisely how the cells take up and store the iron particles on the micrometer scale, which cannot be seen directly in the MRI images. that's about 500 with the larger, millimeter-scale New tools from Mikhail Shapiro's lab might allow doctors to better interpret MRI images. times smaller than what's features of MRI images. Ultimately, the method would allow doctors to possible now. interpret MRI pictures and better diagnose various conditions. The new provide technique could understanding of how different iron distributions affect MRI contrast, and this, in Millions of MRI, or magnetic "When you turn, would provide a better idea look at a splotchy For example, medical of the scope of inflammation. resonance imaging, scans are MRI picture, you researchers call visualize the The research was led by Caltech performed each year to diagnose health conditions and may want to know locations of inflamed tissues in graduate Pradeep Ramesh to take images of immune cells Davis and students Hunter perform what's happening certain a patient's body by using MRI biomedical research. The different ussues 1n our bodies dark spot," says called magnetic fields in varied ways, Shapiro, who is macrophages that have allowing images of our anatomy An MRI scan of the head. also been labeled with magnetic iron a Schlinger to be generated. But there are Photo Courtesy of Helmut Januschka, CC-BY-SA-3.0 Scholar and particles. The macrophages take up iron particles injected into limits to the resolution of these is happening to cells in the tissue. Heritage Medical patient's images-generally, doctors can Research Institute Investigator. then bloodstream and migrate toward sites of The technical paper describing the group's experiments, which involvedatechniquecalleddiamond magnetomely available in the CaltechAUTHORS system, a service of the Caltech Library. see details of organs as small as Mikhail Shapiro, assistant "Right now, it is hard to a half millimeter in size but not say inflammation. Because the MRI much smaller. Based on what the professor of chemical engineering, what's going on at scales smaller make connection than about signal is affected by the presence half a millimeter." of these iron particles, the doctors see, they try to infer what walls resulting images reveal locations IN THIS ISSUE NEWS | PAGE 3 ENGINEERED META-SURFACES REPLACE ADHESIVE TAPE SPORTS | PAGE 5 BASEBALL WINS FIRST SCIAC GAME OF THE YEAR SPORTS | PAGE 5 WANG TAKES THREE SET THRILLER AT CHAPMAN SPORTS | PAGE 5 MENS TENNIS NOTCHES FIRST SCIAC WIN 2 ANNOUNCEMENTS APRIL 2, 2018 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Caltech Y Column Caltechlive! CALTECH Y EARNEST C WATSON LECTURE SERIES trend in the long term. Passinglegislation The Caltech Y Column serves to to deal with this pressing issue however, Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 8 PM inform students of upcoming events remains a problem. CCL campaigns and volunteer opportunities. 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They were eventually adhesive tape, this convinced however, in solve this problem," Jang says. and light, the SLM needs to know characterization has traditionally in Nature exactly how it was affected by the paper published meant calibrating the medium Photonics this month, the two This article is adapted from a story that was originally published online at caltech.edu. The practice of scattering light in order to take a high- resolution image with a wide field of view seems counterintuitive, scattering medium. Different types of scattering media currently in by projecting known images labs demonstrate the production through it using the SLM and then of high-resolution image- use-including adhesive full tape— working backwards to determine corresponding to numerical of randomly located the action of the medium on the aperture greater than 0.5-with a relatively wide (8 millimeter) High-tech could unlock of imaging counterintuitively to obtain high-field-of-vision substitute the potential devices that scatter light high-resolution, views. field of view. The image had an estimated 2.2 billion individual focal spots. For typical comparison, with high-quality the microscope same numerical aperture produces an order of magnitude fewer focal spots. The latest advance in a new type of optics aimed at improving microscopy started with game of tennis three years ago. With continued improvements like this, scientists pathologists will and be Unwinding after a long day of with able to scan samples microscopes quicker and at a higher resolution research in their respective labs, Mooseok Jang (PhD 16) and Yu Horie (who will receive his PhD in June 2018)-at the time, both graduate students at Caltech-met up for a game of tennis at Caltech's Braun Athletic Center courts "The hope is that our work will prompt further interest in this aea of optics and make this type of microscopy and its advantages feasible for practical everyday use—not just as a proof of concept," says Josh Brake (MS Jang, a student of Changhuei 16), a graduate student in Yang's Yang-the Thomas G. Myers lab who continues to work on the Professor of Electrical Engineering, project with Bioengineering, and Medical Faraon and Yang Engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science-had been working on a nascent microscopy technology that uses light scattering circumvent the traditional tradeoff between resolution (the amount of detail you capture) and field of view (the area you capture). The research had hit a roadblock: the tools that were Since their breakthrough collaboration Jang and Horie have finished their doctoral work and gone their separate ways: Jang returned to his native Korea where he continues his research as part of his mandatory military sernce. while Horie took a job at Apple. The two stay in touch though. And both still play tennis. being used to scatter light were difficult to predict and unreliable. During the tennis Jang described this match, frustrating conundrum to Hore a student of Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science Andrei Faraon (BS '04). In Faraon's lab, Horie worked on metasurfaces, which are sheets of material whose electromagnetic properties can be altered on demand. Faraon, a nanophotonics metasurfaces engineer, creates that are studded nanoscale posts made of silicon nitride. These nanoposts are capable of manipulating light with a high degree of precision-for example, to bend light like a lens does or encode holograms on a flat surface. As their conversation migrated from the tennis courts to coffee at the Red Door Marketplace at Caltech, Jang and Horie realized that the expertise of their respective labs could be combined to create Jore reliable, predictable light-scattering material. A disorder-engineered metamaterial (the beige rectangle) scatters incoming light as part of an advance in optics that uses light scattering to yield images with a high resolution and a wide field of view. Photo Courtesy of Josh Brake but demonstrations over the past decade have shown that it can be effective. While scattered does light not propagate in a simple way like light passing through a lens, it can be processed for high-resolution optical focusing and imaging using a device called a spatial light modulator (SLM), which corrals and directs the raw scattered components to enable high-fidelity optical control. The result is an image with an increased number of resolvable focal spots that are spread out over a wider field of view—in other words, a clearer, broader image. The problem, however, that this strategy is difficult to practically implement, to the suspended particles. When a piece of tape is placed in the path of a beam of light, those particles do a great job of scattering light in a random fashion, which is the goal. However, because of the inherent random nature of their location in the tape, it can take weeks for the measurement process to fully characterize the scattering and enable high-quality focusing over the maximum number individual points in of an image. Worse, the suspended particles have a bad habit of migrating in the tape, even during the calibration process, which has the potential to render the painstakingly long measurement process worthless by the time it 1S finished. incoming light-then repeating this process over and over again to fully characterize the medium. However. metasurfaces using the generated in Faraon's lab-materials that scatter light in entirely predictable ways-the calibration time could drop from hours to just minutes, converting the time-consuming measurement process simple alignment procedure. As added bonus. recalibration would nevei be necessary. "I think that Dr. Yang and his colleagues were skeptical at first that we could control light with such precision using these metasurfaces," Horie The Nature Photonics paper titled "Wavefront shaping with disorder-engineered metasurfaces." Co-authors include postdoctoral scholars Atsushi Shibukawa, Yan Liu, and Haowen Ruan from Yang's lab; graduate student Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali (MS 17) and postdoctoral scholar Amir Arbabi from Faraon's lab. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health GIST-Caltech Research Collaborative Student Proposal, Services Japan Organization fellowship, the National Science Foundation, Samsung Electronics Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Research Fellowships, the National Institute of Biomedical Bioengineering, Imaging and the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center, and the Department of Energy. The device nanofabrication was performed at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech A Better Way to Model Stellar Explosions when two neutron stars smash into astrophysical phenomena. Caltech Foundation's Laser Interferometer and other light-based telescopes Caltech Strategic Communications each other or when a massive star postdoctoral scholar in theoretical da Silva Gravitational-wave Observatory, the more we can refine the explodes, creating a neutron star. astrophysics Andre or LIGO, which made the first equation of state-and update our Schneider decided to tackle this detection of ripples in space and software so that astrophysicists can This article is adapted from a story that was originally published online at caltech.edu. Caltech scientists create new computer code for calculating neutron stars' "equation of state". Neutron stars consist of the densest torm of matter known: a neutron star the size of Los Angeles can weigh twice as much as our sun. Astrophysicists don't fully understand how matter behaves under these crushing densities, let alone what happens One tool scientists use to mode these powerful phenomena is the "equation of state." Loosely, the equation of state describes how matter behaves under different densities and eniocratures The temperatures and densities that occur during these extreme events can vary greatly, and strange behaviors can emerge; for example, protons and neutrons can arrange themselves into complex shapes known as nuclear "pasta." problem using computer codes. time, known as gravitational waves, generate new and more realistic Over the past three years, he has from a neutron star collision studies." been developing also equations for future Open-sourc That event was software that allows astrophysicists witnessed by a cadre of telescopes to generate their own equations around the world, which captured of state. In a new paper in the light waves from the same event. journal Physical Review C, he and his colleagues describe the code and demonstrate how it works by simulating supernovas of stars 15 and 40 times the mass of the sun. But, until now, there welc only about 20 equations of state readily available for simulations of The research has immediate applications for researchers studying Icuuvil stars, including those from the analyzing data National Science "The equations of state help astrophysicists study the outcome of neutron star mergers-they indicate whether a neutron star is 'soft' or 'stiff,' which in turn determines whether more massive neutron star or a black hole forms out of the collision, says da Silva Schneider. "The more observations we have from LIGO More detailed information can be found in the Physical Review C study, titled "Open-source nuclear equation state framework based on the liquid-drop model with Skyrme interaction. Other authors include Luke F. 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Fridays 4:00 - 5:00, 326 Sherman Fairchild Library SPORTS THE CALIFORNIA TECH APRIL 2, 2018 Baseball Reels in First SCIAC Wang Win of Year Against Sagehens Thriller GOCALTECH.COM Actual Sports Content Editor Takes at Three-Set Chapman PASADENA (Mar. 29, 2018) - The Caltech baseball team showed on Saturday afternoon there is still an ounce of 2017 magic left when junior pitcher Jonah Krop (Santa Monica, Calif. / Santa Monica) and the Beavers recreated last year's milestone victory over visiting Pomona-Pitzer Colleges with another victory over the Sagehens. The win is the Beavers' first in SCIAC play this season. Caltech's junior starting pitcher needed to hurl one of, if not the best game of his career for the Beavers to have a chance against a deep and experienced Sagehens squad and Krop did not dissapoint. He froze the Sagehens looking for five of his eight strikeouts on the day while scattering six hits over the nine-inning complete-game outing. Following the Beavers' go-ahead runs in the eighth inning, Head Coach Matthew Mark opted to leave Krop, one of his most trusted arms in the game to finish the job. Three quick outs, two of which came on the ground erased the SCIAC monkey in the heads of the Beavers and gave Krop the second biggest win of his career. The junior, of course got a complete-game victory last year at when the Beavers took down the Sagehens in similarly dramatic fashion, at North Field no less to undo a near 20-year SCIAC winless streak. The weekend's greatest story comes courtesy of a masterful pitching performance from Jonah Krop and some late game heroics from leaders Chris McCarren (Kenilworth, Ill. / North Shore Country Day), Garrett Levine (Columbus, Ohio / Columbus Academy) and Mark Burleson (Ladera Ranch, Calif. / Tesoro). McCarren, ever the opportunist happened to steal third base on the same play as a wild pitch, opening the door for him to come all the way around and tie the game at two runs apiece. With Cortland Perry having advanced to second, Levine smashed a single through the right side to bring the athletic Perry all the way home for the go-ahead run. That would be all Caltech needed for Krop to take the mound one last time in the top ninth and slam the door shut on the Sagehens. Burleson, meanwhile sparked the Caltech rally, as the first of the home team's three unanswered runs came thanks to a triple from the junior catcher in the fifth inning to score freshman designated hitter Dillon Holder. Tennis faces are my favorite thing besides tennis grunts Saturday Caltech Game Pomona-Pitzer 2: The volume offense paid dividends for Caltech, as four different players had at least two hits, including Perry, Burleson, David Watson and sophomore outfielder Alex Corado (San Diego, Calif. / Scripps Ranch), the hero of last year's game. The Beavers also played an excellent defensive game, particularly in an unorthodox eighth inning which saw a Sagehen reach first following a strikeout before Krop snagged a hard liner and on instinct threw to the elder Watson on first, who just managed to keep his foot on the bag as the ball entered his glove to secure a neat double play. The heads up play, combined with the stingy defense the Beavers had displayed all game long gave Krop the confidence he needed to finish the job. -gocaltech.com GOCALTECH.COM Actual Sports Content Editor Reisler, meanwhile needed to win two tiebreakers to win her match at second singles but managed to win the first, 7-5 to force the decisive super tiebreaker. PASADENA, Calif. (Mar. 31, 2018) - The Caltech women's tennis team picked up three wins at Chapman University on Saturday morning, including a three-set singles win from senior Erin Wang (Auburn, Calif. / Del Oro). Head Coach Mandy Gamble and the Beavers return to home court on Friday, Apr. 6 to host Whittier College at 3 p.m. DOG BASEL Coach Mark and the Beavers will go toe-to-toe with Chapman University next weekend's series beginning Friday, Apr. 6 at 3 p.m. in Pasadena. The first baseman was clearly not ready for such a sick pickoff move. Wang had to win the second and third set to work her way back into the match but successfully came from behind with consecutive 6-3 sets to score for the Beavers. Sophomore Angelica Zhou (Temple City, Calif. / Arcadia) picked up a pair of victories as well, first by teaming with junior Julia Reisler (Plano, Texas / Greenhill) at second doubles to earn an 8-5 win over the Panthers. Zhou later won at fourth singles and overcame a competitive 7-5 first set to dominate the second set, 6-1. Doubles partner -gocaltech.com No. 36 Men's Tennis Notches First SCIAC Win GOCALTECH.COM Actual Sports Content Editor Ohio Cincinnati Country Day) and sophomore Connor PASADENA, Calif. (Mar. 31, 2018) - A straight-set singles sweep fueled No. 36 Caltech men's tennis to its first SCIAC win in a decisive 8-1 victory over Chapman University on Saturday morning. Soohoo (Redwood Shores, Calif. / Crystal Springs) gave Caltech the 2-1 lead heading into singles play, where all six Beavers swept their matches in straight sets. Victories The win marked Caltech's fourth consecutive and raised the Beavers' record to 7-5 overall and 1-1 in SCIAC play. of particular note came at court two, as Wei won his 10th straight match, and court five, where Yu notched his With the Mar. 29 individual seventh consecutive regional rankings still not win. released, it is unclear where the rookie duo of Varun Shanker (Midland, Mich. / Midland Dow) and James Wei (Chappaqua, N.Y. / Horace Greeley) stands among their peers, but they continued to make their case with an eighth straight doubles victory Head Coach Mandy Gamble and the Beavers face a crucial SCIAC challenge at Whittier College (2-7 1-0) on Friday, Apr. 6 at 3 p.m. at the top spot to kick things off. 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Officers Present: Sakthi Vetrivel, Kavya Sreedhar, Sara Adams, Sarah Crucilla, Alice Zhai Meeting Adjourned: 5:28 PM Guests: Caltech Chinese Association (CCA), George Daghlian Call to Order: 5:03 PM President's Report (Sakthi): • ACRL meeting last Monday • Read meeting minutes to find out what happened! • NO ASCIT MEETING NEXT FRIDAY Officer's Reports: V.P. of Academic Affairs (Kavya): • Faculty board meeting • Expanding outreach efforts to elementary schools Diversity initiatives • Course Compliments are coming in • New guide for TQFRs coming out soon • Fill out TQFRs please V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (Rachael): • Nothing to report Director of Operations (Sara): • Buying the projector soon so we can fix the ASCIT screening room Treasurer (Sarah): • The CCA proposed for funding for their Chinese New Year Event • George Daghlian proposed for funding for the Caltech Christian Fellowship Veritas Forum • Tax forms need to be filled out • Meeting next week to discuss Bylaws and money allocation to Interhouses and Ditch Day Social Director (Alice): • ASCIT formal sign-ups are beginning ASCIT Formal (April 6) • Trivia Night (April 12) • Escape Room event will be sometime third term Secretary (Dana): • Not in attendance. 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