For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past

Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 8:00 pm

Series: Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series


Before industrialization, people married young and lived in extended families with several generations under the same roof - or so the story goes. In parts of Europe, however, our "modern" pattern - late age at first marriage combined with nuclear family households - goes back many centuries, leading some researchers to wonder if this very pattern actually brought about the Industrial Revolution and early economic growth in the west. This talk will address questions about the relationship between family patterns and economic development, drawing on evidence for a number of societies in pre-industrial Europe.

Tracy K. Dennison is a professor of social science history at Caltech.

Event is free, no tickets or reservations required.   Location:  Caltech's Beckman Auditorium located at 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, CA  91125   Website:   http://www.caltech.edu/content/public-events

Wild Kingdom’s Peter Gros

Friday, January 25, 2013, 7:00 pm

Series: Performing Arts Series

Peter Gros shares his exciting animal world while introducing friendly exotic animals to the audience. He also tells inspirational stories dealing with wildlife filming, travel and issues of conservation.

Peter Gros has nearly 30 years of field experience with captive wildlife. In his former position as Director of Land Animals and vice president at Marine World/Africa USA, he established breeding programs for 377 endangered animals. He also developed a rehabilitation program for birds of prey, as well as the largest captive breeding colony of ostriches in the United States.

Location:  Caltech's Beckman Auditorium located at 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, CA  91125

Admission:  $15.00 (unreserved seating); $10.00 youth;  senior rush tickets $10.00 beginning 30 minutes before the performance (subject to availability).

Website:  http://www.caltech.edu/content/public-events

Escher String Quartet

Sunday, January 20, 2013, 3:30 pm

Series: Coleman Chamber Music Series

The Escher String Quartet draws inspiration from the art of M.C. Escher, where individual components work together to form a whole. Founded in 2005, the Quartet took the musical world by storm, becoming quartet-in-residence at The perlman Chamber Music Program in New York and The Young Artist Programme in Canada. Since then, the former BBC New Generation Artists have performed worldwide, from New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to The Louvre in Paris and Hangzhou Grand Theatre in China.

Program:

Prokofiev - Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92
Shostakovich - Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Beethoven - Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 "Rasumovsky"

Admission:  $45.00, $38.00, $31.00, and $24.00, $15.00 youth.

Location:  Caltech's Beckman Auditorium located at 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, CA  91125

Website: http://www.caltech.edu/content/public-events

Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe

Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 8:00 pm

Series: Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series


We have embarked on a journey at the frontier of high energies with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) and the LHC, two of the most complex instruments ever devised, and new methods developed at Caltech, we are homing in on the Higgs particles thought to be responsible for mass in the universe; searching for supersymmetry, which brings together particle physics and spacetime; and searching for evidence of extra dimensions of space and other exotic new particles. This lecture presents the latest results from the high-energy frontier of particle physics and offers perspective on the discoveries that lie ahead.

Harvey B. Newman is a professor of physics at Caltech.

Event is free, no tickets or reservations required.

Location:  Caltech's Beckman Auditorium located at 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, CA  91125

Website:  http://www.caltech.edu/content/public-events