The many faces and forms that teamwork takes to make UC Santa Barbara great.
In This Issue:
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With machine learning and massive computing power to mine them, giant data sets open new worlds of meaning.
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They’ve learned to collaborate (clockwise from center left): Kaila Mattson, Jonathan Klamkin, Anton Van Der Ven, Luke Patterson
UCSB graduate students benefit from working on the front lines of collaborative research.
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Illustration by Brian Long
How a team came together to create an innovative biomedical device.
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David Henke B.A. MATHEMATICS, 1978. Illustration by Brian Long
David Henke spent 35 years building and managing teams for Silicon Valley tech giants.
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Like vortices of innovation, UCSB centers attract diverse researchers who share interests.
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Illustration by Peter Allen
UCSB’s collaborative approach consistently earns large awards from major science initiatives.
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By the numbers (clockwise from top left): Glenn Fredrickson, Igor Mezic, Chris Van de Walle, Scott Shell, Linda Petzold.
Their unique tools make applied mathematicians the indispensable chameleons of interdisciplinary research.
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A grant to develp tiny, powerful photonic circuits for measuring atmospheric gases from space.
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Professor Baron Peters
Chemical engineer Baron Peters surveyed his field and saw some key gaps — so he wrote a book to bridge them.
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(Mega)magnetic personalities: Songi Han and Mark Sherwin. Photograph by Sonia Fernandez.
UCSB researchers' achievement is a promising step for for more-powerful magnetic resonance imaging.
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A bear and her cub as photographed by a remote camera "trap" at a Sedgwick Range Reserve watering hole.
A system created by UCSB computer science professors incorporates machine learning to organize millions of photographs for ecologists.
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With 5G expected to roll out in 2020, UC Santa Barbara's Mark Rodwell is already thinking about what could become 6G.