Corporate Affiliates Program Newsletter:
UCSB's California NanoSystems Institute
Issue 6 Fall 2010
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Greetings!
Our newsletters are designed to inform the community about creative and productive ways to work with faculty, students, student teams, and facilities/equipment on campus. We like to take the opportunity to do a little bragging too. The National Acadamies Research Council (NRC) just released their nationwide review of engineering colleges and departments. UC Santa Barbara was in the top 10 for all departments that were evaluated and was ranked number one as a public engineering program and number one in Materials. For more rankings information read the National Academies report
This newsletter provides insight in to what is going on at UCSB's California NanoSystems Institute and its collaboration with Microsof and provides some insight into a new analytical facility on campus. In addition, we would like to welcome our newest member to the Corporate Affiliates Program
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| National Acadamies "Research Council" Rankings 2010 | Materials Department #1
Chemical Engineering #2
Computer Science #5
Electrical and Computer
Engineering #5
Mechanical Engineering #9
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| Upcoming Events |
MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast The Future of Learning in a Digital Age - Wednesday, November 17, 2010 5:00PM http://www.mitcentralcoast.com/Upcoming-Events.aspx | |
Entrepreneurial Resources for Faculty and Staff
The Technology Management Program (TMP) is the focal point for entrepreneurial education and mentoring activities at UC Santa Barbara. For details visit www.tmp.ucsb.edu or contact the External Program Manager Bill Grant [email protected]).
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UCSB's Office of Technology & Industry Alliances (TIA) is pleased to announce the launch of its Catapult Program, designed to provide customized support to UCSB startup companies. The Program is seeking strategic partners/investors for its participating startups. For more information or to be put on the Catapult mailing list, please contact Dina Lozofsky at [email protected]
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Dr. Leslie Edwards
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Chris Russo
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Microsoft's Station Q, UCSB, and the future of computing- Moore did not predict the power of a qubit!
| What will computers in the future look like and how will they function? The answer to these questions could be the quantum computer, but creating such a computer is not going to be easy. One of the biggest challenges lies in the delicate temperament of the most basic component of the quantum computer; the qubit. We can relate to the bit, the basic computing element in our computers, because it operates in the arena of "1s" and "0s". The power to motivate a bit is electricity. Qubits are mind boggling by comparison, with quantum properties of trapped particles. They are very sensitive to their environment, which disturbs their required computing function.
Efforts by Station Q, a program that resides within UCSB's California NanoSystems Institute, will bring meaningful advances to our next mode of computing. For more information read
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The California NanoSystems Institute at UCSB
| Major impacts to the economy of the US, and the world, in the 21st century will come from breakthroughs in the development of technologies requiring control of nanometer scale structure and functions. It is at this scale that the top-down approach of electronics manufacture converges with the bottom-up assembly principles of biology. UCSB's UCSB's California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) focuses on these challenges, dealing with the scientific and technological richness of new advances made possible by the integration of engineering and science at the nanoscale.
Much of the work being done at the CNSI is in collaboration with industry partners such as Intel, Microsoft, HP, and Teledyne, who intend to make real products out of research outcomes. Research at the CNSI falls into three broad technology spheres; information technology, energy and energy efficiency, and the lifesciences.
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Welcome Citrix Online
| The Corporate Affiliates Program is pleased to that Citrix Online is a new member of the CAP program.
Citrix Online believes in creating products that they want to use. Their goal is to offer services that are: So easy to use you could learn them without a manual or training, so reliable you can count on them every day without a second thought, so secure you can trust that your data is safe - fully encrypted end to end and so fast the experience is like being there in person.
To see a full list of our member companies, please see the link below.
Affiliate Members
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UC Santa Barbara's functional MRI and the New Industrial Insights it Provides
| FunctionalMagnetic Resonance Scanning (fMRI) is a technique that has been traditionally used to evaluate the hemodynamic response (change in blood flow) related to neural activity in the brain or spinal cord of humans or other animals. However, with the power of a 3 Tesla magnet, high performance cluster computing capabilities, and the creative techniques pioneered by faculty at UCSB, fMRI has the ability to answer many other novel questions that other devices have not.
For more information on the functions of this useful tool read - |
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We always appreciate any input you may have on how we
can improve, so please don't hesitate to send us your feedback. Thank
you for your continued interest in our program. For further information,
please visit the Industry Center website at: www.industry.ucsb.edu
Sincerely,
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