May 22, 2014
…The crisis of global climate change demands a faster and better answer. Ong was recently awarded a prestigious “Early Career” research award from the U.S. Department of Energy to apply his supercomputing approach to the challenge. Rechargeable batteries are ubiquitous in every aspect of modern life. They power our cell…
September 9, 2014
Racetrack Playa is home to an enduring Death Valley mystery. Littered across the surface of this dry lake, also called a “playa,” are hundreds of rocks – some weighing as much as 320 kilograms (700 pounds) – that seem to have been dragged across the ground, leaving synchronized trails that…
June 5, 2013
When the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of San Diego, California, debuted Gordon early last year, the system’s architects envisioned that its innovative features – such as the first large-scale deployment of flash storage (300 terabytes) in a high-performance computer – would open the door to new…
March 4, 2014
A year ago the Explorers Club recognized director James Cameron with its coveted Explorers Medal during its annual dinner in New York City. The organization honored the famed director not for movie making but for his historic dive to the deepest point on the planet, an expedition in which Cameron…
July 29, 2014
In recent years, the number and scale of wildfires in the U.S. has risen, threatening cities and forests, and at times forcing large-scale evacuations. Now, thanks to a multi-year, $2.65 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of California San Diego, and the University of Maryland have…
November 12, 2015
A key earthquake monitoring network operated by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will continue with funding support from Seismic Warning Systems Inc. The $700,000 gift will sponsor operations of the ANZA Seismic Network, which features earthquake monitoring stations in San Diego and Riverside counties. The state-of-the art system…
August 27, 2021
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at UC San Diego is the future home of The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale, or TILOS.
October 21, 2015
Virtual reality has become a lightning rod, with opinions split on the substance and relevance of its future applications. UC San Diego’s recent “Future of Virtual Reality” conference demonstrated that this technology has far-reaching potential—not only in the realm of gaming, but in fields like archaeology and medicine as well.
November 1, 2012
…2003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Nobel Peace Prize, 2007 Roger Tsien, Chemistry, 2008 “Rady has given me the opportunity to teach portfolio theory the way it’s actually used in the field,” Markowitz said. “Not only do students learn the theory, but more importantly, they learn how the theory…
April 12, 2018
…Month Celebration inspires campus changemakers to turn their passion into action They bravely led the way to a new environmental consciousness that awakened communities around the world to the importance of protecting our planet. Naturalist John Muir, activist Dolores Huerta and climate scientist Charles David Keeling all turned their passion…
