San Diego Science

Preuss School Teacher Anne Artz Awarded Einstein Fellowship

Artz will serve an academic year as a Congressional Fellow to promote STEM education Anne Artz, a teacher at The Preuss School UCSD, has been selected as one of only 27 K-12 educators nationwide to be a Congressional Fellow for the 2013-2014 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program, where she will serve for an academic [...]

Want to See the Future Attend Research Expo

Engineers who think like artists, physicists who thinks like dancers, scientists who think like poets, and designers who think like Mother Nature: These are some of the researchers from the University of California, San Diego on display at a public event on Friday, April 12 that will extol and explore the virtues of interdisciplinary collaboration [...]

SDSC’s Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data

UC San Diego/Open Science Grid Collaboration Speeds Quest for Dark Matter Discovery Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processing raw data from almost one billion particle collisions as part of a [...]

UC San Diego Team Achieves Petaflop-Level Earthquake Simulations on GPU-Powered Supercomputers

Accelerated Code Cuts Time and Cost in Seismic Modeling The image shows a snapshot of ground motion of the 2008 magnitude-5.4 Chino Hills earthquake in an east-to-west direction; the red-yellow and green-blue colors depict the amplitude of shaking. The simulation indicates that small-scale heterogeneities (causing the highly irregular pattern of shaking in the image) may [...]

Multidisciplinary Research Institute at UC San Diego Named in Honor of Qualcomm

The University of California, San Diego is renaming its division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) in honor of the philanthropy of the San Diego-based wireless technology leader, Qualcomm Incorporated. The multidisciplinary research center will now be known as the Qualcomm Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, the UC San Diego [...]

Calit2 Border App Wins Third Place at Mobile World Congress

A team of students from the University of California, San Diego recently took home third place at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) after pitching their “Best Time to Cross the Border” app to a panel of judges from technology powerhouses such as Facebook and China Mobile. Calit2′s Tarfah Alrashed, Rodrigo Rallo and Matthew Davis [...]

California Research and Education Network Traffic Doubles

One of the World’s Most Advanced Networks Moves 18 Petabytes in February 2013 Soon after the conclusion of its conference on the University of California, San Diego campus about the future of research networks in California, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced a record-breaking year for the network that provides high-performance [...]

Woo Hoo or Oh No!

Spring break is here for some local school children and naturally, they couldn’t be happier than to get a break from classes and the daily grind of homework. But working parents They’re wondering what to do with their kids while school is out. For many, taking the week off isn’t an option much less taking [...]

Dennis Monahan joins Alliant Insurance Services as VP/Director of Risk Management

Alliant Insurance Services (http://www.alliant.com), the nation’s largest specialty insurance brokerage firm, has announced that Dennis Monahan has joined the company as Vice President/Director of Risk Management. He is based in the firm’s San Diego office. With more than 25 years of risk management experience, Monahan is responsible for directing Alliant’s corporate risk management program across [...]

Predictions of Climate Impacts on Fisheries Can be a Mirage

New mathematical tool developed by a Scripps scientist can help avoid misleading conclusions for species management In the early 1940s, California fishermen hauled in a historic bounty of sardine at a time that set the backdrop for John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” novel. But by the end of the decade the nets came up empty and [...]

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