January 25, 2017
January 25, 2017 —
In her first year as an assistant professor at UC San Diego, Computer Science and Engineering as well as Medicine professor Melissa Gymrek is already bringing honor to the institution. In its 2017 roster of top-notch young scientists, Forbes magazine included Gymrek among its top 30 researchers in the Science category under age 30.
January 23, 2017
January 23, 2017 —
Researchers in UC San Diego's Center for Networked Systems (CNS) will be out in force at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in March, with four papers, including two co-authored by CNS co-director and CSE professor George Porter.
January 18, 2017
January 18, 2017 —
Visitors to the gallery@calit2 on the University of California San Diego campus will be treated to a mind-expanding yet dystopic art show that asks a simple question: If life started today in our plastic debris-filled oceans, what kinds of life forms would emerge out of the contemporary primordial ooze? The exhibition, “An Ecosystem of Excess”, opens February 2 and runs through March 17.
January 11, 2017
January 11, 2017 —
The student group Graduate Women in Computing at UC San Diego will use an award from the National Center for Women and Information Technology to create an academic mentorship program for graduate and undergraduate women in computer science.
January 9, 2017
January 9, 2017 —
On January 12, graduate students from UC San Diego will stage MACHINAL, a live performance and interaction with live audience to explore how technology and machines have changed the landscape of human interactions..
December 22, 2016
December 22, 2016 —
UC San Diego professor of anthropology Thomas E. Levy, who directs the Qualcomm Institute’s Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability, spent a week in the Indian state of Telagana visiting 10 ancient sites, including one of the largest groups of ‘standing stones’ thousands of years old. Levy hopes to return with an expedition to document the little-known sites for digital conservation.
December 8, 2016
December 8, 2016 —
The leading computing society in the world, ACM, named UC San Diego computer science and engineering professor Rajesh K. Gupta to be an ACM Fellow. He’s the only University of California professor honored by ACM in the class of 2016.
December 7, 2016
December 7, 2016 —
Composer and multimedia artist Katharina Rosenberger, a professor in the Department of Music at the University of California San Diego, has been appointed composer-in-residence at the Qualcomm Institute (QI), the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Rosenberger is the fourth UC San Diego music faculty member to hold the position following Roger Reynolds (2007-2010), Rand Steiger (2010-2013) and Lei Liang (2013-2016). Her recent composition, “tempi agitati,” will be performed Thursday, Dec. 8 at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, by the contemporary vocal quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten.
December 7, 2016
December 7, 2016 —
Composer and multimedia artist Katharina Rosenberger, a professor in the Department of Music at the University of California San Diego, has been appointed composer-in-residence at the Qualcomm Institute (QI), the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Rosenberger is the fourth UC San Diego music faculty member to hold the position following Roger Reynolds (2007-2010), Rand Steiger (2010-2013) and Lei Liang (2013-2016). Her recent composition, “tempi agitati,” will be performed Thursday, Dec. 8 at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, by the contemporary vocal quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten.
December 6, 2016
December 6, 2016 —
Cheryl Hile, a fund manager at UC San Diego, has embarked on an ambitious effort to become the first patient with multiple sclerosis to run seven marathons on seven continents in a single year, including races in Hawaii this month and Antarctica in January.