New Trustees; Data Science and Research Collections; Young Investigator Award for Quantum Computing

UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( October 24, 2019 Top News [Campus Point]( [Service and Commitment]( Five alumni join the UC Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees; philanthropist Betty Elings Wells is named its chairperson. [Read More ▶]( [Coockoo Wasp]( [Creative Curation]( Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration researchers bring data science to bear in managing and sharing research collections. [Read More ▶]( [A proposed all-electric, all-on-chip quantum photonic platform]( [Pushing Quantum Photonics]( Galan Moody, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, receives an Air Force Young Investigator Award for quantum computing. [Read More ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Felice Blake]( [Antiracism Inc.]( October 24, 2019 English scholar Felice Blake leads a discussion about contemporary political strategies that appropriate antiracist discourses and practices to perpetuate injustice. [Paul Berkowitz]( [Paul Berkowitz]( October 25, 2019 The music professor and pianist performs Brahms’ Klavierstücke and Schubert’s Sonata in A minor, accompanied by J.S. Bach’s Partita No. 5 in G Major, as well as an assortment of works by Francis Poulenc. [Ady Barkan]( [Uncovered: Ady Barkan]( October 29, 2019 Through short, personal conversations between Barkan and his guests, this video series explores the obstacles facing healthcare reform in the U.S. and highlights ordinary Americans’ often fraught encounters with the healthcare system. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [New York Times]( [Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing]( Like much of the cutting-edge work being done in corporate research labs, Google’s quantum effort has its roots in academia. In 2014, Google hired a team of physicists who had spent the previous several years working on quantum computing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [Read More ▶]( [Los Angeles Times]( [Sea gulls love In-N-Out. But their diet may be changing their Channel Islands home]( She first visited Anacapa in 2016 while working as a technician in the lab of community ecologist Hillary Young at UC Santa Barbara. While tagging birds on the island, Guerra noticed two things that piqued her curiosity. [Read More ▶]( [Washington Post]( [Thousands of barrels of oil are contaminating Brazil’s pristine coastline. Authorities don’t know where it’s coming from.]( Another mystery spill recently hit the Chicago River. But the Brazil spill is different. “The magnitude of this is extremely rare,” said David Valentine, a marine science researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara. [Read More ▶]( [Washington Post]( [Google scientists say they’ve achieved ‘quantum supremacy’ breakthrough over classical computers]( If validated, the report by Google’s AI Quantum team and University of California at Santa Barbara physicist John Martinis constitutes a major leap for quantum computing, a technology that relies on the bizarre behavior of tiny particles to encode huge amounts of information. According to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Google’s Sycamore processor performed in less than three and a half minutes a calculation that would take the most powerful classical computer on the planet 10,000 years to complete. [Read More ▶]( [Arts]( | [Science + Technology]( | [Society + Culture]( | [Campus + Community]( | [Athletics]( | [Calendar]( [UC Santa Barbara]( Connect with Us: [FB icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Vimeo icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( [YouTube icon]( [RSS icon]( Copyright © 2019 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. Share this email: [Email]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( Choose the emails you would like to receive by[managing your preferences.]( If you do not wish to receive any emails from UC Santa Barbara Institutional Advancement (this includes event invitations, newsletters, networking opportunities and stories of philanthropy), you can [opt out of them ALL]( using TrueRemove® View this email [online](. [UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | 93106 US](#) [This email was sent to {EMAIL}. To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.]({EMAIL})