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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [UC Santa Barbara]( February 13, 2020 Top News [Juvenile red-tailed monkeys]( [A Distant Refuge]( A doctoral student studies primates at a small wildlife reserve in western Uganda. [Read More ▶]( [Pixelated Person]( [Our Machines, Ourselves]( A pair of public lectures kick off the new Mellichamp Initiative in Mind & Machine Intelligence. [Read More ▶]( [Metallic wires connecting memristors in crossbar fashion, with spheres indicating electronic "noise."]( [Bring the Noise]( Researchers describe an approach to leverage noise, as the human brain does, for better neural networks. [Read More ▶]( [More News]( Featured Events [Mary Tyler Moore]( [TV at the Pollock]( February 13, 2020 A screening of episodes of “Father Knows Best,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Modern Family” is followed by a discussion with scholar Elana Levine of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. [Sammy Miller and the Congregation]( [Sammy Miller and The Congregation]( February 13, 2020 The Grammy-nominated, Juilliard-trained drummer and his band share the power of community through joyful jazz. [Suoni Silenzi]( [Suoni-silenzi]( February 16, 2020 A recital of modern Italian vocal music by guest artist and soprano Stacey Mastria features works by Berio, Casella, Dallapicoola, Maderna and others. [More Events]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Quanta]( [Color-Changing Material Unites the Math and Physics of Knots]( Mathematicians have studied knots for centuries, but a new material is showing why some knots are better than others. “It’s a creative art in my mind, being able to develop an experiment that will capture these properties,” said Ken Millett, a knot theory pioneer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [Read More ▶]( [Los Angeles Times]( [Think you know where California is? Think again, says a Mexican activist]( Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, a history professor at UC Santa Barbara, said the region’s identity has always been complex and heavily influenced by people who come there from other places. “Even for people who claim to be from Baja California, their parents often came from somewhere else,” she said. [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 © 2020 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})