Research at UC Santa Barbara

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Research at UC Santa Barbara
The quality and impact of research at UC Santa
Barbara compares well with that of the best
research done around the world.

• UCSB research
• addresses many of the most important problems
  facing science and society today
• is not constrained by departmental boundaries
  and
• is done in a global context, in close
  collaboration with other top research
  institutions around the world.

Scientists Reveal First-Ever Global Map of Total
Human Effects on Oceans 2/18/2008 NCEAS UC
Santa Barbara
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The Faculty represent our most important asset

• Alan Heeger
• Physics and Materials
• Chemistry Nobel in 2000
• David Gross Physics Physics Nobel in
  2004
• Walter Kohn
• Physics
• Chemistry Nobel in 1998
• Finn Kydland
• Economics Economics Nobel in 2004
• Herbert Kroemer
• Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials
• Physics Nobel in 2000

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Global Science

• A global collaboration of scientists built the
  12.5 kTon CMS experiment, filled with fast
  detectors and electronics to observe 1 billion
  collisions per second.
• At the heart of CMS is a tracking detector, 250
  m2 of silicon detectors.
• The UC Santa Barbara physics department took the
  lead role in building the silicon detector
  modules.

• The worlds most sensitive microscope, the Large
  Hadron Collider, is a 27km accelerator about 100
  m below the surface at the French-Swiss border.

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Research institutes

• UCSB exemplifies the modern American research
  university.
• It is organized for research as
• a core of disciplinary departments, recruiting
  the best faculty and students,
• surrounded by a layer of research centers and
  institutes, each of which draws on several
  departments.
• We believe that no university has a better
  environment for interdisciplinary research.
• I will give just a few examples.

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• NCEAS is the NSFs national center for ecological
  analysis.

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The Marine Science Institute

• UCSB has the advantage of a world-class marine
  research center right on campus.
• Physicists, chemists and molecular biologists
  study abalone, too.

• Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies on
  Coastal Oceans (PISCO)
• putting together physical and biological
  information about the California Coast

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CNSI UCSB does world-class research over a
broad area Spintronics Quantum
Computation Nanophotonics Bio-nanofabrication
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• The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is
  the longest-standing national research center of
  the National Science Foundation, and may be the
  most successful.
• Some of this years programs
• Anatomy, Development, and Evolution of the Brain
• Physics of the Large Hadron Collider
• Dynamo Theory
• Physics of Climate Change
• Boundary Layers in the Earth
• The Theory and Practice of Fluctuation-Induced
  Interactions

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Neuroscience Research Institute

• Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering
• Research areas
• Molecular mechanisms of stem cell differentiation
• Translational bioengineering
• Regenerative medicine
• Facilities grant from California Institute of
  Regenerative Medicine

• NRI addresses urgent problems in biomedical
  research such as
• Alzheimers disease
• Macular degeneration

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Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies

• The ICB is working to understand biological
  mechanisms in order to develop new advanced
  sensors, materials, information processing and
  network control systems
• ICB research is one area of focus at this
  conference.

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The Solid State Lighting and Energy Center

• On December 5, 2007, we held the
• Kick-off Conference for this new center.
• energy efficiency
• solid state lighting
• power switching
• clean energy
• The SSLEC is an example of innovation in
  university-industry partnerships, as well.
• It is also a special focus at this conference.

• Shuji Nakamura won the worlds biggest technology
  prize, the 2006 Millennium Technology
  Prize for developing blue, green and white
  light-emitting diodes and the blue laser diode.

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Who supports the research?

• About 82 of extramural funding comes federal
  funds, either directly or indirectly through
  subcontracts.
• NSF provides 41 of direct federal funding.
• 24th university in NSF research funding
• DOD provides 28.
• 8th university in DOD basic research funding.
• NIH provides 16.
• We receive major support
• from technology companies, many long-term
  partners
• from research foundations such as Keck,
  MacArthur, Mellon, etc.
• from state agencies, including the California
  Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).

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Extramural funding
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Partnerships with Industryat UCSB
The quality and impact of research at UC Santa
Barbara compares well with that of the best
research done around the world. At this session
we would also like to convince you that we have
developed a style of partnership with industry
that helps transfer this products of this
research into the public realm as quickly and
efficiently as possible.