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Second-year Pico Gilman ’27 placed sixth in the Putnam Math Competition, leading UCSB to its best-ever finish.

UCSB ranks fifth in prestigious Putnam Math Competition

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Electrical and computer engineering professor in his lab
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Matt Perko
Daniel Blumenthal

Cold atoms on a chip
Bright colors and different shapes meant to illustrate a photonic array
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Brian Long
Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array

A new optical memory platform for super fast calculations
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Tinish Bhattacharya in his UC Santa Barbara lab.

Innovative hardware for rapidly solving optimization problems
scientist holds a chip-scale ring resonator and a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode
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Sonia Fernandez
Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser

Bringing the power of tabletop precision lasers for quantum science to the chip scale
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Aqueous Battery Consortium

A new aqueous battery research collaboration to advance clean energy
concept illustration for computer chip architecture

Kaustav Banerjee named a JSAP Fellow International
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Elections math is the subject of new graduate seminar
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Exploiting atomically thin materials for energy efficient electronics
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Aspiring engineers receive national research fellowships, with significant funding
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Jeff Liang
Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller

Two UCSB professors selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to be Experimental Physics Investigators
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Lilli Walker
Kerem Çamsari (left) and third-year Ph.D. student Shaila Niazi, who used p-bits to create images that were not part of a machine-learning training data set.

Proving the value of an old algorithm in training deep-learning models for AI
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Bright prospects for engineering quantum light
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