Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation!
In its first ten years, the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz has emerged as a vibrant and innovative center for research and education. The next ten years will be even more exciting, as we build our interdisciplinary programs to tackle the challenges of the 21st century.
We would like to thank our presenters and attendees for joining us in celebrating this milestone for the Baskin School of Engineering. Below is a recap of the events held and where noted, you can view web sites and/or presentations.
Calendar of 10th Anniversary Events
February 19-23 – National Engineer’s Week
February 23 – Open House
Lab tours
Research poster display
Refreshments
…and more!
March 22 – Distinguished Lecture
Title: "How
Global-Scale Personal Lightwaves are Transforming Scientific Research"
Speaker:Larry Smarr | Event
Flyer [PDF 
- 113KB]
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
Technology; Harry E. Gruber professor, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering
UC San Diego
April 12 – Distinguished Lecture
Title: “Engineering
and National Priorities”
Speaker: Richard
Buckius | Event Flyer [PDF -
109KB]
Assistant Director, Directorate for
Engineering
National Science Foundation
April 28 – Banana Slug Spring Fair, alumni reunion and scholarship
event
May 22 – Distinguished Lecture
Title: "Confronting
deadly epidemics around the world..."
Speaker: Don Francis | Event
Flyer [PDF -
115KB]
Executive Director
Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases
October 12 - Baskin School of Engineering Research Review Day
Keynote Speaker: Jim Hollenhorst, Senior Director of Intellectual
Property Strategy, Agilent Laboratories | Event Flyer [PDF -
XKB]
Title: Parallel Revolutions: How Breakthroughs in Electronics and
Biology are Converging at the Molecular Scale.
An all-day event that showcased research by Baskin School of Engineering faculty. They day also included graduate students displaying their research posters.
Presenters:John Vesecky, Holger Schmidt, Ali Shakouri, David Helmbold, Scott Brandt, JJ Garcia Luna, Phil Berman, Josh Stuart, Dietlind Gerloff, William Dunbar, Gabriel Elkaim, Roberto Manduchi, Marc Mangel, Raquel Prado, Hongyun Wang, Pat Mantey, Yi Zhang, Michael Mateas.
- VIEW RESEARCH REVIEW DAY PRESENTATIONS:
- Scott Brandt [PDF - 1.29MB]
- Gabriel Elkaim [PDF - 2.36MB]
- Roberto Manduchi [PPT - 5.15MB]
- Michael Mateas [PPT - 1.19MB]
- Raquel Prado [PDF - 884KB]
- Holger Schmidt [PDF - 1.27MB]
- Josh Stuart [PPT - 11.2MB]
- Hongyun Wang [PPT - 963KB]
- Yi Zhang [PDF - 264KB]
October 25 - Distinguished Lecture 4
Title: Computing at the nanoScale will employ Different Physics and Logic Operations
Speaker: R. Stanley Williams | Event Flyer [PDF
-
176KB]HP Senior Fellow
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
November 3 – Baskin Engineering Gala
Title: Reconstructing 100 million years of Human evolutionary history
Keynote Speaker: Professor
David Haussler
Director, Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering
UC Santa Cruz