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Calit2 Irvine Division Report

Milestones

Key Research Projects

Accomplishments

Significant Issues

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Milestones

11/19/04: Building opening ceremony

1/05: Staff move into new building

2/05: Nicholas Prize competition

4/05: Researchers began moving into building

6/05: First meeting of the Irvine Division Faculty Council

6/05: SURF-IT program launched

8/05: Intelligent transportation workshop w/UCSD counterparts

9/05: CyberTrust Workshop

10/05: MOU signed w/Nat’l Center for Nanomaterials Tech at Pohang Univ.

11/05: Interface magazine debuts

2/06: Visit of Governor’s senior advisors

3/06: Hydrology Workshop w/UCSD counterparts

4/06: Zeiss Center of Excellence open house

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Major Research Projects and Groups

ResCUE (NSF) + Responsphere

HIPerwall (NSF)

Building health monitoring (NSF & USGS)

Intelligent transportation (NSF AutoNet)

Nanotechnology

MEMS & BioMEMS

IGB CBRL (Computational Biology Res. Lab)

LUCI (Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction)

Game Culture & Technology Lab

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Materials Research

Negotiated with Zeiss to establish Zeiss Microscopy

Center in Calit2 building

• Focused Ion Beam, FEG-SEM and Environmental SEM totaling

$2.5M in value provided at no cost by Zeiss

Thermal analysis lab and scanning microprobe lab

established with contributions from HSSoE, Calit2 and

faculty members

BioMEMS lab to be established in new cleanroom

NSF provided $380k for nanoimprinting facility in

cleanroom

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Calit2 UCI/UCSD Team Studying Collaborative Practice

Biomedical Informatics Research Network• Integration of collaboration technologies into medical practice &

research• Integration of collaboration & distributed visualization

Supporting Communities of Practice• Collaboration is not just “multiple users”• Understand collective action & collective practice• How communities shape individual actions

Organic Growth Is Key• “Technology First” Solutions Fail• Let Technology & Practice Develop Together• Design for Evolution & Adaptation

Source: Paul Dourish, UCI

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Calit2@UCI Seed Funded Projects

Eco-Raft: Tomlinson and Carpenter

Synthesizing nano-monoclonal plastic antibodies: Lee

and Shea

Remote monitoring of spinal cord injury recovery: Cramer

& Lopes

Silicon-based lasers: Tsai et al.

BIRN visualization: Kuester and Potkin

BIRN collaboration: Dourish, Mark and Potkin

Impact of Telecommunication and IT development in

China: Zhu

Single molecule spectroscopy: Apkarian & Ho

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Emerging Projects

• Medical data fusion: Linskey, Li, Lopes (UCI) and Martin (UCLA)– Integrate spinal cord injury data from depts of neurosurgery

at UCI, UCLA, and eventually UCSD, UCSF, and UCD

• Telemedicine: Lott and Jain– Remote immersive tele-clinic for psychiatric evaluation

• House Calls by Telerobotdoc: Clayman, InTouch Health and Calit2@UCI

• Cyberinfrastructure TEAM project (NSF)• Clinical Translational Science Center (NIH)

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Highlights of Outreach Activities

Campus Outreach• Focus Groups• Schools of Medicine, Social Science, & Social Ecology• Housewarming BBQ

Student Engagement and Education Outreach• Grad Student Forum (April '05)• SURF-IT (Undergrad Summer Research Program)• Girls Inc. (middle school students) Tours and Demos• Carbon MEMS Group Visits Preschool

Community Outreach• So Cal Chambers of Commerce Presentation

Industry Outreach• Octane@UCI collaborative research presentations• Igniting Technology seminar series• Blue Sky Days

Grant–Research Development• HIPerWall and Nanoimprinter funded by NSF• Hydrology and Homeland Security Center Proposal Site Visits• ResCUE NSF Site Visit • Intelligent Transportation Workshop

Research that Educates in a Public Setting• Discovery Science Center–Calit2 Research Affiliate Demos

Host Prominent Conferences • BFI (May '05)• Cybertrust (Sept '05)

Housewarming BBQ

Girls Inc. Tour and Demos

Discovery Science Center

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Issues and Challenges at Calit2@UCI

No funding for equipment

Current budget does not provide for technical

professionals

Insufficient space to meet demand for collaborative

projects

Nurture innovative research and provide seed funding

Develop a sense of ownership and culture of collaboration

Generate additional support

Initiate projects on education