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UCLA-led team develops new approach for building quantum computers
A UCLA-led interdisciplinary research team including collaborators at Harvard University has now developed a fundamentally new strategy for building quantum computers. The findings, published last week in Nature Chemistry, could ultimately lead to a leap in quantum processing power.
NSF Awards $1M award to plan pandemic prevention hub
Mark Handcock, professor of statistics, is co-PI on a grant that will provide a framework for assessing and responding to rapidly-developing public health situations. He will work with a group of researchers from other UCs “to plan a new center to prevent and rapidly contain disease outbreaks and their negative effects on health, the economy and society.”
In Memoriam: Alex Levine, Professor of Physics
Alex Levine is fondly remembered by colleagues and students.
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Los Angeles Math Circle renamed the UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle
Radko was the founder of this successful, free math enrichment program for K-12 students. She died of ovarian cancer in June 2020 at the age of 45. In her honor, every gift made to the Math Circle up to $250,000 will be matched one-to-one through June 30, 2021.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department to receive $4.1 million
The gift from adjunct professor Lawrence W. Harding, Jr. is the largest in the department’s history. It establishes the Lawrence Harding Endowed Chair to support a faculty member with expertise in oceanography, an area of study critical to life on Earth.