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ECE PhD student wins Materials Research Student Talk Award
Yitian Wang, a Ph.D. student from the Xi Chen group in Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the Recommended Oral Presentation prize at the 2023 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting Symposium CH03: Neutron Scattering-Enabled Energy Materials Design. The MRS meeting is the world’s foremost international scientific gathering for materials research. Wang's talk, "Intrinsically low thermal conductivity and lattice dynamics in single crystals of garnet-type solid electrolyte," showcased the use of neutron scattering to investigate thermal properties in next-gen battery materials. Wang
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Breaking the heat barrier of computer innovation
As our computers and other electronic devices become faster and more powerful, they are coming closer to an undeniable physical limitation: heat generated by the electrons that carry information as they move through semiconductors.
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AI programs consume large volumes of scarce water
UCR study the first time estimates the huge water footprint from running artificial intelligence queries that rely on the cloud computations done in racks of servers that must be kept cool in warehouse-sized data processing centers. 
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Engineering professors receive Amazon funding awards
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Upcoming Events

Colloquium by Yongjie Hu
May 22, 2023 @ 11:00 am
WCH 205/206
Title: "Extreme Thermal Materials for Electronics and Transport Physics"
Colloquium by Jeongwon Park
May 15, 2023 @ 11:00 am
Winston Chung Hall 205/206
 Title: "Energy-efficiency and Performance Innovation of Chips with 2-Dimensional Materials (EPIC 2-D Materials)"
Distinguished Colloquium by Xiuling Li
May 08, 2023 @ 11:00 am
Winston Chung Hall 205/206
Title: "Quantum Materials at The Nexus Of Exascale Simulation, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Computing"
Distinguished Colloquium by Fangxing Li
May 01, 2023 @ 11:00 am
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Title: "Modeling Extreme Summer Drought Impacts for Power Grid Resilience Assessment"

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