BIC
Biological
Imaging Center
The Biological Imaging Center explores the patterning of cell lineages,
cell migrations, and axonal connections during vertebrate embryogenesis.
The goal is to develop new imaging techniques and experimental strategies
that permit single-cell resolution studies of each of these key processes
in intact developing embryos.
BNMC
Biological Network Modeling Center
The Biological Network Modeling Center is a director's initiative
created by the Beckman Institute in the fall of 2005. Its goal is
to bring together Caltech biologists, bioengineers, mathematicians,
and computer scientists to develop and apply state-of-the-art computational
tools for modeling and analyzing complex biological systems.
ASCI
Center for Simulation of Dynamic
Response of Materials
ASCI is of the five university centers in the Academic Strategic Alliance
Program of the NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing program (ASC).
The center has constructed a proof-of-concept for a Virtual shock
physics Test Facility (VTF) in which the full three-dimensional response
of a variety of target materials can be simulated for a wide range
of compressive, tensional, and shear loadings, including those produced
by detonation of energetic materials.
CACR
Center for Advanced Computing
Research
CACR exists to ensure
that Caltech is at the forefront of computational science and engineering
(CS&E). CS&E is the practice of computer-based modeling, simulation,
and data analysis for the study of scientific phenomena and engineering
designs.
CBCD
Center for Biological Circuit
Design
The CBCD is developing new ways to design, build, and analyze biological
circuits. Biological circuits control information flow in biological
systems, and as such are a core area of Information
Science and Technology.
CCSER
Caltech
Center for Sustainable Energy Research
CCSER has as its goal to transform the industrialized world
from one powered by fossil fuels to one that is powered by sunlight.
Initially we are focused on three efforts: (1) solar electric generation,
(2) solar-driven fuel synthesis, and (3) fuel cell development.
CIMMS
Center
for Integrative Multiscale Modeling and Simulation
CIMMS is a Caltech research center focussed on research activities
in a wide range of topics covering multiscale phenomena ranging from
physical and mathematical modeling to computational algorithms.
CMI
Center
for the Mathematics of Information
CMI is a home in which unfettered development of the mathematical foundations
of information and computation can be influenced by, and influence
in turn, progress in engineering and science.
CNSE
Center
for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering
Vision, olfaction, hearing, touch, learning, decision making, and pattern
recognition. These are all things that even simple biological organisms
perform far better and more efficiently than the fastest digital computers.
The scientists and engineers at CNSE are working to translate our
understanding of biologic systems into a new class of electronic devices
that imitate the ways animals sense and make sense of the world.
CPI
Center
for the Physics of Information
The CPI is dedicated to the proposition that physical science and information
science are interdependent and inseparable. Our research aims, on the
one hand, to foster physical insights that can pave the way for revolutionary
new information technologies, and, on the other hand, to stimulate
new ideas about information that can illuminate fundamental issues
in physics and chemistry.
CSEM
Center
for Science & Engineering
of Materials
CSEM addresses both research and
educational aspects of polymeric, structural, photonic, and ferroelectric
materials that will be necessary to solve critical societal needs of
the twenty-first century. The Center pioneers a number of exotic and
futuristic materials and applications such as liquid metals, responsive
gels, and tiny medical sensors.
IQI
Institute
for Quantum Information
The IQI was founded to catalyze and stimulate quantum information
science (QIS) research. We sponsor a vigorous visiting scholars
program, develop and teach novel QIS-based courses, hold regular
interdisciplinary seminars and workshops, mentor Ph.D. thesis research,
and support undergraduate research internships.
IST
Information
Science and Technology
IST is the first integrated research
and teaching activity in the country that investigates information
from all angles: from the fundamental theoretical underpinnings of
information to the science and engineering of novel information substrates,
biological circuits, and complex social systems. IST is home to six
centers: CPI, CMI, CBCD, SISL, the
Lee Center, and CNSE.
JPL
Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
JPL is a NASA center staffed and managed for the government by Caltech.
It is a federally funded research and development center specializing
in unmanned space exploration.
KNI
The
Kavli Nanoscience Institute
The KNI special emphasis is upon efforts that transcend traditional
disciplinary boundaries, with two principal areas of focus: nanobiotechnology
and nanophotonics. Its common methodology in these areas is large-scale
integration of nanoscale devices—that is, going beyond the present
nanoscience of individual structures to realize interacting systems
capable of unprecedented emergent functionality.
Lee Center
Lee
Center for Advanced Networking
The purpose of the Lee Center for Advanced Networking is create a global
communication system that is reliable and robust. Current wireless
communication systems are plagued by static and lost connections. But
Lee researchers envision a global system as reliable as a basic utility—like
tap water, sewage or natural gas—which consumers will take for
granted. The skeleton of this new global communication system will
consist of a combination of wireless radio frequencies and high-speed
fiber-optic cable.
Multi-University
Research Initiative:
Materials
on the Brink: Unprecedented Transforming Materials
This ARO-administered MURI projects seeks to exploit principles of
crystallographic compatibility and phase coexistence to discover materials
that undergo extremely low hysteresis structural transformation between
phases with unusual combinations of electromagnetic, optical and mechanical
properties.
MSC
Materials
and Process Simulation Center
The goal of MSC is to develop methods required for first-principles
multiscale-, multi-paradigm-based predictions of the structures and
properties of proteins, DNA, polymers, ceramics, metal alloys, semiconductors,
and organometallics—and to apply these methods to design new materials
for pharma, catalysis, microelectronics, nanotechnology, and superconductors.
PEER
Power,
Environmental & Energy
Research Center
The PEER mission is to conduct fundamental research in the science
and engineering underlying energy and environmental technologies, and
to train new scientists and engineers to provide the multidisciplinary
knowledge needed to solve these problems.
SISL
Social
and Information Sciences Laboratory
SISL studies how markets and other social systems aggregate large
amounts of information that is widely distributed.
VTP
Voting
Technology Project
The VTP was established by Caltech President David Baltimore and
MIT President Charles Vest in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence
of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election.
Specific tasks of the project include: evaluate the current state
of reliability and uniformity of U.S. voting systems; establish
uniform attributes and quantitative guidelines for performance
and reliability of voting systems; propose specific uniform guidelines
and requirements for reliable voting systems. |
