Past Luncheon Meetings
Below are Past Luncheon Meetings. Also see Archived Events from January 2017 to present
2023 Meetings
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Presenter
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Title
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11/8/23 | Larry Martinez, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, CalState Long Beach | Ensuring the Sustainability of Outer Space: Orbital Debris Dilemmas |
10/11/23 | Stephen Wilson, Professor, UCSB Materials; Associate Director, CNSI; Co-Director, NSF's Quantum Foundry at UCSB | Research Frontiers in Superconductivity |
9/13/23 | Dave Muffly, senior arborist and horticultural futurist | Climate Change and California's Trees |
8/9/23 | Brian Milburn, CEO/Founder Solid Oak Software | AI: How Can it be Used to Deceive and/or Defend Us? |
7/12/23 | Ivan Bercovich, Partner at ScOp Venture Capital | Artificial Intelligence: Thoughts on AI as a Practitioner Turned Investor |
6/14/23 | Jason Burwen, VP of Policy & Strategy for GridStor | Goleta Join's California's Energy Storage Transformation |
5/10/23 | Dr. Benjamin Halpern, Director NCEAS and Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB | The Environmental Footprint of Global Food Production |
4/12/23 | Dr. Misha Sra, Assistant Professor, UCSB Computer Science Department | Human-AI Integration |
3/8/23 | Bob Allen, Creative Director of Pale Blue Dot Ventures and Founder and Chief Storytelling Officer of IDEAS | A Sneak Preview of Space Base California |
2022 Meetings
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Presenter
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Title
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12/14/22 | Dr. Michael Beyeler, UCSB Computer Science & UCSB Psychological & Brain Sciences | Learning to See Again with a Bionic Eye |
11/9/22 | Dr. Alex Moreland, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry | Paradigm-Changing Antibiotics to Combat the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis |
9/14/22 | Dr. Norbert Reich, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry | How to Use the Software that Controls Cellular Differentiation |
8/10/22 | Dr. Chris Richardson, UCSB Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology | Using Gene Editing Tools to Understand DNA Repair |
7/13/22 | Dr. Galan Moody, UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering | The Key Exchange Problem: Cryptography in the Quantum Computing Era |
6/8/22 | Dr. Rachel Street, Las Cumbres Observatory | Hunting Isolated Black Holes with Microlensing |
5/11/22 | Dr. Kenneth S. Kosik, UCSB Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology | The Surprising Science of Brain Organoids |
4/13/22 | Dr. Michael Mahan, UCSB Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology | Smartphone, M.D: Smartphone and Spit Test for COVID and Flu |
3/30/22 | 2022 Santa Barbara County Science Fair Winners | 66th Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair |
3/9/22 | Dr. Chris Free, UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science | Expanding Ocean Food Production Under Climate Change |
2/9/22 | Dr. Arnab Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, UCSB Chemical Engineering | Repurposing Biomolecules with Unusual Functions to Image Deep Inside the Body |
1/12/22 | Dr. Eric McFarland, CTO & Board Chair of C-Zero; Professor, UCSB Chemical Engineering | Decarbonizing Fossil Fuels for the Lowest Cost CO2-Free Hydrogen |
2021 Meetings
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Presenter
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Title
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12/8/21 | Mike Ricci, LaunchPoint Electric Propulsion Solutions | Why Electric Aircraft are a Bigger Engineering Challenge than Electric Cars |
10/13/21 | Jeff Hecht | The Continuing Challenges of Self-Driving Cars |
8/11/21 | Dr. Rajive Bagrodia, Scalable Network Technologies | Improving Cyber Resilience of Mission-Critical Systems |
7/14/21 | Lori Guetre, Carbon Engineering | Achieving Net Zero with Direct Air Capture |
6/9/21 | Dr. Christopher M. Bates, UCSB Materials | Super-Soft Elastomers: A New Spin on Age-Old Materials |
5/12/21 | Dr. Danielle Touma, UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science | Detecting the Human Fingerprint on Wildfire and Flood Risks |
4/14/21 | Dr. Andy Howell, Las Cumbres Observatory | New Insights into Exotic Explosions from Las Cumbres Observatory |
3/24/21 | 2021 Santa Barbara County Science Fair Winners | 65th Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair |
3/10/21 | Dr. Eyal Amir, CEO Ai Incube | Building Smart Cities |
2/24/21 | Dr. Carolina Arias, UCSB Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | A Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Update on Vaccines and Viral Variants |
2/10/21 | Dr. David Lea, UCSB Earth Sciences and Bren School | Decarbonizing California's Transportation Sector |
1/13/21 | Matt Heverly, JPL Robotics Engineer | The Perseverance Rover and the Search for Ancient Life on Mars |
2020 Meetings
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Presenter
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Title
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12/9/20 | Dr. Mahdi Abu-Omar, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering Departments | Creating Value From Plastic Waste |
3/11/20 | Dr. Carolina Arias, UCSB Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | A Viral Lecture: Understanding the World of Viruses and Outbreaks |
2/12/20 | Dr. Kaustav Banerjee, UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering | Exploiting 2D Materials for Smart Life |
1/8/20 | Jim Breen, The Air Show Network (ASN) | Producing a World-Class Air Show |
2019 Luncheons
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Presenter
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Title
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12/11/19 | Dr. Michelle O'Malley, UCSB Chemical Engineering | Harnessing Gut Microbes to Turn Waste into Energy |
11/13/19 | Dr. Mike Eddy, Resonant Inc. | 5G: Technology Innovation under the Hood |
10/9/19 | Ivan Bercovich, Amazon Alexa | Developing Alexa: Core Engineering and Scientific Challenges |
9/11/19 | Craig Lewis, Clean Coalition | Community Microgrids: Renewables-Driven Resilience |
8/14/19 | Dr. Raphaële Clément, UCSB Materials Dept | Future Battery Chemistries & Advanced Diagnostic Tools for Battery Research |
7/10/19 |
Gary Kravetz, moderator |
Technical Employment in Santa Barbara - 2019 |
6/12/19 | Steve Sereboff, founder of SoCal IP Law Group | Patents – So Much is New in the Law of Innovation |
5/8/19 | Dr. Kurt Ransohoff, CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Sansum Clinic | Trends in Healthcare Worth Knowing About |
4/10/19 | 2019 Santa Barbara County Science Fair Winners | 64th Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair |
3/13/19 | Dr. Paul J. Atzberger, Professor, UCSB Mathematics and UCSB Mechanical Engineering | Machine Learning in the Sciences and Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities |
2/13/19 | Dr. Corey Hoven, founder and CTO of Next Energy Technologies | Beautiful Energy: Windows that Generate Energy from the Sun |
1/9/19 | Robert N. Yamasaki, Vice President and Information Security Officer, Community West Bank | Cybercrime and How You Can Protect Yourself |
2018 Luncheons
Date
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Presenter
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Title
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12/12/18 | Joshua Haggmark, Water Resources Manager for the City of Santa Barbara | Building Water Supply Resiliency: Diversity, Innovation, and Conservation |
11/14/18 | Dr. Elliott W. Hawkes, UCSB Mechanical Engineering | Adding Soft to Robotics: From gecko-inspired wall-climbing to vine-inspired navigation |
10/10/18 | Dr. Ben Mazin, UCSB Physics | Looking for Planets Outside Our Solar System with Superconducting Photon Detectors |
09/12/18 | Prof. Denise Montell, UCSB Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology | Life and Near Death Experiences at the Cellular Level |
08/08/18 | Prof. Javier Read de Alaniz | Red Fish, Blue Fish, Dead Fish: Sensors for Food Safety |
07/11/18 | Gary Kravetz, moderator Sharon Brown, Axxcss Wireless Solutions Sandie Wilkes, Arthrex California Technology Sheri Griffiths, Apple One Employment Services Katie Wilkes, Apple One Employment Services |
Technical Employment in Santa Barbara – 2018 |
06/13/18 | Mike Brown, VP of Operations for Pacific Design Technologies | How to Keep Your Cool - Thermal Management for Challenging Applications |
05/09/18 | Dr. Gabriel Menard, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry | Clean Energy Storage: Chemical and Electrochemical Strategies |
04/11/18 | 2018 Santa Barbara County Science Fair Winners | 63rd Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair |
03/14/18 | Alexander Proctor, co-founder Active Life Scientific | Bone Fragility vs Density: Innovation for diagnosis and treatment in an aging population |
02/14/18 | Dr. James F. Buckwalter, Professor UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering | Wireless Challenges for RF, Millimeter-wave, and Photonic Technologies |
01/24/18 | Dr. Geoffrey Alan Gray, CEO Heeluxe | Beautiful Machines: Designing Testing Tools for Better Shoes |
2017 Luncheons
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Presenter
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Title
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12/13/17 | meeting cancelled due to fire | |
11/08/17 | Dr. Craig Prater, CTO at Anasys Instruments | What the heck is that? Using a microscopic mirage to chemically identify and map materials |
10/11/17 | Dr. Sumita Pennathur, UCSB Mechanical Engineering | Smarter Sensors and Wearable Devices for Medicine |
09/13/17 | Gary Kravetz, moderator Steve Bermudez, Impact Radius Erma Cervantes, Bega-US Elsa Perez, CMC Rescue Anthony Schuck, Volt Workforce Solutions Janet Wallace, Pacific Design Technology |
Technical Employment in Santa Barbara – 2017 |
08/08/17 | Dr. Yon Visell | Reverse Engineering the Sense of Touch |
07/12/17 | Dr. Chandra Krintz, Professor, UCSB Computer Science and Chief Scientist at AppScale Systems | SmartFarms: Using Internet of Things to turn Analytics into Farm Implements |
06/14/17 | Dr. Mark Sherwin, UCSB Physics | Terahertz-Frequency Electro-Optics: Colliding Quasiparticles a Trillion Times per Second |
05/10/17 | Dr. Patrick Daugherty, President & CEO of Serimmune Inc. | Revealing the fingerprints of the environment on our immune systems |
04/12/17 | 2017 Santa Barbara County Science Fair Winners | 62nd Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair |
03/08/17 | Dr. Burton Tripathi of TrueVision | The future of microsurgery - the digital transformation |
02/08/17 | Dr. Galen Stucky, UCSB Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry | From the Benchtop to Commercialization and Beyond: New Solutions for Old Problems |
01/11/17 | Daniel Price, CEO of Bread Inc | The Internet of Things: the myth, hype, facts, and engineers |
2016 Luncheons
Date
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Presenter
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Title
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12/14/16 | Dr. Amitabh Ghoshal, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies | Optical Structures in Biology – A Closer Look Reveals Insights! |
11/09/16 | John Cabeca, Director of the West Coast USPTO (Silicon Valley) | Intellectual Property: Overview and Strategies |
10/12/16 | Matthew Turk, PhD; Department of Computer Science, UCSB | Beyond Pokémon Go: Augmented Reality for the Real World |
09/14/16 | Stephen Scopatz, General Manager of Electro Optical Industries | Still Developing New Optics after 50 Years |
08/10/16 | Panel lead by Gary Kravetz, co-president of SEC: Susie Weslander, Executive Recruiter at Volt Sharon Mercer Brown, Corporate Director of Human Resources at Moseley Associates, Inc. Michael Boucher, QAD Tina Adams, Channel Technologies Danny Nishiyama, Business Development/Volt |
State of Technical Employment in Santa Barbara |
07/13/16 | Riviera Robotics Team | Under the Hood: Team 5818 FIRST Robot |
06/08/16 | Kevin Plaxco, PhD Associate Director of UCSB's Center for Bioengineering | Real-Time Molecular Measurements in the Living Body |
05/09/16 | Alan McCall, Mechanical Engineer, Dehlsen Associates, LLC | Wave Energy Conversion: Challenges and Potential Solutions |
04/13/16 | 2016 Santa Barbara County Science Fair Winners | 61st Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair |
03/09/16 | Dr. Henry Baker, Consultant | Encryption Technology Demystified |
02/10/16 | Nick Winters of Santa Barbara Hackerspace | Iterate Faster With a 3D Printer |
01/13/16 | Dr. Ken Babcock, Lifescale | MEMS in the Real World: Fighting Antibiotic Resistance and Other Adventures |
2015 Luncheons
Date
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Presenter
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Title
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12/09/15 | Dr. Katie Byl, UCSB ECE on Robotics | Limbed Robots: Mobility |
11/11/15 | Yanick Fratantonio, PhD candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara | Malware on Mobile: The What, The Why, and The How |
10/14/15 | Tom Strelich, Technical Fellow at Northrop Grumman | Synergy on Steroids: Model Driven Engineering (MDE) 101 |
9/9/15 | Clint Schow, ECE department, UCSB | Opportunities and Challenges for Photonics in Next-Generation Data Centers |
08/12/15 |
David Copp, Mechanical Engineering: "Closing the Loop: Engineering an Artificial Pancreas" Selvi Ersoy, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology: "Killing Me Softly with Antibiotics" Matt Gebbie, Materials: "Simplifying Nature's Invention: Engineering Mussel Proteins into Biomedical Glues" Lakshmanan Nataraj, Electrical and Computer Engineering: "Photographing Computer Programs to Identify Malicious Software" Jamie Booth, Mechanical Engineering: "Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Materials" |
Hot Topics at UCSB! 2015 Grad Slam Winners Share Their Research |
07/08/15 | Andrew Kendrick, President, Kendrick Consultanting, LLC | Oil and Gas Pipeline Integrity and Corrosion Management |
06/10/15 | Gregory Koss, Chief Technology Advisor / Development Officer, CALIENT Technologies | 3D MEMS Photonic Optical Circuit Switching: Growing Use in Cloud Data Centers |
05/13/15 | Dr. John Martinis, Professor of Physics, UCSB | What's Next After Moore's Law: Quantum Computing |
04/08/15 | 2015 Santa Barbara County Science Fair Winners | 60th Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair |
03/11/15 | Gary Kravetz and panel including Debbie Aronow, Technical Recruiter; Volt Workforce Solutions, Danielle Herandez, Recruitor, Human Resources; Channel Technologies Group, Michael Daoud, President, Visus LLC | Santa Barbara County Tech Employment Outlook |
02/11/15 | Brian Herbst of SAFE Laboratories, LLC | Crashing Cars For A Reason (And For Fun!) |
01/13/15 | Dr. Mike Eddy, VP of Marketing, Resonant, Inc. | Meeting Mobile Bandwidth Challenges with Infinite Synthesized Networks (ISN) |
2014 Luncheons
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Presenter
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Title
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12/10/14 | Dr. John Bowers, Director of UCSB Institute of Energy Efficiency | Silicon Photonics: Transforming Data Centers |
11/12/14 | Thomas Evans, Chief Engineer at the Goleta Water District | Groundwater Supplies, the Drought and Conservation |
10/08/14 | Dr. Nicholas Cunningham, Nyler Research | Exploring the Small and Significant with Atom Probe Tomography |
09/10/14 | Niels Van Erven, head of Sonos' Radio Engineering group | Hi-Fi Over Wi-Fi: A Wireless Music System |
08/13/14 | Mike Franco of Riptide IO | Turning Commercial Buildings into Smart Buildings: The Internet-of-Things for Smaller Businesses |
07/09/14 | UCSB Grad Slam winners, introduced by Carol Genetti, Dean of the Graduate Division at UCSB | Hot Topics at UCSB: Grad Slam Winners Share Their Research |
06/11/14 | Dr. Pradeep Sen, UCSB Advanced Graphics Lab, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Computational Image Processing, Visualization Lab | Computing Realistic Images of the World Around Us |
05/08/14 | Mike Pugh, VP Marketing and Vince Niedzielski, VP Engineering, j2 Global | From Web to Mobile: Transitioning without Missing a Beat |
04/09/14 | 2014 Santa Barbara County Science Fair Winners | 59th Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair |
03/12/14 | Dr. Carl Schueler, Schueler Consulting | Commercially Hosted Remote Sensing; History, Challenges, Opportunities |
02/12/14 | Gary Kravetz, Moderator Todd Mitchell, Network Hardware Resale Janet Wallace, Pacific Design Technology Dawn Coles, FLIR Systems Trish Miller, Spherion Staffing |
Technical Employment in Santa Barbara, 2014 |
01/08/14 | Dr. Philip Lubin, UCSB Physics Department | Vaporizing Asteroids that Threaten the Earth |
2013 Luncheons
Date
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Presenter
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Title
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12/11/13 | Dr. Ilan Ben-Yaacov, Department of Electrical Engineering, UCSB | 2013 Senior Electrical Engineering Capstone Projects |
11/13/13 | Dr. Scott Grafton, MD, UCSB Department of Psychology | Human brain networks: Understanding function from connections and activity |
10/09/13 | Dr. Ambuj Singh, UCSB Departments of Computer Science & Biomolecular Science and Engineering | Online Landscape Mapping |
09/11/13 | Derrick Bailey, Traffic Engineer, City of Santa Barbara | The Science of Traffic Engineering |
08/08/13 | Dr. Morgan Kelly, UCSB Researcher, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology | Life in a changing ocean: will adaptation come to the rescue? |
07/11/13 | Dr. Martin Moskowits, UCSB Chemistry Department | A Radically New Way to Harvest the Sun’s Energy |
06/13/13 | Ansh Kanwar of Citrix | Internet-Scale Services: from Idea to Delivery |
05/09/13 | Industry Panel including Sharon Pavico-Vega, Right Scale and Danielle Hernandez, Channel Technologies Group led by Gary Kravetz, co-president of SEC |
Technical Employment in Santa Barbara – 2013 |
04/11/13 | 2013 Santa Barbara County Science Fair Winners | 58th Annual Santa Barbara Science Fair |
03/14/13 | Andrew Cleland, UC Santa Barbara, Physics | Facebook and Prime Numbers: How a quantum computer is like a social network |
02/14/13 | Yasamin Mostofi, PhD, UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering | Integration of Sensing, Communication, and Navigation in Mobile Networks |
01/10/13 | Claudio Campagnari, UCSB Physics | The Higgs Boson: Particle of the Year |
2012 Luncheons
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Presenter
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Title
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12/13/12 | Mike Brown of Pacific Design Technologies | Keeping Curiosity Cool (or Warm): Thermal Control of the Newest Mars Rover |
11/8/12 | Dave Clark, President, Impulse Advanced Communications | The History of the Internet in Santa Barbara: An overview from ARPANET through the dotcom bubble and into "The Cloud" |
10/11/12 | Stan Stahl, Ph.D., President, Los Angeles Chapter, Information Systems Security Association | It Takes the Village to Secure the Village(SM) |
09/13/12 | John Richard and Dr. Marie O'Regan from Dupont Displays | DuPont’s Printing Technique Produces Affordable OLED Displays |
08/09/12 | Dr. Ram Seshadri, Professor, UCSB; Materials and Chemistry & Biochemistry | Phosphor converted solid state white lighting: What's that on your ceiling? |
07/12/12 | Yifeng Wu, Ph.D.VP, Product Development, Transphorm | GaN Power Technologies: Riding the Third Wave for Energy Efficiency |
06/14/12 | Craig Prater of Anasys Instruments | What the heck is that? Using infrared spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy to identify and map material at the nanoscale |
05/10/12 | Moderator Gary Kravetz, Co-President of SEC, Panel members: Maxine Price, Bruker- Nano Surfaces Business; Todd Mitchell, Network Hardware Resale; Dr. Prashant Rajvaidya, Mosaic Network; and Cindy Mayer, Lynda.com | Technical Employment in Santa Barbara - 2012 |
04/12/12 | 2012 Science Fair Winners | 57th Annual Santa Barbara Science Fair |
03/08/12 | John Vampola, Raytheon Vision Systems Space Products | Infrared Technology in the 21st Century |
02/09/12 | Dr. John Bowers, Board Chairman and Claude Dorais, Director and President, Unite to Light | The Unite to Light story: Using technology to provide clean, reliable electricity to developing countries |
01/12/12 | Dr. Greg Fish, VP of Research and Development at Aurrion Inc | More Than Moore: Harnessing the Power of Silicon Microelectronics Beyond Digital |
2011 Luncheons
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Presenter
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Title
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12/08/11 | Peter Schlueer, President and CFO, WorldViz | Virtual Reality – An Innovative Technology Going Mainstream |
11/10/11 | Dr. Scott Ferguson, Craig Cummins and Greg Burek from UCSB | Panel of winners from UCSB's Technology Management Program New Venture Competition |
10/13/11 | Dr. Pierre Wiltzius, Dean of Science and a professor of physics at UCSB | When Photons Sing: The Future of Optical Communications |
09/08/11 | Wayne Norris of SEDS, LLC | The Best Way To Find IEDs You Probably Never Heard Of |
08/11/11 | Michael Ditmore , Executive Director of Novim and James Knight, Novim’s Executive Vice President | Earth Surface Temperatures: A New Assessment of Historic Global Temperature |
07/14/11 | Dr. Mark Kram, Founder and CTO of Groundswell Technologies, Inc | Sensor and GIS Integration for Automated Web-Based Environmental Monitoring and Visualization |
06/06/11 | Amir Abo-Shaeer and Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy | Building Robots - 2011: How the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Does It DPEA Video 1 DPEA Video 2 |
05/12/11 | Burton Tripathi, Ph.D and David Stuart of TrueVision 3D Surgical | The New Eye Surgery: 3D Visualization and Guidance |
04/14/11 | 2011 Santa Barbara Science Fair Winners | 56th Annual Santa Barbara County Science Fair |
03/10/11 | Daniel R. Tormey, Ph.D., P.G. – Cardno ENTRIX Technical Director | Lessons From Catastrophe: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Climate Change, and Glacial Melting |
02/10/11 | Dr. Lars Blidsten, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, UCSB | Exploding Stars |
01/13/11 | Gary Kravetz, Susie Weslander | Technical Employment in Santa Barbara - 2011 |
2010 Luncheons
Date
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Presenter
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Title
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12/09/10 | Alex Proctor, Director of Technology, Active Life Scientific | BioDent Device Measures Bone Strength |
11/11/10 | Dr. Klaus Schauser, Founder and Chief Strategist, AppFolio | Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service: The Next Revolution in Computing |
10/14/10 | Dr. Christopher Kruegel of UCSB | Security Challenges on Today's Internet |
09/09/10 | Chris Herbert - Co-Founder and CTO of Phone Halo | Smart Objects |
08/12/10 | Dr. Benjamin A. Haskell, CEO of Inlustra Technologies, Inc. | Using Gallium Nitride in LEDs and Lasers: The Problems of Polarization |
07/08/10 | Gary Kravetz, Vice Chairman of SCORE and evaluator of funding requests for Tech Coast Angels | Tech Coast Angels: Funding and Support for Potential Success |
06/10/10 | Amir Abo-Shaeer, Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Director, and the 2010 Robotics Team | Building Robots - 2010: How the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Does It |
05/13/10 | 2010 Science Fair Winners | 55th Annual Santa Barbara Science Fair Winners Present their Projects |
04/08/10 | Dr. Jamey Marth, Director of the Center for Nanomedicine | Nanomedicine: Discovering and Disabling the Cellular Origins of Disease |
03/11/10 | Russ Sharer, Vice President of Marketing for Occam Networks | Rebuilding the Global Telecom Network with Broadband |
02/11/10 | Gary Kravetz, Karen Anne Platt, Dixie Vargas, Dan Munoz, and Erma Zuniga | Santa Barbara Employment Outlook |
01/14/10 | George Konstantinow, Cristopher Geiler MD, Christina Thielst, Gale Wilson-Steele | Social Networking in Health Care and Medicine |
2009 Luncheons
2008 Luncheons
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Presenter
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Title
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12/11/08 | Eric Boldt , Meteorologist, National Weather Service | What is Weather? Forecasts and Delivery Formats from the National Weather Service |
11/13/08 | Don Oparah and Eckart Meiberg, UCSB | Venture Acceleration Initiative and Virtual Geology: Simulating Oceanic Sedimentation Processes for Deep-Water Oil Exploration |
10/09/08 | Gaemus Collins, Analyst, Toyon Research Corporation | Autonomous Control Algorithms for Unmanned Air Vehicles |
09/11/08 | Katheryn Greenaway, UCSB TMP Program Manager; Sherrie Robert, CEO, InFlowMed; Troy Baker, Founder and CTO, Nitride Solutions | UCSB Technology Management Program and 2008 Winners of the New Venture Competition |
08/14/08 | Dr. Rachel Street, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network | Searching for New Worlds, the discovery of extrasolar planets using robotic cameras to detect transits. |
07/10/08 | Jim Spink, Senior Program Manager, ATK Space Systems | Powering the Mars Phoenix Lander: ATK’s Deployable Ultraflex Solar Array |
06/12/08 | Amir Abo-Shaeer and the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy | Building Robots - 2008: How the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Does It |
05/08/08 | 2008 Award Winners | 2008 Santa Barbara Science Fair Winners |
04/10/08 | Gary Kravetz, Tracy Baskerville, Susie Weslander, Valerie Janssens | Technical Employment in Santa Barbara - 2008 |
03/13/08 | Keith Friedman | Engineering Science Behind Your Everyday Safety |
02/14/08 | Alan Heeger, PhD | Low Cost "Plastic" Solar Cells |
01/10/08 | Burton Tripathi, PhD | 3D HD micro surgery – TrueVision is coming to an Operating Room near you |
2007 Luncheons
2006 Luncheons
2005 Luncheons
Date
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Presenter
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Title
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12/8/2005 | Roger Helkey | MEMS-Based Optical Switching: Meeting the needs of Large-Scale Fiber |
11/10/2005 | Steve Trainoff | Why Chemical and Pharmaceutical Companies Are Interested In Why the Sky Is Blue |
10/13/2005 | Douglas H. Harris | Connecting the Dots: The Evolution of Intelligence Analysis |
9/8/2005 | Julian Nott | Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Ballooning |
8/11/2005 | H.T. Soh | What can Moore's Law Do for Medicine? |
7/14/2005 | Professor Amir S. Mikhail | Wind Energy's Contribution to Global Energy: The Role of Technical Innovation |
6/9/2005 | Professor David Awscholom | Beyond Electronics: Spintronics and Quantum Computers |
5/12/2005 | Award Winners | 50th Annual Santa Barbara Science Fair Award Winners |
4/14/2005 | Geoff Deane | Untethered from the Tank: Technology Gives Freedom To Oxygen |
3/10/2005 | Andy Erickson | Probing the Frontiers of the Nanoscale with Multiple AFMs |
2/10/2005 | Gary Kravetz | Changes in the Local Technical Job Market for 2005 |
1/13/2005 | Nicola Spaldin | Being Smart about "Smart" Materials: the Chemical Design of New Materials |
2004 Luncheons
Date
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Presenter
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Title
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12/9/2004 | Eric McFarland | Taking the Oil Out of Gasoline: New Technology for Natural Gas |
11/11/2004 | Paul Hansma | Casting For Solutions: A Microscopic Look at Bone Fracture Dynamics |
10/14/2004 | Dennis Adderton | Small-Tech Wizardry: Synthesizing Carbon Nanotubes |
9/9/2004 | David Messner | Reaching Out In Space: Current Directions in Deployable Space Systems |
8/12/2004 | Austin Richards | Commercial Applications for Infrared Imaging: The State of the Art |
7/8/2004 | Tully Clifford | Traffic: Engineered for the Masses |
6/10/2004 | Daniel Morse | The Bio-Nano Interface: Nanofabricating Semiconductors Using Biotechnology |
5/13/2004 | Award Winners | The 49th Annual Santa Barbara Science Fair Award Winners |
4/8/2004 | William Radasky | Interference Problems: How The Sun Affects Our Technology |
3/11/2004 | Kenichi Yoshie | Bridging Cultures: Japan-US and Academe-Industry |
2/12/2004 | John Illgen | Special Technology Assignment By The DoD To The Republic of South Korea |
1/8/2004 | Gary Kravetz | Latest Changes in the Local Technology Job Market |
2003 Luncheons
Date
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Presenter
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Title
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12/11/2003 | Professor Evelyn L. Hu | The Promise of the Very Small: Nanoscience at the California NanoSystems Institute |
11/13/2003 | Steve Silverman | Goleta Goes to Mars: Mini-TES and THEMIS |
10/9/2003 | Larry Levelle | Finding Errors Earlier in Mission Critical Software |
9/11/2003 | Roberta Nielsen | The State of Handheld Computers |
8/14/2003 | Dr. Jean-Claude Junqua | Speech Processing Anytime, Anywhere |
7/10/2003 | Felix Fischer | Patents and Intellectural Property for Technologists |
6/12/2003 | Michael Barber | Astronomical Imaging with CCD Cameras |
5/8/2003 | Award Winners | The 48th Annual Santa Barbara Science Fair Award Winners |
4/15/2003 | Rod Smith* | Pipeline Construction Project From the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea |
4/10/2003 | Fred Brander | The Grapes of Math: A Chemist's Approach to Winemaking |
3/13/2003 | Dr. Jack Love | A New Treatment for Valvular Heart Disease Using the Patient's Own Tissue |
2/13/2003 | Walter Ware | Telematics: What is IT? |
1/9/2003 | Gary Kravetz | Latest Changes in the Local Technical Job Market |
2002 Luncheons
Date
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Presenter
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Title
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12/12/2002 | Steve Butner | Operation Lindbergh: The World's First Human Telesurgery |
11/14/2002 | Arlon Martin | Applications for Tunable Lasers |
10/10/2002 | Alan Campbell | Cool Products with Digital Signal Processors (DSP) |
9/23/2002 | Jim Reichman* | Doom, Gloom... and Hope: A Report on the Current State of Ecology |
9/12/2002 | Craig Prater | Thinking Small: Microcantilevers for medical diagnostics, chemical sensors, and electronic noses |
8/8/2002 | Jean-Claude Junqua | Speech Processing Anytime, Anywhere: How Close Are We? |
7/11/2002 | Julian Nott | Math Lets Dreams Take Flight: Exploring Our World with Julian Nott |
6/13/2002 | Rosanne Welcher | Cancer Management: The Future of PharmacoDiagnsotic Assays |
5/9/2002 | Award Winners | The 47th Annual Santa Barbara SCIENCE FAIR AWARD WINNERS |
4/11/2002 | Paul Griffith | In Search of the Better Battery: Eleven Years of Electric Bus Operation in Santa Barbara |
3/25/2002 | Doug Katsev* | Nuts and Bolts of Eye Surgery 2002: An Update on Treatments for Vision Problems |
3/14/2002 | Dane Ehrich | Who's Reading Your Meter? Current Trends in Utility Metering |
2/14/2002 | Lisa Farr | The New Access Edge: The Economic and Technical Reality of a Converged Network |
1/20/2002 | Kenneth Waxman, MD |
Trauma Center on the Central Coast: Now and in the Future |
2001 Luncheons
Date
|
Presenter
|
Title
|
12/13/2001 | Gary Kravetz |
How Local Companies are restructuring Their Jobs and What Jobs are Hot and Not |
11/8/2001 |
Professor Alan J. Heeger |
Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: |
10/11/2001 |
Professor Herbert Kroemer |
Heterostructures for Everything? |
9/13/2001 |
Jeff Dozier |
Greening the University: Lessons from Bren Hall |
8/9/2001 |
Patrick Kinney |
Bluetooth: True Or False?? |
7/23/2001 |
Charles Greene* |
Where are all the Whales Going? |
6/14/2001 |
Lloyd Sorensen |
Hey, We Heard That! Hydroacoustic Arrays Listening for Nuclear Tests |
4/16/2001 |
Mary Howe-Grant* |
Understanding the Human Genome |
4/12/2001 |
John McKinsey |
CA Power Crunch: The Inside Story |
3/26/2001 |
William J. Perry* |
Decision Analysis |
3/8/2001 |
George Tamas |
Virtual Government: Reinvention or Revolution? |
2/26/2001 |
Donald R. Logan* |
California Electricity |
2000 Luncheons
(Records incomplete)
Date
|
Presenter
|
Title
|
6/8/2000 | Mark Sylvester, Alias|Wavefront |
Visual Culture: The role of computer animation, digital composition, and digital production techniques |
* Meeting held in downtown Santa Barbara