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UC Irvine scientist helps link climate change to Madagascar’s megadrought
Oct 23, 2019
UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Svetlana Jitomirskaya has won the 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, UC Irvine officials announced yesterday. Jitomirskaya is only the second woman in the prize’s 60-year history to win the honor, and the first woman ever to win it alone.
Oct 22, 2019
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 22, 2019 – Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Distinguished Professor of mathematics at the University of California, Irvine, has been named the 2020 winner of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. She is only the second woman to receive the annual prize – and the first to receive it alone, not jointly.
Oct 21, 2019
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 21, 2019 – The next time a river overflows its banks, don’t just blame the rain clouds. Earth system scientists from the University of California, Irvine have identified another culprit: leafy plants.
Oct 21, 2019
(CNN)-- While the ozone hole over Antarctica typically grows in September and October, scientists observed the smallest ozone hole since they first began observing it in 1982, according to a joint release by NASA and NOAA.
Oct 14, 2019
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 14, 2019 – Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new scanning transmission electron microscopy method that enables visualization of the electric charge density of materials at sub-angstrom resolution.
Oct 9, 2019
It’s kind of like predicting whether a social media post will go viral. Only in this case, the stakes could be much higher.
A team of researchers at UC Irvine says it has developed a machine learning model based on a “decision tree” algorithm that — if given information on climate data, atmospheric conditions and the types of vegetation present — can help determine the final size of a wildfire, starting from the moment of ignition.
Oct 9, 2019
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 9, 2019 — Researchers at the University of California, Irvine are leading a new project with three other UC campuses to study the impact of coastal flooding on disadvantaged communities in California.
Sep 26, 2019
A new technique can predict the final size of wildfires from the moment of ignition, researchers report.
Sep 25, 2019
We can agree that wildfire is natural in western forests, and at the same time not want fires to burn down our houses. Some hard lessons have been learned about fire behavior in recent years.
Sep 25, 2019
We can agree that wildfire is natural in western forests, and at the same time not want fires to burn down our houses. Some hard lessons have been learned about fire behavior in recent years.
Sep 24, 2019
What if Paradise residents had received evacuation orders an hour before fast-moving flames reached their town? Could more people have escaped last November’s deadliest wildfire in California history?
Sep 17, 2019
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of California, Irvine has developed a new technique for predicting the final size of a wildfire from the moment of ignition.