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Center for Geotechnical Modeling
The Center for Geotechnical Modeling operates two small centrifuges and the large (30 ft. in radius with a 4-ton payload) National Geotechnical Centrifuge, used for research on static and dynamic geotechnical problems such as pile foundations, retaining walls, reinforced soil, embankments and dams, and problems involving groundwater seepage, including transport of pollutants and consolidation. Currently, effects of earthquakes are evaluated in the smaller centrifuges using a shaker. A shaker for the large centrifuge is under construction and should be operational by the end of 1993. Earthquake effects can then be evaluated using either centrifuge.
The Visualization and Graphics Research Group
The Visualization and Graphics Research Group of the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV) consists of eight faculty members and approximately 30-35 researchers, all working on problems in visualization, geometric modeling, computer graphics, computational geometry, graphics architecture, and immersive technologies. Their laboratory provides researchers with access to state-of-the-art computing and visualization technology through high-end graphics workstations, multiple PC clusters, parallel computing facilities, a multi-tile display wall, and virtual reality equipment for immersive stereoscopic rendering. The group's research efforts are supported through the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory), Electronic Arts, and several industrial sponsors.
Crocker Nuclear Laboratory
The Crocker Nuclear Laboratory conducts research on the application of nuclear science to a variety of disciplines including the environmental, physical, biological, medical and agricultural sciences. Research is carried on with a variable energy 76-inch cyclotron and pulsed microwave and laser sources.
Geology Department Museum
The Geology Department Museum maintains extensive teaching collections in mineralogy, petrology, economic geology, sedimentology, paleobiology, and other areas. Topographic maps of California and geologic maps of most of the world are available for study.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, operated by the University for the U.S. Department of Energy, spans the fields of plasma physics, fusion technology, nuclear science, lasers, quantum electronics, atomic and molecular physics, materials science, biotechnology, energy and transportation, atmospheric sciences, environmental technology, earth sciences, computer science, computational physics, sensors and communications, and systems engineering.
UC Radio Astronomy Laboratory
The UC Radio Astronomy Laboratory at Hat Creek has a unique millimeter-wave interferometer consisting of six movable 20-foot radio telescopes that achieve angular resolution of about one arcsecond. Observations with the interferometer include studies of various atomic and molecular species in the interstellar and intergalactic gases, the envelopes of red giant stars, planets, comets, and distant galaxies.
Chemistry Facilities
The Chemistry Department is well equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation, including Mass Spectrometry, a small molecule X-ray Crystallography facility, an EPR instrument facility, a high resolution NMR Instrument facility, the NEAT ORU Spectral Imaging Facility and a Chemical Biology commons facility.
Last Updated: May 27, 2008