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Center for the Biological Circuit Design
The IST Center for the Biological Circuit Design (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. The study of circuits cuts across vast areas of biology, from biochemistry, biophysics and genetics, to cell and developmental biology, to neurobiology and ecology.
Center for the Physics of Information
The IST Center for the Physics of Information (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.
Center
for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering
Caltech's
NSF Center for Neuromorphic Systems
Engineering (CNSE)
seeks to give senses and sensory behavior to machines by understanding
the biological basis for vision, olfaction, hearing, touch, learning,
decision making, and pattern recognition, and enabling fabrication of
integrated photonic and electronic devices which allow artificial systems
to perform these functions.
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Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials
The NSF Center for the Science and 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 21st century. The Center pioneers a number of exotic and futuristic materials and applications such as microphotonic materials and devices, integrated ferroelectrics, macromolecular engineering, as well as research at the interfaces between these fields. The CSEM effort in Mesophotonic Materials is motivated by advances in the synthesis and theoretical understanding of materials designed to manipulate light on scales at and below the wavelength of light. These efforts will produce near-term advances in microphotonics and move into the revolutionary domain of devices on scales of tens of nanometers.
Institute
for Quantum Information
The NSF
Institute for Quantum Information
(IQI) further
supports our work with its aim of understanding how fundamental physical
laws can be harnessed to dramatically improve the acquisition, transmission,
and processing of information.
Kavli Nanoscience Institute
The Kavli Nanoscience Institute's (KNI) emphasis is upon efforts that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, with two principal areas of focus: nanobiotechnology and nanophotonics.
Lee
Center for Advanced Networking
We also
undertake projects in collaboration with the Lee
Center for Advanced Networking, whose goal is the creation of a
world wide distributed computing system that connects people and appliances
through wireless and high-bandwidth wired channels and a backbone of
computers that serve as databases and object servers.
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