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Björn Birnir advances mathematical understanding of turbulence

2025-07-09

UC Santa Barbara mathematics professor Björn Birnir has developed a new model that sheds light on the complex behavior of Lagrangian turbulence, a chaotic, multi-scale flow found in nature.

The research, published in Physical Review Research and conducted in collaboration with Luiza Angheluta of the University of Oslo, identifies a previously uncharacterized scaling regime and connects it to known phases of turbulent flow.

UC Santa Barbara’s Yang Yang named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, marking a first

2025-06-24

University of California, Santa Barbara assistant professor Yang Yang has been named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), making him the first UCSB faculty member to be affiliated with HHMI.

Curiosity App Unveils New Paths to Personality Growth

2025-06-16

Psychological researchers have developed an innovative app designed to help individuals cultivate curiosity through small, intentional daily actions.

The research, led by Madeleine Gross, project scientist in the META Lab, and Jonathan Schooler, distinguished professor and director of the Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential, uses a “curiosity app” to explore how everyday activities such as questioning assumptions or trying new experiences can spark a curiosity-driven mindset and lead to lasting personality changes.