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MIT-France Seed Fund 2005-2006
Grant Recipients

Magnetic Fields and Accretion Physics for Black-Hole Binaries in the Galaxy

A collaboration between:

  • Ronald Remillard, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Department of Physics
  • Michel Tagger, Senior Scientist, Service d'Astrophysique of CEA (Saclay), France
  • Paggy Vaniere, Chargee de Recherche, 2nd classe, Grenoble Observatory, France


Aggregation Kinetics of Polydisperse Paramagnetic Suspensions

A collaboration between:

  • Patrick Doyle, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Eric Climent, Assistant Professor UMR, CNRS-INPT-URS, France


Data Assimilation for Geophysical Fluids

A collaboration between:

  • Carl Wunsch, Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Dennis McLaughlin, H.M. King Bhumipol Professor of Water Resources Management, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Francois-Xavier Le Dimet, Professor, INRIA/IMFT, France
  • Rachid Ababou, Professor, INRIA/IMFT, France


Information Theory and Practical Applications

A collaboration between:

  • Muriel Medard, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Ramesh Pyndiah, Professor and Head of Signal & Communications, Department ENST Bretagne, France
  • Thierry Chonavel, Professor, France


The Nanoscale Constituents of Trochus Niloticus Nacre: Direct Visualization, Crystallinity, and Relationship to Nanomechanical Properties

A collaboration between:

  • Christine Ortiz, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Alain Baronnet, Professor, University of Marseille-Luminy, France


Spatial Frequency Characterization of Long Sub-Micron Period Gratings

A collaboration between:

  • Ralf Heilmann, Research Scientist, MIT Department of Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
  • Yves Jourlin, Maitre de Conferences, University of Saint Etienne, France


Learning Patterns: Behavior, Neural Coding and Plasticity of Natural Tactile Stimuli

A collaboration between:

  • Christopher Moore, Mitsui Career Development Chair, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • Daniel Schulz, Research Director, CNRS, France


Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations

A collaboration between:

  • David Jerison, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
  • Gigliola Staffilani, Professor,MIT Department of Mathematics
  • Didier Smets, Professor, Paris 6, France
  • Jean-Yves Chemin, Professor, Paris 6, France


LIGO-VIRGO Joint Data Analysis Collaboration for the Detection of Gravitational Waves

A collaboration between:

  • Eric Katsavounidis, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Physics
  • Benoit Mours, Director of Research, CNRS, France