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MIT-France Seed Fund 2006-2007
Grant Recipients

From Technopole to Techno-Region

A collaboration between:

  • Christopher Zegras, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Catherine Maumi, Maitre-Assistant Associe, University of Grenoble, France


Design of a Glucodialdose to Glucuronic Acid Converting Enzyme for Glucaric Acid Production in E. coli

A collaboration between:

  • Kristala Jones, Prather Joseph R. Mares (1924) Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Alfonso Jaramillo, Maitre de Conferences, École Polytechnique, France


Climate Variability and Malaria Transmission in Africa

A collaboration between:

  • Elfatih Eltahir, Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Paul Reiter, Director, Pasteur Institute, France


Mapping and Scheduling for Multicore Processors

A collaboration between:

  • Saman Amarasinghe, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Frédéric Vivien, INRIA junior researcher, École normale supérieure de Lyon, France


PLUTON

A collaboration between:

  • Una-May O'Reilly, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Marc Schoenauer, Senior Researcher, INRIA, France


New Chemical Sensors based on Quantum Dot Structures

A collaboration between:

  • Tomas Palacios, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Henri Mariette, Directeur de Recherche DR2, Université Joseph Fourier - CNRS, France


Energy Flow and Energy Harvesting in Nanoscale Systems

A collaboration between:

  • Nicola Marzari, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Francesco Mauri, Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France


ECLAIRS

A collaboration between:

  • George Ricker, Senior Research Scientist, Principal Investigator HETE, MIT Department of Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
  • Bertrand Cordier, Chief Payload Scientist, Centre de l'Energie Atomique, France


Flash Pyrolysis of Biomass by Microwave-Generated Plasma

A collaboration between:

  • Kamal Hadidi, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Department of Plasma Science and Fusion Center
  • Laurent Fulcheri, Professor, L'Ecole de Mines de Paris, France


Spin-transport with Complex Oxide Materials

A collaboration between:

  • Jagadeesh Moodera, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Department of Physics
  • Manuel Bibes, Research Scientist, CNRS, France


Spin Filtering Studies for Spintronic Applications

A collaboration between:

  • Jagadeesh Moodera, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Department of Physics
  • Jean-Baptiste Moussy, Junior Research Scientist, Comissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) - Saclay, France

 

Radio Frequency Heating of Magnetically Confined Plasmas for Fusion Energy

A collaboration between:

  • Abhay Ram, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
  • Yves Peysson, Research Scientist, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique France

 

Impact Demagnetization of Geological Materials

A collaboration between:

  • Benjamin Weiss, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Jerome Gattacceca, Director of Research, CNRS, France

 

Direct Numerical Simulation of Inhomogeneous Systems and Suspensions

A collaboration between:

  • Jean-Christophe, Nave Instructor of Applied Mathematics/Postdoctoral associate, MIT Department of Mathematics
  • Rodolfo Ruben Rosales, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
  • Anael Lemaitre, Researcher, Institut Navier, France

 

Combinatorics and Geometry of Convex Polyhedra

A collaboration between:

  • Igor Pak, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
  • Jean-Marc Schlenker, Professor, University Paul Sabatier-Toulouse, France

 

Fluctuation Induced Interactions

A collaboration between:

  • Mehran Kardar, Professor, MIT Department of Physics
  • Thorsten Emig, Chargee de Recherche (CR1), University Paris Sud (Orsay), France

 

Generalizing Geometry in String Theory

A collaboration between:

  • Washington Taylor, Professor, MIT Department of Physics
  • Ruben Minasian, Chargee de Recherche de 1ère classe, CEA-Saclay, France

 

Presuppositions and Implicatures

A collaboration between:

  • Danny Fox, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
  • Paul Égré, Chargee de Recherche, CNRS, France