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MIT-France Seed Fund 2007-2008
Grant Recipients

Impact of the Environment on the Virulence of Marine Microorganisms

A collaboration between:

  • Yan Boucher, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Éric Bapteste, Doctor, CNRS, France


Climate Variability and Malaria Transmission in Africa

A collaboration between:

  • Elfatih Eltahir, Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Jean-Bernard Duchemin, Head-Chief, Parasitology Unit, CERMES / Head-Chief, Climate, Environment & Health Unit, CERMES / Project leader, IRD Pasteur Institute, France


Radar Measurements of West African Rainfall Linked with Satellite Remote Sensing and with Applications to the Urban Malaria Problem

A collaboration between:

  • Earle Williams, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Marielle Gosset, Chargée de Recherche, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France


Internal Tide Scattering and Ocean Mixing

A collaboration between:

  • Thomas Peacock, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Thierry Dauxois, CNRS Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France


Nonlinear Wave Evolution and Wave-Particle Interactions in Fusion Plasmas

A collaboration between:

  • Abhay Ram, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Plasma and Fusion Center
  • Didier Benisti, Research Scientist, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, France


Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bond Rearrangements in Water

A collaboration between:

  • Andrei Tokmakoff, Professor, MIT Department of Chemistry
  • Damien Laage, Chargé de Recherche CR1, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France


Improved Imaging in Non-Smooth Media

A collaboration between:

  • Alison Malcolm, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Maître de Conférences, Université de Provence, France


Geometric Analysis and Applications to General Relativity

A collaboration between:

  • Tobias Colding, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
  • Emmanuel Hebey, Professor, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France


Perturbative Amplitudes in Gauge Theory and Quantum Gravity

A collaboration between:

  • Daniel Freedman, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
  • David Kosower, Ingénieur CEA, Saclay, France


Labor Market Regulation in France: The Management and Evaluation of the Inspecton du Travail

A collaboration between:

  • Michael Piore, Professor, MIT Department of Economics
  • Gilles Raveaud, Lecturer, Institut d'Etudes Européennes - Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France


Mapping Controversies Across the Atlantic

A collaboration between:

  • Vincent-Antonin Lepinay, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Science, Technology and Society
  • Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, France