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MIT-France Seed Fund 2009-2010
Grant Recipients

Do Interactions Between Turbulence and Motility Generate Phytoplankton Patchiness?

A collaboration between:

  • Roman Stocker, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Eric Climent, Professor, University of Toulouse, France


Unlocking the Secret of Water Confined in Cementitious Materials: Computational Simulation of Water in Cement Nanopores

A collaboration between:

  • Krystyn Van Vliet, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Roland Pellenq, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Centre Interdisciplinaire des Nanosciences de Marseille (CINAM, CNRS), France


Flexible Objects in Granular Media

A collaboration between:

  • Anette Hosoi, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Evelyne Kolb, Maître de conférences, University Paris 6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, ESPCI, France


Realistic Laboratory Modeling of Three-Dimensional Internal Tide Generation

A collaboration between:

  • Thomas Peacock, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Sylvain Joubaud, Assistant Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
  • Thierry Dauxois, CNRS Directeur de Recherche, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France


Eukaryotic Life in the Aftermath of the First Neoproterozoic Global Freeze

A collaboration between:

  • Tanja Bosak, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Anders Meibom, Professor, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle France


Numerical Simulation and Quantum Adiabatic Algorithms

A collaboration between:

  • Edward Farhi, Professor, MIT Department of Physics
  • Florent Krzakala, Assistant Professor, CNRS et de l’ESPCI ParisTech, France
  • Alberto Rosso, Assistant Professor, Universite Paris-Sud, France


The Comédie-Française Registers Project

A collaboration between:

  • Jeffrey Ravel, Associate Professor, MIT Department of History
  • Christian Biet, Professor, Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre, France
  • Agathe San Juan, Director, Comédie-Française Archives Comédie-Française, France


Predictive Modeling of the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields

A collaboration between:

  • David Kaiser, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Science, Technology, and Society; Physics
  • David Jones, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Science, Technology, and Society
  • Pablo Jensen, Director of Research CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, France
  • Andrei Mogoutov, Researcher, Universite Paris Est - Marne La Vallee, France