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2003 - 2004 Grant Recipients
"Micromechanics of Biological Molecules and Cells"
Collaboration between:
- Patrick Doyle, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, and,
- Benoit Ladoux, Maître de Conférence, Université Paris 7
MIT-France Support: $11,000
"Free-Surface Flows and Hydrodynamics of Complex Fluids"
Collaboration between:
- Gareth McKinley, Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Anette Peko Hosoi, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, and,
- Marc Fermigier, Professor, ESPCI, Paris
- José Bico, Lecturer, ESPCI, Paris
MIT-France Support: $10,450
"Language comprehension across languages"
Collaboration between:
- Edward Gibson, Professor, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and,
- Barbara Hemforth, Chargé de Recherche 1ère classe, CNRS; Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Aix en Provence
- Joel Pynte, Directeur de Recherche 2ème classe, CNRS; LPL, Aix en Provence
MIT-France Support: $8,030
"Nonlinear Diffuse-Charge Dynamics in Electrochemical and Microfluidic Systems"
Collaboration between:
- Martin Bazant, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics and MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, and,
- Armand Ajdari, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS; Directeur, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, ESPCI
MIT-France Support: $4,840
"Signal decomposition for computer graphics"
Collaboration between:
- Frédo Durand, Assistant Professor, MIT EE-CS; Computer Graphics Group, CSAIL, and,
- François Sillion, Directeur de Recherche, Projet Artis, INRIA Grenoble
- George Drettakis, Chargé de Recherche, Projet Reves, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
MIT-France Support: $4,400 (Renewal)
"Modeling and Tracking People Using Digital Cameras For Virtual Studio Application"
Collaboration between:
- Trevor Darrell, Associate Professor, MIT Department, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Vision Interface Project, CSAIL
- David Dermidjian, Research Scientist, Vision Interface Project, CSAIL, and,
- Edmond Boyer, Assistant Professor, Université Joseph Fourier; MOVI team, INRIA
- Cordelia Schmid, Research Scientist, INRIA; MOVI team
MIT-France Support: $4,400
"Nonlinear Dynamics and Quantum Noise of a Self-Phase Locked 3-to-1 Optical Parametric Oscillator"
Collaboration between:
- Franco Wong, Senior Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics
- Jean-Jacques Zondy, Research Engineer, BNM-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris
MIT-France Support: $3,410
"MIT-France Workshop on Molecular Photonics at Micro and Nano-Scale: From Fundamentals to Applications"
Proposal submitted by:
- Robert Silbey, MIT Dean of Science; Professor, MIT Department of Chemistry
- Joseph Zyss, Professeur, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan; Directeur, Institut D'Alembert de Photonique Moléculaire pour les Télécommunications et les Biotechnologies
MIT-France Support: $3,300
