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2004 - 2005 Grant Recipients

"Technological and Scientific Aspects of Nanoparticle Stability in Polycrystalline Microstructures"

Collaboration between:

  • Craig Carter, Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science & Engineering, and,
  • Dominique Chatain, CNRS, CRMC2, Campus de Luminy, Marseille
  • Florence Baras, Chargé de Recherche, CNRS; Laboratoire de Recherches sur la Réactivité des Solides, CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, Dijon

MIT-France Support: $8,415

"Self-assembled Magnetic Nanoparticles"

Collaboration between:

  • Caroline Ross, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and,
  • Marie-Paule Piléni, Professeur, Université Paris 6; Directeur, Laboratoire des Matériaux Mésoscopiques et Nanométriques

MIT-France Support: $7,590

"Structural Analysis of Historic Masonry Vaulting"

Collaboration between:

  • John Ochsendorf, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Architecture, and,
  • François Guena, Assistant Professor, EAPLV; ARIAM
  • Louis-Paul Untersteller, Assistant Professor, EAPLV; ARIAM

MIT-France Support: $5,665

"Molecular Signatures of the Methane Cycle"

Collaboration between:

  • Roger Summons, Professor, MIT EAPS, and,
  • Pierre Albrecht, Directeur de Recherche Classe Exceptionnelle, CNRS; Directeur, LCO, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg

MIT-France Support: $5,610

"Studies of Electrochemically Active Materials by: Transmission Electron Microscopy and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy"

Collaboration between:

  • Yang Shao-Horn, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering; Electrochemical Energy Laboratory, and,
  • Christian Colliex, CNRS Research Director (DRCE1), Head of the Electron Microscopy Group, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay

MIT-France Support: $5,060

"Transcriptional networks of HNF1 a and ß in liver, pancreas and kidney."

Collaboration between:

  • Richard Young, Professor, MIT Department of Biology, and,
  • Moshe Yaniv, Professor, Institut Pasteur; Laboratory of Gene expression and Disease

MIT-France support: $5,060

"Fusion Networks: Principled Approaches to Fusion of Information from Distributed, Heterogeneous Sensors in a Network Environment"

Collaboration between:

  • Allan Willsky, Professor, MIT EE-CS, and,
  • Albert Benveniste, Researcher, INRIA; Sigma2, IRISA

MIT-France Support: $3,960

"Quantifying the Uncertainty Associated with Projections of Future Climate Change"

Collaboration between:

  • James Hansen, Assistant Professor, MIT EAPS, and,
  • Christophe Cassou, Researcher, CNRS; CERFACS

MIT-France support: $3,410

  • MIT China
  • MIT France
  • MIT Germany
  • MIT India
  • MIT Israel
  • MIT Italy
  • MIT Japan
  • MIT Mexico
  • MIT Spain
  • MISTI Africa