University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Office of Science Program Office/Division and Research

Total
($ in thousands)

• 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (July 23-27, 2008 in Montreal Canada)

• First Principles Simulation of the Temperature Composition and Pressure, Dependence of Natural Fluids

• Functionalized Nanoparticles and Surfaces for Controlled Chemical Catalysis and Effective Light Harvesting

• Upgrade of the Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table (LHPOST) at UC San Diego

• Molecular and Genetic Basis of Sodium/Potassium Transport and Distribution in Plants

• Dynamics and Energetics of Elementary Combustion Reactions and Transient Species

• Multiscale Design of Advanced Materials Based on Hybrid Ab Initio and Quasicontinuum Methods

• Collaborative Research: Performance Engineering Research Center

• Towards Optimal Petascale Simulations (TOPS)

• Stochastic Analysis of Advection-Diffusion-Reactive Systems with Applications to Reactive Transport in Porous Media

• Elementary Particle Physics

• Nanostructured Materials:  From Superlattices to Quantum Dots

• Electromagnetic Response of Correlated Electron Systems in the Regime of Charge and Spin Inhomogeneity

• Superconductivity and Magnetism in d- and f-Electron Materials

• Time-Dependent Current Density-Functional Theory of Charge, Energy and Spin Transport in Nanoscale Conductors

• Cold Exciton Gases in Semiconductor Heterostructures

• Tuning Sorption Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks via Postsynthetic Covalent Modification

• Advanced Design Program (ARIES)

• Investigations in Anomalous Transport and Ignition Physics

• Turbulence, Structures, and Macroscopic Transport in Edge, SOL, and Divertor Plasmas

• Edge Physics Studies on the NSTX Spherical Tokamaks

• Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Turbulent Transport in Burning Plasmas

• Organization and Operation of the IEEE/NPSS 23rd Symposium on Fusion Engineering and 36th International Conference on Plasma Science

• Edge Plasma Simulations in NSTX and CTF: Synergy of Lithium-Coating, Non-Diffusive Anomalous Transport and Drifts

• Framework Application for Core-Edge Transport Simulation (FACETS)

• UCSD PISCES Program: Plasma Boundary Science, Materials Interactions, and Collaborative Fusion Research

• DIII-D Edge Physics and Disruptions

• Nonlinear Drift Turbulence-Zonal Flow Interactions in a Laboratory Plasma Device

• Basic Physical Processes Involving Dust in Fusion Plasmas

• Dust-Plasma Interactions

• Modeling Plasma Response to Non-Axisymmetric Magnetic Field Perturbations in Tokamak Boundaries

• Gyrokinetics Simulation of Energetic Particle Turbulence and Transport

• Towards a Fine-Resolution Global Coupled Climate System for Prediction on Decadal/Centennial Scales

• The Role of Eddy-Transport in the Thermohaline Circulation

• Hybrid Numerical Methods for Multiscale Simulations of Subsurface Biogeochemical Processes

• A Study of the Role of Terrestrial Processes in the Carbon Cycle Based on Measurements of the Abundance and Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric CO2

• Improving Convection Parameterization Using ARM Observations and NCAR Community Atmosphere Model

• Systems-Level Understanding of Hydrogen Production by Thermotoga Maritima

*Total FY08 Funding for University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA ($ in thousands):

$12,611