University of California, Los Angeles, CA

 
 

Materials Science and Engineering Division (BES) 

  • Microstructural Characterization of Dislocation Networks During Harper-Dorn Creep of fcc, bcc, and hcp Meals and Alloys

  • Three-Dimensional Imaging of Nanoscale Materials by Using Coherent X-rays

Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences Division (BES) 

  • Molecular Genetic Dissection of Chloroplast Iron Homeostasis

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks for Highly Selective Separations

Office of High Energy Physics (HEP)

  • Theoretical and Experimental Studies in Accelerator Physics

  • Advanced Accelerator Physics Research at UCLA

  • Experimental, Theoretical and Computational Studies of Plasma-Based Concepts for Future High Energy Accelerators

  • Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics

  • Development of a Low-Power, Low-Cost, Front-End Electronics Module for Large-Scale Distributed Neutrino

  • Fabrication and Testing of Single Crystal Chemical Vapor Deposition Diamonds

Research Division (FES) 

  • Fusion Science Center: The Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics

  • Computer Modeling of Microturbulence and Macrostability Properties of Magnetically Confined Plasmas

  • Multiscale Modeling of Deformation, Fracture, and Failure of Fusion Materials and Structures

  • Continuation of Full-Scale Three-Dimensional Numerical Experiments on High-Intensity Particle and Laser Beam Matter Interactions

  • Predictive Capabilities, Analysis and Experiments for Fusion Plasma Chamber Systems Research

  • Plasma Diagnostic Program

  • Cross-Cutting Research Studies on the National Spherical Torus Experiment

  • Whistler Spheromaks and EMHD Turbulence

  • Laser Driven Shock Waves in a Large Magnetized Plasma

  • Collaborative Research: Simulation of Beam Electron Cloud Interactions

Medical Sciences Division (BER)  

  • Institute for Molecular Medicine Research Program

  • UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics

  • Fourteenth-Sixteenth Microbial Genomics Conference - 2006-2008

Climate Change Research Division (BER) 

  • Studies of Regional-Scale Climate Variability and Change: Hidden Markov Models and Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Modes

  • Predictive Understanding of the Oceans' Wind-Driven Circulation on Interdecadal Time Scales

  • Characterization of 3D Cirrus Cloud and Radiation Fields Using ARM/AIRS/MODIS Data

  • Black Carbon and Organic Carbon Aerosol Mass and Optical Properties: Comparability and Causes of Uncertainties

Physics Research Division (NP)

  • UCLA Intermediate Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics Research

  • Intermediate Energy and Relativistic Heavy Ion Group

 

Mathematical, Information, & Computational Sciences Division (ASCR) 

  • Simulations of Turbulent Flows With Strong Shocks and Density Variations

 

*Total Amount Funded by the Office of Science for FY06 ($ in thousands): $20,052