Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Office of Science Program Office/Division and Research

Total
($ in thousands)

• Quantifying Climate Feedbacks From Abrupt Changes in High-Latitude Trace-Gas Emissions

• Collaborative Research: Abrupt Climate Change and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Sensitivity and Non-Linear Response to Arctic/Sub-Arctic Fre

• Collaborative Research: The Influence of Cloud Microphysics and Radiation on the Response of Water Vapor and Clouds to Climate Change

• Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Models

• An Integrated Framework for Climate Change Assessment

• Mechanisms of Low Dose Radio-Suppression of Genomic Instability

• Genomic Structure, Metagenomics, Horizontal Gene Transfer, and Natural Diversity of Prochlorococcus and Vibrio

• Scientific Discovery with the Blue Gene/L

• Large-Scale Optimization for Bayesian Inference in Complex Systems

• Theoretical and Computational Investigation of Periodically Focused Intense Charged Particle Beams

• 17 GHz High Gradient Accelerator Research

• SciDAC:  National Computational Infrastructure for Lattice Gauge Theory

• Laboratory for Nuclear Science - High Energy Physics Program

• Proposal for the Design and Construction of a Prototype Dark Matter Detector and Directional Sensitivity

• Experimental Studies of a Neutron Tagger and Shield for Dark Matter

• Research in Nuclear Physics

• OJI - Probing the Absolute Mass Scale

• Nonlinear Photoacoustic Spectroscopies Probed by Ultrafast EUV Light

• Rheological Properties of Earth's Lithosphere:  Experimental Constraints on Low-Temperature Plasticity of Olivine-Rich Rocks at High Pressures

• Activity and Stability of Nanoscale Oxygen Reduction Catalysts

• An Exploration of Catalytic Chemistry on Au/Ni(111)

• Spectroscopic and Dynamical Studies of Highly Energized Small Polyatomic Molecules

• Collaborative Research:  Evolution of Pore Structure and Permeability of Rocks Under Hydrothermal Conditions

• The Living Polymerization of 1,6-Heptadiynes

• Structural Dynamics in Complex Liquids Studied with Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy

• Computer-Aided Construction of Chemical Kinetic Models

• Physics of Channelization: Theory, Experiment, and Observation

• A Unified Effort for Crystal Growth, Neutron Scattering, and X-ray Scattering Studies of Novel Correlated Electron Materials

• Ultrafast Electronic and Structural Dynamics in Complex Materials

• First Principles Determination of Structure, Thermodynamics, and Transport in Metals and Oxides

• Design and Fabrication of Photonic Crystals for Thermal Energy Conservation

• Neutron and X-Ray Scattering Studies of the Liquid-Liquid Transition in Supercooled Confined Water and the Slow Dynamics in Biomolecular Assemblies

• Heat Conduction in Nanowire Structures

• Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems:  Local Moments and Conduction Electrons

• Self-Assembling Biological Springs:  Force Transducers on the Micron and Nanoscale

• Probing Nanocrystal Electronic Structure and Dynamics in the Limit of Single Nanocrystals

• Self Assembly & Self-Repair of Novel Photosynthetic Reaction Center/Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Complexes for Solar Energy Conversion

• High Efficiency Biomimetic Organic Solar Cells

• Novel Temperature Limited Tunneling Spectroscopy of Quantum Hall Systems

• Measurement of Single Electronic Charging of Semiconductor Nano-Crystal

• Thermoelectric Nanocomposites at Intermediate Temperature Range: Synthesis and Fundamental Studies

• Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations in Hydrogen Storage Materials

• Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating Technology Development

• Theoretical Research in Advanced Physics and Technology

• Fusion Development and Technology

• Experimental Research in Advanced Physics and Technology

• Alcator C-Mod Fusion Research Program

• Full-wave Studies of High Harmonic Heating in NSTX with Application to Transport Analysis, Fast Ion Interactions and Antenna Coupling

• Levitated Dipole Experiment

• Heating and Current Drive in NSTX with Electron Bernstein Waves and High Harmonic Fast Waves

• Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling

• MIT Participation in The Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics

• Fast Particle-Wave Interaction and Alfven Eigenmodes in the JET Tokamak Plasma

• Physics of High Energy Plasmas

• Center for the Study of Plasma Microturbulence

• Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamics Modeling

• SciDAC - Simulation of Wave Interactions with MHD

• Exploration of Plasma Jets Approach to High Energy Density Physics

• Interactions of a Flowing Plasma with a Collecting Sphere

• SciDAC - Center for Plasma Edge Simulation

• Laboratory Studies of Reconnection in Magnetically Confined Plasmas

• Center for Simulation of Wave-Plasma Interactions

*Total FY08 Funding for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA ($ in thousands):

$55,920