Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

 
 

Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (BES) 

  • Theory and Modeling of Materials for Hydrogen Storage

  • High Throughput Screening of Nanostructured Hydrogen Storage Materials

  • Surface Phonon-Polariton Mediated Heat Conduction in Nanoscale Thin Films

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

  • Design and Fabrication of Photonic Crystal M-I-S Fibers for the Control of Energy Conversion and Power Generation

  • Neutron and X-Ray & Light Scattering Studies of the Liquid-Liquid Transition in Supercooled Confined Water, Collective Dynamics in

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

  • Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems: Local Moments and Conduction Electrons

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

Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences Division (BES) 

  • Catalysts for the Living Polymerization of Olefins 

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

  • Computer-Aided Construction of Chemical Kinetic Models 

  • Spectroscopic and Dynamical Studies of Highly Energized Small Polyatomic Molecules 

  • Structural Dynamics in Complex Liquids Studied with Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy 

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

  • Instability of Noble Metal Catalysts in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Experiments and Theory

  • Hangman Catalysts for Photo- and Photoelectro- Chemical Activation of Water

  • Nonlinear Photoacoustic Spectroscopies Probed by Ultrafast EUV Light

  • Physics of Channelization: Theory, Experiment, and Observation

Office of the Associate Director (HEP)

  • 17 GHz High Gradient Accelerator Research 

  • Laboratory for Nuclear Science - High Energy Physics Program 

  • SciDAC: National Computational Infrastructure for Lattice Gauge Theory 

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

Mathematical, Information, & Computational Sciences Division (ASCR) 

  • A National Collaboratory to Advance the Science of High Temperature Plasma Physics for Magnetic Fusion 

  • Geometric Folding Algorithms 

  • Lagrangian Simulation of Combustion 

  • PetaScale Application Development Analysis

  • Scientific Discovery with the Blue Gene/L

Research Division (FES) 

  • Alcator C-Mod Fusion Research Program 

  • Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating Technology Development 

  • Experimental Research in Advanced Physics and Technology 

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

  • Heating and Current Drive in NSTX with Electron Bernstein Waves 

  • MIT Participation in The Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics 

  • Physics of High Energy Plasmas 

  • Theoretical Research in Advanced Physics and Technology

  • Exploration of Plasma Jets Approach to High Energy Density Physics

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

  • Center for Simulation of Wave-Plasma Interactions

  • Levitated Dipole Experiment

  • Fusion Development and Technology

  • Interactions of a Flowing Plasma with a Collecting Sphere

  • Laboratory Studies of Reconnection in Magnetically Confined Plasmas

  • SciDAC - Center for Plasma Edge Simulation

  • SciDAC - Simulation of Wave Interactions with MHD

Medical Sciences Division (BER)  

  • Mechanisms of Low Dose Radio-Suppression of Genomic Instability

Climate Change Research Division (BER)  

  • An Integrated Framework for Climate Change Assessment 

  • Mechanistically Based Diagnostics and Parameterizations for Climate Models 

  • Characterization of Fine Particulate Matter (PM) and Secondary PM Precursor Gases in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area

  • Methods for Developing Emissions Scenarios for Integrated Assessment Models

Environmental Remediation Sciences Division (BER)  

  • Millimeter-Wave High Level and Low Activity Waste Glass Research

Physics Research Division (NP)

  • Laboratory for Nuclear Science

  • OJI - Probing the Absolute Mass Scale

 

 

*Total Amount Funded by the Office of Science for FY06 ($ in thousands): $54,681