University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 
 

Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (BES) 

  • Particle-Induced Modification of Complex Ceramics: Structural and Bonding Control

  • Large-Eddy Simulations of Anisotropic MHD Turbulence

  • Unconventional Magnetism in Low Carrier Density Materials and Nanoparticle Composites

  • Mechanisms for Surface Segregation in Compound Semiconductor Thin Films

  • The Evolution of Topologically Complex Structures: Coarsening of Dendritic Mixtures

  • Structural Metrics for Low Thermal Conductivity Porous Crystals

  • Simulation of Self-Assembly of Tethered Nanoparticle Shape Amphiphiles

  • Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Materials Dynamics

  • Determining the Origins of Electronic States in Semiconductor Nanostructures

  • Integrated Multiscale Modeling of Molecular Computing Devices

  • Nanostructure Patterning under Energetic Particle Beam Irradiation

Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences Division (BES) 

  • Ultrafast X-Ray Coherent Control

  • Perception of Plant Steroid Hormones at the Cell Surface

  • Investigations of Alkali Promotion in Heterogeneous Catalysis: First Principles

  • Interactions of Cold Rydberg Atoms in a High-Magnetic-Field Atom Trap

  • Terascale High-Fidelity Simulations of Turbulent Combustion with Detailed Chemistry

  • Actinide Incorporation and Radiation Effects in U(VI) Solids

  • Experimental Study and Theoretical Modeling of Actinides and REE Speciation in Solid Phases

Office of the Associate Director (HEP)

  • Properties and Interactions of Elementary Particles

Climate Change Research Division (BER) 

  • Cloud/Aerosol Parameterizations:  Application and Improvement of General Circulation Models

  • Development of an Atmospheric Climate Model with Self-Adapting Grid and Physics

  • Ecosystem Response to Elevated Tropospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Ozone (O3) is Regulated by Plant-Microbe Interactions in Soil

  • Coupling an Adaptive-grid Finite-volume Dynamical Core to CAM3 Physics

Physics Research Division (NP)

  • CP Odd Electric Dipole Moment Measurements with Rare Isotopes

Mathematical Information, & Computational Sciences Division (ASCR)

  • Petascale of Data Storage Institute

 

 

*Total Amount Funded by the Office of Science for FY06 ($ in thousands): $6,827