University of Texas, Austin, TX

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($ in thousands)

• Transport and Collective Properties of Semiconductors and Graphen Overlayers

• Structure-Optical-Thermal Relationships of Carbon Nanotubes

• Volmer-Weber Growth of Nanoscale Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

• Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Clusters and Nanostructures

• Nano-Mechanics of Tunable Adhesion using Non Covalent Forces

• Center for Gyrokinetic/MHD Hybrid Simulation of Energetic Particle Physics in Toroidal Plasmas (CSEPP)

• Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Turbulent Transport in Burning Plasmas

• Activities of U.S. Burning Plasma Organization

• Holographic Imaging of Laser-Plasma Structures

• Collective High-Current Beam Effects Relevant to Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets

• Removing the Divertor Bottleneck in Magnetic Fusion Energy

• Establishment of an Institute for Fusion Studies

• Collaborative Research:  Magnetized Plasma Turbulence and Coupling to Bulk Flows

• Turbulence and Transport in Tokamaks:  A Proposal for Collaboration between The University of Texas Fusion Research Center and the MIT Plasma Fusion Center

• Proposed Diagnostics and Physics Contributions of the University of Texas Fusion Research Center to the DIII-D Program

• Novel Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Removal from Natural Gas Based on Thermally Rearranged Polymers

• Synthetic Receptors and Sensors for Actinide Cations and the Pertechnetate Anion

• Metal-Anion Pairing at Oxide/Water Interfaces: Theoretical and Experimental Investigations from the Nanoscale to the Macroscale

• Predicting Fracture Porosity Evolution In Sandstone

• High Intensity Femtosecond XUV Pulse Interactions with Atomic Clusters

• Surface Chemical Studies of Gold Model Catalysts

• Single Molecule Spectroscopic Studies of Charge Separation and Charge Transfer

• Scalable Methods for Electronic Excitations and Optical Responses of Nanostructures: Mathematics to Algorithms to Observables

• Quantum Chemistry of Radicals and Reactive Intermediates

• Research in High Energy Physics

• Laser Wakefield Acceleration: Channeling, Seeding, and Diagnostics

• Investigations of the Plasma and Structure-Based Particle Accelerators

• Studies in High Energy Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics

• Modeling and Simulation of Coupled Complex Multiscale Subsurface Phenomena

• Adaptive Multi-Scale Modeling Based on Goal Oriented Error Estimation and Control

• FAST: A Fast, Full-System, Cycle-Accurate Computer Simulator

• Towards Optimal Petascale Simulations (TOPS)

• Large-Scale Optimization for Bayesian Inference in Complex Systems

• Searching for Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Strength Threshold Leading to Abrupt Change of the African Monsoon

• Influence of Atlantic SST Thresholds on Continental Climates: Development and Application of a Coupled Atmosphere/Ocean/Vegetation Regional Climate Model

*Total FY08 Funding for University of Texas, Austin, TX ($ in thousands):

$8,689