University of Texas, Austin, TX

 
 

Materials & Engineering Physics Team (BES)

  • Nano-Mechanics of Tunable Adhesion using Non Covalent Forces

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

  • Transport and Collective Properties of Semiconductor Multi Layers and Nano Structures

Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences Division (BES) 

  • Nanostructured Hybrid Materials for Advanced Membrane Separations

  • Synthetic Receptors for Actinide Cations

  • Predicting Fracture Porosity Evolution In Sandstone

  • Time Resolved Single Molecule Spectroscopy Studies of Photoinduced Charge Separation and Charge Transfer in Organic Nanoparticles

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

  • Cellulose Synthesizing Complexes in Vascular Plants and Procaryotes

  • High Intensity Femtosecond XUV Pulse Interactions with Atomic Clusters

  • The Surface Chemistry of Size-Controlled Oxide-Supported Ir Nanoclusters

  • A Fundamental Study of Transport Within a Single Nanoscopic Channel

  • Scalable Methods for Electronic Excitations and Optical Responses of

Office of the Associate Director (HEP)

  • Research in High Energy Physics

  • Investigations of the Plasma and Structure-Based Particle Accelerators

  • Laser Wakefield Acceleration: Channeling, Seeding, and Diagnostics

Mathematical, Information, & Computational Sciences Division (ASCR) 

  • Discretizations and Solvers for Multiphysics Coupling in Energy and Environment Applications

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

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

  • Reducing the Vulnerability of Electric Power Grids to Terrorist Attacks

  • Towards Optimal Petascale Simulations (TOPS)

  • Terascale Optimal PDE Simulations (TOPS) Center

Research Division (FES) 

  • Establishment of an Institute for Fusion Studies

  • Removing the Divertor Bottleneck in Magnetic Fusion Energy

  • Interaction of High Intensity Electromagnetic Waves with Plasmas

  • 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

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

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

Physics Research Division (NP)

  • Searching for the MSW Effect and Other New Physics with the Boron-8 Solar Neutrino Spectrum

  • Studies in High Energy Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics

 

*Total Amount Funded by the Office of Science for FY05 ($ in thousands): $9,064