University of Washington, Seattle, WA

 
 

Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (BES)  

  • Quantitative Photon and Electron Spectroscopy Theory

  • Coherent X-Ray Spectroscopy of Solids

  • Exchange Anisotropy, Engineered Coercivity and Spintronics in Atomically Engineered L10 Heterostructures

Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences Division (BES) 

  • Real-Time Atomistic Simulation Studies of Light Harvesting and Charge Transport for Solar Hydrogen Production

  • Supported Molecular Catalysts:  Synthesis, In-Situ Characterization and Performance

  • Modes of Action and Functions of ERECTA-family Receptor-like Kinases in Plant Organ Growth and Development

  • Biohydrogen production by a photosynthetic bacterium

Office of the Associate Director (HEP)

  • Theoretical and Experimental Particle Physics

Mathematical, Information, & Computational Sciences Division (ASCR) 

  • Numerical Methods for Forward and Inverse Problems in Discontinuous Media

  • An Algorithmic and Software Framework for Applied Partial Differential Equations

Research Division (FES) 

  • The ZaP Flow Z-Pinch Project

  • Small Scale Fusion:  The Pulsed High Density FRC Experiment

  • Compact and Toroid Injection in NSTX

  • Helicity Injected Torus (HIT) Current Drive Program

  • Solenoid Free Current Initiation and Sustainment by Coaxial Helicity Injection

  • Theory of Field-Reversed Configurations

  • Plasma Center for Computational Predictability at Washington, Wisconsin, and Utah State Universities

  • Rotating Magnetic Field Generation and Sustainment of FRCs Using an Advanced TCS/Upgrade

Office of the Associate Director (BER)

  • Equipment Purchase for Research Laboratory

Climate Change Research Division (BER) 

  • North American Drought in the 21st Century

  • ARM-based Development of a New Combined Parameterization for Shallow and Deep Cumulus Convection in Large-Scale Climate Models

  • Hydrometeors Injected into the Large Scale Environment by Tropical Cloud Systems

  • Diatom Photorespiration and Microbial C/N Cycling in the Upper Ocean: An Integrated Molecular and Biochemical

Environmental Remediation Sciences Division (BER)  

  • Physical Properties of Hanford Transuranic Waste Sludge

  • Genetic Engineering of Plants to Improve Phytoremediation of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Groundwater

Physics Research Division (NP)

  • Nuclear Theory

  • Experimental Nuclear Physics

  • Institute for Nuclear Theory

 

*Total Amount Funded by the Office of Science for FY06 ($ in thousands): $13,197