University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Office of Science Program Office/Division and Research

Total
($ in thousands)

• High Energy Physics Research: Experimental, Theoretical, Phenomenology, Mathematical

• Sustaining and Extending the Open Science Grid:  Science Innovation on a PetaScale Nationwide Facility

• Development of Polarized Photocathodes for the Linear Collider

• Mechanistic Studies at the Interface Between Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis

• Response to Photo Oxidative Stress

• Role of AtCDC48 & the AtCDC48 Regulatory Protein Family, PUX, in Plant Cell Morphogenesis

• Mechanisms and Design in Homogeneous Catalysis

• Dissociation Pathways and Vibrational Dynamics in Excited Molecules and Complexes

• Fundamental Studies of the Reforming of Oxygenated Compounds Over Supported Metal Catalysts

• Studies of Amino-Acid Signaling Mediated by Glutamate Receptors in Arabidopsis

• Extracellular Oxidative Metabolism of Wood Decay Fungi

• Dissection and Manipulation of LRR Domains in Plant Disease Resistance Gene Products

• Mechanisms of Organometallic Aerobic Oxidation Reactions Catalyzed by Copper

• Atomic-Scale Design of a New Class of Alloy Catalysts for Reactors Involving Hydrogen: A Theoretical and Experimental Approach

• Quantifying the Micromechanical Effects of Variable Cement in Granular Porous Media

• Characterization of Dopant / Point Defect Complexes in Semiconductors by STEM

• Molecular Dissection of the Arabidopsis Holo-26S Proteasome

• Molecular Mechanism of Energy Transduction by Plant Membrane Proteins

• High Precision Ion Microprobe Analysis of Low Temperature Quartz Cements

• Picosecond Dynamics in Complex Oxide Nanostructures

• Study of Interfacial Chemistry, Structure, and Properties in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

• BACTER:  Bringing Advanced Computational Techniques to Environmental Research

• Tools for the Development of High-Performance Energy Applications and Systems

• Multi-Scale Coupling in Geophysical and Climate Modeling

• A Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science

• A Path to Operating System and Runtime Support for Extreme Scale Tools

• Institute for Scalable Application Development Software

• Next-Generation Solvers for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs: Structure, Search, and Implementation

• Center for Wave Interactions With Magnetohydrodynamics

• Transport and Dynamics in Toroidal Fusion Systems

• Liquid Metal Studies of Dynamos

• Cryogenic Optimization of D2 Pellet Injectors: Preparation for ITER-Scale Fusion Reactors

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

• Reversed Field Pinch Research in MST

• Transients and Magnetic Relaxation in Innovative Confinement Concepts

• SciDAC: Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling/Transport and Dynamics in Toroidal Fusion Systems

• Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling

• Communication Support for U.S. Burning Plasma Organization

• Toward the Theory of Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas

• Atomic Physics Effects on Spherically Convergent, Child-Langmuir Ion Flow Between Nearly Transparent Electrodes

• Investigation of the Feasibility of Plasma-Jet Magnetized-Target Fusion

• Stabilization of Resistive Wall Modes Using Moving Metal Walls

• Theoretical Studies of Near Symmetric Stellarator Plasmas

• Neoclassical Theory and its Applications

• Fusion Advanced Design Studies

• Nuclear Technologies for Near Term Fusion Devices

• Laboratory Measurements of Bohm Presheaths:  Experimental Check of Many of the Predicted Properties

• Fusion Reactor System Safety Studies: Radioactive Dust Mobilization, Transport and Chemical Reactivity in ITER; Identifying Key Phenomena and Characteristics

• Plasma Studies at Near-Unity Aspect Ratio

• HSX:  A Helically Symmetric Toroidal Experiment

• Large Experiment Data Analysis Collaboration

• Nonlinear and Nonideal MHD

• Theoretical Studies Related to Reversed Field Pinch Physics

• Turbulence and Transport in Toroidal Plasmas

• Multifield Fluctuation Diagnostics for Turbulence Studies in Tokamak Plasmas

• High Power Microwave Transmission Systems for Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Plasma Heating

• Behavior and Dynamics of Multifield Turbulence in Tokamak Plasmas

• Towards the Prediction of Decadal to Centennial Climate Processes in the Coupled Earth System Model

• Evaluating Radiative Closure in the Middle-to-Upper Troposphere

• Parameterizing Size Distributions in Ice Clouds

• Impacts of Elevated CO2 and O3 on Insect-Medicated Ecosystem Processes in a Northern Deciduous Forest

• Dynamics of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Climate and Atmospheric Circulation: Diagnosis of Mechanisms and Biases Using Data Assimilation

• A Collaborative Proposal:  Simulating and Understanding Abrupt Climate-Ecosystem Changes During Holocene With NCAR-CCSM3

• Evaluating Global Aerosol Models and Aerosol and Water Vapor Properties Near Clouds

• Growth and Characterization of Atomic Layer Controlled MgB2 Thin Films

• Radiation Effects in Nanocrystalline Ceramics: Multi-Scale Model and Experiment

• Group IV Nanomembranes, Nanoribbons, and Quantum Dots: Processing Characterization, and Novel Devices

• Fundamental Interactions in Nuclei

• OJI: Measurement of Neutrino Properties With Bolometric Detectors

• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

*Total FY08 Funding for University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI ($ in thousands):

$50,374