University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

 

Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (BES)   Quantum Dots on Silicon-on-Insulator (QD/SOI): Nanoscale Strain and Band Structure Engineering Magnetic Nanostructures: Interfacial Chemistry, Structure and Properties Growth and Characterization of Atomic Layer Controlled MgB2 Thin Films Picosecond Dynamics in Complex Oxide Nanostructures Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences Division (BES)  Genomic Analysis of the Receptor Kinase Gene Family in Arabidopsis thaliana Mechanistic Studies at the Interface Between Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis Mechanisms and Design in Homogeneous Catalysis Structure-Function Studies of the LRR Domain in Plant Disease Resistance Molecular Mechanism of Energy Transduction by Plant Membrane Proteins Atomic-Scale Design of a New Class of Alloy Catalysts for Reactors Involving Hydrogen: A Theoretical and Experimental Approach Extracellular Oxidative Metabolism of Wood Decay Fungi Dissociation Pathways and Vibrational Dynamics in Excited Molecules and Complexes High Precision Ion Microprobe Analysis of Low Temperature Quartz Cements Terascale High-Fidelity Simulations of Turbulent Combustion with Detailed Chemistry (TSTC) Structure, Function, and Evolution of Rice Centromeres Studies of Amino-Acid Signaling Mediated by Glutamate Receptors in Arabidopsis Carbon Export from the Calvin Cycle in Plants and Protists Small oxidants and electrophiles as agents of lignocellulose decay by fungi Office of the Associate Director (HEP) Development of Polarized Photocathodes for the Linear Collider High Energy Physics Research: Experimental, Theoretical, Phenomenology, Mathematical Sustaining and Extending the Open Science Grid: Science Innovation on a Mathematical, Information, & Computational Sciences Division (ASCR)  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 Research Division (FES) Reversed Field Pinch Research in MST HSX:  A Helically Symmetric Toroidal Experiment Large Experiment Data Analysis Collaboration Diagnosis of Multifield, Multidimensional, Nonlinear Turbulence Properties in Advanced Tokamak Plasmas Nonlinear and Nonideal MHD High Power Microwave Transmission Systems for Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Plasma Heating Theoretical  Studies Related to Reversed Field Pinch Physics Nuclear Technologies for Near Term Fusion Devices Theoretical Studies of Near Symmetric Stellarator Plasmas Fusion Advanced Design Studies Laboratory Measurements of Bohm Presheaths:  Experimental Check of Many of the Predicted Properties Modeling of Plasma Rotation in National Spherical Torus Experiment Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling Neoclassical Theory and its Applications Investigation of the Feasibility of Plasma-Jet Magnetized-Target Fusion Atomic Physics Effects on Spherically Convergent, Child-Langmuir Ion Flow Between Nearly Transparent Electrodes Stabilization of Resistive Wall Modes Using Moving Metal Walls Plasma Studies at Near-Unity Aspect Ratio Fusion Reactor System Safety Studies: Radioactive Dust Mobilization, Transport and Chemical Reactivity in ITER; Identifying Key Plasma Center for Computational Predictability at Washington, Wisconsin, and Utah State Universities Liquid Metal Studies of Dynamos Cryogenic Optimization of D2 Pellet Injectors: Preparation for ITER-Scale Fusion Reactors Turbulence and Transport in Toroidal Plasmas U.S. Burning Plasma Organization Activities Transport and Dynamics in Toroidal Fusion Systems SciDAC Cooperative Agreement for CEMM/Transport and Dynamics in Toroidal Fusion Systems Transients and Magnetic Relaxation in Innovative Confinement Concepts Center for Wave Interactions With Magnetohydrodynamics Climate Change Research Division (BER) Diagnostic Research and Development: Dynamics of Arctic Climate & Atmospheric Circulation in Re-analysis & in AMIP, CMIP, & National High Spectral Resolution Observations for the ARM Program: Clear and Cloudy Sky Applications Towards the Prediction of Decadal to Centennial Climate Processes in the Coupled Earth System Model The Microphysical and Radiative Properties of Optically Thin Arctic Clouds Impacts of Elevated CO2 and O3 on Insect-Medicated Ecosystem Processes in Cloud Model Validation Using Particle Size & Ice Crystal Morphology Data Derived from M-PACE High Spectral Parameterizing Size Distributions in Ice Clouds Analysis and Calibration of CRF Raman Lidar Cloud Liquid Water Measurements Land/Atmosphere Interaction in the Community Climate System Model Improving the Simulation of Arctic Clouds in CCSM3 Environmental Remediation Sciences Division (BER)   Integrated Nucleic Acid System for In-Field Monitoring of Microbial Community Dynamics and Metabolic Reaction-Based Reactive Transport Modeling of Iron Reduction and Uranium Physics Research Division (NP) Development of Hydrogen and Deuterium Polarized Gas Targets for Application in Storage Rings   *Total Amount Funded by the Office of Science for FY06 ($ in thousands): $24,778