Research Funding Report, May 2006
D. V. Arapura, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $3,050, "Birational Geometry and Hodge Theory."
R. Banuelos, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $64,000, "Survival Time Probabilities and Applications Hot-Spots and Spectral Gaps."
M. W. Caffee, D. E. Granger, D. Elmore and P. F. Muzikar, Physics, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $666,000, "Facility Support: The Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory."
E. Calais, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $3,253, "Post-Diking Response to the Sept-Oct. 2005 Boina Event, Afar Depression,Ethiopia."
E. Calais, A. M. Freed and L. M. Flesch, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $100,813, "Kinematic Constraints on Mantle-Lithosphere Interactions in Eastern Africa."
E. W. Carlson, Physics, from Research Corporation, $100,000, "Quantum Soft Matter."
K. Choi, Chemistry, from Sloan, Alfred P. Foundation, $45,000, "Sloan Research Fellowship."
M. De Hoop, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $146,420, "Collaborative Research-CMG: Development and Application of Inference Methods for Imaging Neighborhoods of Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary with Broad-Band SCS and SKKS Coda Waves."
M. De Hoop, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $4,248, "Collaborative Research: Anisotrophy and Mantle Flow Beneath Japan from Sesmological Observations and Geodynamical Modeling."
M. De Hoop, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $29,422, "Collaborative Research: Wave Equatin Tomography and Data Assimilation: a New Approach to Estimating P and S Speed Variations in Earth's Lower Mantle."
S. A. Fahmy, Computer Science, from University of Delaware, $42,979, "Benchmarks for DDOS Defense Evaluation."
D. Garofalo, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $82,264, "CAREER: Analytical and Geometric Aspects of Partial Differential Equations."
C. D. Gedney and D. C. Eichinger, Biological Sciences, Curriculum and Instruction, from IN Commission for Higher Education, $96,304, "Going with the Flow: Development of Concept-Centered Curriculum."
S. D. King, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $72,543, "Dynamic Subduction Zone Thermal Modeling."
G. H. Krockover, W. G. Bayley, I. A. Julien, J. A. Conlon, M. L. Hart, W. D. Burgess and W. S. Walker, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Physics, Computer Science, Discovery Learning Center, Mathematics, from IN Commission for Higher Education, $142,383, "Standards Based Integrated Science Instruction for the Middle Grades." (This is a Discovery Park award in center Discovery Learning Center.)
R. J. Kuhn, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $295,784, "Molecular Basis of Alphavirus Assembly."
Y. Lee, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $129,628, "Floer Theory in Gauge Theory and Symplectic Geometry."
N. Li, Computer Science, from National Science Foundation, $160,000, "CAREER: Access Control Policy Verification through Security Analysis and Insider Threat Assessment."
P. S. Low, Chemistry, from Endocyte, Inc., $350,000, "Folate Chemo: Novel, Non-Toxic, Delivery of Hemotherapeutics."
D. J. Minchella, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute Allergy Infectious Dis, $293,867, "Population Structure of Schistosomes and Host Snails."
E. Negishi, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $165,000, "Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming and Cleaving Stoichiometric and Catalytic Organometallic Reactions."
N. Neumeister and S. Goasguen, Physics, IT Discovery Resources, from University of California-Los Angeles, $386,000, "Proposal for a US CMS Tier-2 Site at Purdue University."
D. D. Nolte and J. J. Turek, Physics, Basic Medical Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $99,000, "Holographic Optical Coherence Laser Ranging in Turbid Media."
L. J. Pyrak-Nolte and N. J. Giordano, Physics, from National Science Foundation, $106,337, "Experimental Investigation of Interfacial Geometry Associated with Multiphase Flow Within Two-and-Three Dimensional Porous Medium."
M. D. Raftery, Chemistry, from Alcoa Technical Center, $30,000, "Gas Concentration / Absorption Test Proposal."
P. V. Ramachandran, Chemistry, from IN University Purdue University at Indianapolis, $68,572, "Schiff Base Synthons in Amino Acid Chemistry."
M. G. Rossmann, Biological Sciences, from Cornell University, $120,110, "Parvovirus Structure,Capsid Assembly and Receptors."
C. L. Sahley and J. V. Thomaz, College of Science - Administration, from National Institute of Standards & Technology, $6,720, "Nist Summer Undergraduate Research Felloship Program-Boulder Co."
D. A. Sanders, Biological Sciences, from Packard, David and Lucile Foundation, $87,262, "The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ‘The Molecular Basis of Cellular Organization’."
L. A. Sherman, Biological Sciences, from Washington University, $123,751, "Membrane Biology Grand Challenge."
N. R. Skrynnikov, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $11,000, "New Experiments for Studying Protein Dynamics by Solution-State NMR."
W. Szpankowski and A. Y. Grama, Computer Science, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $214,316, "Algebraic, Combinatorial & Probabilistic Methods for Biological Sequences."
D. H. Thompson, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $222,714, "Crystallization of His-Tag Proteins on Nanostructured 1d & 2d Template Interfaces."
B. Ulrich, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $67,393, "Cores, Regularity and Principal Ideal Theorems."
D. K. Yau, Computer Science, from National Science Foundation, $62,325, "Collaborative Research: A Component-Based Software Environment for Simulation, Emulation, and Synthesis of Network Protocols in Next Generation Networks."
T. S. Zwier, Chemistry, from U.S. Department of Energy,
$128,248, "Experimental Characterization of the Potential Energy
Surfaces for Conformational Isomerization in Aromatic Fuels."