Research Funding Report, July 2004

M. M. Abu-Omar, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $13,724, August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005, "Probing the Mechanism and Structure-Function Relations in Phenylalanine Hydorxylase - Supplement."

W. G. Aref, A. Ghafoor and A. K. Elmagarmid, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, from National Science Foundation, $49,999, August 15, 2002 through July 31, 2005, "A Test-Bad Facility for Research in Video Database Benchmarking."

W. G. Aref, Computer Science, from National Science Foundation, $61,034, September 15, 2001 through August 31, 2005, "Research and Development of Database Technologies for Modern Applications."

R. Banuelos, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $68,755, June 1, 2004 through June 30, 2006, "Supplement-Brownian Motion with Killing and Reflection Stable Processes and Projections of Martingales."

V. E. Barnes, Physics, from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, $95,899, October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2008, "Statement of Work by the US CMS Group at Purdue University for Activities Related to the US CMS Hadron Calorimeter Subsystem During Fiscal Year 2004."

C. W. Bingham and A. C. Catlin, Computer Science, from Navsea/Nswc Crane, $75,000, June 1, 2004 through September 30, 2004, "Investigation of IETM Content and Processing Toward Unification with Knowledge Projection Session Capture."

D. Bortoletto, I. P. Shipsey, L. J. Gutay, V. E. Barnes, A. F. Garfinkel and D. H. Miller, Physics, from U.S. Department of Energy, $19,000, November 1, 2003 through October 31, 2004, "Supplemental Travel for the Compact Muton Solenoid Detector (CMS)."

M. W. Caffee, D. E. Granger, D. Elmore and P. F. Muzikar, Physics, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $735,838, May 1, 2003 through April 30, 2005, "Facility Support: The Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory."

E. Calais and A. M. Freed, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $76,982, July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005, "Collaborative Research: GPS Measurements and Deformation Modeling of Oblique Subduction and Strain Partitioning in the Northeastern Caribbean."

R. G. Cooks, Chemistry, from National Science Foundation, $329,000, July 15, 2004 through June 30, 2005, "Chiral Magic-Number Clusters & Non-Covalent Complexes Studied by Electrospray Ionization & Ion Soft Landing."

R. G. Cooks, Chemistry, from Jet Propulsion Laboratory, $50,000, July 6, 2004 through July 5, 2005, "Cylindrical Ion Trap/Ion Mobility Spectrometer."

R. G. Cooks, Chemistry, from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $24,000, September 1, 2004 through August 31, 2005, "NASA Graduate Research Fellowship - Jason Green."

D. Elmore, Physics, from Rutgers State University, $19,000, February 1, 2004 through January 31, 2005, "Cosmogenci: Radionuclides in Extraterrestrial Materials."

J. P. Finley, Physics, from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $80,500, October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005, "Hubble Fellowship Program Search for Planets in Open Clusters."

J. P. Finley, Physics, from Space Telescope Science Institute, $4,708, September 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005, "Search for Planets in Open Clusters."

A. Gabrielov, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $43,091, October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2005, "CMG Collaborative Research: Cellular Automata, Directed Graphs, and the Modeling of Earthquakes and Landforms."

J. S. Haase, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, $9,524, April 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004, "EERI Hands-on Science in Schools: Mapping Amplification of Earthquake Ground Motion in Indiana."

S. E. Hambrusch, S. K. Prabhakar and W. G. Aref, Computer Science, from National Science Foundation, $6,000, August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005, "REU: Query Processing in Pervasive Location Aware Computing."

M. Huber, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $31,374, May 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005, "Construction of 'Deep' Paleoclimate CCSM Simulations."

S. Kais, Chemistry, from Office of Naval Research, $15,940, October 1, 2003 through January 1, 2005, "Critical Phenomena and Renormalization Group Approach for Electronic Structure Calculations."

L. M. Lipshitz, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $215,999, August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2007, "Model Theory and Cell Decomposition for Valued Fields and Analytic Structure."

J. G. Ogg, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, from National Science Foundation, $80,000, August 1, 2003 through July 31, 2005, "Collaborative Research: Chronos Network for Earth System History: Development of Integrated Databases and Toolkits Accessible through a Common Portal."

S. K. Prabhakar and M. J. Atallah, Computer Science, from National Science Foundation, $49,995, June 1, 2003 through May 31, 2005, "Watermaking Relational Data Bases."

M. D. Raftery, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Center for Research Resource, $152,000, August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005, "Multi-Coil, Multi-Sample Magnetic Resonance."

K. R. Robinson, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute of General Medical Science, $171,585, August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005, "Physiological Control of Neuroblast Polarity in Drosphila."

M. G. Rossmann and R. J. Kuhn, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute Allergy Infectious Dis, $793,188, August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005, "Virus Assembly and Transmission."

C. L. Sahley, Biological Sciences, from University of Miami (Florida), $68,700, May 1, 2004 through April 30, 2005, "Loss and Restoration of Function after Neural Injury."

C. L. Sahley, Biological Sciences, from University of Miami (Florida), $68,700, July 1, 2003 through April 30, 2005, "Loss and Restoration of Function after Neuronal Injury."

G. C. Weaver, Chemistry, from U.S. Department of Education, $332,088, August 15, 2003 through August 14, 2005, "Graduate Fellowships in Chemical Instrumentation."

A. Wei, Chemistry, from PHS-NIH National Institute Biomed Imaging/Bioeng, $391,862, August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005, "Plasmon-Resonant Nanorods as Multifunctional Contrast Agents for Optical Coherence Tomography."

N. Yip, Mathematics, from National Science Foundation, $64,183, July 15, 2004 through June 30, 2005, "Analysis of Stationary Solutions and the Pinning Phenomena for the Modeling of Phase Boundary Motions in Materials Science."

D. Zhou and A. I. Aronson, Biological Sciences, from PHS-NIH National Institute Allergy Infectious Dis, $225,000, July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005, "Germination of Bacillus Anthrcis Spores in Macrophages."

Y. Zhu, Statistics, from National Science Foundation, $77,000, July 15, 2004 through June 30, 2007, "Constructing Optimal Factorial Designs for Multiple Groups of Factors: Theory, Methods and Applications."

September 2004 Science @ Purdue