Grants Awarded in 1996
Prof.
Ali Belkacem, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University
of California, Berkeley
Prof. Joseph Remillieux, Institut de Physique
Nucleaire, et Universite Lyon-1, France
"Production and Study of Exotic Atoms - The project proposes to investigate
the feasibility of a novel method that allows a very efficient production of
these fast decaying "exotic" atoms."
Prof. John Canny, Computer Science Dept.,
University of California, Berkeley
"Christian Laugier, Director of Research, Institut National
de Recherche et Informatique et en Automatique, Grenoble, France
This project is aimed at investigating new concepts and techniques for solving
complex robotics tasks, at developing a theoretical and experimental framework
for physical modeling and dynamic simulation, and at applying results to medical
and telerobotics applications."
Prof. Alexandre Chorin, Dept. of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley
Denis Talay, Directeur de Recherche, INRIA, Sophia
Antipolis, France
"The principle object of this collaboration is the study of aleatory vortex
methods for the Navier-Stokes equations. These methods were created and developed
at Berkeley. This research though undertaken at Berkeley has seen new results
from France in regard to the theory of stochastic process, notably the propagation
of chaos for systems of aleatory particles in interaction. These results have
been proved for simplified models and the collaborators hope to apply them to
the Navier-Stokes equations. "
Prof. Susanna Elm, Dept. of History, University
of California, Berkeley
Eric Rebillard, Chargé de Recherche, Ecole
Française de Rome, Rome, Italy
"Boundaries of Discourse: Establishing, Maintaining
and Challenging 'Orthodoxy' in the History of Christianity - The
notion of "boundaries of discourse" is applied to those
conventions of language beyond which one cannot go without risking
exclusion from a social group. As such, boundaries of discourse
change through history and are constantly renegotiated by the actors.
The notion might be used by historians of Christianity as a tool
for investigating from a sociological point of view the dynamics
connected with establishing, maintaining, and challenging "orthodoxy" within
Christianity. All historians of Christianity are confronted with
the problem of "orthodoxy". Hence, the project is concerned
to build tools in order to deal with this central issue in the
history of Christianity. "
Prof. Mariane Ferme, Dept. of Anthropology, University
of California, Berkeley
Jean-Loup Amselle, Ecole des Hautes Etude en Sciences
Sociales, Paris, France
"Imperialism and Identity: Remapping the Cultural Politics of Representation
- A collaborative project is envisioned here, with a historical focus on imperialism--understood
as the period leading up to , encompassing and following colonialism. This timeframe
is sufficiently focused and close to the present to allow for an active engagement
with contemporary debates in the cultural politics of identity and representations
of difference implicated in these politics. The research of the project's coordinators
is centered in Africa, but a comparative dimension will be added by the integration
of study groups on the Imperialism in other world regions."
Prof. Syvlia Guendelman, School of Public Health,
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Gerard Breart, INSERM, Paris, France
"A World on the Move: A Comparative Look at the Birth Outcomes of Immigrant
Women in France, Belgium and the United States. - The purpose of the proposal
is to organize and convene a group of leading researchers and policymakers in
France, Belgium and the United States with expertise on the reproductive health
of immigrant populations."
Prof. Russell Jones, Dept. of Plant Biology, University
of California, Berkeley
Dr. Raoul Ranjeva, Centre de Physiologie Végétale,
Université P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France
"Isolation and Characterization of Calcium Channels
in Plants - Work in the Jones and Ranjeva laboratories over the
past 5-10 years has focused on the roles of Ca 2+ as a signaling
molecule in plants. The researchers plan to isolate Ca2+ channels
and address the roles of Ca+2 in signal transduction in plants.
They wish to exploit recent new discoveries make in Berkeley and
Toulouse that will lead to the molecular cloning of the first Ca2+
channels in plants. "
Prof. Larry Karp, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource
Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Thierry, GREQAM-LEQAM, Université d'Aix-Marseille,
Les Milles, France
"Government Policy and Labor Market Imperfections
- The purpose of the research is to shed light on the manner in
which specific institutional features in labor markets alter the
efficacy of government employment policy. Two topics will be investigated.
The first topic concerns the affect of employment policy in a market
where management and unions exercise (bilateral) market power in
the targeted sector. The second topic involves government policy
and labor dynamics in a declining sector."
Prof. C. Bradley Moore, Chemistry Dept., University
of California, Berkeley
Pascal Devolder, Directeur de recherche au CNRS,
Laboratoire de Cinetique et Chimie de la Combustion, Université des
Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France
"Kinetic Investigations of reactive systems by combined
laser photolysis/tunable diode absorption spectroscopy and LIF"
Prof. Forrest Mozer, Space Sciences Laboratory,
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Raymond Pottelette, Centre d'Etudes des Environnements
Terrestre et Planetaires, St. Maur des Fosses, France
"Study of Acceleration and Radiation Processes
in Geospace Plasmas - The main purpose of this collaborative study
is the investigation of basic processes leading to the acceleration
of particles in natural plasma environment and the subsequent generation
of radiation."
Prof. Hans Ritter, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Barbara Erazmus, Laboratoire Subatech, UMR Universite
de Nantes, Nantes, France
"Development of Tracking methods for high-energy
experiments - Particular efforts will be put on track-finding strategies
especially devoted to an optimal two-track momentum resolution
critical for two-particle correlation (HBT) measurements."
Dr. Marie-Agnes Stephens, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, University of California , Berkeley
Gilles de France, Centre de Recherches Nucleaires,
Strasbourg, France
"Study of Rapidly Rotating Atomic Nucleus"
Prof. Hans Wenk, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University
of California, Berkeley
Prof. Michel Pernet, Laboratoire de Cristallographie
- CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble, France
"Texture and Anisotropy - The goal of the project is to
combine resources to establish an interdisciplinary Grenoble-Berkeley "Texture
Focus" and to develop novel techniques with which problems
can be addressed that could not be approached before: Property
anisotropy evaluation, recrystallization and microstructure, textures
of low symmetry materials."
