Grants Awarded in 1999
Robert
BonDurant (School of Veterinary Medecine, UC Davis)
Francis Fieni (Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire
de Nantes)
"Transmission of Cae Retrovirus Via Breeding Technologies
in Dairy Goats"

Daniel S. Chemla (Materials Sciences Division & ALS,
LBNL)
Jérôme Tignon (Laboratoire
de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Paris)
Spectroscope Optique Non Linéaire
de Nanostructures de Semiconducteurs

Gerson
Goldhaber (Supernova Cosmology Project,
LBNL)
Reynald Pain (Universités de Paris VI et
VII)
"Measurement of the Cosmological Parameters using
Type 1a Supernovae."

Neil Fligstein (Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley)
Rémi Lenoir (Sociologie, Université de
Paris I; CSEC-CSE/EHESS, Paris)
"French Field Theory and American New Institutionalism: Building Theoretical
Bridges for the Analysis of Contemporary Politics and Culture."

Patrick V. Kirch (Department of Anthropology,
UC Berkeley)
Eric Conte (Université Française
du Pacifique, Tahiti)
"Prehistoric Polynesian Voyaging and Island Colonization:
New Archaeological Perspectives"

Michael Levine (Department of Molecular and Cell
Biology, UC Berkeley)
Christian Sardet (UMR 643 CNRS, Station Zoologique,
Villefranche-sur-Mer)
"Searching for Muscle Determinants in a Simple Chordate
Embryo."

Krishna K. Niyogi (Department of Plant and Microbial
Biology, UC Berkeley)
Michel Havaux (Dépt. d'Ecophysiologie Végétale
et de Microbiologie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/Cadarache,
Saint-Paul-lez-Durance)
"Role of the Xanthophylls in the Protection of Plants from Photo-Oxidative
Damage."

Nicholas Paige (Department of French, UC Berkeley)
Christian Biet (Institut d'Etudes théâtrales,
Université de Paris X - Nanterre)
"The Literature of Law: Judicial and Economic Culture, 1550-1789."

Shankar Sastry (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences, UC Berkeley)
Christian Laugier (Projet SHARP, INRIA Rhône-Alpes,
Montbonnot Saint-Martin)
"High-Fidelity Computer Simulations of Medical
Procedures"

Tito Serafini (Department of Molecular and Cell
Biology, UC Berkeley)
Alain Chédotal (INSERM Unité 106,
Paris)
"Neuronal Target Recognition and Synaptogenesis in the Mammalian Brain."

Jonathan Shewchuk (Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley)
Marc Daumas (Laboratoire de l'Informatique du
Parallelisme, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
"Floating-Point Multiple Precision Arithmetic for Adaptive Computation and
Elementary Functions."

James H. Underwood (Center for X-Ray Optics, LBNL)
Coryn Frank Hague (Laboratoire de Chimie Physique,
Université de Paris VI)
"Magneto-Optics of Polarized Soft X-Rays"

Maciej Zworski (Department of Mathematics, UC
Berkeley)
Frédéric Klopp (Institut Galilée,
Université de Paris-Nord, Villetaneuse)
"Spectral and Scattering Theory"