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France-Berkeley Fund

Grants Awarded since 1996

Grants Awarded in 2009

Pascale Garaud, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz

Michel Rieutord, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire Midi Pyrenées Toulouse, France

Proposal to support an international summer program in aStrophysical modeling.



Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi, Electrical Engineering, Jack Baskin school of engineering, University of California Santa Cruz

Natalio Mingo, LITEN, CEA-Grenoble, France

Collaborative research on “nanoparticle embedded in alloy” thermoelectric materials and devices grown by MOCVD.



Richard H. Kramer, Molecular and Cell Biology Departement, University of California, Berkeley

Alexandre Specht, Département  de Chimie Bioorganique Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

New two-photon caged neurotransmitters for the photocontrol of neuronal activity and physiology.



Richard Grotjahn and Susan Ustin, Department of L.A.W.R, University of California Davis

Fabio D’Andrea, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Calibration and mapping of satellite skin temperatures by surface station data with evaluation of WRF guidance for extreme heat waves.



Peter S. Nico, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Delphine Derrien, Laboratoire Biogéochimie des Ecosystèmes Forestiers, INRA Nancy, France

Do mineral surfaces stabilize organic matter in soil?



André Anders, Plasma Applications Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jean-Philippe Bauer, Department CP2S, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy Université, France

Spatial and temporal development of high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharges.



Sharmila Majumdar, Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley

Roland Chapurlat, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), Lyon, France

Standardization and cross calibration of Distal Radius and Distal Tibia Bone Quality using High Resolution Peripheral Computed Tomography Scanners.



Barbara Romanowicz, Earth and Planetrary Science, University of California Berkeley

Jan Matas, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France

Seismic attenuation in the Earth’s mantle: implications for velocity-to-density conversion factors.



Siobhan Brady, Section of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California Davis

François Roudier, Biology department, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

Integrating transcriptional networks and chromatin-based mechanisms involved in the control of cell differentiation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.



Zahid Hussain, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Marino Marsi, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides – Université Paris-Sud, Paris, France

New spectroscopic approaches for the study of strongly correlated materials.



Johan Leveau, Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis

Pascale Frey-Klett, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Champenoux, France

Impact of bacterial-fungal interactions on soil evolution, fertility, and vegetation.



Vittal Yachandra, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Pieter Glatzel,Installation Européenne de Rayonnement Synchrotron, Grenoble, France

Ligands of manganese complexes relevant to photosynthetic water oxidation: direct detection using X-ray emission spectroscopy.



Artyom Kopp, Department Of Ecology and Evolution, University of California Davis

Nicolas Gompel, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France

Developing genetic tools for new model species of Drosophila.



Robert Littlejohn, Physics, University of California Berkeley

Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Theorique, Luminy, Marseille, France

Semiclassical studies of spin networks, Wigner $3nj$- symbols, and quantum gravity .

Rosemary Gillespie, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley

Christophe Thébaud, Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Community Assembly on Islands: Role of Random versus Deterministic Effects.

Adrian T. Lee, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Radoslaw Stompor, Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie,Université Paris 7, France

Simulations and data analysis of the initial data set of a next generation CMB B-mode polarization experiment : PolarBeaR.

Alan Weinstein, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Pierre Schapira, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Paris VI, France

Categorical tools in geometry and in mathematical physics.

Robert Kostecki, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Christian Julien, Institut des Nanosciences, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6, France

Electrochemical Energy Storage Research – Advanced Cathode Materials for Li-ion Battery Systems.

Charles Altieri, English Department, University of California, Berkeley

Isabelle Alfandary and Axel Nesme, Département d’Etudes du Monde Anglophone, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France

Transatlantic transactions : French theory and twentieth century American poetry.

Margaret Conkey, Anthropology, University of California Berkeley

Sébastein Lacombe, Université de Toulouse-le Mirail, Toulouse, France

Open air paleolithic occupations on the north slope of the Central Pyrénées : inventory and analysis of a rare and significant collection of prehistoric artifacts.

Ronnie Lipschutz, Department of Politics, University of California Santa Cruz

Béatrice Hibou, Centre d’études et de recherche internationales, Sciences Po, Paris, France

The public-private hybridization of the 21st century state

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Céline Bonnet and Pierre Dubois, GREMAQ, Université de Toulouse, France

Non linear wholesale pricing and retail pass-through: evidence from counterfactual experiments.

AnnaLee Saxenian, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley

Hervé Dumez, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, École Polytechnique, Paris, France

Making a mark: early French trademarking practice and its long-term influence.

 

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