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.
