2011-2012 Recipients

APPLIED SCIENCES

FRANCE-STANFORD COLLABORATION IN MANTLE GEOCHEMISTRY AND PETROLOGY
Jessica Warren, Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Benoît Ildefonse, CNRS, Montpellier
Grant: $12,100

THE INVERSE PROBLEM FOR BRAIN ELASTOGRAPHY AND LESION MONITORING
Pierre Garapon, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Gianmarco Pinton, ESPCI, Institut Langevin, Paris
Grant: $14,202

MOLECULAR IMAGING WITH DELTA RELAXATION ENHANCED MRI
Brian Rutt, Department of Radiology, Stanford University
Ludovic de Rochefort, CNRS, Orsay
Grant: $13,958

ENGINEERING

ROBOTIC ASSISTANCE FOR MR GUIDED PROCEDURES
Mark Cutkosky, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Pierre Renaud, LSIIT/CNRS, Strasbourg
Grant: $13,935

MECHANICAL AND RELEASE PROPERTIES OF POLYMERIC CAPSULES FOR CONTROLLED DELIVERY OF CHEMICAL SPECIES
Gerald Fuller-Fletcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Cécile Monteux, ESPCI/CNRS, Paris
Grant: $13,000

MULTI-SCALE MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND NUMERICAL METHODS FOR MULTIPHASE AND REACTIVE FLOWS
Parviz Moin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Marc Massot, Ecole Centrale, Paris
Grant: $14,000

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

BODY, PLACE AND MEMORY
Helen Paris, Department of Drama, Stanford University
Gretchen Schiller, Université Stendhal, Grenoble
Grant: $12,000

MEDICINE

DISSECTING MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN HUMAN iPS CELL DERIVED CORTICAL NEURONS
Ricardo Dolmetsch, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Matthias Groszer, INSERM, Paris
Grant: $13,500

IMMUNE CORRELATES OF CMV INFECTION IN ORGAN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
Mark Davis, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University
Julie Déchanet-Merville, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux
Grant: $11,500

FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS WITH A FIXED TARGET EXPERIMENT USING THE MULTI-TEV PROTON AND NUCLEAR LHC BEAMS: MOTIVATION, SIMULATION AND FEASIBILITY
Stanley Brodsky, SLAC, Stanford
Jean-Philippe Lansberg, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay, Orsay
Grant: $8,000

PHYSICS

LCLS (STANFORD) - SOLEIL (FRANCE) EXCHANGE PROGRAM - IONIZATION DYNAMICS IN CLUSTERS AND ISOLATED NANOPARTICLES
John Bozek, SLAC, Stanford
Catalin Miron, Synchroton SOLEIL, Gif sur Yvette
Grant: $14,000

OTHER

SEARCH FOR NEW PHYSICS IN TOP QUARK EVENTS WITH THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT
Dong Su, SLAC, Stanford
Mossadek Talby, Centre de Physique des Particules, Marseille
Grant: $13,000