Current Awards
Current awards in the Stewardship Science Academic Alliances program are as follows:
| Title |
Organization; State |
Investigator |
Total Budget* |
Project Period |
| Effects of Microstructural Heterogeneity on Deformation and Failure of Metallic Materials Under Dynamic Loading: A Multicrystal Approach |
Arizona State University; Arizona |
Peralta, Pedro |
$455,255 |
2/01/06-1/31/09 |
| Dynamic Ductile Failure and Interface Dynamics Under Extreme Conditions |
California Institute of Technology; California |
Rosakis, Ares |
$660,000 |
4/15/06-4/14/09 |
| Center of Excellence for High Pressure Science and Technology |
Carnegie Institute of Washington; Washington, D.C. |
Hemley, Russ |
$15,000,000 |
3/01/08-2/28/13 |
| Picosecond Soft X-ray Studies of Dense Plasma Regimes |
Colorado State University; Colorado |
Rocca, Jorge |
$810,000 |
4/01/06-3/31/09 |
| Center for the Study of Pulsed-Power-Driven High Energy Density Plasmas |
Cornell University; New York |
Kusse, Bruce |
$6,500,000 |
10/01/07-9/30/12 |
| Neutron Induced Reactions on Specific Nuclei |
Duke University; North Carolina |
Tornow, Werner |
$1,200,000 |
2/15/06-2/14/09 |
| Electron Interactions in Actinides and Related Systems Under Extreme Conditions |
Florida State University; Florida |
Tozer, Stanley |
$1,800,000 |
5/01/06-4/30/09 |
| Experimental Studies of High-Energy Processing of Proto Planetary and Planetary Materials in the Early Solar System |
Harvard University; Massachusetts |
Jacobsen, Stein |
$620,956 |
3/1/06-2/28/09 |
| Cross Sections, Level Densities and Strength Functions |
North Carolina State University; North Carolina |
Mitchell, G. |
$709,000 |
1/01/06-12/31/08 |
| Studies in Low-Energy Nuclear Science |
Ohio University; Ohio |
Brune, Carl |
$894,999 |
3/01/06-2/28/09 |
| Nuclear Probing of Dense Plasmas and Implosion Physics at Omega, Z, Omega with EP and the NIF |
Plasma Science and Fusion Center; Massachusetts |
Petrasso, Richard |
$1,450,000 |
4/15/06-4/14/09 |
| Advances in Optical Mixing Techniques for the Effective Control of Parametric Instabilities in Laser-Produced Plasmas |
Polymath Research, Inc.; California |
Afeyan, Bedros |
$761,617 |
2/01/06-1/31/09 |
| Fundamental Issues in the Interaction of Intense Lasers with Plasma |
Princeton University; New Jersey |
Fisch, Nathaniel |
$919,300 |
3/01/08-2/28/11 |
| Compact Compression of High Intensity Laser Pulse |
Princeton University; New Jersey |
Fisch, Nathaniel |
$750,000 |
3/22/07-3/21/10 |
| Validation of Numerical Algorithms in Astrophysical Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics Codes With Z-pinch and Laser Experiments |
Princeton University; New Jersey |
Stone, James |
$479,610 |
4/15/06-4/14/09 |
| Measurements of Energy Dependant (n,p) and (n,alpha) Cross Sections of Nanogram Quantities of Short-lived Isotopes |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst; New York |
Danon, Yaron |
$489,568 |
5/01/06-4/30/09 |
| Center of Excellence for Radioactive Ion Beam Studies for Stewardship Science |
Rutgers University; New Jersey |
Cizewski, Jolie |
$6,842,967 |
5/15/08-5/14/13 |
| First Principles Investigations of Americium, Plutonium and Their Mixtures Using Dynamical Mean Field Theory |
Rutgers University; New Jersey |
Kotliar, Gabriel |
$600,000 |
3/01/06-2/28/09 |
| Thermoelasticity of SSP Materials: An Integrated Acoustic and Diffraction Study |
State University of New York at Stony Brook; New York |
Li, Baosheng |
$790,515 |
4/15/06-4/14/09 |
| Modeling and Simulation of Fluid Mixing for Laser Experiments and Supernova |
State University of New York at Stony Brook; New York |
Glimm, James |
$314,995 |
5/01/06-4/30/09 |
| Development of New Techniques to Determine Neutron and Charged-Particle Induced Reaction Rates |
Texas A&M University; Texas |
Tribble, Robert |
$525,000 |
4/01/06-3/31/09 |
| Detailed Measurements of Turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor Mixing at Large and Small Atwood Numbers |
Texas A&M University; Texas |
Andrews, Malcolm |
$403,178 |
4/01/06-3/31/09 |
| Interdisciplinary Focus on Multiscale Physics and Structure Development at Sliding Metal Interfaces |
The Ohio State University; Ohio |
Rigney, David |
$719,952 |
3/01/06-2/28/09 |
| The Texas Center for High Intensity Laser Science |
University of Texas at Austin, Texas |
Ditmire, Todd |
$7,100,000 |
10/01/07-9/30/12 |
| Development of Designer Diamond Technology for High-Pressure High-Temperature Experiments in Support of the Stockpile Stewardship Program |
University of Alabama at Birmingham; Alabama |
Vohra, Yogesh |
$570,873 |
2/10/06-2/09/09 |
| An Experimental Study of the Turbulent Development of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities |
University of Arizona; Arizona |
Jacobs, Jeffrey |
$814,359 |
2/15/07-2/14/10 |
| Continuation of the Application of Parallel PIC Simulations to Laser and Electron Transport Through Plasmas Under Conditions Relevant to ICF and HEDS |
University of California at Los Angeles; California |
Mori, Warren |
$540,000 |
3/15/06-3/14/09 |
| Dynamics of Materials Under Extreme Conditions |
University of California, Berkeley; California |
Falcone, Roger |
$773,092 |
4/15/06-4/14/09 |
| Nuclear Reaction Measurements With Radioactive Beams and Targets |
University of California, Berkeley; California |
Cerny, Joseph |
$757,535 |
4/15/06-4/14/09 |
| Neutron-Induced Cross Section Measurements on Americium Isotopes |
University of California, Berkeley; California |
Nitsche, Heino |
$750,000 |
5/1/06-4/30/09 |
| Enhanced Functionality for Materials Analysis in the DTEM |
University of California, Davis; California |
Browning, Nigel |
$750,000 |
3/01/06-2/28/09 |
| High Pressure Studies of Correlated Electron Systems: Experiment and Theory Structure and Thermodynamic Properties |
University of California, Davis; California |
Scaletter, Richard |
$462,299 |
5/01/06-4/30/09 |
| Experimental Investigation of Magnetic, Superconducting and Other Phase Transitions in Novel F-Electron Materials at Ultrahigh Pressures |
University of California, San Diego; California |
Maple, Brian |
$800,504 |
5/01/06-4/30/09 |
| Investigation of Laser Materials Interactions Using Ultrafast Short Wavelength Light |
University of Colorado; Colorado |
Kapteyn, Henry |
$605,823 |
4/01/06-3/31/09 |
| Quantum Simulations for Dense Matter |
University of Illinois; Illinois |
Ceperley, David |
$423,746 |
5/01/06-4/30/09 |
| Fast Laser Excitation, Ultrafast Quenching and Dynamical Materials Processes |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Illinois |
Averback, Robert |
$498,271 |
4/01/06-3/31/09 |
| An Experimental-Numerical Study of the Dynamic Response of Metals and Nanostructured Metallic Multilayers |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Illinois |
Robertson, Ian |
$825,000 |
5/01/06-4/30/09 |
| Hydrodynamics and Radiative Hydrodynamics With Astrophysical Applications |
University of Michigan; Michigan |
Drake, Paul |
$1,498,530 |
1/01/07-12/31/09 |
| Proton Radiography: Cross Section Measurements and Detector Development |
University of Michigan; Michigan |
Longo, Michael |
$534,000 |
3/10/06-3/09/09 |
| Nuclear Stewardship Research |
University of Richmond; Virginia |
Beausang, Cornelius |
$510,273 |
5/01/06-4/30/09 |
| Theoretical Description of the Fission Process |
University of Tennessee; Tennessee |
Nazarewicz, Witold |
$435,000 |
7/01/06-6/30/09 |
| Viscosities of Dense Fluids |
University of Washington; Washington |
Abramson, Evan |
$578,650 |
2/15/06-2/14/09 |
| Investigation of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities |
University of Wisconsin; Wisconsin |
Bonazza, Ricardo |
$777,300 |
11/15/05-12/31/08 |
| Experimental and Modeling Studies on the Dynamics of Photoionized Plasmas |
University of Nevada, Reno; Nevada |
Mancini, Roberto |
$773,097 |
9/15/06-9/14/09 |
| High Pressure Research on Complex Hydrides and Energy Storage Materials |
University of Nevada, Reno; Nevada |
Chandra, Dhanesh |
$491,158 |
7/01/06-6/30/08 |
*The dollar amount shown represents the planned award amount over the award period. The total actual award amount may be more or less depending on the outcome of progress reviews and available funding.
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