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Champaign County, Ill., funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $34,532,685.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Champaign

Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.

Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.

Recipient Amount Description Federal Dept./Agency Date
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $2,024,104 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Mathematics Department at UIUC aims to train stewards of the mathematical enterprise. Our programs facilitate all stages of development from prospective undergraduate math major to senior mathematician. We propose here to enhance our REGS program and National Science Foundation 5/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $1,770,910 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The acquisition and use of this molecular imaging instrument will enable new research directions and educational opportunities and programs that will significantly contribute to the intellectual base of knowledge in these disparate but unified areas, and National Science Foundation 8/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $1,757,640 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project will integrate, deploy and support an open source, standards-based CyberIdentity service to leverage the InCommon Federation for identity management, providing the NSF research community with credentials used for authentication and authorizati National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $1,228,750 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support No abstract available. This is a Graduate Research Fellowship award covering academic years 2009 - 2012. National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $1,010,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this research is to improve understanding of severe convective storms using numerical models with particular attention to genesis, structure and evolution of supercells and tornadoes in increasingly realistic environmental conditions. Research National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $1,001,565 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Our nation's infrastructure relies increasingly on networks that connect growing amounts of data and systems, including those that interact directly with the physical world. Increased connectivity leads to a higher degree of vulnerability to attacks, malf National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $900,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) are awarding Noyce Scholarships to 39 students, including 24 undergraduate mathematics majors and 15 postbaccalaureate National Science Foundation 6/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $831,301 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal seeks to address a wide range of research challenges involving OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing). This collaborative project is concerned with increasing the ability for analytical processing for information networks. Information networks National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $800,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Intellectual merit: How the accurate duplication of genetic material and its faithful segregation to daughter cells is coordinated in multi-cellular organisms is an important question that remains to be clearly understood. In eukaryotic cells these two ev National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $717,083 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is an outcome of the NSF 09-524 program solicitation 'George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research (NEESR)' competition and includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (lead institution) and the
This spending item is part of a $1,226,982 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $709,231 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This is a CAREER award to support the research of Dr. Sheng Zhong, in the Department of bioengineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Zhong is a fourth-year, tenure-track Assistant Professor. Understanding cellular processes, such as d National Science Foundation 7/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $702,425 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The guiding vision for our center is to adapt, deploy, and support a wide range of general and specific visualization and data analysis capabilities for the national scientific community through a comprehensive, integrated software environment, deployed a
This spending item is part of a $10,000,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $649,113 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The evolutionary adaptation to polar climates can provide a model for adaptations to climate changes in general. Today's frigid polar waters are inhospitable for most bony fishes, but some can live in freezing waters because they have evolved antifreeze p National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $575,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Language consists of an extremely complex signal, replete with information of several different types, including words (lexicon) and their smaller parts (morphology), syntactic structure (grammar), connections between input and previous input (context), a National Science Foundation 7/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $568,471 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Hormonal responses to an experience can gate how well and for how long the experience is remembered. Epinephrine (adrenaline) is one such hormonal regulator of memory strength and durability. Recent findings by the PI, using an electrophysiological model National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $543,157 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Entanglement 'the bizarre' nonlocal connection that can exist between quantum systems is the critical resource in most quantum information processing (QIP) applications, and entangled photons are the central carriers of quantum information in many of thes National Science Foundation 7/07/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $534,999 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Ribotoxins kill cells by endonucleotically cleaving essential RNAs involved in protein translation (rRNAs, tRNAs, and mRNAs). We have identified a novel bacterial RNA repair system that neutralizes the effect of ribotoxins. This unique RNA repair system a National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $518,573 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PI has studied how local properties affect the global parameters of various combinatorial structures. This is a very general framework of the so-called Turan number problems. The PI plans to continue his work on this topic and investigates four differ National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $500,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The extracellular matrix (ECM) in human tissues plays a critical role in protecting and nourishing cells by providing cell adhesion sites and sequestering growth factors. Artificially constructed ECM-simulating biomaterials are often c National Science Foundation 8/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $497,001 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Understanding how genes and environment act through complex biological networks to influence social behavior is a fundamental challenge in biology. This proposal addresses long-duration behavioral 'states' in honey bee workers, which are known to be influ National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $495,500 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Advanced optical techniques (such as PIV, LIF and LDV) represent the most well-resolved and accurate means of experimentally documenting the physics of flows, yet there exist a wealth of practical complex flows spanning many fields of science and engineer National Science Foundation 8/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $470,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Spatial analysis is essential to the acquisition, transformation, and use of spatial data, information, and knowledge for scientific discovery and decision-making in many fields (e.g., ecology, environmental science and engineering, geography, geosciences National Science Foundation 6/09/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $469,810 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Kathryn Bock will conduct three years of psycholinguistic research on the cognitive processes involved in producing number agreement in spontaneous speech. The project will investigate whether and how the numb National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $455,500 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will initiate efforts to identify DNA catalysts (deoxyribozymes, DNA enzymes) for catalysis of reactions of small-molecule substrates with multiple turnovers. Nucleic acids are used as natural catalysts in the form of ribozymes (RNA enzymes). National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $432,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project addresses fundamental and challenging questions that are common to robotic systems that build their own maps and solve monitoring tasks. In particular, the work contributes to our general understanding of the interplay between sensing, contro National Science Foundation 6/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $420,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project develops techniques for increasing energy-efficiency of modern data centers with performance constraints. Both computing and cooling energy are considered. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, data centers in the United Stat National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $416,360 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will use ultra-cold atoms trapped in an optical lattice to explore thermopower in the Hubbard model. Thermoelectric (TE) materials will play a key role in near- and long-term reliable methods for efficient power generation and cooling in a wi National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $416,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Although the world is very much three-dimensional, most of today's approaches to visual object recognition essentially reduce the problem to one of 2D pattern classification, where rectangular image patches are independently compared to stored templates t National Science Foundation 6/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $408,751 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this award is to develop manufacturing technology enabling the fabrication of multi-material, near net-shape tissue engineering scaffolds for bone defect repair. This will enable a new class of functionally graded scaffolds and w
This spending item is part of a $437,576 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $401,080 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The objectives of this research are to gain both a fundamental understanding of the microbial ecology of denitrifying biofilters and to create improved techniques to characterize the reliability of, and also the design of, this and other engineered ecosys National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $400,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This engineering education research award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will employ researchers to investigate the learning mechanisms and benefits to engineering education of popular and rapidly expanding international service learnin National Science Foundation 6/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $399,837 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Cyberinfrastructure (CI) that supports the global research community by linking together researchers, computational resources, instruments, and data, has had a significant impact on the science and engineering research communities. At the heart of CI is t National Science Foundation 5/29/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $398,521 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This research project integrates experiments and modeling to develop physics-based predictive models for the problem of room temperature creep in nanocrystalline metallic films. The novel experiments aim at extracting directly the grain-boundary (GB) slid National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $397,728 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Dr. Wandelt will develop several methods for using the properties of cosmic voids to learn about dark energy, the most fundamental problem in modern cosmology. The equation of state of dark energy will be constrained using the number, size, and ellipticit National Science Foundation 6/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $393,893 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support In this research, the complex role of dynamics in the association of RRM-RNA complexes will be investigated. The RNA recognition motif (RRM) is a ubiquitous RNA binding protein that is found in all organisms and is involved in all steps of gene expression
This spending item is part of a $453,458 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $380,994 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The construction of any infrastructure on or within the ground will subject the surrounding soils to complex loading modes. In order to understand the short and long term behavior of an infrastructure element such as a building or a tunnel it is therefore National Science Foundation 6/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $357,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The security and economic well-being of our society rests upon the trustworthiness of a vast complex of networked information systems that provide communications, computing, and control to manage our nation?s critical infrastructure systems (power, transp National Science Foundation 6/10/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $343,882 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant provides funds to explore new transportation security system paradigms that are proactive and meet the needs of our national transportation infrastructure. Methodologies from control theory and Markov decision process models and algorithms will National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $315,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The crystallographic textures generated by dry sliding wear in metallic elements and alloys are investigated in this project. These crystallographic textures develop in the severely plastically deformed (SPD) nanograin layers that are produced by wear jus National Science Foundation 8/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $309,748 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The broad goal of this research is to use engineering approaches to identify fundamental mechanisms and biological design rules that control the assembly and stability of intercellular junctions in tissues. This research focuses on a class of proteins, ca National Science Foundation 6/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $306,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Skin is our largest organ, serving critical roles in fluid homeostasis, thermoregulation, immune surveillance, and self-healing. Disease and/or the loss of major portions of a human's skin can be disabling and potentially life threatening, and is a major National Science Foundation 8/03/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $303,444 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Heritage speakers are adults who grew up hearing and even speaking a language other English but who are now more comfortable in English. Recent studies of heritage speakers have documented incomplete acquisition of aspects of inflectional morphology and s National Science Foundation 8/16/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $301,350 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project addresses multi-scale characterization and modeling bone, with a focus on identifying the differences between normal and osteoporotic bone. Osteoporosis is a silent bone disease which is characterized by low bone density and deterioration of National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $300,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The focus of this project is to perform the basic theoretical and experimental research for a novel method of water desalination using solar energy. A key element of the proposed process is to use seawater as the working fluid and to maintain independence National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $300,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research project. At the heart of each eukaryotic cell is the nucleus, a complex structure highly organized into many distinct functional domains to perform two fundamental roles: the maintenance of the genome and the distribution of the genetic informati National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $296,317 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project is for the continued development of a Helium (He) 1083nm resonance bistatic lidar which will achieve the first lidar measurements of the upper thermosphere. A key element in the lidar design and construction has already been attained: a tunab National Science Foundation 8/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $290,403 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Biologically active suspensions, of which a bath of swimming bacteria is a paradigmatic example, are fluid systems whose microstructure is alive and motile. As the system's 'active particles' propel themselves through the surrounding fluid, they produce d National Science Foundation 8/30/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $288,811 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant provides funding for the development of a high performance computational method for the fast and accurate pricing of various option contracts with non-standard payoffs. The proposed research results will be used to price such option contracts i National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $288,696 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This grant provides funding for the development of mathematical models integrating production, inventory and pricing decisions in a host of centralized/decentralized supply chain systems as well as the development of efficient algorithms to solve these mo National Science Foundation 6/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $280,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this award is to develop a science-based design methodology that can be extended to create materials undergoing stress-induced phase transformation with superior properties. The work proposes to advance knowledge in design of new National Science Foundation 7/27/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $278,282 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will produce the first user-friendly identification keys and global classification for the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae, a diverse, economically and ecologically important group of plant-feeding insects, comprising 980 genera and 6329 National Science Foundation 6/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $271,876 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The spread of contagions such as opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and diseases across a national population is a well-known complex problem; the recent fear of avian flu epidemics and financial contagion serve as excellent examples. Other examples include: o
This spending item is part of a $1,182,798 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $270,321 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PI will undertake research in harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations (PDE). In PDE, the focus is on the dynamical properties of Schrodinger evolution (SE). One subject of on-going research is dispersive estimates for SE. He will also wo National Science Foundation 5/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $269,059 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The research objective of this award is to develop a method for system identification that is applicable to a general class of dynamical systems with nonlinear, time-varying and non-smooth effects. This is dictated by the realization that as engineering s National Science Foundation 7/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $250,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The methods for production of most ceramic materials depend on a small amount of chemical additions that distribute non-uniformly within the material; these small amounts can dominate a ceramic?s utility. These chemicals often produce additional crystalli National Science Foundation 8/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $249,148 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Land is an integral component of the climate system and changes in land cover can significantly influence terrestrial weather and climate. This project aims to investigate regional-scale vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks over seasonal timescales in the cont National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $240,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project develops cryptographic protocol reasoning techniques that take into account algebraic properties of cryptosystems. Traditionally, formal methods for cryptographic protocol verification view cryptographic operations as a black box, ignoring the National Science Foundation 7/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $231,217 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project conducts research in the area of dispersive partial differential equations. Its intent is twofold. On the one hand, it is concerned with specific questions about the behavior of solutions to certain dispersive equations. On the other, it is f National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $227,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a novel suite of infrastructure now being designed to support experimental research in network science and engineering. The majority of this award is to fund 38 subcontractors, consisting of collabo
This spending item is part of a $11,546,106 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $225,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support 0-1 Semidefinite Programming (0-1 SDP) is a new optimization model that covers several classes of challenging nonlinear integer programming problems. 0-1 SDPs arise frequently from numerous applications in various domains such as learning, communications National Science Foundation 6/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $220,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The fundamental question being examined is how to transfer information over wireless networks. Wireless networks differ from wireline networks due to the phenomenon of superposition. Signals transmitted by different transmitters are attenuated due to path National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $201,663 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This proposal seeks funding to support developing a high pressure, high temperature calibration scale for diamond anvil cell (DAC) studies. Existing pressure scales are plagued with issues particularly at high temperatures. Developing a pressure scale is National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $200,002 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The spacetime discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) method is a new computational technology whose novel mathematical framework leads to algorithms that have the potential for signi?cant impact in a wide variety of application disciplines wherever high-resolution National Science Foundation 9/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $200,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Increasing levels of congestion in urban traffic networks have significant economic and environmental impact. Supported by dramatic increases in sensing and communication ability, there is a renewed emphasis on developing intelligent transportation system National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $200,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Division of Chemistry supports Susan Odom of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow. Dr. Odom will investigate the feasibility of encapsulating chemical species into lithium ion batteri National Science Foundation 9/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $195,178 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Experimental Physical Chemistry Program supports Professor Alexander Scheeline of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to develop a levitated drop reactor to study the nonlinear reaction dynamics of myeloperoxidase, an enzyme found in neutro National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $184,870 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support How does the Himalaya rise up to today's height? How is the Tibetan Plateau (TP) formed? How is the crust of plateau deforming to produce great earthquakes, such as the one we witnessed on May 12, 2008 in Wenchuan, China, which killed over 70,000 people? National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $181,898 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support With the support of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Timothy Pauketat, Robert Boszhardt, and Danielle Benden will lead a team of specialists and students in a three-year archaeological investigation of a 950-year-old cultural complex in the upper Miss National Science Foundation 6/15/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $172,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Research will be carried out into the semiclassical behavior of spin systems, using spin-coherent-state path integrals and other mathematical and theoretical physics tools. A significant part of this research will be done in the context of understanding a National Science Foundation 7/22/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $165,616 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Green buildings are designed to reduce the consumption of water, energy, land, and building materials, as well as the production of stormwater runoff, chemical emissions, and light pollution. While these buildings are constructed under voluntary, flexible National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $162,982 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Chromium in its hexavalent form, Cr(VI), is mobile and toxic in the environment. Reduction of Cr(VI) to the trivalent form, Cr(III), is a very important process as it renders Cr immobile and less toxic. Reduction induces stable isotope fractionation, and National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $152,413 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Natural history museums are irreplaceable sources of species data and they are often the only source of historical data. Yet, many are poorly supported, putting their contents in jeopardy of decay or abandonment. This project uses mathematical models, mus National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $132,305 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The introduction of exotic species to native communities has caused considerable ecological and economic damage to agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. Research suggests this damage occurs in part due to a mismatch of evolutionary histories between the n
This spending item is part of a $304,440 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $126,007 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The project is to deploy a field-proven Fe Boltzmann temperature lidar to the U.S. Antarctic station McMurdo, and to conduct there multi-year observations pursuing the following scientific objectives: (a) To establish a temperature record throughout the p
This spending item is part of a $1,200,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/12/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $125,065 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The proposed research is directed at developing a manufacturing process for making ultra-sharp bulk metallic glass surgical knife blades as a high-performance low-cost alternative to single-crystal diamond blades. The work will involve developing a novel National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $120,784 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Rapid changes in the arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change. This study focuses on the trans National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $107,500 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Objective The objective of this program is to provide new breakthroughs in the areas of stochastic control and global optimization through insights gained from particle filtering and from additional recent results in nonlinear filtering. With a focus on a
This spending item is part of a $390,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $106,968 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A Comparative Study of Virtual R&D Organizations: A Sociotechnical Systems Analysis This study investigates the characteristics of effective virtual organizations across different stages of research and development using a comparative case study approac
This spending item is part of a $200,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $99,898 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PI proposes to study the theory of singularities and complexity in CR geometry. In particular the PI proposes to study the connections between his previous work on Levi-flat hypersurfaces, properties of nowhere minimal submanifolds of complex euclidea National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $57,959 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PI's research is centered on functional analytic aspects of harmonic analysis. This project is devoted to understanding real-Hardy spaces and the Littlewood-Paley theory in the noncommutative setting. The PI will apply the results to operator algebra/
This spending item is part of a $110,951 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/05/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS $31,726 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support During the 20th century (and the beginning of the 21st), a number of deep and surprising connections have been found between modular forms, elliptic curves, quadratic forms, L-functions, Galois representations, and the representation theory of the sporadi
This spending item is part of a $83,651 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/02/2009