Funded Projects 2017 - 2011

2017

Jeffrey Bokor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Stéphane Mangin, Institut Jean Lamour, Université de Lorraine
Combining Spintronics and All Optical Magnetization Switching

Thomas Courtade, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Max Fathi, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier
Geometric and Functional Inequalities in Probability and Information Theory

Ian Duncan, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Nathalie Vanfasse, Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone, Aix-Marseille Université
Form across literature and the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain

Alexei Efros, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Mathieu Aubry, Mathematics and Informatics, École des Ponts ParisTech
Automatic exemplar-based correspondences discovery for Art History

Lisa García Bedolla, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Marie Mallet, Law, Université Panthéon Sorbonne
The Role of Social Assistance Programs in the Socioeconomic Integration of Immigrants: A Comparative Study of Latino Immigrants in France, Spain, and the United States

Thomas Gold, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Sebastian Veg, Centre China, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Political Culture and Archiving Protest in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Leslea Hlusko, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Centre Français des Etudes Ethiopiennes, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
A new collaboration focused on recently recovered evidence of human evolution from the Omo, Ethiopia

Peter Hosemann, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Maxime Sauzay, Département des Matériaux pour le Nucléaire, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
Mechanical properties on a micro scale bridging the gap between modeling and experiments

Paul Kalas, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Anne-Marie Lagrange, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique, Université Grenoble Alpes / CNRS
International search for moons and rings around the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b

Yury Kolomensky, Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Andrea Giuliani, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), CNRS / IN2P3 (Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules)
CUPID-Mo: Search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Mo-100

Arash Komeili, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Lefèvre, Institute of Biosciences and Biotechnologies, CEA/CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université
Uncovering the molecular mechanisms of greigite biomineralization in magnetic bacteria

Lori Lubin, Department of Physics, UC Davis
Olivier Le Fèvre, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université
Building the Giants: Cluster Formation and Galaxy Evolution over the Last 12 Billion Years

Mairi McLaughlin, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Fagard, Laboratoire Lattice, CNRS, ENS & Université Paris 3 Sorbonne nouvelle PSL & USPC
French in Comparison: The Comparative Approach from Historical Linguistics to Language Pedagogy

Holger Mueller, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Saïda Guellati-Khelifa, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel UMR8552 (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie
LKB-UCB consortium on fundamental physical constants

Saul Perlmutter, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, Berkeley
Bruno Latour, Medialab, Sciences Po
Mapping controversies and conspiracies: Exploring conceptual boundaries and pedagogical practices

Carla Shapreau, Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley
Christine Laloue, Musée de la musique, Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris
The Economic, Social, and Political World of Violins in the Pre-War and World War II Eras:  Bridging the Archival Gap Between the Musée de la Musique and the Smithsonian Institution Collections

Sug Woo Shin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Stefano Morra, Mathématiques, Université de Montpellier
On mod p and p-adic Langlands functorialities

F. Dean Toste, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Véronique Michelet, Chemistry, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris
Water-soluble gold complexes in molecular chemistry: towards green chemistry and sustainable development 


2016

Robin Einhorn, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Romain Huret, Mondes Américains, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Political Economy Revisited: American and French Perspectives (19th and 20th centuries)

Marion Fourcade, Department of Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Regis Gougeon,  Institut Universitaire de la Vigne et du Vin, Université de Bourgogne
The Influence of Academic Research on the Development and Construction of the Winemaking Regions of California and Burgundy (20th-21st century)

Steven Glaser, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Watteyne,  EVA Team, Inria Paris
SHRIMP: Smart Harbor Implementation

Richard Koci Hernandez, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
Valérie Jeanne-Perrier, Department of Journalism, CELSA Université Paris Sorbonne
Digital Storytelling workshop

Tsu-Jae King Liu, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Louis Hutin, CEA-Leti, Université Gernoble Alpes
3-D Hybrid CMOS/NEMS Technology for Energy-Efficient Electronics

Roya Maboudian, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Guillaume Baffou, Groupe Mosaic, Institut Fresnel
Plasmon-Assisted Synthesis of Ultra-Precise Designer-Nanoparticles

Brent Mishler Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Willfried Thuiller, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Université Joseph Fourier
Phylogenetic Diversity, Endemism, and Conservation of Mediterranean Basin Flora

Linda Morris, Department of English, University of California, Davis
Ronald Jenn, Department of English, Université de Lille
The "French Marginalia" of Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan or Arc (1895-96) at Berkeley: Patriotism Without Borders

Khalid Mosalam, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Marc Rébillat, PIMM, Arts & Métiers, Campus de ParisOpen-Hardware Platform for Structural Health Monitoring

Michael Nachman, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Frédéric Delsuc, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier
Convergent Molecular Evolution and the Xenarthran Adaptive Radiation

Grace O'Connell, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Frédéric Kolb, Division of Plastic Surgery, Institut Gustave Roussy
Modular Tissue Engineering for Tracheal Reconstruction

Emilija Pantic, Department of Physics University of California, Davis
Davide Franco, Neutrino Group, Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmopologie
Argon Recoil Ionization and Scintillation (ARIS) Experiment at LICORNE neutron beam

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Wilfrid Prellier, Laboratoire CRISMAT,  CRNS/ENSICAEN, Université de Caen
Combinatorial Substrate Epitaxy of Oxide Thin Films for Electronic Applications

James Sallee, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Matthias Reynaert, Toulouse School of Economics, Univeristé Toulouse 1 Capitole
Automobile Emissions Test Manipulation: Implications for Consumer Welfare and the Environment

Eric Stover,  School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Jeremy Perelman, Ecole de Droit, Sciences Po
The Hissène Habré Trial: Challenges and Opportunities for Prosecuting International Crimes in National Courts

Dean Tantillo, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis
Fabien Gagosz, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique
Experimental and Theoretical Mechanistic Studies on Gold Catalyzed Organic Reactions

Alexei Yurchak, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Larissa Zakharova, Department of History, Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien, centre-européen, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Scientific Utopias in the Soviet Union: Fiction, Science, and Power (1917-1991)

Huaijun Zhou,  Department Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Elisabetta Giuffra,  GABI (Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative), INRA
Paving the Way for FAANG International Consortium Initiative (Functional Annotation of Animal Genome)

Maciej Zworski, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Michel, Department of Mathematics, Université de NiceSemiclassical Study of Randomness and Dynamics


2015

Ana Arias, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Raphaël Clerc, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Laboratoire Hubert Curien
Organic Solar Cells: Optimization Under Diffused Light at Low Illuminance

Alexandre Bayen Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Pascale Pradat-Diehl, Department of NeuroRehabilitation, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Monitoring of Neurodisabled Patients with Connected Wearables

Richard Cándida Smith, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Anaïs Fléchet, Department of History, Université de Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Dictionary of Transatlantic Cultural History since 1700

David Eisenbud, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
François Loeser, Department of Mathematics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Singular Landscapes

Michael Franklin, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Amsaleg, IRISA-CNRS, Université Rennes I, Rennes
Graph-NN: Computing and Manipulating Very Large Dynamic Graphs of Nearest Neighbors

Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis
Alain Nicolas, CRNS, Dynamique de l’Information Génétique: Bases Fondamentales et Cancer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Quantitative Mutational Landscape of Genomic Mutators

Richard B. Ivry, Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Charalambos Papaxanthis, INSERM, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
Action Preparation in the Isolated Cerebral Hemispheres: Callosal Agenesis

William Jagust, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Gaël Chételat, Centre Cyceron, INSERM Université de Caen, Caen
Critical Periods for Lifestyle Effects on Brain Aging

Christopher Kutz, Department of Law, JSP, University of California, Berkeley
Ariel Colonomos, Department of CERI, International Relations, Sciences Po, Paris
Valuing Lives in France and in the United States: Norms of Welfare and Environmental Regulation

Rasmus Nielsen, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Vincent Castric, Laboratoire d’Evolution, Ecologie, Paléontologie, CNRS, Université Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq
Next-generation Sequencing of the Genomic Region Flanking the S-Locus in Arabidopsis

Céline Pallud, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandre Gélabert, Laboratoire de Géochimie des Eaux, Université Paris Diderot, Institut du Globe de Paris, Paris
Nanoparticles in the Environment: Transport and Potential Impact on Soils

Christos Papadimitriou, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Vangelis Paschos, LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris
The New Combinatorial Optimization

Nipam Patel, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Marianne Elias, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
The Cellular and Evolutionary Bases of Natural Transparency in Clearwing Butterflies

David Romps, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Caroline Muller, Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Self-aggregation of Convection, Cyclogenesis, and Global Warming

Robert Sharf, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
Osmund Bopearachchi, Département d’Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
The Avalokitesvara Survey Project: Buddhism and Maritime Trade in Ancient Sri Lanka

Evan R. Williams, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Y. Ron Shen, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Department of Physics, Laboratoire Analyse et Modélisation pour la Biologie et l’Environment, Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Evry
An Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations (AIMD) of Ionic Clusters and Ionic Solid-Liquid Interfaces. What are their Structural and Vibrational Relationships?

Chelsea Specht, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Hervé Sauquet, Laboratoire Ecologie, Systematique, Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
Applications of Next-generation Sequencing Techniques in Plant Evo-devo: Using a Comparative Approach to Understand the Molecular Evolution of Organ Morphology in Angiosperms

Hei Sook Sul, Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Schneider, Institut Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch-Graffenstaden
Chromatin regulation in transcriptional activation of lipogenic genes by insulin

Niek Veldhuis, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Cécile Michel, ArScAn, CNRS, Université Paris I, Nanterre
Identity in Mesopotamia: Sources and Methodology

Dan Werthimer, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Steve Torchinsky, Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Nançay
A Bicontinental Exploration of Fast Radio Bursts


2014

Jonghoon Ahn, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Franck Guarnieri, Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises, Mines Paris Tech
International Workshop on Radiological Resilience in Nuclear Power Utilization: A New Paradigm of Safety

Martin S. Banks, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley
Yves Trotter, CERCO (Research Center of Science and Cognition), CNRS, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Binocular Vision in Humans & Primates

Leo Blitz, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Edith Falgarone, Département de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
The Origin of Turbulence in Star Forming Clouds

Julian Borrill, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Radek Stompor, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, CNRS/Université Paris Diderot
Exploring the Universe's Dark Sector with Current Cosmological Data Sets

Siobhan Brady, Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis
Patrick Laufs, INRA, Versailles
Deciphering the Transcriptional Network Controlling Leaf Margin Development in Arabidopsis thaliana and Cardamine hirsuta

Neil Davies, Gump South Pacific Research Station, University of California, Berkeley
Joachim Claudet, CRIOBE USR 3278 CNRS-EHPE, Université de Perpignan
Modeling the Moorea Social-Ecological System (MoSES): Linking Socio-economy to Ecological Processes

Mary Firestone, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Romain Barnard, UMR Agroécologie, INRA Dijon
Response of Soil Microbial Activity to Changes in Precipitation Patterns

Allen Goldstein, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Aumont, LISA, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil & Paris Diderot
Understanding the Aerosol Composition from Oxidation of Long-chain Alkanes Using Novel Measurements and Modeling

Martin Head-Gordon, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Eleonora Luppi, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Quantum Chemical Calculations of Molecular High Harmonic Generation Spectra

Ronald Hendel, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Jan Joosten, Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Université de Strasbourg
How Old is the Hebrew Bible? : A Textual, Historical, and Linguistic Study

Elaine Landry, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Marco Panza, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Université Paris 1
Ontological Commitment in Mathematics

Kai Liu, Physics Department, University of California, Davis
Dafiné Ravelosona, NanoElectronics Department, Institut d'électronique fondamentale, Université Paris Sud
Tailoring Magnetic Nanostructures for Advanced Magnetic Recording Media Applications

Bryan D. McCloskey, Department Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Dominique Guyomard, Institut of Materials Jean Rouxel (IMN), Nantes
Energy Storage Research — Understanding Interfacial Degradation Processes in Li-ion Battery Systems

Lev Michael, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Françoise Rose, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lyon 2
The Morphological Phylogenetics of Southern Tupí-Guaraní Languages

Scott Moura, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Florent Di Meglio, Centre Automatique et Systèmes, Mines Paris Tech
Analysis and Control of Grid-Integrated Plug-in Electric Vehicle Fleets

Jeffrey B. Neaton, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Fabien Bruneval, Service de Recherches de Métallurgie Physique, CEA Saclay
New Methods for Excited States of Complex Open-Shell Systems from Solids to Molecules

James F. O'Brien, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
François Foure, UFR IM2AG, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Real-time Simulation Methods for Interactive Surgical Simulation and Planning

Per-Olof Persson, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Stamm, Laboratoire J. L. Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Sub-cell Limiting for Shock-capturing in High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

Ellen Robey, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Paola Romagnoli, Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse-Purpan, Université de Toulouse
Cross-talk between Regulatory T cells in the Thymus and its Role in Preventing Autoimmunity

John Searle, Department of Philosophy, University of Californaia, Berkeley
Friederike Moltmann, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Université Paris 1 / ENS / CNRS
The Action-Product Distinction and its Importance in Speech Act Theory and Social Ontology

Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
Jérôme Gattacceca, Centre de Recherche et d’Enseignement de Géosciences de l’Environnement, Université Aix-Marseille
Furthering Understanding of Planetary Magnetism through the Study of Magnetization in Terrestrial Tmpact Craters

Taka'aki Taira, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Florent Brenguier, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université Joseph Fourier
Time-Lapse Monitoring of Stress-Induced Changes in the Seismogenic Crust

Jean Walrand, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Loiseau, Réseaux et sécurité, EURECOM Campus SophiaTech
Multi-armed Bandit Games and Applications

Bin Yu, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Julien Mairal, INRIA Grenoble, LEAR Team
Invariant Image Representations and High Dimensional Sparse Estimation for Neurosciences

Qing Zhou, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Hofer, UFR de Pschologie, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3
Teacher Socialization of Children's Emotional Competence in Early Education Classrooms: A Cross-Cultural Study 


2013

Sofia B. Villas-Boas, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley 
Claire Chambolle, INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Ivry sur Seine
The impact of retail mergers on food prices: Evidence from France.

Barbara Romanowicz, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley 
Yann Capdeville, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes 
Probabilistic interpretation of seismic tomographic models.

Déborah Blocker, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley 
Anne Piéjus, Institut de Recherches sur le patrimoine musical en France
New tools and stakes for the study of language and culture in early modern French periodicals: the case of the Mercure Galant.

Nicholas Paige, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley 
Guillaume Peureux, Paris 10-Nanterre
The "I" before "the Self": Non-modern uses of the first person in Renaissance and Classical France.

Wayne Marcus Getz, Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley 
Pierre Magal, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux Segalen
Individual-based, structurally and demographically-detailed epidemic models.

Susan J. Muller, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 
Thibaut Divoux, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CNRS - UPR 8641)
Testing a generalized stability criterion for viscoelastic flows.

Elizabeth Moxon, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Claus Habfast, European Synchrotron Research Facility 
An international comparative study of best practices in providing high school student access to synchrotrons to conduct outreach experiments.

Jason Corburn, School of Public Health and Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley 
Gérard Salem, Université Paris Ouest, UFR SSA
Global urban health: Collaborative research for a new science of the city.

Lauren Williams, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley 
Sylvie Corteel, CNRS et Universite Paris Diderot
Tableaux combinatorics.

Suzanne Guerlac, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley 
Jean-Pierre Montier, Département de Lettres, Université Rennes 2
Towards a coherently structured development of photoliterary research.

Pablo Ross, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis 
Hélène Jammes, Unité Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, INRA
A systems biology approach to understand parental specific contributions to embryo and placenta development.

John P. Huelsenbeck, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley 
Vincent Daubin, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard
User-friendly phylogenomics: Bayesian simultaneous reconstruction of gene trees and species trees.

Daniela Kaufer, Department of Integrative Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley 
Francois Tronche, Gene Regulation and Adaptive Behaviors team, CNRS
Dissecting GR gene function in adult brain stem cells.

Winfried Kudszus, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley 
Richard Trim, Faculté des Arts, Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines, Aix-Marseille Université
Metaphor in the political debate of austerity programs.

Robert T. Knight, Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Fanny Meunier, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon
Brain dynamics of compensatory mechanisms for lexical selection in overt speech production after left prefrontal damage.

Nicolai Reshetikhin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley 
Christian Blanchet, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Paris Diderot
Categorification of quantum invariants of 3-dimensional manifolds.

Susan G. Miller, Department of History, University of California, Davis 
Jocelyne Dakhlia, L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques
Networking for Independence: The Moroccan Nationalist Movement's Global Campaign Against French Colonialism.

Geoff Bower, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley 
Gilles Theureau, Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay Observatoire de Paris
French / American collaboration for radio investigations of time-variable astrophysical phenomena.

Lance J. Kriegsfeld, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 
Matthieu Keller, CNRS, Équipe Neuroendocrinology des Interactions et Comportements Sexuels
Neuroendocrine gating of olfactory perceptual processing.

John Harvey, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis 
Agnès Jullien, IFFSTAR
Comparison of use phase methodology and recycling approach for pavement life cycle assessment.

Patricia Baquedano-López, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley 
Pedro Jose Garcia-Sanchez, Département de Sociologie, Université Paris Ouest
Social and political tools of urban cosmopolitanism: The challenge of otherness in distributed cognition and interactivity.


2012

David Chandler, Dept of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 
Benjamin Rotenberg, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris
Optimizing self–assembly of complex colloidal systems using Transition Path Sampling.

Ehud Isacoff, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Nicole Ropert, Université Paris Descartes France,Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie et Nouvelles Microscopies, Paris 75006
Optogenetic Probing of the Mechanisms and Function of Gliotransmission. 

Steven G. Louie, Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley 
Gerard Martinez, LNCMI, CNRS, Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, Grenoble 38042
Joint experimental and theoretical study of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in graphene-based compounds
and topological insulators with magneto-optical spectroscopy.

Sanjay Kumar, Dept. of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley 
Manuel Thery, Institut de Recherche en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant. CEA., Grenoble
Engineering and dissecting the micro-architecture of actomyosin stress fibers. 

Marla Feller, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley 
David DiGregorio, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15
Dendritic processing of synaptic input in retinal interneurons.

Geoffrey W. Marcy, Department of Astronomy, University of California,Berkeley 
Guillaume Hebrard, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris / Observatoire de Haute- Provence
Combining French and American Telescopes to Characterize Exoplanets. 

Alejandro Aguilar, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
Jean-Marc Bizau, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires dʹOrsay (ISMO), Université Paris‐Sud
First absolute single-photon double photoionization cross section measurements of fundamental 2-electron negative ion: H

Alexandre Bayen, CITRIS, University of California, Berkeley
Paola Goatin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis – Mediterranee,06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
Optimal Traffic Flow Management with GPS Enabled Smartphones. 

John Taylor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology,University of California, Berkeley
Tatiana Giraud, Departement Genetique et Ecologie Evolutives, AgroParisTech, Université de Paris-Sud 
Genomics of ecological divergence in the fungal species Neurospora discreta. 

Kunxin Luo, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley
Delphine Javelaud, INSERM U1021- Institut Curie, 91405 Orsay
Hippo signaling and Ski in human melanoma development.

Daniel Fletcher, Bioengineering & Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Bassereau, Laboratoire PhysicoChimie Curie, Institut Curie, 75248 Paris
Mechanical induction of Transcellular tunnels.

Jeremy W. Thorner, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley 
Robert A. Arkowitz, CNRS UMR7277 / INSERM UMR1091/ Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
Requirements, molecular roles and distribution of membrane phosphoinositides in yeast external signaldependent polarized growth.

Jack L. Gallant, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 
Bertrand Thirion, Neurospin, INRIA, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette 
Improving fMRI by using anatomical data to constrain functional models.

Bo Liu, Plant Biology, University of California Davis
David Bouchez, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, AgroParisTech, INRA,78026 Versailles Cedex
Uncovering an interactive protein network that regulates microtubule nucleation and organization for plant cell growth. 

Beverly Crawford, Department of Political Science, University of California Berkeley
Denis Rolland, Political Studies Institute, Strasbourg University
Civil society formation in political transitions: The evolution of culture and identity in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Maghreb/Machrek 1980 -2011. 

Véronique Munoz-Darde, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Luc Foisneau, EHESS, 75006 Paris
A Theory of Justice 40 Years On.

Michael A. Rogawski, Department of Neurology, School of Medecine, University of California, Davis
Jean-Pierre Mothet, Centre de Recherche en Neurobiologie et Neurophysiologie de Marseille, 133444 Marseille
Role of D-Serine in Migraine.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Maud Tenaillon, UMR 8120 de Génétique Végétale, INRA/Univ. Paris XI / CNRS / INA PG
Does Domestication affect recombination: a pilot study in maize

Jitendra Malik, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
Zaid Harchaoui and Cordelia Schmid, LEAR. INRIA Grenoble, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, 38831 Montbonnot
Large-scale learning for image and video interpretation

Stephen R. Leone, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Ian R. Sims, Institut de Physique de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes Cedex,
Direct measurements of reaction pathways for interstellar and planetary low temperature chemistry.

Igor V. Grigoriev, DOE Joint Genome Institute,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Francis M. Martin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Nancy, 54280 Champenoux
Uncovering Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Wood Decay Machinery in Forest Ecosystems by Comparative Genomics.

Steven Conolly, Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley
Xavier Maitre, Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique Médicale et Multi-Modalités, Université Paris-Sud
Aerosol Deposition in the Airways with Phase-Imaging Tools for Inhaled Drug Delivery.

Charles Marshall, Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley
Helene Morlon, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées de l’Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau
Integrating molecular phylogenies and the fossil record.

Kenneth Ribet, Department of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley
Mezard Ariane, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin
Summer 2013 workshop on new geometric techniques in Number Theory.

Stephanie Lee Mudge, Department of Sociology, University of CaliforniaDavis
Antoine Vauchez, CNRS, Université Paris 1, Sorbonne 75003 Paris
When Theory Matters: Law, Economics, and the Scholarly Production of "Europe", 1990-2010.

Vern Paxson, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Renata Cruz Teixeira, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, 75005 Paris
Understanding User Perspectives of Internet Performance.


2011

Carla Shapreau, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley 
Florence Gétreau, Institut de recherche sur le Patrimoine Musical, France
The loss of French musical property during World War II, post-war repatriations, restitutions, and 21st century ramifications.

Kenneth Downing, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Manfred Heinlein, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg, France 
Structural and funct ional analysis of the Tobacco mosaic virus movement protein:tubulin complex.

Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Department of Classics, University of California at Berkeley 
Denis Knoepfler, Collège de France, Paris, France 
The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia: New Finds, New Developments.

Marios Panagiotou, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Berkeley 
Stéphane Grange, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France 
High Performance Modeling of Seismic Soil Foundation Structure Interaction in Tall Buildings. 

Dietmar Kueltz, Animal Sciences, University of California Davis 
Jean‐Herve Lignot, Université Montpellier 2, France 
Parallel evolution of osmoregulatory mechanisms in fish.

Dmitry Budker, Department of Physics, University of California,Berkeley 
Jean-François Roch, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France 
Magnetometry with color centers in diamond

Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
Philippe Martin, CEA Saclay, France 
Electron acceleration and Relativistic Optics in the Ultra-High-Intensity regime. 

Michael A. Lieberman, Electrical Enginnering and Computer Science,University of California, Berkeley
Pascal Chabert, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France 
Global model of radiofrequency atmospheric pressure plasmas used for biomedical applications. 

Trent Northen, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
Marion Leclerc, Microbiologie-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France. 
In vitro and in vivo metabolic interaction in a simplified human gut microbiome. 

Michael Levine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley
Krzysztof Jagla, Université de Clermont, France 
Transcriptional regulation of cell fate decisions during Drosophila cardiovascular development.

Steven Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Roberto Galbiati, Département d'Économie, Sciences Po, Paris, France 
The emergence of economic criminology.

Eva Harris, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley 
Bruno Canard, Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille, France 
The Role of NS3 and NS5 in Dengue Viral Fitness.

Jack Citrin, Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley 
Frédérick Douzet, Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris 8, France 
Urban Frontier in the age of globalization : a comparative study of France and California.

Diane M Beckles, Plant Sciences, University of California Davis
Maria Cecilia Arias, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France 
Molecular Evolution of Starch Transcriptional Networks in Plants

Sandrine Dudoit, Division of Biostatistics, University of California Berkeley
Jean-Philippe Vert, Centre for Computational Biology, Mines ParisTech, France 
Statistical Methods for the Joint Analysis of High-Throughput Transcription and Genotype Data

Nicolas Barrière, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Pierre Bastie, LSP, Saint Martin d'Hères, France 
High-quality heavy metal crystals study for the realization of an astronomical gamma-ray telescope.

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, History of Art,University of California, Berkeley 
Anne Lafont, Institut national d’histoire de l’art,Paris, France
The Artifice of Color : Representation of Blacks in the French Visual Arts from the Black Code (1682) to the Recognition of the Republic of Haiti (1825).

Ian Faloona, Dept. of Land, Air, & Water Resources, University of California, Davis
Marie Lothon, Université de Toulouse, France
A Study of the Late Afternoon Transition in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Alexandre J. Chorin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Yvon Maday, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Reduced basis method for the simulation of coupled QMécontinuum solvation models. 

Theodore A. Slaman, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Laurent Bienvenu, Universite Paris Diderot, France 
Effective randomness for non-uniform measures

Robert Tjian, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley
Xavier Darzacq, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 
Spatiotemporal dynamics of single transcription factors in eukaryotic cells.

David L. Shuster, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley
Jean Braun, Institut des Sciences de la Terre (Isterre), Université de Grenoble, France 
Catastrophic gorge incision (Skagit River Gorge) induced by glacial lake overspill assessed through high-resolution 4He/3He thermochronology.

Lawrence Rosenthal, Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements, University of California Berkeley
Eric Darras, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Toulouse, France 
Anger in Politics: Understanding the Emergence of the Tea Party Movement.