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Electromagnetics
David
R Jackson: "The
Applied
Electromagnetics Laboratory
has played a key role in developing a powerful
CEM simulation tool called EIGER, or Electromagnetic
Interactions GEneRalized. In this figure,
a Navy destroyer is modeled. Participating
team members include the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory,
University of Houston, SPAWAR (Navy), NASA,
and ANT-S."
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Theoretical
Chemistry/Chemical Physics
Eric
R. Bittner:
"Research is primarily focused on the
dynamics of molecules in their excited electronic
states. We use both computational and theoretical
approaches to answer the following questions:
Which nuclear motions are responsible for
accommodating the energetics of the transition
by either absorbing excess energy in an
exothermic transition or supplying the energy
deficit in an endothermic transition? What
is the role of quantum coherence, localization,
and relaxation in determining not only the
transition rates, but also the transport,
and spectroscopic properties of excitonic
and charge-transfer states, especially in
organic semiconducting systems? How do these
effects affect the observed dynamics, material
properties, or electronic behavior in systems
such as organic light-emitting diodes, photovoltaic
cells, and DNA chains."
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Intelligent
Sensor Grid and Informatics
Xiaojing
Yuan: "The
Intelligent
Sensor Grid
and Informatics lab is working on the following
projects: sensor network performance analysis
-- to develop reliable, scalable and high
performance sensor network for applications
such as object tracking, target monitoring
and remote health care; multihop WSN testbed
-- multi-hop mesh network testbed has been
setup to test novel crosslayer self-healing
algorithms, and it also monitors the environment
and activity within the lab; skin cancer
detection -- automated decision-support
system with a graphical user interface to
help physicians detect skin cancer early;
arrhythmia mechanisms characterization --
elucidating arrhythmia mechanism using cardiac
optical imaging to help physicians detect
different arrhythmia conditions; and spatial
temporal modeling, rule mining and scoping
-- developing new algorithms for modeling
spatial temporal stochastic data such as
ground level ozone concentration and identifying
root cause and scoping for spatial datasets
such as arsenic hotspots."
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Wetland
Ecology
Steven
Pennings:
"Primary research topics include geographic
variation in communities; impacts of sea
level rise and eutrophication; and annual
variation in productivity and composition.
Research is done at multiple sites on all
three U.S. coasts."
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Space
Architecture
Olga
Bannova: "The
Sasakawa
International Center for Space Architecture:
The “First Mars Outpost” project
addresses opportunities for commercial development
of space through staged revenue producing
initiatives that can be financed primarily
or exclusively by the private sector. SICSA’s
development scenario encompasses materials
processing, tourism, and ultimately, Mars
missions and settlements."
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