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ICAM-I2CAM Junior Scientist Exchange Awards

Exchange Awardee	Primary Mentor	Secondary Mentor	Year	Subject
Clayton Lapointe	Thomas Mason, UCLA	Ivan Smalyukh, UC Boulder	2010	Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Interactions of Lithographically Fabricated Colloidal Particles in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Yaoran Sun	Sailing He, Zhejiang University	Ivan Smalyukh, UC Boulder	2010	Confined liquid crystals and topological defects for tunable and dynamically controlled photonic crystals and waveguides
Li Jiang	Sailing He, Zhejiang University	Thomas Huser, UC Davis	2010	Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) - Assisted Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Microscopy
Rafael Fernandes	Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin	Joerg Schmalian, Ames Laboratory	2010	Collective excitations in unconventional superconductors: Fe-based and cuprate superconductors
Deniz Alpay*	Cleva Ow-Yang, Sabanci University	Robert Langer, MIT	2010	Tissue engineering and SiRNA delivery systems
Dan Parshall	Dmitry Reznik, UC Boulder	Rolf Heid, Karlsruhe	2010	Investigation of electron-phonon coupling in a new superconductor
Gorkem Soyumer	Ismet Inonu Kaya, Sabanci University	Bennett Goldberg, Boston University	2010	Investigation of the electronic and mechanical properties of graphene
Angel Martinez	Ivan Smalyukh, UC Boulder	Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland	2009	Chiral interactions of photopolymerized colloids in complex ordered fluids
Julian Evans	Ivan Smalyukh, UC Boulder	Dick Broer, Netherlands	2009	Structured liquid crystal polymer-nanoparticle composite materials for electro-optic and photonic applications
Budhadipta Dan	Matteo Pasquali, Rice University	Ivan Smalyukh, UC Boulder	2009	Topological defects, structures, and self-assembly in novel liquid crystalline
Fionn McLoughlin	Christa Testerink, Amsterdam	Edgar Kooijman, Kent State University	2009	Biophysical characterization of the binding specificity and affinity of protein kinases to phosphatidic acid
Mesa Dalgis	Jiandi Zhang, LSU	Jiandong Guo, CAS	2009	Investigation of the spin-lattice coupling in Fe-based superconductors
Ilya Eremin*	Andrey Chubukov, Wisconsin	Joerg Schmalian, Ames Lab	2009	Collective excitations in unconventional superconductors: Fe-based and cuprate superconductors
Eric Duchon	Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University	Naoki Kawashima, ISSP Tokyo	2009	Develop an advanced quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for boson-fermion mixtures
Mohammad Qureshi	Hamza Balci, Kent State University	Aziz Sancar, Chapel Hill	2009	Single molecule studies of human nucleotide excision repair and DNA damage checkpoint
Demet Tatar Kesten	Cleva W. Ow-Yang, MIT	Michael Aziz, Harvard University	2009	Nanoscale morphology evolution in ion sputter erosion
Yasuyuki Kato	Naoki Kawashima, ISSP Tokyo	Nandini Trivedi, OSU	2009	Cold atoms in optical lattices
Nazar Ileri*	Pieter Stroeve, UC Davis	Philippe Renaud, EPFL	2009	Controlled molecular transport through nanofilters with tapered and cylindrical pores
Suman Anand	M.N. Kamalasanan, India	Ivan Smalyukh, UC Boulder	2008	Optical trapping and manipulation of defects in liquid crystals
Rajdeep Deb	Nandiraju Rao, Assam Univ, India	Noel Clark, UC Boulder	2008	Characterization of novel light-sensitive and luminescent azo- or ester- based liquid crystals by optical techniques
Lorenzo DeLeo	Gaby Kotliar, Rutgers	Antoine Georges, Paris	2008	Advanced impurity solvers for Dynamical Mean Field Theory
Kory Golchert	Rachel Martin, UC Irvine	Dimitrios Sakellariou, Paris	2008	To apply coil spinning NMR technique (DS) to protein samples from RM lab
Kristina Lilova*	Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgaria	Alex Navrotsky, UC Davis	2008	Measuring the high temperature thermodynamic properties of a series of complex oxide solutions containing rare earths and tetravalent metals such as Zr, Hf and Ce
Qingkun Liu	Sailing He, Zhejiang	Ivan Smalyukh, UC Boulder	2008	Nanoparticle alignment, assembly & positioning in LCs explored using quantum dots, rods, and multipods
Ramarao Pratibha	N. Madhusudana, Bangalore	W. Park, UC Boulder	2008	Nano structured liquid crystals as tunable metamaterials
Young Gul Song	Kee Hoon Kim, Seoul	Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers	2008	Investigations on New Multiferroic Materials; Low-Dimensional Frustrated Magnets
Oksana Trushkevych*	Bill Crossland, Cambridge	Ivan Smalyukh, UC Boulder	2008	Liquid crystal nanomaterials and nanophotonics
Sumanta Tewari	S. Das Sarma, Maryland	Chetan Nayak, UC Santa Barbara	2007	Non-Abelian Statistics in Ultracold Fermions and Strontium Ruthenate
Dong Cai	Kris Kempa, Boston College	Michael Giersig, Bonn	2006	Microwave Electroportation use of carbon nanospears into biomimetic membranes
Justyna J. Krokowich*	Bonn University	Boston College	2006	Microwave electroporation use for new cell transfection
Stephen White	UC Irvine		2006
Anton Vorontsov	Ilya Vekhter, Louisiana State	Matthias Eschrig, Karlsruhe	2006	Superconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrid Structures with Spin Orbit Interaction
Aleksandra Walczak*	Peter Wolynes, UC San Diego	Les Houches	2006	Summer School on Complex Systems
Chris Marianetti	Gaby Koltiar, Rutgers	Antoine Georges, Paris	2006	Dynamical mean field theory + LDA
Zhe Qu	Zhiqiang Mao, Tulane	Wei Bao, LANL		Experimental evidence of spin-valves effect in bulk oxide material Ca3Ru2O7
Jun Liu	Joerg Schmalian, Iowa State	Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State	2006	NMR/EPR of Correlated Electron Superconductors
Scott Riggs	Gary Boebinger, Florida State	Albert Migliori, LANL	2007	Phase Diagram of the Cuprates in the 60T Long Pulse Magnet
Nicholas Butch	Brian Maple, UC San Diego	Neil Harrison, LANL	2008	High magnetic field properties of URu2-xRexSi2
Ilia Rushkin	Paul Wiegmann, Chicago	UCLA	Year	Random Shapes IPAM Program
Jianping. Pan*	D.Cox, Davis	E. Artacho, Cambridge	Jan-Mar 2005	Electronic structure of metalloproteins
Ben. Li Young	N. Curro LANL	J. Haase, Leibniz Inst.	April 2005	NMR of complex superconductors
John Janik, Darko Tanaskovic, Marcus Mueller, Claudio Castelnovo	V. Dobrosavljevic,Florida State/NHMFL	J. Zaanen, Leiden	2005	To attend extended Leiden workshop on Complex Phenomena in Quantum Criticality
Anne Paduska*	R. Hoffmann Cornell	C.N.R. Rao, Bangalore	2005	Oxide science and science outreach
Robert Walder	M. Dennin, Irvine	C. Schmidt, Amsterdam`	2005	Membrane/protein active networks
Sichun Yang	H. Levine, UCSD	M. Vendrusculo, Cambridge	2005	Modeling protein aggregation
Jean Domenge	A. Georges Paris	G. Kotliar Rutgers	2006	DFT++
Kapil Krishan	Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago	Michael Dennin, UC Irvine	2005	Collapse of Monolayers
K. Kazmyrenko	B. Doucut Paris	L. Ioffe, Rutgers	2005	Topological order in Josephson junctions
Kazihiro Fujita	S. Uchida Tokyo	S. DavisCornell	2005-2006	Scanning probe studies of novel materials
Simon Kos	P. Littlewood, Cambridge	D. Smith, D Pines, LANL	2005	Spintronics, charge ordering in the manganites
Cris Marianetti	G. Kotliar, Rutgers	A. Georges, Paris	2006	Dynamical mean field theory + LDA
Arkady Shekter	A. Finkelstein, Weiszmann Institute	C. Varma, UC Riverside	2006	Spin orbit induced focusing of electrons in semiconductor heterostructures
Arnd Huebsch	P. Fulde, Dresden	D. Cox, Davis	2006	Ab initio Anderson model spectra for transition metal complexes and proteins
Alexandre Zimmers	R.L. Greene, U. Maryland	N. Bontemps,* ESPCI, Paris	2006	Learning Raman and STM techniques for the study of high temperature superconductors
M.S. Swaroop	S.K. Pati, JSPCI Bangalore	D. Cox, R.R.P. Singh, UC Davis	2006	Band gap engineering of DNA
Track II	Ilya Vekhter, LSU	M. Eschrig, Karlsruhe	2006
Track II	K. Kempa, Boston College	M. Giersig, CAESAR, Bonn	2006	Microwave electroporation of carbon nanospears into biomimetic membranes
Antje Hermelink*	Gerald Brezesinski, Max Planck Institute of colloids and Interfaces, Germany	Arne Gericke, Kent State University, Department of Chemistry.	2006	Biophysical characterisation of a protein-lipid interaction
Michael Prentiss	P. Wolynes, UCSD	D. Wales, Cambridge	2006	New algorithms for exploring protein/molecular energy landscapes
Jong Chin Lin	D.L. Cox,UC Davis	F.B. AndersSaarbrucken University	2006	Correlated Hybridization Effects in Molecular Transistors
Vladislav. Volman	H. Levine, UCSD	E. Ben Jacob, Tel Aviv University	2006	to investigate aspects of neuro-glia communication in cultured cortical networks
Anil. Gunay*	I. Kaya,Sabanci University, Istanbul	E. Canci,Boston Univ.	2006	detection of the small vibrations of a nanomechanical resonator using a tunneling probe
Torben Haenke	B. Buechner, IFW Dresden, Germany	J.C. Davis, Cornell University	2007	Spin polarized scanning tunneling microscopy
Mukhopadhyay, Sourin	Pratap Raychaudhuri, TIFR, Mumbai, India	Ali Yazdani, Princeton University	2007	Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of high temperature superconductors
Paul Whitford	J. Onuchic,UCSD	V. Leite, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil	2007	Collaboration on all atom Go models for proteins
Meera Parish*	C. Callan, Princeton Univ.	P. Littlewood, Cambridge	2007	Transport in porous Si and Cold Atoms Theory
Y. Kato	N. Trivedi,*Ohio State	N. Kawashima, ISSP University of Tokyo	2007	Quantum Phase Transitions In Optical Lattices
Steve Rodan	S. Cheong, Rutgers	K. Kim, Seoul National University	2007	Experimental Study of novel multiferroics
Gustavo C. Cardoso de Costa	A. Navrotsky*, UC Davis	RHR Castro, FEI University Center, SBC Brazil; R. Muccillo, IPEN-USP, S. Paulo Brazil	2007	Complex phase transitions in nanoscale zirconia/yttria ceramics
Lorenzo de Leo	G. Kotliar, Rutgers	A. Georges, Ecole Polytechnique, paris	2007	Development of new `impurity solvers’ in dynamical mean field theory
Kory Gulchert	R. Martin*, UC Irvine	D. Sakellariou, CEA Saclay, France	2008	To apply coil spinning NMR technique (DS) to protein samples from RM lab
Fellow	Primary Mentor	Secondary Mentor	Year	Brief Description of Science

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