Igor L. Aleiner

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

heory of interaction effects in mesoscopic and disordered systems; superconductivity.

Phone:	516-632-8132
FAX:	516-632-8774
Email:	Igor.Aleiner@sunysb.edu
WWW:	http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/Physics/faculty.htm#aleiner
Address:	Dept. of Physics & Astronomy State University of New York, Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794

Matthew P. Augustine

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

atthew Augustine researches improvement of the sensitivity and resolution of nuclear magnetic resonance measurements of molecular structure. Nuclear magnetic resonance is used to help understand chemical reactions and cell functions on a molecular scale.

Phone:	530-754-7550
FAX:	530-752-8995
Email:	augustine@chem.ucdavis.edu
WWW:	http://www-chem.ucdavis.edu/people/augustine.shtml
Address:	Chemistry Department University of California, Davis 0126 Chemistry Bldg Davis, CA 95616

Ronald R. Breaker

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

onald Breaker works on the creation of enzymes that do not exist in nature. He is pioneering new techniques, including ``modular rational design'' and test-tube evolution, to create these enzymes, and perhaps to resurrect enzymes that have been extinct for nearly four billion years.

Phone:	203-432-9389
FAX:	203-432-3597
Email:	ronald.breaker@yale.edu
WWW:	http://www.biology.yale.edu/FacultyResearch/Breaker.html
Address:	Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Yale University 452 Kline Biology Tower P.O. Box 208103 New Haven, CT 06520

Rey-Huei Chen

Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

ey-Huei Chen studies regulatory mechanisms of cell division. Her work focuses on the "checkpoint" mechanism which ensures that genetic information is transmitted accurately to both daughter cells when a cell divides. She investigates the checkpoint at molecular and biochemical levels.

Phone:	607-255-6542
FAX:	607-255-2428
Email:	rc70@cornell.edu
WWW:	http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/chen/chen.html
Address:	Section of Biochemistry, Molecular, & Cell Biology Cornell University 258 Biotechnology Building Ithaca, NY 14853

Vincent Crespi

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

incent Crespi researches novel properties of carbon nanostructures. His work involves innovative research directions in nanoscale materials physics, which he believes promise to be fruitful for basic science and potential applications. In particular, his study will explore hydrogen storage, global structural optimization in the design of new materials, and helium in carbon nanotube bundles.

Phone:	814-863-0163
FAX:	814-865-3604
WWW:	http://www.phys.psu.edu/people/crespi.html
Address:	Department of Physics Pennsylvania State University 104 Davey Lab University Park, PA 16802-6300

Jason Cyster

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

ason Cyster studies molecular mechanisms of lymphoid tissue patterning. "Lymphoid tissues play a central role in immunity," he says. Lymphoid tissues promote encounters between antigen, antigen presenting cells, and rare antigen-specific lymphocytes.

Phone:	415-502-6427
FAX:	415-476-0939
Email:	cyster@itsa.ucsf.edu
WWW:	http://itsa.ucsf.edu/%7Emicro/immunology/faculty/Cyster.htm
Address:	Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology University of California at San Francisco Box 0414, HSE 301 San Francisco, CA 94143

Christopher J. Diorio

Field: Computer Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

hristopher Diorio builds integrated circuits modeled after neurobiology. He has developed single-transistor devices, called synapse transistors, that mimic the local synaptic adaptation (plasticity) seen in nervous tissue. He is investigating local learning in arrays of silicon synapse transistors, both to understand how biology might use adaptation on a large scale, and also to investigate how engineers might build smart silicon machines.

Phone:	206-543-7165
FAX:	206-543-2969
Email:	diorio@cs.washington.edu
WWW:	http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/diorio/
Address:	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Box 352350, 114 Sieg Hall Seattle, WA 98195-2350

Cary B. Forest

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

ary Forest researches the principles of magnetohydrodynamics. He is building an experiment to study components of the dynamo theory. The Earth and other planets, the 1 and other stars, pulsars and perhaps even the entire galaxy have magnetic fields that are explained by the dynamo effect, a process by which electrical currents are generated by turbulent motion of conducting fluids or plasma. Forest's experiment will investigate and attack components of this theory.

Phone:	608-263-0486
FAX:	608-262-3077
Email:	cbforest@facstaff.wisc.edu
WWW:	http://aida.physics.wisc.edu/
Address:	Physics Department University of Wisconsin at Madison 3277 Chamberlin Hall 1150 University Ave Madison, WI 53706

Rachel Green

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

achel Green's work delves into the molecular mechanisms of RNA catalysis. She has already made contributions to the problem of understanding how RNA functions as a catalyst. This problem is meaningful in biology, as it seems likely that early in the evolution of life on this planet, RNA functioned not only as the repository of genetic information, but also as the primary catalytic molecule for such basic reactions as self-replication.

Phone:	410-955-4922
FAX:	410-502-6718
Email:	ragreen@jhmi.edu
WWW:	http://www.med.jhu.edu/bcmb/faculty/green.html
Address:	Molecular Biology and Genetics Johns Hopkins University JHU School of Medicine 725 N. Wolfe St, 523 PCTB Baltimore, MD 21205

Manyuan Long

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

anyuan Long studies young genes, the origin and evolution of gene structure, and the rate of new gene evolution. He taps into sophisticated computer software to study and compare thousands of genes at a time. He believes that new genes arise through the shuffling and mixing of existing genes or gene fragments.

Phone:	773-702-0557
FAX:	773-702-8740
Email:	mlong@midway.uchicago.edu
WWW:	http://pondside.uchicago.edu/ecol-evol/faculty/long_m.html
Address:	Dept. of Ecology and Evolution University of Chicago Erman 105A 5801 South Ellis Chicago, IL 60637

Juan Maldacena

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

uan Maldacena studies string theory and black holes. He focuses on the description of black holes in string theory. He is interested in calculating the entropy of black holes.

Phone:	617-496-8188
FAX:	617-495-0416
Email:	maldacena@physics.harvard.edu
WWW:	http://www.physics.harvard.edu/fac_staff/maldacena.html
Address:	Physics Dept. Harvard University Lyman 334 Cambridge, MA 02138

James P. Morken

Field: Chemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

ames Morken studies combinatorial experiments to develop new catalysts. A premise behind Morken's work is that catalytic chemical transformations offer significant practical advantages over non-catalyzed reaction pathways. He describes catalytic reactions as more environmentally friendly, more economical, and operationally safer than non-catalytic processes.

Phone:	919-962-8229
FAX:	919-962-2388
Email:	morken@unc.edu
WWW:	http://www.unc.edu/depts/chemistry/faculty/jpm/cfjpm01.html
Address:	Dept. of Chemistry University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill CB#3290, Venable and Kenan Laboratories Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290

Bjorn Poonen

Field: Mathematics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

jorn Poonen researches number theory and arithmetic geometry. He states that there is a wide gap between theory and practice in the disciplines of number theory and arithmetic geometry. A common thread in his work is to take ideas that previously have been useful in theory, and to transform them into methods that can be used to solve down-to-earth problems. For example, in the past, he has proved results on random packing, with applications to communications networks.

Phone:	510-642-5229
FAX:	510-642-8204
Email:	poonen@math.berkeley.edu
WWW:	http://math.berkeley.edu/~poonen/
Address:	Mathematics Dept. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-3840

Leo Radzihovsky

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

eo Radzihovsky studies statistical mechanics and field theory, with applications to a range of theoretical problems in condensed matter physics. This includes polymers, liquid crystals, membranes and random surfaces; phase transitions and critical phenomena; and the phenomenology of superconductors, with an emphasis on vortex states in the presence of disorder and thermal fluctuations.

Phone:	303-492-5436
FAX:	303-492-2998
Email:	Leo.Radzihovsky@Colorado.EDU
WWW:	http://lulu.Colorado.EDU/~radzihov/
Address:	Department of Physics University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0390

Anna W. Roe

Field: Biology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

nna Roe researches high resolution optical imaging of brain activity in primates. She studies perceptual and cognitive function, utilizing a high spatial resolution brain-imaging method. She works with trained monkeys while they are awake and alert, in collaboration with other investigators, to link cerebral cortex modules directly with visual perception and working memory.

Phone:	203-737-5853
FAX:	203-785-5263
Email:	anna.roe@yale.edu
WWW:	http://info.med.yale.edu/neurobio/roe/roe.html
Address:	Neurobiology Dept. Yale University 333 Cedar Street, SHM C303 P.O. Box 208001 New Haven, CT 06520-8001

Peter Schröeder

Field: Computer Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

eter Schröder's research is focused on the construction of scalable algorithms for problems in computer graphics. Many applications in this domain are in essence numerical algorithms which seek to model and simulate real world phenomena. As such they tend to be very computation intensive while at the same time requiring (ideally) interactive update rates. A very powerful set of tools satisfying these requirements are based on multi-resolution. The basic ideas are grounded in traditional wavelet and approximation theory which has to be radically generalized to be applicable to real world settings.

Phone:	626-395-4269
FAX:	626-792-4257
Email:	ps@cs.caltech.edu
WWW:	http://multires.caltech.edu/
Address:	Department of Computer Science California Institute of Technology 1200 E. California Blvd., MS 256-80 Pasadena, CA 91125

Lisa C. Sloan

Field: Geology
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

isa Sloan studies the causes of warm climates in the Eocene and Paleocene eras. Sloan's work combines studies of past climates based on geologic evidence with computer modeling of Earth's climatic systems. Research on past climates can shed light on current and future climatic and environmental change, she says. Much of her work has focused on unusually warm intervals in Earth's history, such as the period 55 million years ago when crocodiles lived within the Arctic Circle and palm trees grew in what is now Wyoming.

Phone:	408-459-3693
FAX:	408-459-3074
Email:	lsloan@earthsci.ucsc.edu
WWW:	http://emerald.ucsc.edu/personnel/Sloan/index.html
Address:	Dept. of Earth Sciences University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High St. Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Shivaji L. Sondhi

Field: Physics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

hivaji Sondhi is a theoretical condensed matter physicist with a particular interest in strongly correlated electron systems such as those exhibiting the quantum Hall effect. He has recently become interested in the problem of glass formation.

Phone:	609-258-4326
FAX:	609-258-1006
Email:	sondhi@feynman.princeton.edu
WWW:	HTTP://feynman.princeton.edu/~sondhi/research.html
Address:	Physics Dept. Princeton University Jadwin Hall Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Matthias Steinmetz

Field: Astronomy
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

atthias Steinmetz is researching high-resolution numerical simulations, to study formation and evolution of galaxies. Steinmetz uses a special computer developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo to perform numerical simulations of gravitational forces at work in the universe on the largest scales. In particular, he studies when and how galaxies like the Milky Way form, when the first stars began to shine, and how galaxies evolve.

Phone:	520-621-5923
FAX:	520-621-1532
Email:	msteinmetz@as.arizona.edu
WWW:	http://saguaro.as.arizona.edu/~matthias/
Address:	Steward Observatory University of Arizona 933 N. Cherry Avenue Tuscan, AZ 85721

Yuri Suzuki

Field: Materials Science
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

uri Suzuki's research focuses on understanding magnetism at the nanometer length scale. In particular, she is developing new classes of magnetic oxide thin film materials and new techniques of magnetic nanostructure fabrication to explore the nanoscale regime.

Phone:	607-255-6429
FAX:	607-255-2365
Email:	ys53@cornell.edu
WWW:	http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/~suzuki/
Address:	Materials Science and Engineering Cornell University 214 Bard Hall Ithaca, NY 14853

Zoltan Szabo

Field: Mathematics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

oltan Szabo is researching the geometry of smooth manifolds. This work involves the study of smooth structures of 4-manifolds. Results to date point to what he describes as a surprising link between topology and theoretical physics.

Phone:	609-258-4203
FAX:	609-258-1367
Email:	szabo@math.princeton.edu
WWW:	http://www.math.princeton.edu/~szabo/
Address:	Dept of Mathematics Princeton University Fine Hall, Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08544

Julie A. Theriot

Field: Biochemistry
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

ulie Theriot is studying the transformation of chemical energy to mechanical energy in cell movement. Her work focuses on understanding the mechanisms of actin-based movement of the intracytoplasmic pathogenic bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and Shigella flexneri. She is investigating these systems at the molecular level, to yield insights into the mechanisms of whole-cell actin-based motility, as well as bacterial pathogenesis.

Phone:	650-725-7968
FAX:	650-723-6783
Email:	theriot@Cmgm.stanford.edu
WWW:	http://cmgm.stanford.edu/theriot/
Address:	Dept of Biochemistry Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5307

Robert D. Van der Hilst

Field: Geophysics
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

Research Interests

obert Van der Hilst is conducting research into the structure of the Earth's mantle. The study of the Earth's deep interior is typically based on inferences from seismic waves excited by earthquakes. Van der Hilst's efforts are designed to extract structural information from a range of wave types recorded in seismograms, to study large scale geodynamical processes in the Earth's interior.

Phone:	(617) 253-6977
FAX:
Email:	hilst@mit.edu
WWW:	http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/vanderhilst.htm
Address:	Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139

James J. Watkins

Field: Chemical Engineering
Packard Fellowship award year: 1998

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Research Interests

ames Watkins is researching chemical fluid deposition to make nanostructure devices. He says that the development of advanced materials for device applications requires deposition methods that provide precise control over the structure of the active metal, semiconductor or metal-oxide component. He hopes these efforts will provide new routes to "smart" materials.

Phone:	413-545-2569
FAX:	413-545-1647
Email:	watkins@ecs.umass.edu
WWW:	http://www.ecs.umass.edu/che/watkins.html
Address:	Chemical Engineering University of Massachusetts 686 N. Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003-3110