2017 France-Berkeley Fund ANNUAL REPORT Promoting collaborative, bi-national research and exchange FRANCE-BERKELEY FUND MINISTÈRE DE L'ÉDUCATION NATIONALE, DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE 203 Moses Hall DGESIP-DGRI - MEIRIES University of California, Berkeley 1 rue Descartes Berkeley, CA 94720 75231 Paris Cedex 05 http://fbf.berkeley.edu France +1.510.643.5799 +33 (0) 1.55.55.79.88 [email protected] http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ FRANCE- BERKELEY FUND 2017 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EVALUATION COMMITTEE Paul Alivisatos BERKELEY Michelle C. Chang Denis Despréaux Michelle C. Chang Jeroen Dewulf Jeroen Dewulf Larry M. Hyman Larry M. Hyman Névine Kocher Madeleine McBain Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens Krishna K. Niyogi Bénédicte de Montlaur Carlton R. Pennypacker Krishna K. Niyogi Robert Price Carlton R. Pennypacker Minh-Hà Pham FRANCE Robert Price Mission Expertise Internationale Clément Sanchez 02 Director's Foreword 03 Annual News 06 FBF Statistics 13 2017 Grantees 16 Interim Reports 32 Final Reports CONTENTS FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Since its inception in 1994, the France-Berkeley Fund has fostered innovative, bi-national research bringing together senior and junior researchers in a variety of ways. Over two decades later, the France-Berkeley Fund continues to thrive, having supported over 400 projects and counting. I am pleased to showcase the outstanding collaborations that we had the honor to support in 2016-2017, and to introduce the 18 new projects that we eagerly support during this award cycle. We were overjoyed to see strong interest and participation in the FBF once again this past year, receiving over 70 competitive applications from all fields of study. Of those, we were able to fund 25% of the proposals received, including 27 projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We were able to make these awards thanks to our robust endowment and to continued contributions totaling over $100k from the UC Berkeley Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research and from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. For this generous support of the Fund’s important work, we are extremely grateful. The FBF owes its success to a number of individuals on both sides of the Atlantic. First and foremost, I want to recognize the efforts of our colleagues who submitted proposals as well as the reviewers in France and Northern California for their valuable comments and evaluations. Sincere thanks are due to the Berkeley members of the Evaluation Committee who tirelessly reviewed proposals and provided vital input: Krishna Niyogi, Jeroen Dewulf, Carlton R. Pennypacker, Robert Price, and Michelle C. Chang. Former program manager Madeleine McBain provided essential support; we wish her the best in her new endeavors. Finally, we would like to thank our former Vice Chancellor for Research, now Executive Vice-Chancellor, Paul Alivisatos, for his continued support and involvement in our work. Our French colleagues have proven equally invaluable. At the Embassy and Consular offices in Washington, New York and San Francisco, we are grateful to Minh-Hà Pham, Bénédicte de Montlaur, Léa Futschik, Philippe Perez, Stéphane Ré, and Mar Roig for their cooperation and support in ensuring the continued success of the FBF. Consul General Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens has also been a dedicated supporter of our initiatives. At the Ministries of Higher Education and Research and Foreign Affairs, we thank Thierry Mandon, Denis Despréaux, Névine Kocher, Corinne Perret and Rudy Bazenet. A very special thanks to my counterpart in Paris, Professor Clément Sanchez, who graciously welcomed us to the Collège de France for the 2017 Annual Meeting. For allowing us to utilize the wonderful space and ensuring that our meeting and awards ceremony ran smoothly, we thank Professor Alain Prochiantz and Marylène Meston de Ren. We look forward to hosting the French delegation in Berkeley once again in June 2018. Thank you everyone! Larry M. HYMAN 2 NEWS The France-Berkeley Fund welcomes two new members in 2018 Joining the Executive Committee, Jean Walrand is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where he has taught since 1982. His research interests include stochastic processes, queuing theory, communication networks, game theory, and the economics of the Internet. Professor Walrand is the author of An Introduction to Queueing Networks (Prentice Hall, 1988), Communication Networks: A First Course (2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1998) and Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Amazon, 2014), and co- author of High-Performance Communication Networks (2nd ed, Morgan Kaufman, 2000), Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction (Morgan & Claypool, 2010), Scheduling and Congestion Control for Communication and Processing networks (Morgan & Claypool, 2010), and Sharing Network Resources (Morgan & Claypool, 2014). A Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), he is a recipient of the Lanchester Prize, the Stephen O. Rice Prize, the IEEE Kobayashi Award and the ACM Sigmetrics Achievement Award. Julia Nelsen joins the FBF team as Program Manager. A UC Berkeley alumna, Julia holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and a Laurea magistrale from the University of Milan, specializing in Italian, English and French. Julia is also an avid translator and passionate advocate for the humanities outside of academia. She is excited to expand her interest in international relations with the France-Berkeley Fund and the Institute of European Studies, where she coordinates student outreach activities, organizes events with visiting scholars and policy makers, and promotes public engagement in issues related to Europe. 3 THE FRANCE-BERKELEY FUND AWARD FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS On 7 June 2017, at the annual meeting in Paris, three outstanding researchers were recognized for their extraordinary contributions to their fields through FBF-granted collaborations. The Award for Young Researchers is based on nominations every three years from Principal Investigators of FBF-sponsored projects. Its purpose is to support and promote the successes of talented, up-and-coming researchers who have helped funded projects expand and grow into deeper, long-term collaborations between France and the U.S. We celebrate their excellence here. Our warmest congratulations to last year's honorees! RODOLPHE CLÉRAC Nominated for his “passionate, rigorous, and creative spirit for science” in the area of coordination chemistry and molecular magnetism, Rodolphe collaborated on the FBF project Photomagnetic Metal-Cyanide Clusters, mentoring a binational team of six Ph.D. students (3 from Berkeley, 3 from France), Their results led to six joint publications in top chemistry journals. The research project was granted a CNRS International Program for Scientific Cooperation (PICS) (2014-2016), shared between his and Jeffrey Long’s laboratory at UC Berkeley. Rodolphe has given numerous lectures on his work and hosted American scientists from across the U.S. at his lab in France. His work on coordination networks potentially opens the way toward future information storage at the molecular level that could revolutionize computing technologies. 4 MARIA LAURA DELLE MONACHE Maria Laura was recognized as an “outstanding collaborator and contributor” on FBF project Optimal Traffic flow management with GPS enabled smartphones. With co-researcher Samitha Samaranayake, she published three papers in top journals on the mathematics-based study of partial differential equations and engineering/operations-based approaches to network optimization. She also collaboratively created the Inria-Berkeley associated team ORESTE (Optimal Reroute Strategies for Traffic Management). Now a permanent research scientist in the Networked Controlled Systems (NeCS) group at Inria at the Grenoble Rhône-Alpes research center, she previously worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University on a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project on traffic control via autonomous vehicles. SAMITHA SAMARANAYAKE Named an “outstanding collaborator and contributor” on FBF project Optimal Traffic flow management with GPS enabled smartphones, Samitha co-created the Inria-Berkeley team ORESTE and published three papers in top journals with co-researcher Maria Laura Delle Monache on the mathematics-based study of partial differential equations and engineering/operations-based approaches to network optimization. He is the recipient of an Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship from the US Department of Transportation. As a Postdoctoral Associate, he worked at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. Samitha is now Assistant Professor at Cornell University in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with graduate field faculty affiliations in Operations Research and Information Engineering, at the Center for Applied Mathematics, and in Systems Engineering. 5 FRANCE-BERKELEY FUND STATISTICS PAST AND PRESENT APPLICATIONS BY YEAR AND BY CAMPUS 7 APPLICATIONS BY YEAR AND BY FIELD OF STUDY 8 APPLICATIONS VS. GRANTED PROJECTS 9 FUND INTEREST 5 M 37 M 10 FUND MARKET VALUE 11 PROJECTS CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2017 FBF GRANTEES Jeffrey Bokor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley Stéphane Mangin, Institut Jean Lamour, Université de Lorraine Combining Spintronics and All Optical Magnetization Switching Thomas Courtade, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley Max Fathi, Statistique