RUI/Collaborative Research: MSB-ECA: Mice-o-scapes: Using isotopes to understand the effect of climate and landscape change on small mammal ecology over the past 100 years

Climate, vegetation, and land-use change have had a dramatic impact on environments and species ecology across the United States over the past 100 years. Understanding these impacts is necessary for guiding future conservation and management decisions, and for developing indicators to assess ecosystem health. While much work ha...

AF: Small: Collaborative Research: Reconfiguration Algorithms

Computational geometry uses graphs, polygons, and arrangements to model physical objects and phenomena. Some of the objects are inherently flexible (e.g., proteins and robotic arms), others are stationary but require adjustments on a regular basis (e.g., communication and transportation networks). The focus of this project is on reconfigurations. The goal is to describe, understand, and control the combinatorial, geometric and topologi...

RUI: Theoretical (Numerical) Investigations of Novel Quantum Phases and Transitions in Strongly Interacting Systems

This RUI award supports theoretical research and education activities to investigate the fundamental nature of emerging quantum spin liquids, spin Bose metals, and non-Fermi liquids in frustrated magnetic materials and doped Mott insulator systems. The recent discoveries of unusual experimental properties of magnetic materials including Herbertsmithite kagome spin systems and triang...

RUI: Classification, regression, and density estimation with missing variables

This project develops statistical theory and methods for nonparametric classification and curve estimation in the presence of missing or incomplete data. Many data sets have missing values; these include the data from biomedical studies, remote sensing, as well as social sciences. There are a number of classical approaches for handing the missing data. Many of the existing results first impute for the missing values an...

PREM Computational Research and Education for Emergent Materials

This Partnership in Research and Education in Materials (PREM) expands and strengthens a long-term partnership between W. M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center (CMTC) at California State University Northridge and Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM). The overarching vision of the PREM is to establish a joint research powerhouse on computational materials science and to increase recruitment, retention and degree atta...

Program Improvement Grant

The department has revised the BSBA, option in Real Estate and created a new minor in Real Estate. There is a Real Estate Curriculum committee who is tasked with determining whether to create an M.S. in Real Estate. Four new courses have been created. We anticipate increased student demand and the resulting need for greater support in program management, class support and student advisement.

Investigating the origins and development of the Black Sea colonial system: archaeological excavations in the early Greek colony of Sinope, Turkey

Support is being sought for a three-year investigation into the impact of the ancient Black Sea economy on social, economic and cultural formations in the hinterland of classical Sinope, one of the most important ports in the region. The primary goal of the proposed research is to determine whether the establishment of a network of Greek colonies in t...

Three-dimensional thermal and magnetic structure of sunspots and active regions

The main goal of this 3-year project is to investigate the thermal and magnetic structure of sunspots by using simultaneous high-resolution observations of magnetic field and mass motion at different heights in the solar atmosphere. The project will shed more light on four major science topics, namely: (i) three dimensional magnetic structure of sunspots; (ii) three dimensional thermal structure of sunspot; (iii) effe...

Atrial arrhythmias and Ca2+ waves in HF: simulation and experimental studies

In this project we will develop computational models of cardiac cell and tissue in heart failure. These computational studies will be performed using experimental data acquired in Dr. John Wasserstrom's laboratory at Northwestern University. The computer simulations and model development will be carried out by Dr Yohannes Shiferaw (principal investigator), a postdoctoral research associate, and two graduate students...

RUI/Collaborative Research: Plio-Quaternary history of basin evolution, climate change, and fold growth in the Qaidam Basin- investigating wind-enhanced climate-tectonic feedback relationships.

The project aims to document acceleration in fold-growth due to increased wind erosion within the hyperarid western Qaidam Basin, China, and thus would provide the first example of wind-enhanced tectonics on Earth. In addition to understanding climate-tectonic feedbacks, this project will yield multiple hi...

RUI/Collaborative: Evaluating the influence of crustal deformation on episodic magmatism: southern coast mountains of batholith, British Columbia

This project will evaluate processes responsible for the non-steady-state growth of continental crust in Cordilleran-type magmatic arcs. These batholiths develop as a result of subduction of oceanic lithosphere at convergent margins, but the processes that control the tempo of magma production are unclear; even in arcs where subduction is continuous, ma...

RUI-LTREB Renewal: Three decades of coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 2014-2019

Describing how ecosystems like coral reefs are changing is at the forefront of efforts to evaluate the biological consequences of global climate change and ocean acidification. Coral reefs have become the poster child of these efforts. Amid concern that they could become ecologically extinct within a century, describing what has been lost, what is left, and what is at risk, is of paramount importance. T...