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This project will bring more than two dozen NIST scientists to College Park to engage in collaborative work with CMPS researchers from the Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology on Quantum Computing and other topics

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RAMMPP,The Regional Atmospheric Measurement, Modeling and Prediction Program, is a scientific research center aimed at a more informed understanding of the influences controlling air quality over the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Supported by the Maryland Deptments of the Environment (MDE), Natural Resources (DNR), and Transportation (MDOT), RAMMPP involves in situ measurements, remote sensing, and numerical modeling. http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~RAMMPP/

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ESSIC administers the Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (CICS), which is joint with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS). CICS involves scientists from ESSIC and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science working in close collaboration with NOAA NESDIS and NCEP scientists. For almost two decades CICS has fostered collaborative research between NOAA and the University that has covered a wide range of problems in radiation budget studies, climate diagnostics and atmospheric chemistry.Three major research theme areas have evolved within CICS, namely: The Global Energy and Water Cycles, Climate Diagnostics and Prediction, and Atmospheric Chemistry.

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ESSIC has a cooperative agreement with the Goddard Space Flight Center to enhance our understanding of how the atmosphere-ocean-land-biosphere components of the Earth interact as a coupled system and the influence of human activities on this system. This is accomplished via studies of the interaction between the physical climate system (e.g., El Nino) and biogeochemical cycles (e.g., greenhouse gases, changes in land use and cover). The major research thrusts are studies of Climate Variability and Change, Atmospheric Composition and Processes, the Global Carbon Cycle (including Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems/Land Use/Cover Change), and the Global Water Cycle. The manner in which this research is accomplished is via analyses of in situ and remotely sensed observations together with component and coupled ocean-atmosphere-land models. Together this provides a foundation for understanding and forecasting changes in the global environment and regional implications. Data assimilation and regional downscaling provide the means by which the observations and models are linked to study the interactions between the physical climate system and biogeochemical cycles from global to regional scales.

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The proposed effort will provide financial assistance to the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology in developing new measurement methods, instruction and standards for nano-technology and exploring new areas of nanoscale science and technology in a variety of areas, including nanofabrication, nanomagnetics, theory and modeling,nano-electromechanical systems, etc.

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The goals of this research are to continue the study of interplay between core and edge transport; to continue the study of core electron and ion energy transport and the variety of enhanced confined modes; to continue to investigate the stability of innovative confinement concepts; and to continue collaborations with experimentalists and theorists of major fusion laboratories and university fusion centers for close interplay of theory, experiment, and simulation.

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This initiative will recruit, support and retain top scientists and graduate students to work in the Astrophysics Science Division at GSFC. It will encourage the development of joint programs between GSFC and the partner institutions (UMCP, UMBC and USRA). It will work to further the research projects involved and encourage its scientist to compete for additional funding from NASA and other relevant sources.

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The Laboratory for Millimeter Astronomy participates in the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA) which operates world-leading radio array in cooperation with Caltech, University of California Berkeley, and University of Illinois. The primary research areas are the formation, evolution and dynamics of stars and galaxies.

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The Astronomy Department holds cooperative science grants with the High Energy Astrophysics and the Planetary Science Laboratories at the Goddard Space Flight Center. These grants fund research research in X-ray and Gamma-ray astrophysics, space physics, and planetary studies.

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The Astronomy Department is collaborating with Kitt Peak National Observatory to build state-of-the-art cameras for 3.6-m and 4-m optical telescopes operating on Kitt Peak Mountain in Arizona. The cameras enable wide-field imaging of a broad range of astronomical objects to study everything from the formation of the earliest galaxies to the structure and properties of comets in our Solar System.

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This partnership supports a wide range of projects in the management and performance of networks. The specific projects supported may vary from year to year. Current projects supported include active network management, active systems security systems, wireless networking, peer to peer networks, economics of networking technologies, and optical networking.

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The Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland (FC-MD), is dedicated to advancing real-world software practices via empirically validated research into software-engineering technologies and processes. FC-MD focuses in particular on quantitative approaches to process and product assessment, empirical studies of software-development processes and techniques, and tools for improved analysis and validation of software. FC-MD is affiliated with the University of Maryland and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany, which is part of the Fraunhofer network of applied-research institutes in Germany.

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Data mining of massive email and data archives.

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The partnership with TIGR and DHS will create a DB of DNA signatures of pathogens. Separate efforts with TIGR also include flu and other genomes.

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Research initiative in Quantum Computing

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