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Competition results for the Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program (2009-2010)
NSERC is pleased to announce the 2009-2010 competition results for the Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) program.
The DAS program aims to provide substantial and timely additional resources to accelerate progress and maximize the impact of outstanding research programs. In 2009-10, NSERC awarded $12 million to 100 applications in the DAS competition. These supplements are valued at $120,000 over three years.
The winners are listed below:
| Researcher | Research Title | Department | Institution |
| Achari, Gopal | Development of innovative remediation systems for priority pollutants | Civil Engineering | Calgary |
| Acosta, Edgar | Interfacial curvature of surface active substances | Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry | Toronto |
| Adams, Keith | Alternative splicing in polyploids and hybrids | Botany | British Columbia |
| Anderson, Adam | Valenced cognition: neural investigations | Psychology (Toronto) | Toronto |
| Aubertin, Michel | Hydro-geotechnical response of mining wastes under critical nearly-saturated conditions: applications to the design of waste rock piles and backfilled stopes | Génies Civil, géologique et des mines | École Polytechnique |
| Backhouse, Christopher | A miniatursed atomic emission spectrometer | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Alberta |
| Baroud, Gamal | Precision delivery and monitoring instrumentation for vertebral body augmentation in osteoporotic patients | Génie mécanique | Sherbrooke |
| Becker, Suzanna | Mechanisms of spatial memory | Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour | McMaster |
| Ben-David, Shai | Theoretical analysis of emerging machine learning paradigms | Computer Science, David R. Cheriton School of | Waterloo |
| Bernier, Monique | Développement d'outils pour l'utilisation de la polarimétrie radar | Centre Eau, Terre et Environnement (ETE) | INRS |
| Bertrand, François | Modeling of dry granular and solid-liquid flows in chemical engineering processes | Génie chimique | École Polytechnique |
| Bienzle, Dorothee | Host response to lentiviral infection | Pathobiology | Guelph |
| Boraston, Alisdair | Polysaccharide recognition by microbial carbohydrate-binding modules | Biochemistry and Microbiology | Victoria |
| Boutaba, Raouf | Fundamentals in network and service management | Computer Science, David R. Cheriton School of | Waterloo |
| Brolo, Alexandre | Plasmonic structures and their applications in nanoelectrochemistry and single-molecule spectroelectrochemistry | Chemistry | Victoria |
| Cahill, James | From roots to flowers: linking behavioural, evolutionary, and community ecology in a native grassland | Biological Sciences | Alberta |
| Craster, Richard | The spreading and dynamics of thin fluid films | Mathematical and Statistical Sciences | Alberta |
| Creaser, Robert | Further development and application of the ReOs isotope system in crustal geochronology | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | Alberta |
| Crespi, Bernard | Evolution of social and reproductive behaviour | Biological Sciences | Simon Fraser |
| Davidson, Timothy | Advanced multi-user systems for wireless communication networks | Electrical and Computer Engineering | McMaster |
| Drouin, Dominique | Nanofabrication of single electron devices to suppoort CMOS evolution in next decades | Génie électrique et génie informatique | Sherbrooke |
| Edwards, Elizabeth | Contaminant-degrading processes revealed through metagenomic analysis of microbial consortia | Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry | Toronto |
| Fahrig, Lenore | Effects of roads and traffic on animal abundance | Biology | Carleton |
| Feng, James | Novel strategies for producing and manipulating microdrops on a patterned substrate | Chemical and Biological Engineering | British Columbia |
| Festa-Bianchet, Marco | Écologie évolutive des grands mammifères dans un environnement variable - Evolutionary ecology of large mammals in a changing environment | Biologie | Sherbrooke |
| Fortin, Marie-Josée | Global change effects on species distribution: space matters | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Toronto |
| Froese, Duane | Tephrostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental studies in Yukon and Alaska: analogues for a future, warmer Artic | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | Alberta |
| Gong, Guang | Investigation of a new paradigm for security and privacy in Radio Frequency Identification System | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Waterloo |
| Gottschalk, Marcelo | Studies on the pathogenesis of the infections caused by streptococcus suis | Pathologie et microbiologie | Montréal |
| Gross, Warren | Design and implementation of coded signal processing systems | Electrical and Computer Engineering | McGill |
| Guttman, David | Functional and evolutionary genomics of host adaptation | Cell and Systems Biology | Toronto |
| Hampson, Elizabeth | Androgens and estrogens in the human nervous system | Psychology | Western Ontario |
| Hicks, Robin | Redox-active ligands and their metal complexes | Chemistry | Victoria |
| Hubbard, Ted | Frictional MEMS: moving at the micro scale | Mechanical Engineering | Dalhousie |
| Isgor, Burkan | Model-assisted non-destructive monitoring of reinforcement corrosion in concrete structures | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Carleton |
| Iwaniuk, Andrew | Dancing, drumming and singing: neural control of courtship behaviours | Neuroscience | Lethbridge |
| Jakobson, Dmitry | Eigenfunctions in analysis, geometry and PDE | Mathematics and Statistics | McGill |
| Jaksic, Vojkan | Entropic fluctuations in statistical mechanics | Mathematics and Statistics | McGill |
| Jatskevich, Juri | Modelling and analysis of power electronic and energy conversion systems | Electrical and Computer Engineering | British Columbia |
| Jedwab, Jonathan | Aperiodic autocorrelation properties of sequences and arrays. | Mathematics | Simon Fraser |
| Johnson, Catherine | Geophysical investigations of earth, moon and mercury | Earth and Ocean Sciences | British Columbia |
| Karttunen, Mikko | Self-assembly and dynamics in biomaterials and biological matter | Mathematics | Western Ontario |
| Karu, Kalle | Sheaves on fans and posets | Mathematics | British Columbia |
| Kassen, Rees | Experimental studies on the origins of diversity | Biology | Ottawa |
| Kelly, Scott | The endocrine regulation of hydromineral balance in aquatic vertebrates | Biology | York |
| Khesin, Boris | Hamiltonian dynamics and infinte-dimensional Lie groups | Mathematics | Toronto |
| Krems, Roman | Cold controlled chemistry | Chemistry | British Columbia |
| Lakshmanan, Laks | Query processing by, for, and of the masses: putting the user in the loop | Computer Science | British Columbia |
| Lampe, Lutz | Signaling and signal processing for efficient cooperation in communication networks | Electrical and Computer Engineering | British Columbia |
| Léger, Pierre | Structural safety evaluation and rehabilitation of concrete dams and gated spillways subjected to ice an seismic loads | Génies Civil, géologique et des mines | École Polytechnique |
| Lhotàk, Ondréj | Practical static analysis of object-oriented programs | Computer Science, David R. Cheriton School of | Waterloo |
| Li, Yingfu | Functional nucleic acids as catalysts and molecular recognition elements | Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences | McMaster |
| Lin, Shoufa | Structural and tectonic evolution of orogenic belts, with an emphasis on kinematics of shear zones, archean tectonics and implications for mineralization | Earth Sciences | Waterloo |
| Liu, Jiangchuan | Toward adaptive, scalable and socialized multimedia content distribution over ubiquitous networks | Computing Science | Simon Fraser |
| Lockwood, Geoffrey | A hybrid piezoelectric/silicon array for ultrasound intravascular/intracardiac imaging | Physics | Queen's |
| Longtin, André | Dynamics of sensory processing | Physics | Ottawa |
| Marshall, Shawn | Modelling glacier and ice sheet response to climate change | Geography | Calgary |
| Martel, Richard | Electrical and optical studies on carbon nanotube transistors | Chimie | Montréal |
| Martin, Randall | Interpreting satelllite observations of tropospheric composition to improve understanding of climate and air quality | Physics and Atmospheric Science | Dalhousie |
| Masson, Patrice | Stratégies d'antennes pour la discrimination temporelle et spatiale en survellance des structures par propagation d'ondes | Génie mécanique | Sherbrooke |
| McCann, Kevin | The structural and functional underpinnings of biodiversity | Integrative Biology | Guelph |
| McGuigan, Alison | Processing and design criteria for engineering artificial tissues | Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry | Toronto |
| McIndoe, Scott | Mass spectrometry-led catalyst discovery | Chemistry | Victoria |
| McKenna Neuman, Cheryl | Mechanics of particle transport by wind | Geography | Trent |
| Mistlberger, Ralph | Finding time for dinner: neural and molecular mechanisms of food-entrainable circadian clocks | Psychology | Simon Fraser |
| Moehring, Amanda | Quantitative and molecular genetics of mating behaviour and speciation in Drosophila | Biology | Western Ontario |
| Molloy, Michael | Probabilistic graph theory and theoretical computer science | Computer Science | Toronto |
| Moore, Ian | Soil-pipe interaction and the behaviour and design of urban pipe infrastructure | Civil Engineering | Queen's |
| Mousseau, Normand | Simulated the structural and dynamical properties of complex materials | Physique | Montréal |
| Munhall, Kevin | Audiovisual speech perception | Psychology | Queen's |
| Oliver, Michele | Development of multidisciplinary human factors approaches to the design of tasks, tools and environments utilized in industrial applications | Engineering, School of | Guelph |
| Pagenkopf, Brian | Natural product inspired synthetic methods | Chemistry | Western Ontario |
| Palmer, Caroline | Memory and motor processes in performance | Psychology | McGill |
| Papini, Marcello | Abrasive jet micromachining : the effect of particle size and shape, and the machining of three dimensional suspended components | Mechanical and Industrial Engineering | Ryerson |
| Paré, Martin | Parietal cortex persistent activity and working memory capacity | Physiology | Queen's |
| Pelling, Andrew | Measurement and modulation of mechanical force transduction in living cells | Physics | Ottawa |
| Poole, Warren | Mechanisms of deformation and fracture in light metals | Materials Engineering | British Columbia |
| Prodic, Aleksandar | Reconfigurable digitally-controlled low power SMPS | Electrical and Computer Engineering, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of | Toronto |
| Schwenk, Achim | The many-body physics of nuclei, cold atoms, neutron stars and supernovae | Science Division | TRIUMF |
| Shatkay, Hagit | Translating data into knowledge: From biomedical sequences and text to disease prediction and prevention | Computing, School of | Queen's |
| Sheikholeslami, Ali | Memory circuits for spin electronics | Electrical and Computer Engineering, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of | Toronto |
| Sherratt, Thomas | A synethic theory of anti-predator defence | Biology | Carleton |
| Sivoththaman, Siva | Development and practical implementation of spectral engineering and nanotechnology concepts for high efficiency photovoltaic devices | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Waterloo |
| Steffler, Peter | Computational modeling of river hydrodynamics and ecology | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Alberta |
| Stix, John | Mechanisms, triggers, and forecasting of explosive volcanic eruptions | Earth and Planetary Sciences | McGill |
| Swamy, Chaitanya | Algorithm design in game-theoretic environments and settings with uncertainty | Combinatorics and Optimization | Waterloo |
| Tang, Boxin | Space-filling designs and robust orthogonal arrays | Statistics and Actuarial Science | Simon Fraser |
| Teskey, Campbell | Plasticity of sensorimotor neocortex | Psychology | Calgary |
| Théoret, Hugo | Motor resonance in adolescence | Psychologie | Montréal |
| Tufenkji, Nathalie | Macroscopic and microscopic aspects of microbe and colloid transport and retention in aqueous systems | Chemical Engineering | McGill |
| Vatsal, Vinayak | Special values of L-functions modulo p | Mathematics | British Columbia |
| Vengallatore, Srikar | Internal friction in thin films: application to micro- and nanomechanical resonators | Mechanical Engineering | McGill |
| Virag, Balint | Random matrices and processes | Mathematics | Toronto |
| Whitehead, Henry (Hal) | Culture in whales | Biology | Dalhousie |
| Wilson, Christine | Star formation in galaxies across a range of environments | Physics and Astronomy | McMaster |
| Wykes, Linda | Protein and amino acid metabolism in malnutrition and metabolic stress | Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of | McGill |
| Xiao, Wei | A eukaryotic SOS response | Microbiology and Immunology | Saskatchewan |
| Yeow, Tze-Wei (John) | Design, model, and fabrication of micro/nanodevices | Systems Design Engineering | Waterloo |
| Zamble, Deborah | Metalloproteins in intracellular nickel homestasis | Chemistry | Toronto |
| Zemel, Richard | Machine learning for image understanding and user modelling | Computer Science | Toronto |
