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Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences
Basic Energy Sciences (BES) supports fundamental research to understand,
predict, and ultimately control matter and energy at the electronic,
atomic, and molecular levels in order to provide the foundations for new
energy technologies and to support DOE missions in energy, environment,
and national security.
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National Science
Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency
created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to
advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the
national defense…" With an annual budget of about $6.06 billion, we are
the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally
supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and
universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and
the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
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Defense
Threat Reduction Agency
DTRA is the U.S. Department of Defense’s official Combat Support Agency
for countering weapons of mass destruction. Our people are Subject
Matter Experts on WMD, and we address the entire spectrum of chemical,
biological, radiological, nuclear and high yield explosive threats.
DTRA’s programs include basic science research and development,
operational support to U.S. warfighters on the front line, and an
in-house WMD think tank that aims to anticipate and mitigate future
threats long before they have a chance to harm the United States and
our allies. SCC-WMD, the U.S. Strategic Command Center for Combating
Weapons of Mass Destruction, synchronizes Combating Weapons of Mass
Destruction efforts across our military’s geographic commands and
leverages the people, programs and interagency relationships of DTRA at
a strategic level. We work with the military services, other elements
of the United States government, and countries across the planet on
counterproliferation, nonproliferation and WMD reduction issues with
one goal in mind: Making the World Safer.
The Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central
research and development organization for the Department of Defense
(DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and
development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where
risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide
dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions.
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The Army
Research Laboratory
The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the Army’s corporate basic and
applied research laboratory. Our mission is to provide innovative
science, technology, and analysis to enable full-spectrum operations.
ARL consists of the Army Research Office (ARO) and six Directorates--
Weapons and Materials, Sensors and Electron Devices, Human Research and
Engineering, Computational and Information Sciences, Vehicle
Technology, and Survivability and Lethality Analysis. The Army relies
on this ARL Team for scientific discoveries, technologic advances, and
analyses to provide warfighters with capabilities to succeed on the
battlefield.
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Los
Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National
Laboratory is a premier national security research institution,
delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most
crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring
the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent.
The Los Alamos of today
emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards &
security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science
remains the foundation of the Laboratory.
In addition to supporting
the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience,
chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences,
materials science, and physics disciplines.
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The
Boston University Photonics Center
Over the past decade, The Boston University
Photonics Center has become well known for building a strong academic
programs in the field of photonics: the science and engineering of
light. We have also created a unique national resource for development
of advanced photonic device prototypes for commercial and military
applications.
From its inception, the Center has attracted
scholarly pioneers to lead our academic and educational programs.
Ground-breaking research conducted at the Center includes work on
science and technology for solid state source and detector materials,
quantum cryptography, subsurface imaging, adaptive optics,
micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS), high-speed modulation
and sensing, bioorganic chemistry, nanophotonic devices and biomedical
applications of photonics.
Boston University's leadership in the field is
supported by a state-of-the-art facility that includes an optical fiber
draw tower and more than a dozen special-purpose research laboratories.
Our shared facilities include the Optoelectronics Processing Facility,
the Precision Measurement Laboratory, and the Integrated Optics
Laboratory. These assets, combined with leading academic experts and a
dedicated technical and administrative staff make the Boston University
Photonics Center an extraordinary resource for students, faculty, and
affiliated companies.
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Boston
University Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology
Nanoscience and nanotechnology research and development are leading a
revolution in basic materials science and engineering. New advancements
with designed functionality are poised to enable a huge range of
applications in everything from developing fundamental building block
in the electronics, photonics, and materials sectors, to sensors,
biomimetic and biocompatible platforms throughout the biomedical and
health sector.
The
strength of Boston University’s efforts in interdisciplinary
nanoscience and nanotechnology form an axis that begins in basic
materials science, surface science, physics, chemistry, and
engineering, extending into molecular and cellular biology, biophysics,
and the technologies of microfluidics, MEMS, and onto manufacturing.
Our strengths are in developing and using nanotechnology advances in
materials and platforms with our capabilities in biomedical engineering
to focus on applications in understanding subcellular processes,
biomolecular function and human physiology.
The
new Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology is established to
advance academic and technological research and development in
nanoscience and nanobiotechnology. The Center serves as a hub for
nanoscience researchers from the Charles River and Medical Campuses and
build activities that develop interdisciplinary research and training.
The Center will connect scientists from disparate disciplines with each
other in seminars, meetings, joint visitor programs and seeded projects
to enhance the development of interdisciplinary nanoscale research. The
Center will lead large, interdisciplinary proposal development and run
funded programs for both research and training, as well as support
individual researchers in their efforts by linking them with resources
throughout the University and beyond. The Center will also build
linkages between the research and technological commercialization
resources at BU including the Photonics Center, the Technology
Commercialization Institute, and Fraunhofer and with external partners
and industrial affiliates.
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Department Of Physics | Boston University |
590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617 353 2619 | Email: raveritt@physics.bu.edu |
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