New Grants

Project No.	Project Title	Hong Kong Partner/Institution	French Partner/Institution	Funding Period (year)	Amount Awarded by RGC (HK$)
F-HK13/09T	A Collaborative Study of Tropospheric Ozone in East Asia	Prof Tao Wang/PolyU	Dr Valerie Thouret/University of Toulouse	2	30,600
F-HK14/09T	Noise Transmission Through Double-walled Structures: Modeling, Control and Applications	Prof Li Cheng/PolyU	Prof Jean-Louis Guyader/INSA-Lyon	2	31,250
F-HK18/09T	Wastes reuse to produce carbonaceous porous materials for removal of toxic trace elements from water	Prof Gordon Mckay/HKUST	Dr Claire Gerente/CNRS No. 6144	2	21,600
F-HK20/09T	Experimental study of interfacial dynamics: from supported membranes to micro-menisci of a bubble mattress	Prof Penger Tong/HKUST	Prof Elisabeth Charlaix/Universite Lyon 1	2	14,000
F-HK23/09C	Alzheimer's Disease Conference: From Public Health to Therapeutic Insights	Dr Raymond Chuen Chun Chang/HKU	Prof Jacques Hugon /Universiti Paris 7 - Denis Diderot	1	124,900

Release of 2nd year funding

Project No.	Project Title	Hong Kong Partner/Institution	French Partner/Institution	Amount Awarded by RGC (HK$)
F-HK05/08T	Total Variation Based Basis Pursuit Model for Image Restoration	Prof Michael Kwok-po Ng/HKBU	Prof Alain Trouve/CNRS No.	13,500
F-HK08/08T	The Weighted Thermodynamic Formalism and Multifractal Analysis on Self-Affine Carpets	Prof De-jun Feng/CUHK	Prof Julien Barral/Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique	27,900
F-HK14/08T	Matching Digital Terrain Models Using Quantitative and Qualitative Techniques	Dr Eric Guilbert/PolyU	Dr Eric Saux/Ecole Navale	21,600
F-HK15/08T	Control and Impact of Residual Stresses on the Mechanical Behaviour of Bulk Metallic Glasses	Prof Jian Lu/PolyU	Dr Jean-Jacques Blandin/CNRS	15,300
F-HK21/08T	Integrated wireless capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer for bio-medical applications	Prof Jie Yuan/HKUST	Dr Libor Rufer/CNRS No. 5159	30,600
F-HK22/08T	Towards a THz laser based on cyclotron emission	Dr Jiannong Wang/HKUST	Dr Angela Vasanelli/University of Paris Diderot	30,600
F-HK27/08T	A metallomic approach to analyze bismuth- and nickel-binding proteins in cells	Dr Hongzhe Sun/HKU	Prof Ryszard Lobinski/CNRS No.	15,300
F-HK28/08T	Synthesis and catalytic applications in alkynes activation of novel polymeric materials based on ferrocenyl polyphosphines	Dr Patrick Toy/HKU	Dr Jean-Cyrille Hierso/CNRS No. 5260/University of Bourgogne	21,600