Neutrino Physics (Particle Physics, cosmology, astrophysics implications)

Patterns of quarks and leptons (masses, mixing, substructure)

RNA and DNA denaturation.

Collective phenomena in systems far from thermal equilibrium.

Coarsening processes and slow dynamics.

Systems with long range interactions

Concrete Complexity

Distributed Computing

Cryptography and Complexity

Developing the use of stable isotopes (in particular, 13C, 18O, 15N, 2H) as tracers of biogeochemical cycles on land.

Environmental and climatic influence on the exchange of trace gases and energy between plants, soil and the atmosphere.

Climatic influence on the natural abundance of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in CO2, O2, H2O and organic matter.

Mathematical methods for Archaeological research.

Semi-classical quantization.

Chaotic scattering.

Quantum chaos.

Convex geometry

Functional analysis and geometry of Banach spaces

Probability

Analysis of transgene flow from wheat to related species

Developing slow release herbicide formulations as seed dressings for Striga control in Africa

Transgenically enhancing the virulence of fungi used as biocontrol agents

Tandem constructs to mitigate gene flow from transgenic crops to weeds

Formation of the brain structure in human is a complex process. One of the most striking features of the human brain is characteristic convolutions. These convolutions are lacking in a severe human brain malformation known as lissencephaly (smooth brain).

Functional Analysis of Genes Involved in Lissencephaly.

Confinement and screening.

Non-abelian gauge theories.

From current to constituent quarks.

Diffractive Optical Elements and Planar Optics.

Photonic Devices.

Novel Laser Configurations.