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Developing sequence controlled polymers for organization, templation and recognition (SCPs)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

Nature‘s toolbox for replication uses DNA and RNA which are nucleic acids capable of templating new copies of themselves. Nature‘s ability to replicate has led to the evolution of a wide variety of forms and functions for biological materials which cannot be achieved using current synthetic approaches. It seems likely that if we were able to teach plastics or other polymers how to template new cop ...
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Behaviour near criticality (Critical)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

"One of the main challenges of modern mathematical physics is to understand the behaviour of systems at or near criticality. In a number of cases, one can argue heuristically that this behaviour should be described by a nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation. Some examples of systems of interest are models of phase coexistence near the critical temperature, one-dimensional interface gr ...
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3D Euler, Vortex Dynamics and PDE (Vort3DEuler)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

This proposal deals with a collection of problems in PDE arising from fluid mechanics.The primary motivation is the understanding of the evolution of isolated vortex lines for 3D Euler. The importance of the evolution of vorticity in incompressible fluid mechanics is very well known.To date, only nonrigorous approaches are known to try to obtain an evolution equation for isolated vortex lines. Two ...
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Excited state quantum dynamics in molecular aggregates: a unified description from biology to devices (ESTYMA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"The coherent dynamics of excitons in systems of biological interest and in organic materials can now be studied with advanced experimental techniques, including two dimensional electronic spectroscopy, with time resolution of few femtoseconds. The theory of open quantum systems, that should support the interpretation of these new experiments, has been developed in different contexts over the past ...
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Multiscale Simulation of Crystal Defects (MUSYX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"The MUSYX project will develop a rigorous numerical analysis framework for assessing the accuracy of multiscale methods for simulating the dynamics of crystalline defects. The core focus of the research will be the analysis of approximation errors of atomistic-to-continuum (a/c) coupling methods and related multiscale schemes. The rigorous mathematical foundations, which will be the outcome of th ...
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Stochasticity in Spatially Extended Deterministic Systems and via Homogenization of Deterministic Fast-Slow Systems (StochExtHomog)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

Ergodic theory is the analysis of probabilistic or statistical aspects of deterministic systems. Roughly speaking, deterministic systems are those that evolve without any randomness. Nevertheless, the probabilistic approach is appropriate since specific trajectories are unpredictable in “chaotic” systems. At the other extreme, stochastic systems evolve in a random manner by assumption.One of ...
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White Dwarfs as Tracers of Stellar, Binary and Planetary Evolution (WDTracer)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The vast majority of all stars in the Galaxy will evolve, or already have evolved, into white dwarfs, Earth-sized stellar embers sustained by electron degeneracy, and the study of white dwarfs is essential to many aspects of our understanding regarding the evolution of single and binary stars and of planetary systems. However, because of their intrinsic faintness, the known population of galactic ...
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Magnetohydrodynamic Wave Diagnostics of the Solar Atmosphere in the Era of Transformative High-Resolution Observations (SeismoSun)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Funding is sought for a 5-year project supporting two postdoctoral research assistants and two 4-year PhD studentships to carry out a research programme on qualitative advances of our understanding of basic physical processes operating in the atmosphere of the Sun. This will be accomplished by the use of the unprecedented high-resolution data obtained with the new generation of solar space mission ...
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The Discursive Construction of Academic Excellence. Classifying SSH Researchers Through Text-Processing Practices (DISCONEX)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

"DISCONEX investigates two types of text-processing practices by means of which academic researchers are classified in different national and disciplinary fields of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). The research project will produce theoretically informed and empirically grounded insights into the social organization of SSH research. Drawing from constructivist social theory and qualitativ ...
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Visualising Supramolecular Assembly by preparative Mass Spectrometry (VISUAL-MS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"The aim of VISUAL-MS is to investigate the structure and the assembly of individual functional adsorbed molecules with sub-nm resolution. This is an essential and still missing step in the development of a molecular scale foundation of many contemporary research fields. In order to achieve these goals, ultra high resolution scanning probe microscopy techniques are needed. However, these require t ...
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Using Historical Quasi-Experiments to Understand the Knowledge Economy (HISKNOWL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

This proposal covers three research strands at the intersection of innovation economics, economic history, and labour economics.In project A I will investigate how the number of entrepreneurs at the city level affects city growth. As the number of entrepreneurs in a city is likely to be endogenous I identify the causal effect of entrepreneurs using the exodus of Jewish entrepreneurs from German ci ...
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Extremal Combinatorics (EC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

A typical problem of Extremal Combinatorics is to maximise or minimise a certain parameter given some combinatorial restrictions. This area experienced a remarkable growth in the last few decades, having a wide range of applications that include results in number theory, algebra, geometry, logic, information theory, and theoretical computer science. There are also many practical fields that were g ...
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Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty: Transnational Diaspora Mobilization in Europe and Its Impact on Political Proceses in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East (DIASPORACONTEST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This groundbreaking multi-methods political science study investigates the transnational mobilization of conflict-generated diasporas in Europe and its impact on polities experiencing contested sovereignty in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Four researchers study how diasporas mobilize when a specific aspect of sovereignty is contested in the original homeland: The PI focuses on th ...
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Cognitive and Social Foundations of Rationality (RATIONALITY)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"RATIONALITY focuses on perhaps the key fault-line in the social and cognitive sciences. Many theorists, in philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science explain mind, behaviour, and their consequences for social phenomena, by rational explanation. Others, in judgment and decision making, social psychology, behavioural economics and the neurosciences, argue that people syste ...
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Advanced techniques to Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the LHCb Detector at CERN (BSMWLHCB)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

I propose a programme of precision tests of the Standard Model of particle physics to be carried out using the LHCb experiment at CERN. The proposal is focussed on studies of CP violation - differences between the behaviour of particles and antiparticles that are fundamental to understanding why the Universe we see today is made up of matter, not antimatter. The innovative feature of this research ...
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Bioinorganic Chemistry for the Design of New Medicines (BIOINCMED)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Bioinorganic chemistry is a rapidly expanding area of research, but the potential for the therapeutic application of metal complexes is highly underdeveloped. The basic principles required to guide the development of metal-containing therapeutic agents are lacking, despite the unique therapeutic opportunities which they offer. It is the goal of the proposed research to establish basic principles o ...
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Classes of combinatorial objects: from structure to algorithms (CCOSA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The proposed project aims at analyzing fundamental problems from combinatorics using the most current methods available and at providing new structural and algorithmic insights to such problems. The problems considered will be treated on a general level of classes of combinatorial objects of the same kind and the developed general methods will also be applied to specific open problems. Classes of ...
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Quantitative Multidimensional Imaging of Interfacial Fluxes (QUANTIF)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Interfacial physicochemical processes are ubiquitous in chemistry, the life sciences and materials science, underpinning some of the most important scientific and technological challenges of the 21st century. The overarching aim of this proposal is to draw together separate strands of interfacial science by creating a unique holistic approach to the investigation of physicochemical processes and d ...
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Control and Real-Time Optimisation of Intensive Polymerisation Processes (COOPOL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Transition of processing industries towards a more sustainable model of manufacturing is one of key priority topics for European Research Area. This transition requires adoption of novel reactor technologies, greener reactions and the increase in the use of intelligent systems in processing industries. The latter means improving processes through use of real-time information and ability to affect ...
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The COMET (Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials) Initiative (COMET)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"Clinical trialists often struggle when trying to choose the outcomes to measure which would be of most use to the patients, practitioners and policy makers who will use their research to help them make decisions. These difficulties are passed on to those producing and reading systematic reviews, many of whom have experienced the frustration of finding that the original researchers either did not ...
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The Impact of Hybridization on Functional Diversification - Experimental Evolution with Sexual Microbes (HYBRAD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Aug 25, 2014,

"An underexplored aspect in the evolution of biodiversity is the role of interspecific hybridization. Hybridization is hypothesized to increase the functional diversity of adaptive radiations, potentially yielding ecological speciation. Yet, direct evidence for this is lacking. We propose to apply a large-scale, quantitative approach using experimental evolution with yeast to test this fundamental ...
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Resilient large unit cell inorganic materials (RLUCIM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

A grand challenge in science is the controlled assembly of atoms and molecules into novel forms as the basis for new physical phenomena and next-generation technologies. This programme will focus on excellence in synthesis of advanced inorganic functional materials through the development of fundamental capabilities for control of structure and composition in crystalline materials with large unit ...
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Options for Delivering Ecosystem-Based Marine Management (ODEMM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The overall aim of the ODEMM project is to develop a set of fully-costed ecosystem management options that would deliver the objectives of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the Habitats Directive, the European Commission Blue Book and the Guidelines for the Integrated Approach to Maritime Policy. This will be achieved by: (i) providing a comprehensive knowledge base to support policy for th ...
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