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Ultracold Quantum Matter (UQUAM)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Quantum mechanics is the basis of our understanding of the microscopic world. It is also central to the collective behaviour of matter at low temperatures, leading to unique properties that defy our classical intuition. The comprehension of such ‘quantum matter’ and the ability to master it using a newly developing set of ‘quantum technologies’ is not only of fundamental interest but holds the p ...
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Origins of integrability in AdS/CFT correspondence (AdS-CFT-solvable)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Fundamental interactions in nature are well described by quantum gauge fields in 4 space-time dimensions (4d). When the strength of gauge interaction is weak the Feynman perturbation techniques are very efficient for the description of most of the experimentally observable consequences of the Standard model and for the study of high energy processes in QCD.But in the intermediate and strong coupli ...
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New paradigms for InfraRed modifications of Gravity (NIRG)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

"Our proposal addresses theoretical and phenomenological properties of large distance (“Infra-Red”, IR in the following) modifications of the gravitational interaction. Such modifications are motivated by two main reasons: firstly, to find alternative explanations to the presence of dark matter or dark energy in cosmology; secondly, to better understand the currently well accepted cosmological mod ...
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Psycho-semantics: new data for formal semantics models, stronger frameworks for experimental studies (SemExp)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Formal semantics provides rigorous, explicit models of linguistic meaning. Such models also include an account of the possible interactions between language and reasoning abilities. Over the last decade, thanks to the joint efforts of linguists and psychologists, experimental techniques have entered the field of formal semantics. With this methodological step forward, the field has become a full-f ...
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New frOntiers in Galaxy spectrAl modeLing (NEOGAL)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

"NEOGAL is an intensive, coordinated effort to explore uncharted territory in the early chemical evolution of galaxies through the development of an innovative set of spectral analysis tools. This will be achieved through the accomplishment of four interdisciplinary projects using state-of-the-art techniques:1. The development of a new approach overcoming the limitations of existing methods, to me ...
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Indo European Collaboration on Moduli Spaces (MODULI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"This proposal is concerned with a joint Indo-European presearch programme on the field of moduli spaces. Moduli spaces are basic and central objects that emerge in the most natural classification problems in geometry. Their importance has been emphasized over the years due to the relation of these spaces with areas of mathematics so diverse as algebraic geometry, differential geometry, topology, ...
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NanoBioEngineering of BioInspired BioPolymers (Nano3Bio)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The Nano3Bio project convenes a consortium of world renowned experts from 8 EU universities, 1 large company, and 14 SME, to develop biotechnological production systems for nanoformulated chitosans. Chitosans, chitin-derived polysaccharides varying in their degree of polymerisation (DP), degree of acetylation (DA), and pattern of acetylation (PA), are among the most versatile and most promising bi ...
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Electrochemical Near-fied Scanning Optical Microscopy / Manipulation and characterization at the nanoScale (ENSOM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"The proposed project aims at developing and delivering a cutting edge analytical tool to provide unprecedented diagnostic capabilities for the characterization of nano/micromaterials of interest for energy conversion and storage, for nanoelectronic and catalysis, among others. To indeed optimize the design of new or existing nano/micromaterials, the fundamental reaction mechanism or properties of ...
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Zooming In between Plates: deciphering the nature of the plate interface in subduction zones (ZIP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Subduction zones play a fundamental role in our daily life. Half of the world population lives on top or nearby one of them, in coastal areas repeatedly devastated by large earthquakes, tsunamis or volcanic eruptions. Giant earthquakes occurring on subduction zone mega-thrusts (Mw close to 9 or larger) are indeed amongst the deadliest natural hazards. During the last decade, very large earthquake ...
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Electrical Control of Cell Polarization (ECCP)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"Cell polarization describes the ability of a cell to use external and/or internal stimuli to decide in which direction to grow, crawl or divide. Cells can sense different cues in vivo such as chemical gradients, sites of cell adhesion, and electric fields. In this proposal, we aim at investigating the electrical aspects of cell polarization. Endogenous electrical signals are present around tissue ...
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Whole-body Compliant Dynamical Contacts in Cognitive Humanoids (CoDyCo)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Description The aim of CoDyCo is to improve the current control and cognitive understanding about robust, goal-directed whole-body motion interaction with multiple contacts. CoDyCo will go beyond traditional approaches: proposing methodologies for performing coordinated interaction tasks with complex systems; combining planning and complianc ...
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Fast Tracker for Hadron Collider Experiments (FTK)

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

"This project aims to develop an extremely fast but compact processor, with supercomputer performances, for pattern recognition, data reduction, and information extraction in high quality image processing.The proposed hardware prototype features flexibility for potential applications in a wide range of fields, from triggering in high energy physics to simulating human brain functions in experiment ...
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Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Glioma Genesis (Gliomagenesis)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive form of glioma, the most common primary brain cancer in adults. GBM is highly resistant to standard radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments and thus represents a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Although many genetic alterations have been identified for GBM, its histogenesis is still poorly understood. The relative contribution of each gen ...
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Exact Results in Gauge Theory and Beyond (ERGTB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Quantum field theory plays a prominent role in our understanding of many phenomena in physics, from condensed matter physics to particle physics. The standard approach to quantum field theory relies on perturbation theory that is a powerful tool only when the system is weakly coupled and for most of the models, exact results are not accessible. This research project aims at developing and exploit ...
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New aspects of supergravity: the gravity dual of supersymmetric localization and string theory compactifications to de Sitter space (ALADS-DS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This project explores new aspects of supergravity theories in relation with string theory. It consists of two main parts, each with specific objectives. The first part studies novel structures in the AdS/CFT correspondence, focusing on supergravity solutions dual to supersymmetric field theories on curved manifolds. We will construct new supersymmetric, asymptotically locally (Euclidean) Anti de S ...
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Stress, Prefrontal function and Cognition: Role of the Glucocorticoid Receptor (StrePCo)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Cognitive deficits are hallmark features of a variety of psychiatric diseases. While body of evidences pointed to the prefrontal cortex (PFC) as a key structure for cognition, recent studies further suggested that abnormalities in the interaction between inhibitory interneurons and glutamatergic pyramidal cells within PFC microcircuit could be involved in the pathogenesis of cognitive deficits in ...
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Quantum Algorithmics (QALGO)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

We will study the algorithmic aspects of quantum information. Our goal is to find new algorithms for quantum computers and new quantum communication protocols that are more efficient than the classical protocols. We will pursue this goal in a number of different ways.Firstly, we will study concrete problems that may have fast quantum algorithms and develop methods for constructing quantum algorith ...
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Computer simulations of thermally excited molecules and materials by first principles (TEMM1P)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

With the rapid development of computational sciences and of high-performance computing, first principles computer simulations have become a standard for the simulation of processes in physics, chemistry, biology and materials science. Moreover, the quality of first principles methods, most of all of density-functional theory, reached recently that of experiments, which allows the prediction of new ...
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Improving beta-cell function and identification of diagnostic biomarkers for treatment monitoring in diabetes (IMIDIA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

An absolute or relative loss of beta-cell mass and function underlie the development of type I and type 2 diabetes.Preventing beta-cell demise or restoring their number and function is a major therapeutic goal. However,development of novel diagnostic and prognostic tools, and of novel therapeutic modalities, is hampered by the limited knowledge of the molecular pathways that control beta-cell demi ...
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Random walks and Growth of Groups (RaWG)

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

The goal of this project is to study random walks on groups, with the focus on boundary theory. We plan to establish new criteria for estimates of the entropy and Poisson-Furstenberg boundary triviality and apply this method to study the following question: which groups admit simple random walks with trivial boundary? In particular, we want to produce a classification for classes ofsolvable groups ...
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Existence of Instabilities in Hamiltonian Systems on lattices and in Hamiltonian Partial differential equations (INSTAB12)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

"The study of Arnold diffusion in Hamiltonian systems has received a lot of attention in the last years. This phenomenon arises when a small perturbation in a system causes big changes in it leading to global instabilities. In recent years there have been partial results characterizing this phenomenon and proving its existence in Hamiltonian systems but mostly for systems of low dimension. This pr ...
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In vivo dynamics of nitrosylation and glutathionylation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (REDOXDYNAMICS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"Living cells have evolved a complex network of signaling pathways and adaptative responses which enable them to survive and adapt to diverse environmental challenges. Our increasing understanding of the molecular mechanism of cell signaling has revealed that reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) act as signaling molecules to transfer extracellular or intracellular info ...
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Cultural heritage Advanced Research Infrastructures: Synergy for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Conservation/Restoration (CHARISMA)

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

CHARISMA is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative that brings together 22 leading European institutions developing research on artwork materials and their deterioration finalised to the conservation of cultural heritage. The consortium has the objective to optimise the use of infrastructures through a coordinated program of transnational access, joint research and networking activities. Transna ...
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Atomic Fermi Gases in Lower Dimensions (FERLODIM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The complex interplay between Coulomb repulsion and Fermi statistics in two dimensional systems is responsible for some of the most dramatic phenomena encountered in solid state physics (High critical temperature superfluidity, Fractional Quantum Hall Effect,..). However, despite decades of efforts, many questions regarding these systems are still unsolved. In FERLODIM, we plan to take advantage ...
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Novel Lipid Biomarkers from Polar Ice: Climatic and Ecological Applications (ICEPROXY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"It is widely acknowledged that polar sea ice plays a critical role in global climate change. As such, sea ice reconstructions are of paramount importance in establishing climatic evolution of the geological past. In the current project, some well characterised organic chemicals (biomarkers) from microalgae will be used as proxy indicators of current and past sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic re ...
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Lattices in Computer Science (LATTICE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

A lattice is defined as the set of all integer combinations of $n$ linearly independent vectors in $\R^n$. These geometrical objects possess a rich combinatorial structure that has attracted the attention of great mathematicians over the last two centuries. Lattices have an impressive number of applications in mathematics and computer science, from number theory and Diophantine approximation to co ...
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Fighting Aneurysmal Diseases (FAD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"Fighting Aneurysmal Diseases (FAD) is a public health in EU, because of the ageing population. In the absence of intervention, aneurysms evolve towards rupture and death. The translational objectives of the project are to accelerate the acquisition of knowledge, and to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for FAD in humans. The project innovates by integrating two different localizations ...
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