[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-erc-advanced-grant-2008":3,"awarded-stats-erc-advanced-grant":292},{"awarded":4,"total":291},[5,16,23,28,35,40,47,52,57,62,69,74,81,88,95,100,107,114,120,126,132,138,143,148,155,161,167,172,178,185,191,197,203,208,214,220,226,231,237,244,250,256,262,267,272,278,284],{"id":6,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":9,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":15},"cordis-european-research-council-award-229460","European Research Council","ERC Advanced Grant","Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam",null,"FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN","DE",2008,"€1,864,760","The project is frontier research in several respects. It aims at crossing the boundaries between 3 main disciplines of academia, viz. Islamic and Jewish Studies and Studies of Eastern Christianity. The followers of the 3 denominations constituted a unique cultural commonality in the medieval world of Islam. They shared Arabic as their common language and often read the same books, so that a continuous exchange of ideas, texts, and forms of discourse was the norm. This widely accepted historical ",{"id":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":21,"abstract":22},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228051","Mechanics of Energy Dissipation in Dense Granular Materials","ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION","EL","€981,600","Granular materials are of interest to different fields of the physical sciences and engineering. To model their behaviour, either a solid- or fluid mechanics approach is used. Rather than deforming uniformly, granular fluids develop thin shear-bands, which mark areas of flow, material failure and energy dissipation. The MEDIGRA project proposes a thorough experimental, theoretical and numerical study of the Mechanics of Energy DIssipation in dense GRAnular materials. The fundamental challenge fa",{"id":24,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":25,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":26,"abstract":27},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228254","Soil   Foundation   Structure  Systems Beyond  Conventional Seismic    Failure   Thresholds: Application  to  New  or  Existing Structures  and  Monuments","€2,399,992","The main goal of the proposed research is to investigate the possibility of allowing  below-ground  support systems to respond to strong seismic shaking by going beyond a number of  thresholds  that would conventionally imply failure and are today forbidden by codes. Such  thresholds  include : (a) sliding at the soil-foundation interface ; (b) separation and uplifting of a shallow foundation from the soils ; (c) mobilization of  bearing capacity   failure mechanism for shallow foundations ; (d)",{"id":29,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":30,"piName":10,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":34},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227977","Self-Managing Situated Computing","POLITECNICO DI MILANO","IT","€2,544,156","SMScom will develop a consistent, integrated, and homogeneous set of methods and tools for the design, validation, and operation of dependable self-managing situational software, i.e., software that addresses a particular situation, problem, or challenge, and behaves according to the evolving situation in which it operates. Examples of situations are: the type of user (its preferences, its knowledge, ...), the physical environment (the current location of the executing environment), the time at ",{"id":36,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":37,"piName":10,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":39},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227793","Search Computing","€2,500,000","Who are the strongest European competitors on software ideas? Who is the best doctor to cure insomnia in a nearby hospital? Where can I attend an interesting conference in my field close to a sunny beach?  This information is available on the Web, but no software system can accept such queries nor compute the answer. We hereby propose search computing as the new multi-disciplinary science which will provide the abstractions, foundations, methods, and tools required to answer these and many simil",{"id":41,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":42,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":45,"abstract":46},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228286","Cold Rydbergs: photoionization, electronic spectroscopy and electrostatic trapping","EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH","CH","€1,192,395","Spectroscopic investigation of high (n >>20) molecular Rydberg states below and above the first adiabatic ionization threshold will be carried out with the aims of 1) obtaining fully resolved information on the vibrational, rotational, spin-orbit and hyperfine structures of these highly excited electronic states, 2) characterizing the role of nuclear spins in molecular photoionization, 3) determining the hyperfine structure of fundamental molecular cations at kHz resolution and accuracy by Rydbe",{"id":48,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":49,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":50,"abstract":51},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228053","Mathematical Methods for Financial Risk Management","€880,560","Since the pioneering works of Black & Scholes, Merton and Markowitch, sophisticated quantitative methods are being used to introduce more complex financial products each year. However, this exciting increase in the complexity forces the industry to engage in proper risk management practices. The recent financial crisis emanating from risky loan practices is a prime example of this acute need. This proposal focuses exactly on this general problem. We will develop mathematical techniques to measur",{"id":53,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":54,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":55,"abstract":56},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228076","Development of multi-scale molecular models, force fields and computer software for biomolecular simulation","€1,320,000","During the past decades the PI has helped shape the research field of computer simulation of biomolecular systems at the atomic level. He has carried out one of the first molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins, and has since then contributed many different methodological improvements and developed one of the major atomic-level force fields for simulations of proteins, carbohydrates, nucleotides and lipids. Methodology and force field have been implemented in a set of programs called GRO",{"id":58,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":59,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":60,"abstract":61},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228023","Quantum optics using nanostructures: from many-body physics to quantum information processing","€2,300,000","Spins in nanostructures have emerged as a new paradigm for studying quantum optical phenomena in the solid-state. Motivated by potential applications in quantum information processing, the research in this field has focused on isolating a single confined spin from its environment and implementing coherent manipulation. On the other hand, it has been realized that the principal decoherence mechanisms for confined spins, stemming from interactions with nuclear or electron spin reservoirs, are inti",{"id":63,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":64,"piName":10,"institution":65,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":67,"abstract":68},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226639","Inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like materials: new synthetic strategies lead to new materials","WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE","IL","€1,618,238","Inorganic nanotubes (INT) and particularly inorganic fullerene-like materials (IF) from 2-D layered compounds, which were discovered in the PI laboratory 16 years ago, are now in commercial use as solid lubricants (www.apnano.com) with prospects for numerous applications, also as part of nanocomposites, optical coatings, etc. The present research proposal capitalizes on the leadership role of the PI and recent developments in his laboratory, much of them not yet published. New synthetic approach",{"id":70,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":71,"piName":10,"institution":65,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":72,"abstract":73},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226246","Scanning Nano-SQUID on a Tip","€2,000,000","At the boundaries of physics research it is constantly necessary to introduce new tools and methods to expand the horizons and address fundamental issues. In this proposal, we will develop and then apply radically new tools that will enable groundbreaking progress in the field of vortex matter in superconductors and will be of great importance to condensed matter physics and nanoscience. We propose a new scanning magnetic imaging method based on self-aligned fabrication of Josephson junctions wi",{"id":75,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":76,"piName":10,"institution":77,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":79,"abstract":80},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227430","Video-rate Scanning Probe Microscopy Imaging  of Nanostructures on Surfaces","AARHUS UNIVERSITET","DK","€1,324,983","The goal of this ERC proposal VIN is to develop the next generation of scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) The microscopes will set new standards in the field through their ability to acquire images at video-rate frequency, while retaining high (atomic) resolution capability. This new instrumental platform will be implemented both under ultra-high vacuum conditions, in a high-pressure gas cell, and under liquid-phase conditions. It will be utilized to create and explore novel research avenues for ",{"id":82,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":83,"piName":10,"institution":84,"country":85,"year":13,"amount":86,"abstract":87},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226558","Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS","FR","€2,096,703","A revolution in electronics is in view, with the contemporary evolution of two novel disciplines, spintronics and molecular electronics. A fundamental link between these two fields can be established using molecular magnetic materials and, in particular, single-molecule magnets, which combine the classic macroscale properties of a magnet with the quantum properties of a nanoscale entity. The resulting field, molecular spintronics aims at manipulating spins and charges in electronic devices conta",{"id":89,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":90,"piName":10,"institution":91,"country":92,"year":13,"amount":93,"abstract":94},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227348","An Intense Summer Monsoon in a Cool World, Climate and East Asian Monsoon during Interglacials with a special emphasis on the Interglacials 500,000 years ago and before","UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN","BE","€893,880","Asian monsoon is a spectacular occurrence in the climate system. What make it so powerful are the combination of thermal contrast between the World s largest landmass (Eurasian continent) and ocean basin (the Indo-Pacific Ocean) and the presence of the World s largest ridge, the Tibetan Plateau. Climatologically, monsoon regions are the most convectively active areas and account for the majority of global atmospheric heat and moisture transport.  Moreover, the economy, culture and rhythms of lif",{"id":96,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":97,"piName":10,"institution":84,"country":85,"year":13,"amount":98,"abstract":99},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227669","Detailed chemical kinetic models for cleaner internal combustion engines","€1,869,450","The key objective of this project is to promote cleaner and more efficient combustion technologies through the development of theoretically grounded and more accurate chemical models. This is motivated by the fact that the current models which have been developed for the combustion of constituents of gasoline, kerosene, and diesel fuels do a reasonable job in predicting auto-ignition and flame propagation parameters, and the formation of the main regulated pollutants. However their success rate ",{"id":101,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":102,"piName":10,"institution":103,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":105,"abstract":106},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227874","Research on Really Reliable and Secure Systems Software","STICHTING VU","NL","€2,448,420","Current operating systems have poor reliability and security. Computers crash regularly whereas other electronic devices such as televisions and mobile phones never crash. Furthermore, practically every week one reads about another security hole in Windows. As computers become more essential for all aspects of society this situation is unacceptable. The goal of my proposed research is to conceive, design, implement, and test an operating system that is as reliable and secure as is humanly possib",{"id":108,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":109,"piName":10,"institution":110,"country":111,"year":13,"amount":112,"abstract":113},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227457","Search for emergent phenomena in oxide nanostructures","UNIVERSITAET GRAZ","AT","€2,026,800","Oxide nanostructures in low dimensions on well-defined metal surfaces form novel hybrid systems with tremendous potential and impact in fundamental research and for the emerging nanotechnologies. The focus of the project is on the fabrication of two-, quasi-one-, and quasi-zero-dimensional oxide nanostructure model systems suitable for elucidation of their emergent properties in terms of structure, electronics, magnetism, and catalytic chemistry. This will be achieved by controlled self-assembly",{"id":115,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":116,"piName":10,"institution":117,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":118,"abstract":119},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227763","Preparation of polyfunctional organometallics: new key intermediates for synthetic organic chemistry","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","€2,061,000","The use of organometallic reagents in the last decades completely changed synthetic organic chemistry. These reactive intermediates made now available new materials with outstanding physical properties, novel drugs with excellent activity spectra, modern highly efficient and ecologically benign agrochemicals. The goal of this work is the development of new synthetic routes and a practical access to polyfunctional organometallic reagents using affordable and non-toxic metals such as Mg, Al, Ti, C",{"id":121,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":122,"piName":10,"institution":123,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":124,"abstract":125},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228304","Equidistribution in number theory","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE","€866,000","The purpose of this proposal is to investigate from various perspectives some equidistribution problems associated with homogeneous spaces of arithmetic type: a typical problem (basically solved) is the distribution of the set of representations of a large integer by an integral quadratic form. Another harder problem is the study of the distribution of special points on Shimura varieties. In a different direction (linked with quantum chaos), the study of the concentration of Laplacian (Maass) ei",{"id":127,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":128,"piName":10,"institution":129,"country":44,"year":13,"amount":130,"abstract":131},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226371","Mass hierarchy and particle physics at the TeV scale","ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE","€1,999,992","The research goal of this proposal is the investigation of the most fundamental aspects of particle physics models and gravity at high energies, and establishing the connection between these findings and experiments. The main fundamental questions that will be addressed are: What is the origin of mass for the mediators of the weak interactions and its connection with the masses of quarks and leptons? Why this mass is hierarchically different from the Planck scale which makes gravity so weak comp",{"id":133,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":134,"piName":10,"institution":135,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":136,"abstract":137},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226628","Thermal, optical and redox processes in molecular conduction junctions","TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY","€842,420","Much of the current intense study of molecular conduction junctions is motivated by their possible technological applications, however this research focuses on fundamental questions associated with the properties and operation of such systems. Junctions based on redox molecules often show non-linear conduction behavior as function of imposed bias. Optical interactions in molecular junctions pertain to junction characterization and control. Issues of heating and thermal stability require a proper",{"id":139,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":140,"piName":10,"institution":135,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":141,"abstract":142},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226718","Discrete Mathematics: methods, challenges and applications","€1,061,300","Discrete Mathematics is a fundamental mathematical discipline as well as an essential component of many mathematical areas, and its study has experienced an impressive growth in recent years. Some of the main reasons for this growth are the broad applications of tools and techniques from extremal and probabilistic combinatorics in the rapid development of theoretical Computer Science, in the spectacular recent results in Additive Number Theory and in the study of basic questions in Information T",{"id":144,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":145,"piName":10,"institution":146,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":147},"cordis-european-research-council-award-230251","Bounded Rationality in Industrial Organization","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","Economists' modern understanding of the functioning of markets is based on the behavioral assumption of individual rationality. Market agents are assumed to hold well-defined preferences and have perfect ability to draw Bayesian inferences in accordance with correct knowledge of the market model and market equilibrium. This research proposal is based on the premise that bounded rationality on the part of consumers is potentially a major source of market friction. My objective is to develop gener",{"id":149,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":150,"piName":10,"institution":151,"country":152,"year":13,"amount":153,"abstract":154},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227674","Quantum Gauge Theories and Ultracold Atoms","FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES","ES","€1,400,000","This is an interdisciplinary proposal which concerns physics of ultracold atoms and quantum information on one side, and high energy and condensed matter physics on the other. The main objectives are: i) to identify experimentally feasible  ultracold atom systems that may serve as quantum simulators of, or exhibit physics  relevant for  some challenging high energy systems and\u002For quantum gauge theories",{"id":156,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":157,"piName":10,"institution":158,"country":111,"year":13,"amount":159,"abstract":160},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227959","Cryogenic Traps for Entanglement Research with Ions","UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK","€2,200,000","Quantum computers offer a fundamentally new way of information processing. Within the scope of this proposal, quantum information processing with an ion trap quantum computer will be investigated. With the new combination of cryogenic technology and ion traps for quantum computing we intend to build a quantum information processor with strings of up to 50 ions and with two-dimensional ion arrays for an investigation of deterministic many-particle entanglement. The cryogenic traps will be applied",{"id":162,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":163,"piName":10,"institution":164,"country":85,"year":13,"amount":165,"abstract":166},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226316","Adaptive Schemes for Deterministic and Stochastic Flow Problems","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE","€1,432,769","The numerical simulation of complex compressible flow problem is still a challenge nowaday even for simple models. In our opinion, the most important hard points that need currently to be tackled and solved is  how to obtain stable, scalable, very  accurate, easy to code and to maintain schemes on complex geometries. The method should easily handle  mesh refinement, even near the boundary where the most interesting engineering quantities have to be evaluated. Unsteady  uncertainties  in the mode",{"id":168,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":169,"piName":10,"institution":164,"country":85,"year":13,"amount":170,"abstract":171},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226513","Foundations of Web Data Management","€2,415,620","We propose to develop a formal model for Web data management. This model will open  new horizons for the development of the Web in a well-principled way, enhancing its functionality, performance, and reliability. Specifically, the goal is to develop a universally accepted formal framework for describing complex and flexible interacting Web applications featuring notably data exchange, sharing, integration, querying and updating. We also propose to develop formal foundations that will enable peer",{"id":173,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":174,"piName":10,"institution":175,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":176,"abstract":177},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227477","Robust Sensor Array Processing","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT","€1,531,628","Sensor array signal processing has emerged a key technology for future radar, wireless communication, sonar, and microphone array systems. Sensor array processing methods are commonly used in multi-sensor systems to estimate signal parameters (such as source directions-of-arrival and waveforms), to extract signals-of-interest received on the background of multiple interferers and sensor noise, and to transmit signals to multiple locations in a spatially selective way.  Current sensor array proce",{"id":179,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":180,"piName":10,"institution":181,"country":182,"year":13,"amount":183,"abstract":184},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226488","Problems at the Applied Mathematics-Statistics Interface","UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK","UK","€1,693,501","Applied mathematics is concerned with developing models with predictive capability, and with probing those models to obtain qualitative and quantitative insight into the phenomena being modelled. Statistics is data-driven and is aimed at the development of methodologies to optimize the information derived from data. The increasing complexity of phenomena that scientists and engineers wish to model, together with our increased ability to gather, store and interrogate data, mean that the subjects ",{"id":186,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":187,"piName":10,"institution":188,"country":104,"year":13,"amount":189,"abstract":190},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226338","eLab4Life: Electr(ochem)ical Labs-on-a-Chip for Life Sciences","UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE","€2,382,442","We propose the development of new electrochemical techniques for health and life sciences applications in Lab-on-a-Chip devices. A Scanning ElectroChemical Microscope (SECM) will be used to study surface properties, such as local consumption and\u002For release of electroactive chemical compounds by (single) cells by electrochemical sensing, new detection methods for proteins using redox cycling, and new separation methods for DNA exploiting nanoscale electrical field gradients. The ability to genera",{"id":192,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":193,"piName":10,"institution":194,"country":182,"year":13,"amount":195,"abstract":196},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228035","New Opportunities in Terahertz Engineering and Science","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","€1,542,600","Over the last 20 years, the study of mesoscopic quantum-confined electronic systems has revealed a wealth of exciting physics. The characteristic energy scale in many important mesoscopic devices such as two-dimensional electron systems, layered semiconductor structures, semiconductor quantum dots, and laterally-confined wires, dots, and other geometries, corresponds to the terahertz (THz) frequency range, which until recently has been difficult to access. Furthermore, invaluable information on ",{"id":198,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":199,"piName":10,"institution":200,"country":182,"year":13,"amount":201,"abstract":202},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227758","Numerical Design of Self Assembly of Complex Colloidal Structures","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€1,863,234","I propose to use computer simulations to predict the thermodynamic stability and kinetics of formation of three-dimensional structures of DNA-linked colloids. I then aim to go beyond simple binary structures and use simulation to explore novel strategies to build multi-component three-dimensional colloidal structures.  At present, the complexity of self-assembled colloidal crystals is limited: ordered structures with more than two distinct components are rare. To make more complex structures, pa",{"id":204,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":205,"piName":10,"institution":200,"country":182,"year":13,"amount":206,"abstract":207},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227781","New Directions in Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials","€2,018,579","The proposed work is in the field of inorganic-organic hybrid materials, focusing mainly on dense rather than nanoporous materials. There are a huge number of opportunities in this area, especially now that is has become relatively straightforward to control the conditions under which dense, often anhydrous phases with excellent thermal stability can be synthesized. The latter have a wide range of interesting properties in terms of optics, magnetism, electronic conductivity, catalysis and so on.",{"id":209,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":210,"piName":10,"institution":211,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":212,"abstract":213},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227639","Hydrothermal and Ionothermal Chemistry For Sustainable Materials (HYDRA-CHEM)","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV","€2,461,600","This proposal aims to develop a novel type of chemistry by using hydrothermal or ionothermal reaction conditions to generate novel materials and polymers in a more sustainable fashion. Hydrothermal and ionothermal carbonization of sugars or crude biomass can lead directly to large scale carbon materials (and therefore to carbon-negative products and measures), and improvement by processing and hybridization with petrochemistry is expected to yield carbon structures with controlled surface chemis",{"id":215,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":216,"piName":10,"institution":217,"country":85,"year":13,"amount":218,"abstract":219},"cordis-european-research-council-award-230244","Islam in the Making of a European Public Sphere","ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES","€1,414,645","During the last three decades, Islam has gained visibility in European public spheres through new religious symbols, but as well as new public figures, men and women, pious and secular who carry Islam in European public life. Islamic entry in the public sphere, and the claims for religious visibility provoke a series of debates on gender equality, freedom of expression and cultural (civilisational) differences in European publics.  EUROPUBLICISLAM sets itself the intellectual research agenda of ",{"id":221,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":222,"piName":10,"institution":223,"country":152,"year":13,"amount":224,"abstract":225},"cordis-european-research-council-award-230246","A Comparative History of the State Building process in Latin America (1820-1870)","UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA","€1,580,000","The challenge that we propose to undertake in this project is to research about the comparative history of the state building process in Latin America by taking its fiscal history as the starting point. Even if the construction of the state in Latin America is initially founded on the sectors of the bureaucracy and the army that were inherited from the colonial period, it undergoes great transformations starting from the Revolution of 1810 and especially during the wars of Independence (1810-182",{"id":227,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":228,"piName":10,"institution":229,"country":182,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":230},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226593","Chemistry of Coordination Space: Extraction, Storage, Activation and Catalysis","THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM","The Applicant has an outstanding record of achievement and an international reputation for independent research across many areas of metal coordination chemistry. This high-impact and challenging Proposal brings together innovative ideas in coordination chemistry within a single inter- and multi-disciplinary project to open up new horizons across molecular and biological sciences, materials science and energy research. The Proposal applies coordination chemistry to the key issues of climate chan",{"id":232,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":233,"piName":10,"institution":234,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":235,"abstract":236},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226135","Expander Graphs in Pure and Applied Mathematics","THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM","€1,082,504","Expander graphs are finite graphs which play a fundamental role in many areas of computer science such as: communication networks, algorithms and more.  Several areas of deep mathematics have been used in order to give explicit constructions of such graphs e.g. Kazhdan property  (T) from representation theory of semisimple Lie groups, Ramanujan conjecture from the theory of automorphic forms and more.  In recent years, computer science has started to pay its debt to mathematics: expander graphs ",{"id":238,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":239,"piName":10,"institution":240,"country":241,"year":13,"amount":242,"abstract":243},"cordis-european-research-council-award-226136","Visualizing Molecular Change","MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University","SE","€2,056,000","What knowledge is needed to characterize function of a biomolecule, molecular material or a chemical reaction mechanism? Structure has long been considered to be the key information and several powerful techniques like X-ray crystallography and multidimensional NMR have been developed, following the notion that  seeing is believing,  to provide equilibrium (static) structures of molecules. At the same time function of a molecular system implies change of structure and in order to characterize an",{"id":245,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":246,"piName":10,"institution":247,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":248,"abstract":249},"cordis-european-research-council-award-230088","How do values influence the functioning of institutions and the effects of policies?","UNIVERSITA COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI","€1,068,000","Many recent contributions by economists have stressed the importance of culture in explaining economic and institutional outcomes. Taking this literature as a point of departure, we study three questions. First, how do values and beliefs influence the functioning of government institutions? We combine recent insights from political economics with the idea that civic values matter through citizens political participation, such as voters behavior and voice activities. Our goal is to lay the founda",{"id":251,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":252,"piName":10,"institution":253,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":254,"abstract":255},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227458","Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA","€1,044,750","The project has two fundamental aims:    A) Open new research horizons exploiting the interplay between Operator Algebras and Conformal Quantum Field Theory.   B) Use Operator Algebraic methods for a deeper understanding of the internal structure of Conformal Quantum Field Theory, with a possible feedback for Operator Algebras.    A) concerns two points in particular:  - Find Noncommutative Geometrical structures associated with certain representations of Conformal Nets of von Neumann algebras a",{"id":257,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":258,"piName":10,"institution":259,"country":241,"year":13,"amount":260,"abstract":261},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227754","Self-Organized Nanostructuring in Functional Thin Film Materials","Linköping University","€2,292,000","I aim to achieve a fundamental understanding of the atomistic kinetic pathways responsible for nanostructure formation and to explore the concept of self-organization by thermodynamic segregation in functional ceramics. 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The perception module also includes vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle",{"id":273,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":274,"piName":10,"institution":275,"country":66,"year":13,"amount":276,"abstract":277},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228029","Nonlinear Micro- and Nano-Photonics: nonlinear optics at the micrometer scale and below","TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY","€2,100,000","We will investigate, experimentally and theoretically, the dynamics of nonlinear optical waves at mesoscopic scales, ranging from several wavelengths (~10 microns) down to the sub-wavelength regime (~0.2 microns). Our studies will cover a variety of optical settings: from various kinds of periodic systems (photonic lattices) with and without disorder, to bulk materials and nano-suspensions. Under proper conditions, light propagating nonlinearly in these systems can display complex nonlinear dyna",{"id":279,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":280,"piName":10,"institution":281,"country":85,"year":13,"amount":282,"abstract":283},"cordis-european-research-council-award-227769","Failure and Fluid Flow in Porous Quasibrittle Materials","UNIVERSITE DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR","€1,490,200","This project focuses on fluid flow in porous materials with evolving microstructure in the context of civil engineering applications and geomechanics. When the distribution of cracks and the distribution of pore size evolve in concrete and rocks, the influence on the permeability in the case of a single or a multiphase fluid flow needs some in depth investigation. A recent review of state of the art in modelling progressive mechanical breakdown and associated fluid flow in heterogeneous rock sho",{"id":285,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":286,"piName":10,"institution":287,"country":288,"year":13,"amount":289,"abstract":290},"cordis-european-research-council-award-228005","Gaps between primes and almost primes. Patterns in primes and almost primes. Approximations to the twin prime and Goldbach conjectures","HUN-REN RENYI ALFRED MATEMATIKAI KUTATOINTEZET","HU","€1,376,400","The twin prime conjecture, that n and n+2 are infinitely often primes simultaneously, is probably the oldest unsolved problem in mathematics. De Polignac (1849) conjectured that for every even value of h, n and n+h are infinitely often primes simultaneously. These are the most basic problems on gaps and patterns in primes. Another one is the  conjecture of Waring (1770), stating that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions (AP) of primes. 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