ERC - MSCA - FET - ERI - E-INFRASTRUCTURES
European Research Council
Starting Grants
| Axscale | |
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Axions and relatives across different mass scales AxScale revolves around the search for QCD axions and Axion-Like-Particles. Two instruments are used for this purpose: The NA62 experiment can be sensitive to a vast mass range of axions and ALPs produced in decays. The RADES project at CAST searches directly for QCD axions as a Dark Matter particle. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Dr Babette Döbrich Full costs of the project: 1.1 M€ EU funding: 1.1 M€ EU funding for CERN: N.A. 1 November 2018 - 30 October 2023 |
| BetaDropNMR | |
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Ultra-sensitive NMR in liquids The nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) is a versatile and powerful tool, especially in chemistry and in biology. However, its limited sensitivity and small amount of suitable probe nuclei pose severe constraints on the systems that may be explored. This project aims at overcoming the above limitations by giving NMR an ultra-high sensitivity and by enlarging the NMR "toolbox" to dozens of nuclei across the periodic table. This will be achieved by applying the β-NMR method to the soft matter samples. The long-term aim is to establish a firm basis for β-NMR in soft matter studies in biology, chemistry and physics.The research will take place at the ISOLDE facility. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Magdalena Kowalska Full costs of the project: 1.7 M€ EU funding: 1.5 M€ EU funding for CERN: 1.5 M€ 1 October 2015 - 30 September 2020 |
| MathAm | |
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Mathematical Structures in Scattering Amplitudes The goal of MathAm is to investigate in detail the relationship between scattering amplitudes, number theory and algebraic geometry, with the final aim of developing novel computational techniques for scattering amplitudes that are beyond reach of conventional state-of-the-art technology. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.3 M€ EU funding: 1.3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 946 k€ 1 September 2015 - 31 August 2020 |
| MIRACLS | |
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An Electrostatic Ion Beam Trap for Ultra-Sensitive Col- linear Laser Spectroscopy of Radionuclides EIBT-LS aims at producing a novel type of ion trap, an Electrostatic Ion Beam Trap in order to benchmark modern theoretical models utilizing 3-body forces in a quest to understand the evolution of nuclear shells. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Stephan Malbrunot Full costs of the project: 1.4 M€ EU funding: 1.4 M€ EU funding for CERN: 1.4 M€ 1 January 2017 - 31 December 2021 |
| nuDirections | |
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New Directions in Theoretical Neutrino Physics Thanks to tremendous advances in terrestrial, astrophysical and cosmological experiments, neutrino physics has again become one of the driving forces of progress in astroparticle physics. nuDirections aims to investigate from a theoretical point of view a multitude of unexplored phenomena within and beyond the Standard Model of particle physics that are now becoming experimentally accessible in new neutrino experiments. The three main pillars of the project are: (1) Light sterile neutrinos; (2) Decoherence effects in dense neutrino gases; (3) Neutrinos and dark matter. The final goal is to develop a new mechanism for the production of sterile neutrino dark matter in the early Universe and to play a leading role in the theory and phenomenology of neutrino signals from dark matter annihilation or decay. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 800 k€ EU funding: 800 k€ EU funding for CERN: 264 k€ 1 September 2015 - 31 August 2020 |
Consolidator Grants
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mPP: machine learning for Particle Physics This project proposes to use modern Machine Learning (ML), particularly Deep Learning (DL), as a breakthrough solution to address the scientific, technological, and financial challenges that High Energy Physics will face in the decade ahead. The project aims to apply cutting-edge ML technologies to HEP problems, paving the way to self-operating detectors, capable of visually inspecting events and identifying the physics process generating them, while monitoring the data, the correct functioning of the detector components and, if any, the occurrence of anomalous events caused by unspecified new physics processes. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.7 M€ EU funding: 1.7 M€ EU funding for CERN: 1.7 M€ 1 April 2018 - 31 March 2023 |
| 4DPHOTON | |
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4DPHOTON: Beyond Light Imaging: High-Rate Single-Photon Detection in Four Dimensions The 4DPHOTON project aims to develop and construct a photon imaging detector with unprecedented performance. The proposed device will be capable of detecting fluxes of single-photons up to one billion photons per second, over areas of several square centimetres, and will measure - for each photon - position and time simultaneously with resolutions better than ten microns and few tens of picoseconds, respectively. |
Coordinator: INFN, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.9 M€ EU funding: 1.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 368 k€ 1 June 2019 - 31 May 2024 |
Advanced Grants
| Neo-Nat | |
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Understanding the mass scales in nature The experimental results of the first run of the Large Hadron Collider led to the discovery of the Higgs boson but have not confirmed the dominant theoretical paradigm about the naturalness of the electro-weak scale, according to which the Higgs boson should have been accompanied by supersymmetric particles or by some other new physics able of protecting the Higgs boson mass from quadratically divergent quantum corrections. This project aims at exploring and developing new non-conventional ideas about the origin of mass scales in nature and in particular of the electroweak scale.
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Coordinator: UniPi, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.8 M€ EU funding: 1.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 1.4 M€ 1 December 2015 - 30 November 2021
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| Panscales | |
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PanScales: Spanning TeV to GeV scales for collider discoveries and measurements The PanScales project will radically transform the way in which parton showers are conceived, by introducing innovative methods that establish the relation with another field of research called resummation, to which the PI has made ground-breaking contributions.The main outcome of the project will be a novel parton shower with accuracies up to an order of magnitude higher than in current approaches. This will be essential for reliably exploiting the information that is present across the full range of energy scales at high-energy colliders.
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Coordinator: UOXF, United Kingdom Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.3 M€ EU funding: 2.3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 566 k€ 1 October 2018 - 30 September 2023
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Proof of Concept Grants
| TWIST | |
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TWIST: TOF PET with Strip SiPMs Using the breakthrough of the Strip Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SSiPM) obtained during the ERC TICAL project; TWIST will build a new type of detector modules for PET scanners that will offer high sensitivity together with precise position and time resolution. The objective of TWIST is to capitalise on this novel SSiPM development to deliver higher resolution PET images with a lower background and as a consequence use a much lower dosage of the injected radio-tracer.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientists in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 150 k€ EU funding: 150 k€ EU funding for CERN: 150 k€ 1 January 2018 - 30 June 2019 COMPLETED
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| ULTIMA | |
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ULTrafast Imaging sensor for Medical Applications The project addresses the challenges of the Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) for functional medical imaging of specific breast cancer biomarkers and contributes to providing safe oncology screening possibilities for larger patient-base. The project will demonstrate the proof of concept of a state-of-the-art nuclear imaging innovation, based on photonic crystals and optimized electronics. It will enable the detection of energy deposition with significantly improved energy and time resolution levels for a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) application.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Paul Lecoq Full costs of the project: 150 k€ EU funding: 150 k€ EU funding for CERN: 150 k€ 1 September 2015 - 28 February 2017 COMPLETED
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
European Researchers' Night (NIGHT)
| POP SCIENCE | |
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Every year, on the last Friday of September, the European Researchers’ Night takes place simultaneously in about 300 cities all over Europe and beyond. POP SCIENCE is the Geneva region programme for European Researchers’ Night 2014, on Friday September 26. With POP SCIENCE, the science investigating the most profound mysteries of our origins and the researchers who contribute to this new knowledge through their passionate work will be brought to the masses. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 968 k€ EU funding: 210 k€ EU funding for CERN: 95 k€ 1 May 2014 - 31 January 2016
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Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
| AMVA4NewPhysics | |
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AMVA4NewPhysics: Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC The project will focus on developing advanced statistical learning techniques to data analyses at the LHC with the objective of maximizing the chance of new physics discoveries. The project will also setup a network of European institutions to foster the development and exploitation of Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis (AMVA) for New Physics searches. The project started on 1 September 2015 and will run for 4 years. |
Coordinator: INFN, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.4 M€ EU funding: 2.4 M€ EU funding for CERN: 596 k€ 1 Sep 2015 - 31 Aug 2019
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| AVA | |
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AVA: Research with low energy antiprotons - a European training network Antiprotons, stored and cooled at low energies in a storage ring or at rest in traps, are highly desirable for the investigation of a large number of basic questions on fundamental interactions, on the static structure of exotic antiprotonic atomic systems or of (radioactive) nuclei as well as on the time-dependent quantum dynamics of correlated systems. Fundamental studies include for example CPT tests by high-resolution spectroscopy of the 1s-2s transition or of the ground-state hyperfine structure of antihydrogen, as well as gravity experiments with antimatter. Antimatter experiments are at the cutting edge of science; they are, however, very difficult to realize and presently limited by the performance of the only existing facility in the world, the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN. Advances are urgently required in the development of numerical tools that can adequately model beam transport, life time and interaction, the development of new beam diagnostics tools and detectors to fully measure the beam’s properties, as well as collaborative R&D into advanced experimental techniques for improved precision and novel experiments. These open challenges are addressed within AVA. This network between universities, research centers and industry partners will realize an interdisciplinary and cross-sector research and training program for a cohort of 15 Fellows which shall provide them with an ideal basis for their future careers. |
Coordinator: UNILIV, United Kingdom Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.8 M€ EU funding: 3.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 400 k€ 1 January 2017 - 31 December 2020
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| CLOUD-MOTION | |
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CLOUD-MOTION: CLOUD Mobility, Training and Innovation Network The aim of CLOUD-MOTION is to establish a network of early stage researchers at 10 institutions across Europe. The role of aerosol nucleation for atmospheric aerosol, clouds and climate is investigated. A focus of the investigations is on a considerably improved understanding of pre-industrial aerosol concentration levels, which are crucial for an assessment of the climate forcing exerted by present-day aerosols. For this, the influence of Extremely Low Volatility Organic Compounds (ELVOCs) together with ions for aerosol nucleation without sulphuric acid is studied (“pre-industrial ELVOC nucleation”). Furthermore, the nucleation and initial growth induced by oxidation products from anthropogenic emissions of organic vapours (“anthropogenic ELVOC nucleation”) is studied, as well as the formation of ice on glassy Secondary Organic Aerosol acting as Ice Nucleating Particles (“glassy SOA as INP”). |
Coordinator: GUF, Germany Scientists in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.9 M€ EU funding: 3.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 530 k€ 1 September 2017 - 31 August 2021 |
| EASITrain | |
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EASITrain: European Advanced Superconductivity Innovation and Training This EU funded research and training program will advance the understanding of the behaviour of superconductors under different operating conditions, will establish innovative production techniques and will improve the cost efficiency of cryogenic refrigeration systems as an enabler for large-scale deployment. The project will establish a training curriculum in superconductivity for qualified experts in Europe who can bring the technology to the market. Together with industry representatives, funding agencies and decision takers at national and international level, the project aims at drawing up an R&D and product development roadmap and assessing its valorisation potentials. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Project Officer (CERN): Johannes Gutleber Full costs of the project: 3.8 M€ EU funding: 3.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 265 k€ 1 October 2017 - 30 September 2021 |
| INSIGHTS | |
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INSIGHTS: Advanced Statistical Methods for Particle Physics INSIGHTS will develop advanced statistical methods and apply them to current research in Particle Physics, and through this, to many areas of society. It will create a cohort of physicists with expertise in modern statistical methods and in doing so will establish collaborations and educational structures that will continue long into the future. The software and tools created to achieve these goals will be made available to researchers in and beyond the field of Particle Physics. |
Coordinator: RHUL, UK Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3 M€ EU funding: 3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 265 k€ 1 September 2017 - 31 August 2021 |
| LISA | |
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LISA: Laser Ionization and Spectroscopy of Actinides LISA aims to train the next generation of atomic, nuclear and laser scientists by conducting research to increase our understanding of the atomic and nuclear properties of the chemical elements known as the actinides. Of long-standing interest to the fields of fundamental atomic and nuclear physics, this effort is an essential prerequisite for unravelling the structure of the superheavy elements at the end of the Mendeleev table. This knowledge is required for the effective production, identification and handling of these elements, and is thus a necessary foundation towards understanding and exploiting the potential for practical applications of the actinides in the fields of medical physics, nuclear applications and environmental monitoring. The project consortium of world-leading experts in radioactive ion beam research and applications, laser spectroscopy, scientific laser technologies (industrial partners) and nuclear and atomic theorists will recruit and train 15 doctoral students. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 4.2 M€ EU funding: 4.2 M€ EU funding for CERN: 562 k€ 1 November 2019 - 31 October 2023 |
| MEDICIS-PROMED | |
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MEDICIS-PROMED MEDICIS-PROMED aims to develop a network of academic, medical and industrial partners providing an extensive doctoral program to 11 ESRs and 4 Swiss-supported ESRs in the field of new personalized treatments using radioisotope beams, notably for treatment of the deadly ovarian cancer, exploiting the newly discovered tumour endothelial marker 1 (TEM1/endosialin) for targeting the cancerous tissues. In this scheme, CERN is the coordinating partner, and collaborates with local hospitals which are able to exploit short-lived isotopes produced in the newly constructed CERN-MEDICIS facility. It fits within an extended network of high-technology companies and leading academic research institutes which will design new components for the development or tests of innovative radiopharmaceuticals and imaging agents for personalized treatment. It brings world-class researchers together in the field of lasers and isotope mass separation, accelerators, material science, oncology, entrepreneurial radiopharmaceutical production, and imaging, to propose new solutions to the 2nd deadliest cancer for women. In addition, the network will benefit from the coaching of the pioneer of personalized PET-imaging aided carbon hadron therapy recently tested in Japan. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.8 M€ EU funding: 2.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 795 k€ 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2018 COMPLETED |
| OMA | |
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OMA - Optimization of Medical Accelerators OMA joins universities, research centers and clinical facilities with industry partners to address the challenges in designing and optimizing cancer treatment facilities using radio therapy, in numerical simulations for the development of advanced treatment schemes, and in beam imaging and treatment monitoring. The proposed R&D program ranges from life sciences (oncology, cell and micro biology and medical imaging), physics and accelerator sciences, mathematics and IT, to engineering and it is hence ideally suited for an innovative training of early stage researchers. |
Coordinator: UNILIV, United Kingdom Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.8 M€ EU funding: 3.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 265 k€ 1 February 2016 - 31 January 2020 |
| RADSAGA | |
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RADSAGA: RADiation and Reliability Challenges for Electronics used in Space, for Aviation, at Ground and at Accelerators RADSAGA brings together industry, universities, laboratories and test-facilities to train young engineers, bachelors & masters in all aspects related to electronics which is exposed to radiation within the four major application areas: Space, Aviation, Ground and Accelerators where a fast moving field of technology development requires a change of paradigm in terms of radiation qualification of critical electronic components and systems. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.9 M€ EU funding: 3.9 M€ EU funding for CERN: 724 k€ 1 March 2017 - 28 February 2021 |
| STREAM | |
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STREAM: Smart Sensor Technologies and Training for Radiation Enhanced Applications and Measurements STREAM is a 4-year multi-site training network that aims at career development of Early Stage Researchers on scientific design, construction manufacturing and of advanced radiation instrumentation. STREAM targets the development of innovative radiation-hard, smart CMOS sensor technologies for scientific and industrial applications. |
Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 3.8 M€ EU funding: 3.8 M€ EU funding for CERN: 707 k€ 1 January 2016 - 31 December 2019 COMPLETED |
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
| EJADE (E-JADE) | |
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E-JADE: Europe – Japan Accelerator Development Exchange Programme E-JADE aims to support staff exchange between European and Japanese institutions (KEK and University of Tokyo) in the area of future accelerators for particle physics. The goal is to progress on the design, R&D and prototyping of the future accelerator facilities, providing results on the timescale of the European Strategy update in 2018-2019 and providing input to the Japanese development projects in this area.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1.6 M€ EU funding: 1.6 M€ EU funding for CERN: 580 k€ 1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2018 COMPLETED
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| INTELUM | |
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INTELUM: International and intersectoral mobility to develop advanced scintillating and Cerenkov fibre based detectors for the future high luminosity large hadron collider Currently, new concepts are being considered for hadron and jet calorimetry in high energy physics experiments, in order to improve the energy resolution of these detectors by a factor of at least two. This is a prerequisite for future studies at the high luminosity, large hadron collider as well as at future electron and proton colliders. Amongst the few concepts being proposed, scintillating and Čerenkov fibres are considered very promising candidates.The INTELUM project will be a 4 year project funding international, industry-academia exchanges to develop micro-pulling-down crystal growth and other new types of fibre technology. This new fibre production technology has the potential to enable fast, low-cost, manufacture of heavy crystal scintillating fibres.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 1 M€ EU funding: 922 k€ EU funding for CERN: 252 k€ 1 March 2015 - 28 February 2019 COMPLETED
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| INTENSE | |
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INTENSE: particle physics experiments at the high intensity frontier, from new physics to spin-offs. A cooperative Europe - United States - Japan effort INTENSE promotes the collaboration among European, US and Japanese researchers involved in the most important particle physics research projects at the high intensity frontier. The observation of neutrino oscillations established a picture consistent with the mixing of three neutrino flavors with three mass eigenstates and small mass differences. Various key parameters of this oscillation measurements provide, if measured with high precision, new physics observables. Experimental anomalies point to the presence of sterile neutrino states participating in the mixing and not coupling to fermions. Lepton mixings and massive neutrinos offer a gateway to deviations from the Standard Model in the lepton sector including Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV). A new generation of modern and large neutrino detectors open new frontiers in the search for proton decay and understanding of the dynamics of super novae explosions. INTENSE also promotes multidisciplinary collaboration through “muography” which uses cosmic-ray muons to image the interior of large targets, including volcanoes, glaciers and archaeological sites.
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Coordinator: University of Pisa, Italy Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project:2.1 M€ EU funding: 2.1 M€ EU funding for CERN: 83 k€ 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2022
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| InvisiblePlus | |
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InvisiblesPlus is addressing the neutrinos and dark matter properties at large, their interfaces and the connections of their particle/antiparticle asymmetries with those of the visible universe. The project, coordinated by the Autonomous University of Madrid, will also complement, continue and extend the knowledge sharing and collaboration of the ITN Invisibles project.
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Coordinator: UAM, Spain Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 2.3 M€ 1 February 2016 - 31 January 2020 |
| MIXMAX | |
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Implementation and application of the new generation of pseudo-random number generators based on Kolmogorov-Anosov K-systems MIXMAX aims to develop and test a new class of pseudorandom number generators, with the strongest mathematical underpinnings coming from the theory of Ergodic systems, for use in Monte-Carlo simulations.
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Coordinator: Demokritos, Greece Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 360 k€ EU funding: 252 k€ EU funding for CERN: 18 k€ 1 January 2015 - 31 December 2018 COMPLETED
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Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
| COFUND-CERN-2014 | |
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COFUND-CERN-2014 This project offers COFUND Fellowships in the form of three-year CERN Fellow appointments, out of which at least two years will be spent at CERN. Mobility of COFUND fellows will be enhanced through the opportunity to spend up to one third of the fellowship in external institutions. Working on frontier research and technology projects and profiting from the unique facilities available at CERN, the Fellows will deepen their knowledge in their own field, acquire international visibility and reputation and ultimately enhance their career prospects.
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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland Scientist in Charge from CERN: Full costs of the project: 6.3 M€ EU funding: 6.3 M€ EU funding for CERN: 6.3 M€ 1 October 2015 - 30 September 2020
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