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hls4ml

hls4ml: High Level Synthesis for Machine Learning

With Deep Learning becoming ubiquitous in our life, running Deep Learning algorithms in real time on an heterogeneous set of hardware platforms is a pressing need in many aspects of our society. While traditional workflows based on standard CPUs and GPUs are established, Deep Learning inference on low-power devices (e.g., cars, smart phones, watches, etc) is gaining more attention. Typically, this would require strong background in electronic engineering to convert a neural network into a Digital Signal Processor. hls4ml proposes to develop a complete open-software library to automatically convert Deep Neural Networks to electronic circuits, using High Level Synthesis tools. With a large basis of potential applications (e.g., autonomous cars, medical devices, portable monitoring devices, custom electronics as in the real-time data processing system of large-scale scientific experiments, etc.), the hls4ml library would assists users by automatising the logic circuit design as well as by reducing resource utilisation while preserving accuracy.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Maurizio Pierini

Full costs of the project: 150 k€

EU funding: 150 k€

EU funding for CERN: 150 k€

1 April 2021 - 30 September 2022

Gamma MRI

Gamma MRI: the future of molecular imaging

Gamma-MRI will develop a clinical molecular imaging device based on the physical principle of anisotropic gamma emission from hyperpolarised metastable xenon. Gamma-MRI is a game-changer imaging technology, combining the high sensitivity of gamma ray detection and the high resolution and flexibility of MRI, bringing down by multiple fold the cost of molecular imaging. Six closely interlinked work packages will cover: production of hyperpolarised gamma-emitting xenon isomers; preserving hyperpolarisation until delivery to targeted organ; developing advanced image acquisition and reconstruction using physics- and artificial intelligence- based approaches; designing and assembling the prototype upon a low field versatile magnet; and implementing the first preclinical Gamma-MRI brain imaging experiment.

Coordinator: HES-SO, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Magdalena Kowalska

Full costs of the project: 3.3 M€

EU funding: 3.3 M€

EU funding for CERN: 243 k€

1 April 2021 - 31 March 2024

NEWS

NEWS: NEw WindowS on the universe and technological advancements from trilateral EU-US-Japan collaboration

NEWS promotes the collaboration between European, US and Japanese research institutions in some key areas of fundamental physics. LIGO and Virgo collaborations have built the largest gravitational wave observatories and exploit the propagation of light and spacetime to detect gravitational waves and probe their sources. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) collaboration operates a gamma-ray telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope mission and has revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray Universe. Fermi is the reference all-sky gamma-ray monitor for the follow-up searches for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources. New-generation space telescopes will measure the polarization of X-rays from the cosmic sources and probe the laws of physics under extreme conditions of gravitational and electromagnetic fields. A complementary approach to probe the Universe is provided by particle accelerators built in laboratories. FNAL will provide the cleanest probes for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The Muon (g-2) experiment will measure the muon anomalous magnetic moment with unprecedented precision. Mu2e will search for the neutrinoless coherent muon conversion to an electron in the Coulomb field of a nucleus, which would be the unambiguous evidence of new, unknown, physics. These endeavors require innovative detectors and cutting-edge technologies that NEWS will develop to open new “windows” in fundamental physics.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Marzio Nessi

Full costs of the project: 1.5 M€

EU funding: 1.5 M€

EU funding for CERN: 54 k€

1 July 2017 - 31 June 2021

I.FAST

I.FAST: Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology

Particle accelerators currently face critical challenges related to the size and performance of future facilities for fundamental research, to the increasing demands coming from accelerators for applied science, and to the growing applications in medicine and industry. The I.FAST project aims to enhance innovation in the particle accelerator community, mapping out and facilitating the development of breakthrough technologies common to multiple accelerator platforms. The project will involve 49 partners, including 17 industrial companies as co-innovation partners, to explore new alternative accelerator concepts and advanced prototyping of key technologies. These include, among others, new accelerator designs and concepts, advanced superconducting technologies for magnets and cavities, techniques to increase brightness of synchrotron light sources, strategies and technologies to improve energy efficiency, and new societal applications of accelerators.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Maurizio Vretenar

Full costs of the project: 18.6 M€

EU funding: 10 M€

EU funding for CERN: 2. 9 M€

1 May 2021 - 30 April 2025

BiCIKL

BiCIKL: Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library

BiCIKL is a proposal that will initiate and build a new European starting community of key research infrastructures, establishing open science practices in the domain of biodiversity through provision of access to data, associated tools and services at (1) each separate stage of, and (2) along the entire research cycle. BiCIKL will provide new methods and workflows for an integrated access to harvesting, liberating, linking, accessing and re-using of sub-article-level data (specimens, material citations, samples, sequences, taxonomic names, taxonomic treatments, figures, tables) extracted from literature. BiCIKL will provide for the first time access and tools for seamless linking and usage tracking of data along the line: specimens → sequences → species → analytics → publications → biodiversity knowledge graph → re-use.

Coordinator: Pensoft

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Jose Gonzales

Full costs of the project: 5 M€

EU funding: 5 M€

EU funding for CERN: 137 k€

1 May 2021 - 30 April 2024

HITRIplus

HITRIplus: Heavy Ion Therapy Research Integration plus

The goal HITRIplus is to integrate and propel biophysics and medical research on cancer treatment with heavy ions beams while jointly developing its sophisticated instruments.
Cancer is a central health problem for our society. Heavy ion beams irradiate tumours by focussing on the ill tissue while sparing the healthy part around, more effectively than any other irradiation treatment. The wider objective of HITRIplus is to provide radiation oncologists with a cutting-edge tool to treat the fraction of tumours that are not curable with X-rays or protons or have better survival rates or lower recurrences with ions.
For this major initiative, HITRIplus has gathered a consortium engaging all relevant stakeholders and for the first time bringing together all four European ion therapy centres with leading EU industries, academia, and research laboratories. A strategic partner is the South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST), which federates eight countries in South East Europe with the ambition to build a next generation heavy ion Research Infrastructure in the area, to boost research and cooperation in a region trying to rebuild after a troubled past.

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Coordinator: CNAO, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Maurizio Vretenar

Full costs of the project: 9 M€

EU funding: 5 M€

EU funding for CERN: 342 k€

1 April 2021 - 31 March 2025

AIDAinnova

AIDAinnova: Advancement and Innovation for Detectors at Accelerators

Discoveries in particle physics are technology-driven; AIDAinnova will provide state-of-the-art upgrades to research infrastructures, such as test beams, in order to unfold the scientific potential of detector technologies. Due to the need for highly specialised detector equipment, often in industrial-scale numbers, the project will involve nine industrial companies, three RTOs (Research and Technology Organisations) and 34 academic institutions in 15 countries, in co-innovation for common detector projects, strengthening the competence and competitiveness of the industrial partners in other markets. The project has a focus on near- and medium-term future projects, as outlined in the European Strategy Update, published in May 2020.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Anne Dabrowski

Full costs of the project: 22.2 M€

EU funding: 10.0 M€

EU funding for CERN: 2.6 M€

1 April 2021 - 31 March 2025

ATTRACT Phase 2

ATTRACT Phase 2: Breakthrough Innovation programme for a pan-European Detection and Imaging Ecoosystem

ATTRACT brings together Europe’s fundamental research institutions and industrial communities to lead the next generation of detection and imaging technologies. During Phase-1, 170 breakthrough ideas received funding and their results were presented at the ATTRACT Conference, held virtually, but based in Brussels. Building up on the success of the previous stage, ATTRACT Phase-2 will fund the most promising technology concepts for scientific, industrial and societal applications, aiming to raise their Technology Readiness Level towards the market. Phase-2 will also scale up its support to young innovators, offering 400 of them (rather than the 100 of Phase-1 ) the opportunity to prototype their solutions based on the technology of ATTRACT-funded projects; deliver a first-of-its-kind socio-economic study of an innovation ecosystem in the making; and undertake serious efforts to address public and private stakeholders in exploring potential models to streamline innovation funding.

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Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Pablo Garcia Tello

Full costs of the project: 35 M€

EU funding: 35 M€

EU funding for CERN: 28.6 M€

1 February 2021 - 31 January 2025

PRISMAP

PRISMAP - The European medical isotope programme: Production of high purity isotopes by mass separation

PRISMAP proposes to federate the key European intense neutron sources, isotope mass separation facilities, and high-power accelerators and cyclotrons, together with leading biomedical research institutes and hospitals active in the translation of the emerging radionuclides into medical diagnosis and treatment. It will create a sustainable source of high purity grade new radionuclides and a single entry-point for a fragmented user community, distributed amongst universities, research centres, industry and hospitals. It is thus striving to create a paradigm shift in the early-phase research on radiopharmaceuticals, targeted drugs for cancer, theranostics, and personalised medicine in Europe, inspired from a similar program, the NIDC, already launched by the Department of Energy in the USA.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Thierry Stora

Full costs of the project: 5 M€

EU funding: 5 M€

EU funding for CERN: 1 M€

1 March 2021 - 28 February 2025

RADNEXT

RADNEXT: RADiation facility Network for the EXploration of effects for indusTry and research

New applications in aerospace, automotive, Internet-of-Things, nuclear dismantling and medicine, among others, require innovative, streamlined and coordinated radiation testing methodologies for state-of-the-art microelectronics. While some exceptions exist, Europe does not count with a coordinated network of cost-effective testing facilities to support innovators, who find it difficult to access facilities and related expertise. The RADNEXT project aims to optimise the access of component engineers, system developers and radiation effects scientists to irradiation facilities, where representative conditions of their final application are reproduced, and that can deliver satisfactory validation for the end-users. This access will be based on a network of facilities, suitable for a very broad range of environments and applications, and with a common entry-point, where users can define, prepare, execute and analyse their irradiation campaigns.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Ruben Garcia Alia

Full costs of the project: 9 M€

EU funding: 5 M€

EU funding for CERN: 850 k€

1 June 2021 - 30 May 2025

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