Projet EDUCADO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The formation and evolution of massive galaxies is reasonably well understood in the context of the successful standard ΛCDM formalism. Such simulations of cosmic evolution, however, lead to serious challenges in the regime of the very faint galaxies, including the problems referred to as missing satellites, too big to fail, and planes of satellite galaxies. With the massive amounts of excellent data being produced by astronomical surveys, and with new missions scheduled to produce more data of even better quality, we have a unique chance to solve these problems. To do this, we require innovative developments in information technology. In EDUCADO (Exploring the Deep Universe by Computational Analysis of Data from Observations), an intensive collaboration at the intersection of astronomy and computer science, we bring together experts from different disciplines and sectors. We will train 10 Doctoral Candidates in the development of a variety of high-quality methods, needed to address the formation of the faintest structures. We will reliably and reproducibly detect unprecedented numbers of the faintest observable galaxies from new large-area surveys. We will study the morphology, populations, and distribution of large samples of various classes of dwarf galaxies and compare dwarf galaxy populations and properties across different environments. We will confront the results with cosmological models of galaxy formation and evolution. Finally, we will perform detailed, principled, and robust simulations and observations of the Milky Way and the Local Group to compare with dwarf galaxies in other environments. EDUCADO will deliver a comprehensive interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and international training programme including a secondment at one of our 11 associated partners for each DC. We will provide a fresh and sustainable way of training PhD scientists with interdisciplinary and intersectoral data science expertise, a requisite for future European competitiveness.

Mots clés : computational intelligence galaxy classification big data learning with privileged data probabilistic modeling image analysis mathematical morphology milky way structure visualisation

Participants :
- Vicomtech (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut d'astrophysique des Canaries (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 503942.4 €
- Université de La Laguna (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Spheer ai b.v. (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Padoue (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Dirac institute (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Naples - Frédéric-II (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 259437.6 €
- Université de New York (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Groningue (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 548740.8 €
- Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 260539.2 €
- Université de Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Italian Aerospace Research Centre (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Gand (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 262620.0 €
- Adcis (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Gustave Eiffel (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 282693.6 €
- Avs added value industrial engineering solutions slu (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- National Institute for Astrophysics (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 259437.6 €
- Université de Barcelone (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251971.2 €