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advanced Light mIcroscopy for Green cHemisTry (LIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999485.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999485.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Optimization of catalytic materials and hence of chemical processes heavily relies on gaining detailed insight into the complex dynamics underlying the outcome of a catalytic process and using this information in the rational design of improved catalysts. So far, spectroscopic approaches have already contributed importantly; however a strong need for new and improved in situ spectroscopic methods with micro- and nanometer resolution still remains. This project aims to develop advanced light microscopy tools that will significantly contribute to this goal.

Keywords: fluorescence microscopy,super-resolution,electron microscopy,nonlinear optical microscopy,in situ spectroscopy,structure-activity relations in catalysis
Programming Language-Based Security To Rescue (PROSECUTOR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is alarming that the society's critical infrastructures are not fully prepared to meet the challenge of information security. Modern computing systems are increasingly extensible, inter-connected, and mobile. However, exactly these trends make systems more vulnerable to attacks. A particularly exposed infrastructure is the world-wide web infrastructure, where allowing the mere possibility of fetching a web page opens up opportunities for delivering potentially malicious executable content past current security mechanisms such as firewalls. A critical challenge is to secure the computing infrastructures without losing the benefits of the trends. It is our firm belief that attacks will continue succeeding unless a fundamental security solution, one that focuses on the security of the actual applications (code), is devised. To this end, we are convinced that application-level security can be best enforced, *by construction*, at the level of programming languages. ProSecuToR will develop the technology of *programming language-based security* in order to secure computing infrastructures. Language-based security is an innovative approach for enforcing security by construction. The project will deliver policies and enforcement mechanisms for protecting who can see and who can modify sensitive data. Security policies will be expressible by the programmer at the construction phase. We will devise a policy framework capable of expressing fine-grained application-level security policies. We will build practical enforcement mechanisms to enforce the policies for expressive languages. Enforcement mechanisms will be fully automatic, preventing dangerous programs from executing whenever there is a possibility of compromising desired security properties. The practicality will be demonstrated by building robust web applications. ProSecuToR is expected to lead to breakthroughs in *securing web mashups* and *end-to-end web application security*.

Keywords: security by construction,end-to-end security,language-based security,information flow
Dynamics and Thermodynamics in Mixed Dimensions (THERMODYNAMIX)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1482000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1482000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In ThermoDynamix, we explore experimentally and theoretically the physics of ultracold mixtures of particles evolving in a different number of dimensions. We will realize experimentally a mixed-dimensional system by laser trapping an ultracold mixture of fermionic 6Li and 40K atoms. By tuning the wavelength of the trapping laser, we will create a potential that will almost not affect Lithium, and at the same time will confine strongly the Potassium atoms in one, two or three dimensions to freeze their motion along these directions. Experimental investigations will be supplemented by a comprehensive theoretical study of the system, using both analytical and numerical tools, in particular Diagrammatic Quantum Monte-Carlo simulations.

Keywords: ultracold fermi gases,quantum simulation of condensed matter: low dimensional systems
Smart Building Networks (BUILDNET)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1460232.0
EU funding (EUR): 1460232.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Smart Building Networks (BuildNet) program will develop optimizing controllers capable of coordinating the flow of power to and from large networks of smart buildings in order to offer critical services to the power grid. The network will make use of the thermal storage of the structures and on-site micro generation capabilities of next-generation buildings, as well as the electrical capacity of attached electric vehicles in order to intelligently control the interaction between the network of buildings and the grid. The wide range of electric utility applications, such as wind capacity firming or congestion relief, that will be possible as a result of this coordinated control will in turn allow a significant increase in the percentage of European power generated from destabilizing renewable sources. Technologically, BuildNet will be built around optimization-based or model predictive control (MPC), a paradigm that is ideally suited to the task of incorporating the current network state and forward-looking information into an optimal decision-making process. The project team will develop novel distributed MPC controllers that utilize the flexibility in the consumption, storage and generation of a distributed network of buildings by exploiting the extensive experience of the PI in optimization-based control and MPC for energy efficient buildings. Because of its theoretically grounded optimization-based control approach, holistic view of building systems and connected networks, as well as a future-looking technological scope, BuildNet's outputs will deliver impact and be relevant to researchers and practitioners alike.

Keywords: smart grids,building control,model predictive control
Investigation of Bird Strike criteria for Natural Laminar Flow wings (BIRDSTRIKE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Greece,Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2011-03, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 799120.0
EU funding (EUR): 599340.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The BirdStrike project aims to establish a validated bird strike analysis capability, which enables the SFWA partners to simulate bird impact on a CFRP leading edge for a NLF wing. This will be achieved by setting up a combined program of test and analysis to determine the extent of damage and criteria to be applied to analyses of leading edge panels for NLF wings. The main scientific and technical work comprises six main research objectives in agreement to the present Call for Proposals (CfP) topic: 1) Analysis of bird strikes on flat and representative curved panels at various angles of impact, using an existing bird impact model that will be provided by the SFWA Partners. 2) Design and analysis of a supporting frame for bird-strike impact tests on flat and representative curved panels. 3) Manufacturing of an agreed number of flat and representative curved panels that include supporting stringers, sparcaps or other structural features. 4) Completion of impact tests at various angles. 5) Validation of analyses and numerical models. 6) Delivery of a tool that can predict the extent of damage in a representative Composite LE geometry.

Keywords: bird strike,numerical simulation,wing leading edge,natural laminar flow,carbon fiber reinforced polymer
Improvement of numerical models for JTI/GRA Shared Simulation Environment (ISSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2011-03, 2011)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149940.0
EU funding (EUR): 112455.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project iSSE aims at developing a Shared Simulation Environment (SSE) able to simulate the static and dynamic performance of on-board aircraft systems with particular focus on electrical power absorption and thermal energy production. The SSE thereby has to be designed and implemented as a comprehensive solution that provides means to master all essential aspects of the dimensioning for the energy management properties. Given the novelty in the concept of an AEA and the fact that no ready-to-use market solution for a SSE is available, the research need is evident. The final scope is to permit the testing and the validation of the logics used by the Energy Management System (EMS), as well as the simulation of the A/C internal environmental condition.

Keywords: co-simulation,simulation environment,energy managment system,all electrical aircraft
Nose Fuselage/Cockpit Dynamic Characterization for Internal Noise Attenuation (DYNAPIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2011-03, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-03
End date: 2013-05-02
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199839.22
EU funding (EUR): 149879.41
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The research work described in this proposal shall involve detailed simulation of the acoustic performance of CFRP nose fuselage design, and a comparative analysis of a conventional metallic design. The physical properties of CFRP structural components gives a different vibroacoustic response compared to metallic structures. In particular the low material damping and reduced number of mechanical joints made possible by CFRP technologies can give rise to higher noise levels in the cockpit. The work envisaged here shall be conducted by using the software package VA One, which is capable of simulating the response of vibroacoustic systems across the full frequency range. In this project AOES proposes to use the FEF/FEM and FEM/BEM capabilities of VA One. AOES already possesses a license for the VAOne software and has engineers trained in its use. It is expected that the acoustic noise assessment conducted in this project will form input to the Topic Manager and/or ITD leader for improving the design of the fuselage nose and cockpit for superior acoustic performance.

Keywords: nose fuselage,internal noise attenuation,acoustic noise assessment
Tunable light tightly bound to a single sheet of carbon atoms: graphene as a novel platform for nano-optoelectronics (CARBONLIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1466000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1466000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of carbon, has attracted enormous attention in diverse areas of applied and fundamental physics. Due to its unique crystal structure, charge carriers have an effective mass of zero and a very high mobility, even at room temperature. While graphene-based devices have an enormous potential for high-speed electronics, graphene has recently been recognized as a photonic material for novel optoelectronic applications. Interestingly, graphene is also a promising host material for light that is confined to nanoscale dimensions, more than 100 times below the diffraction limit. Due to its ultra-small thickness and extremely high purity, graphene can support strongly confined propagating light fields coupled to the charge carriers in the material: surface plasmons. The properties of these plasmons are controllable by electrostatic gates, holding promise for in-situ tunability of light-matter interactions at a length scale far below the wavelength. This project will experimentally investigate the new and virtually unexplored field of graphene surface plasmonics, and combine this with other appealing properties of graphene to demonstrate the unique potential of carbon-based nano-optoelectronics. The aim is to explore the limits of unprecedented light concentration, manipulation and detection at the nanoscale, to dramatically intensify nonlinear interactions between photons towards the quantum regime, and to reveal the subtle effects of cavity quantum electrodynamics on graphene-emitter systems. This research will reveal the far-reaching potential of a single sheet of carbon atoms as a host for light and electrons at the nanoscale, with prospects for novel nanoscale optical circuits and detectors, nano-optomechanical systems and tunable artificial quantum emitters.

Keywords: graphene surface plasmons nano-optics
Cosmic Dawn – The Emergence of Black Holes and Galaxies in the Universe (COSMIC_DAWN)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Universe sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1439000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1439000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Studying quasars (actively accreting supermassive black holes) and galaxies at the earliest cosmic epochs is one of the prime objectives in modern astrophysics. How the first luminous sources formed and reionized the universe is one of the most fundamental open questions in cosmology. Likewise, a detailed characterization of the evolution of the cosmic molecular gas density, which lies at the heart of galaxy evolution, is a fundamental goal in observational astrophysics. The proposed program capitalizes on current and upcoming facilities and encompasses three aspects: The first (I) will use the recently started Pan-STARRS1 survey to identify a sizeable sample of z>7 quasars, i.e. when the universe was less than 0.8 Gyr old (<1/15th of today’s age), to statistically probe black hole growth in the Epoch of Reionization. The second project (II) will characterize the physical properties of z~6 and z~7 quasar hosts selected from project (I) and the SDSS / VISTA VIKING surveys using new observational NIR/(sub)millimeter capabilities, including ALMA (observations approved in cycle 0). The last project (III) will use the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer, and ALMA, to embark on the first molecular deep field which will provide a complete ‘blind’ census of the molecular gas density through cosmic times (from z~1 to z~8, approved pilot program). The overarching goal of this ERC proposal is thus to greatly increase our understanding of the physical properties of the earliest massive objects in the universe, and to shed first light on the evolution of the cosmic molecular gas density in galaxies after the universe emerged from the cosmic ‘dark ages’. The PI is internationally recognized as a leader in molecular gas studies of high-redshift galaxies, and through his track record and access to the needed combination of research facilities, is uniquely positioned to successfully lead this program.

Keywords: epoch of reionization molecular gas in high-redshift galaxies
Efficient Cryptographic Arguments and Proofs (ECAP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1346074.0
EU funding (EUR): 1346074.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Privacy and verifiability are fundamental security goals that often conflict with each other. In elections we want to verify that the final tally is correct without violating the voters’ privacy; companies are audited but do not want financial statements to disclose the details of their business strategies; people identifying themselves do not want their personal information to be abused in identity theft, etc. Zero-knowledge proofs allow the verification of facts with minimal privacy loss. More precisely, a zero-knowledge proof is a protocol that allows a prover to convince a verifier about the truth of a statement in a manner that does not disclose any other information. The ability to combine verification and privacy makes zero-knowledge proofs extremely useful; they are used in numerous cryptographic protocols. The purpose of this proposal is to establish a research group dedicated to the study of zero-knowledge proofs. A main focus of the group will be to improve efficiency. Zero-knowledge proofs can be very complex and in many security applications the zero-knowledge proofs are the main performance bottleneck. This leads to a significant cost in terms of time and money; or if the cost is too high it may force users to use insecure schemes without zero-knowledge proofs. Our vision will be to reduce the cost of zero-knowledge proofs so much that instead of being expensive protocols components they become so cheap that their cost is insignificant compared to other protocol components. This will make existing cryptographic protocols that rely on zero-knowledge proofs faster and also broaden the range of security applications where zero-knowledge proofs can be used.

Keywords: cryptography,zero-knowledge proofs,efficiency
GAUGE-STRING DUALITY AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHYSICS (GAUGE-STRING DUALITY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1461074.0
EU funding (EUR): 1461074.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal is to study non-equilibrium states of strongly correlated quantum systems relevant for heavy ion and condensed matter physics by using existing and developing new methods of gauge-string duality (also know as holography or AdS/CFT correspondence). The gauge-string duality is a set of non-perturbative tools developed within string theory over the last fourteen years. These methods can be used independently of the final status of the string theory itself. Strongly coupled model systems at finite temperature and density are of great interest for they appear in many areas of physics including physics of heavy ion collisions and physics of trapped cold atoms. Gauge-string duality methods already proved very useful in supplying information about transport properties such as viscosity and spectral functions of thermal quantum field theories at strong coupling. Specific goals of the proposal are divided into two sets, one including open problems in non-equilibrium systems accessible for study by the existing gauge/string duality techniques, and another involving more challenging problems requiring new holographic approaches. Problems of the first set include generalizing existing models of thermalization and isotropization, constructing simple model(s) describing the initial state of the quark-gluon plasma, exploring gravity backgrounds obtained by self-consistent top-down approach, studying theories with dual gravity backgrounds including full back-reaction. Problems of the second set involve holographic approach to turbulence and plasma instabilities, building holographic formalism for highly nonequilibrium processes and studying possible connection between holography and emergent gravity.

Keywords: string theory,ads/cft correspondence,holographic duality
Ultrafast Dynamic Imaging of Complex Molecules (UDYNI)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1483967.0
EU funding (EUR): 1483967.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

High order harmonics are generated when molecules are ionized by an intense femtosecond laser pulse. The freed electron is accelerated in the external driving electric field and, because of the periodic oscillation of this field, is brought back to the parent ion, where it can recombine and give rise to the emission of an XUV photon. This XUV harmonic radiation has been shown to contain information on the electronic structure of the molecule, which can be interpreted as a picture of the molecular orbital. The idea of exploiting high order harmonic generation (HHG) for the tomographic reconstruction of the electronic structure in molecules was first introduced in 2004 for nitrogen molecules. Up to now, despite several attempts, a successful investigation of the molecular structure by HHG was still lacking for molecules more complex than N2. Recently I demonstrated a new experimental and theoretical approach for extending the imaging of molecular orbitals to a triatomic molecule. However, the real breakthrough in molecular imaging, namely the achievement of a time-resolved tomography providing a movie of the wavefunction of molecules while undergoing structural changes, has not yet been attempted. The goal of this project is to develop time-resolved HHG tomography for real-time imaging of evolving electronic structure in complex molecules undergoing electronic or vibrational excitation. The key idea of UDynI is to use a mid-IR (1.3-1.8 µm) few-cycle laser source to drive the harmonic generation process. This will allow tackling the limitations that prevented up to now the realization of time-resolved tomography of complex molecules during molecular rearrangement. I will mainly consider organic molecules, such as hydrocarbons, hydrocarbons with functional groups and aromatic hydrocarbons, which are interesting precursors for the study of biological functions.

Keywords: high order harmonic generation,molecular tomography