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Strategic Predictions for Quantum Field Theories (preQFT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1299958.26
EU funding (EUR): 1299958.26
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ambitious Questions: * How does the relatively calm macroscopic universe survive and emerge from the violent quantum fluctuations of its underlying microphysics? * How do classical notions of space and time emerge from fundamental principles, and what governs their evolution? These questions are difficult to answer---perhaps impossible given current ideas and frameworks---but I believe a strategic path forward is to thoroughly understand the quantum predictions of our Yang-Mills and Gravity theories, and unambiguously identify their non-perturbative UV completions. The first step forward, and the goal of this project, is to move towards the trivialization of perturbative calculations. Consider the notion of failure-point calculations -- calculations that push modern methods and world-class technologies to their breaking-point. Such calculations, for their very success, engender the chance of cultivating and exploiting previously unappreciated structure. In doing so, such calculations advance the state of the art forward to some degree, dependent on the class of the problems and nature of the solution. With scattering amplitude calculations, we battle against (naive) combinatorial complexity as we go either higher in order of quantum correction ( loop order ), or higher in number of external particles scattering (multiplicity), so our advances must be revolutionary to lift us forward. Yet I and others have shown that the very complications of generalized gauge freedom promise a potential salvation at least as powerful as the complications that confront us. The potential reward is enormous, a rewriting of perturbative quantum field theory to make these principles manifest and calculation natural, an ambitious but now realistic goal. The path forward is optimized through strategic calculations.

Keywords: scattering amplitudes
Smart Ambulance: European Procurers Platform (SAEPP) (SAEPP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Finland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 443600.0
EU funding (EUR): 443600.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to create and collate a consensus of agreement from Ambulance Users and Procurers on the core technology-centric features which, if correctly integrated into a suitably re-designed ambulance, would allow them to demonstrate, evaluate and deliver new models of in-community healthcare delivery, with the primary objective of avoiding unnecessary hospital attendances (& thus admissions) and the associated patient distress and hospital costs. Such a consensus would form the basis of a future PCP for the envisaged vehicle, and such a PCP Specification is in fact an output of this proposed work.

Keywords: healthcare ambulance innovation technology patient care ict
Homogeneous Structures, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, and Topological Clones (CSP-Infinity)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1416250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1416250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The complexity of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) is a field in rapid development, and involves central questions in graph homomorphisms, finite model theory, reasoning in artificial intelligence, and, last but not least, universal algebra. In previous work, it was shown that a substantial part of the results and tools for the study of the computational complexity of CSPs can be generalised to infinite domains when the constraints are definable over a homogeneous structure. There are many computational problems, in particular in temporal and spatial reasoning, that can be modelled in this way, but not over finite domains. Also in finite model theory and descriptive complexity, CSPs over infinite domains arise systematically as problems in monotone fragments of existential second-order logic. In this project, we will advance in three directions: (a) Further develop the universal-algebraic approach for CSPs over homogeneous structures. E.g., provide evidence for a universal-algebraic tractability conjecture for such CSPs. (b) Apply the universal-algebraic approach. In particular, classify the complexity of all problems in guarded monotone SNP, a logic discovered independently in finite model theory and ontology-based data-access. (c) Investigate the complexity of CSPs over those infinite domains that are most relevant in computer science, namely the integers, the rationals, and the reals. Can we adapt the universal-algebraic approach to this setting?

Keywords: constraint satisfaction,complexity theory,universal algebra,model theory,homogeneous structures,ramsey theory,infinite permutation groups
Metabolomics based biomarkers of dietary intake- new tools for nutrition research (A-DIET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2021-07-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1995548.0
EU funding (EUR): 1995548.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In todays advanced technological world, we can track the exact movement of individuals, analyse their genetic makeup and predict predisposition to certain diseases. However, we are unable to accurately assess an individual’s dietary intake. This is without a doubt one of the main stumbling blocks in assessing the link between diet and disease/health. The present proposal (A-DIET) will address this issue with the overarching objective to develop novel strategies for assessment of dietary intake. Using approaches to (1) identify biomarkers of specific foods (2) classify people into dietary patterns (nutritypes) and (3) develop a tool for integration of dietary and biomarker data, A-DIET has the potential to dramatically enhance our ability to accurately assess dietary intake. The ultimate output from A-DIET will be a dietary assessment tool which can be used to obtain an accurate assessment of dietary intake by combining dietary and biomarker data which in turn will allow investigations into relationships between diet, health and disease. New biomarkers of specific foods will be identified and validated using intervention studies and metabolomic analyses. Methods will be developed to classify individuals into dietary patterns based on biomarker/metabolomic profiles thus demonstrating the novel concept of nutritypes. Strategies for integration of dietary and biomarker data will be developed and translated into a tool that will be made available to the wider scientific community. Advances made in A-DIET will enable nutrition epidemiologist’s to properly examine the relationship between diet and disease and develop clear public health messages with regard to diet and health. Additionally results from A-DIET will allow researchers to accurately assess people’s diet and implement health promotion strategies and enable dieticians in a clinical environment to assess compliance to therapeutic diets such as adherence to a high fibre diet or a gluten free diet.

Keywords: dietary biomarkers,nutritional metabolomics,human nutrition
Forward Trigger for the CMS phase-2 (FORT2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The LHC will undergo a major upgrade in 2025 to increase its luminosity (Phase-II). The main challenges for the CMS experiment during the Phase-II are detector radiation damage and the pileup coming from the high instantaneous luminosity. Under these challenging conditions to maintain its excellent performance the CMS collaboration will perform an upgrade program of the detector. One of the main elements of this upgrade is the replacement of the endcap calorimeters with a new High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCal). The first critical step of the upgrade is the R&D status approval, to be completed by end 2017. I propose the development and construction of an innovative trigger system that will be integrated in the HGCal. The goal is to have a trigger system able to maintain the overall physics acceptance under the challenging Phase-II conditions but retaining an outstanding efficiency in selecting physics events, specially regarding rare signals. Thanks to the characteristics of the HGCal the trigger system will be able to use informations on the growth and angle of electromagnetic showers, and to apply the methods of particle flow to optimize the jet energy resolution, allowing a more efficient and accurate event selection. One of the physics channels that will profit from this new trigger system will be the measurement of the Higgs boson self-coupling in Vector-Boson-Fusion events. Such process is extremely rare in the Standard Model of particle physics, but it can be enhanced by the presence of Supersymmetric particles or New Physics phenomena. Thus, the Higgs boson self-coupling is a very sensitive observable, and it is of the utmost importance to measure it during the LHC Phase-II. To quantify the improvements in physics performances due to the new HGCal trigger system, I will present the first feasibility study of this channel and design the analysis strategy to perform the measurement. The algorithmic strategies for VBF will be tested on the 2016 CMS data taking

Keywords: experimental high energy physics,higgs boson
Automatic Neurovascular Image Analysis and Quantification (ANIMATION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Clinical research for the validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

NICo-Lab is a spin-off company from the departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering and Physics of the Academic Medical Centre (AMC) in Amsterdam. They have developed a toolbox that consists of tailored algorithms to analyse and quantify different aspects of neurovascular medical images of patients that suffered from acute strokes. The toolbox can be applied in two ways; 1) as a service to clinical trials to support management, analysis and quantification of images therein and 2) as a decision support system for clinicians (neuro-radiologists, neuro-surgeons and neurologists) that treat acute stroke patients. Nico-Lab has established proof-of-concept for the first application by supporting a clinical trial (MR CLEAN). Quantitative analysis of 500 images demonstrated the benefits of intra-arterial (vs. intravenous) treatment of these patients. The main objectives of this SME Phase I project are to investigate the commercial feasibility of the second application as decision support system for clinicians. Radiological images are an important tool for clinicians to make treatment decisions for acute stroke patients. The NICo-Lab toolbox can support this decision through delivering fast and accurate analysis and quantification of the images to the clinicians. The field of acute strokes has seen many developments in treatment strategies in the last year, further underscoring the need for decision support systems such as the NICo-Lab toolbox.

Keywords: medical imaging analysis ct,x ray etc,advanced signal processing,clinical neurinformatics,neurobiology and machine learning
Physico-Chemistry of Carbonaceous Aerosol Pollution in Evolving Cities (CARB-City)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1727008.75
EU funding (EUR): 1727008.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Carbonaceous aerosols (organic and black carbon) remain a major unresolved issue in atmospheric science, especially in urban centers, where they are one of the dominant aerosol constituents and among most toxic to human health. The challenge is twofold: first, our understanding of the sources, sinks and physico-chemical properties of the complex mixture of carbonaceous species is still incomplete; and second, the representation of urban heterogeneities in air quality models is inadequate as they are designed for regional applications. The CARB-City project proposes the development of an innovative modeling framework that will address both issues by combining molecular-level chemical constraints and city-scale modeling to achieve the following objectives: (WP1) to develop and apply new chemical parameterizations, constrained by an explicit chemical model, for carbonaceous aerosol formation from urban precursors, and (WP2) to examine whether urban heterogeneities in sources and mixing can enhance non-linearities in chemistry of carbonaceous compounds and modify their predicted composition. The new modeling framework will then be applied (WP3) to quantify the contribution of traditional and emerging urban aerosol precursor sources to chemistry and toxicity of carbonaceous aerosols; and (WP4) to assess the effectiveness of greener-city strategies in removing aerosol pollutants. This work will enhance fundamental scientific understanding as to how key physico-chemical processes control the lifecycle of carbonaceous aerosols in cities, and will improve the predictability of air quality models in terms of composition and toxicity of urban aerosols, and their sensitivity to changes in energy and land use that cities are currently experiencing. The modeling framework will have the required chemical and spatial resolution for assessing human exposure to urban aerosols. This will allow policy makers to optimize urban emission reductions and sustainable urban development.

Keywords: atmospheric aerosols
The world’s first collaborative professional 3D design tool (Project Orchestra)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3444375.0
EU funding (EUR): 2411062.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Gravity Sketch plans to build the world’s first collaborative 3D design tool for professional designers in which cross-functional teams can work together in real-time. Project Orchestra will build a platform accessible through VR, laptops, tablets and phones, allowing teams of designers, managers, engineers, and marketers to create and collaborate together on the same design in real-time, and then export directly to industry-standard computer-aided design (CAD) software for further refinement. This reduces the 2D stage of the design process, along with the manual translation to CAD, and drives significant cost savings in design-intensive industries by providing up to 90pct efficiency savings in workflows. Orchestra targets the needs of the transportation, industrial, and consumer product design industries, along with the very large film and computer games markets. Building a software platform to achieve real-time creation and collaboration requires a vast technical leap from anything now available in the market, because the challenge of manipulating and rendering 3D data in real-time becomes exponentially larger with each additional participant. But the global market for such a tool is multi-billion-Euros in size and the challenge is solvable by leveraging Gravity Sketch's proprietary technical know-how. We already have as clients design teams from some of the largest automotive manufacturers in the world, and over 20,000 professional SME and freelance customers. Project Orchestra expands this footprint to transportation as a whole, architecture, consumer products, footwear, and to large film and game studios. At the same time, it expands the target user base from designers to all stakeholders involved in the design process. Gravity Sketch has a multinational team of industrial design experts, advanced mathematicians, software engineers with multi-player games backgrounds, and business managers with deep venture capital and startup experience

Keywords: 3d design,virtual reality,co creation
Migration as Development (MADE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1748656.25
EU funding (EUR): 1748656.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

How do processes of development and social transformation shape human migration? More specifically, how do development process affect the geographical orientation, timing, composition and volume of both internal and international migration? The relation between development and human mobility is highly contested. While economic development in poor countries and areas is usually seen as the most effective way to reduce migration, other studies suggest that development actually increases migration. However, evidence has remained highly inconclusive so far because of theoretical and methodological limitations. This research develops new theoretical and empirical approaches to gain a fundamental understanding of the relation between development processes and human migration. While prior analyses focused on a limited number of economic and demographic ‘predictor’ variables, this project applies a broader concept of development to examine how internal and international migration trends and patterns are shaped by wider social, economic, technological and political transformations. This will be achieved through (i) theory-building (reconceptualising migration as an intrinsic part of broader development processes) enabling the formulation of appropriate hypotheses; (ii) quantitative tests drawing on new, innovative databases on international and internal migration flow and stocks; and (iii) mixed method case-studies of six countries (provisionally Brazil, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Italy, Morocco and the Netherlands) representing different development-migration trajectories over the 19th and 20th centuries. This project is scientifically ground-breaking by fundamentally shifting our understanding of how long-term development and social transformation processes shape human migration. This is also relevant for policy by challenging popular understandings of migration as a development failure and to make more realistic assessments of how future global change may affect migration.

Keywords: international migration,internal migration,mobility,development,social transformation,migration theory
Traces of research (TRACES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Finland,Finland,Finland,Finland,Finland
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 309975.0
EU funding (EUR): 309975.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

TRACES is a nationally extensive project, aiming to foster visibility of multidisciplinary science and its results, as well as interaction and collaboration between the public and researchers in Finland. The ultimate aim is to enhance involvement and evidence-based impact of research in the society in order to improve our everyday life in a rapidly changing world. Grounded on successful earlier nation-wide NIGHT-collaboration in 2016-2017, this project brings together several universities, research institutes, research funding agencies, and expert organisations for science communication. It spans many facets of research and covers numerous individual researchers with diverse backgrounds and research topics. We will deliver a message of cutting edThe project aims to foster collaboration between the public and researchers in Finland in order to improve our everyday life in a rapidly changing world. This project brings together several universities, research institutes and expert organisations for science communication. It spans many facets of research in Finland and covers numerous individual researchers with diverse backgrounds and research topics. We will deliver a message of cutting edge research conducted in Finland and introduce the general public with the large number of researchers and the significant work they perform. We want to break stereotypes the general public may have on researchers. The programme for activities during the night will include content for everyone, from children to seniors. However, the specific aim is to promote research careers especially to high school and university students, and young people in general who are about to make their first real career choice. Our message is that high education is fun and could provide them with a secured future. Many Finnish universities and organisations have united for a widespread European Researchers’ Night and will simultaneously perform activities targeted for the general public around the country.

Keywords: research in finland,science communication,traces,multidisciplinary,national,science,arts