Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Symplectic topology and its interactions: from dynamics to quantization (SYMPTOPODYNQUANT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2013-ADG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1787200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1787200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research belongs to symplectic topology, a rapidly developing field of mathematics which originally appeared as a geometric tool for problems of classical mechanics. Since the 1980ies, new powerful methods such as theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves, Morse-Floer theory on loop spaces, symplectic field theory and mirror symmetry changed the face of the field and put it at the crossroads of several mathematical disciplines. In this proposal I develop function theory on symplectic manifolds, a recently emerged subject providing new tools and an alternative intuition in the field. With these tools, I explore footprints of symplectic rigidity in quantum mechanics, a brand new playground for applications of ``hard" symplectic methods. This enterprise should bring novel insights into both fields. Other proposed applications of function theory on symplectic manifolds include Hamiltonian dynamics and Lagrangian knots. Function theory on symplectic manifolds is fruitfully interacting with geometry and algebra of groups of symplectic and contact transformations, which form another objective of this proposal. I focus on distortion of cyclic subgroups, quasi-morphisms and restrictions on finitely generated subgroups including the symplectic and contact versions of the Zimmer program. In the contact case, this subject is making nowadays its very first steps and is essentially unexplored. The progress in this direction will shed new light on the structure of these transformation groups playing a fundamental role in geometry, topology and dynamics.

Keywords: symplectic geometry and topology,contact geometry and topology,hamiltonian dynamics,floer theory,hofer geometry,berezin-toeplitz quantization,quasimorphisms,zimmer program
Statistical models for musical signal processing (STAMUS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF, 2012)
Start date: 2014-03-15
End date: 2017-03-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187034.55
EU funding (EUR): 187034.55
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project lies in the interdisciplinary field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). The objective of the project is the development of innovative technologies for enabling access to the immense amount of audio music collections that are available on the Web. Bringing together efforts from speech and signal processing, statistical modeling, musicology and machine learning, we seek to build efficient models that allow the automatic extraction of musical content information from audio signals. We will develop innovative statistical approaches capable of processing information on multiple semantic levels. We will develop a fully-probabilistic model that consists of a single, multi-faceted hierarchical musical structure that is jointly estimated from the music, and that is capable of directly describing the epistemic uncertainty that arises from the effects of the adverse environment in audio music. Concepts from the missing feature theory, which have been applied in robust automatic speech recognition technology, will be integrated to improve the robustness of the MIR algorithms. The objectives and methodologies match the interdisciplinary research profile of the experienced researcher. The high degree of expertise of the two host organizations, both in MIR and Signal and Speech Processing, makes this ambitious project highly feasible. It will also ensure that the experienced researcher will acquire high-level complementary skills that will be fruitful for her research career development in Europe. This interdisciplinary project is a very exciting challenge, and, as the work is disseminated, we expect that it will place European MIR research in a leading position for years to come.

Keywords: music information retrieval,audio signal processing,machine learning,speech processing,music content information.
INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON THE DYNAMICS AND STRUCTURE OF OLD-GROWTH TEMPERATE RAINFORESTS (CLIMADYST-RAINFOR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 192622.2
EU funding (EUR): 192622.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many temperate forests are considered to be in an equilibrium state to which they return after a disturbance. Interactions between tree functional traits and disturbances in shaping forest composition and structure have mainly focused on spatially discrete disturbances, e.g. gaps, fire. Other disturbances occurring at relatively larger spatial scale, e.g. drought, might have diffuse but long lasting effects so that current forest structure reflects legacies from past ecological and climatic conditions. This project will examine relationships between climate and forest structure and composition through an integrated study combining multi-century climate reconstructions, forest disturbance histories, and cutting-edge forest succession models along environmental gradients in temperate rainforests. This strategy will be applied to the temperate rainforests of northeastern Turkey which are some of the few remnants of old growth forests in Western Eurasia and are seriously endangered by global change and anthropogenic disturbances. Understanding within-community variation in the species responses to climate and examining historical climate at a temporal scale relevant to tree recruitment and canopy dieback are essential steps to analyze how forests will respond to global change. The combination of paleoecological and modelling approaches will allow investigating multiple climate effects on the ecology of these forests under changing environmental conditions. A deeper understanding of ecological processes under a combination of complex disturbances will provide critical and long-term perspectives on the role of climate variability in causing vegetation changes in these ecosystems where global change is expected to lead to more frequent and intense droughts.

Keywords: v201 paleoclimatology - paleoecology,v201 climatology and climate change,v305 ecology,v406 forestry - biomass production,v201 terrestrial ecology - land cover change
Nano cellulose based paper diagnostic devices (NANOPAD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-01
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 375374.8
EU funding (EUR): 375374.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Diagnostic devices made of patterned papers devices, termed microfluidic paper-based analytical devices PADs, are a new platform designed for ASSURED (Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid and robust, Equipment free and Deliverable to end-users) point-of-care POC diagnostic assays. PADs overcome many disadvantages of strip test devices and offer completely new opportunities to POC. The design paradigm of PAD is based on creating a complete Lab on a chip, including 2D/3D micro fluidic systems, filtering, biosensing and readout, all combined on a stamp sized piece of paper. The use of conventional paper as a substrate for developing PAD depends on numerous advantages: - The porous structure of paper allows manipulation of fluids through the bulk of the materials, allowing for active fluidics, and filtering. - Paper is thin, lightweight, many dimensions and form factors, easy to stack, store, and transport. - Cellulose is compatible with biological samples, and can be chemically functionalized to bound to proteins, DNA, or small molecules. - Paper is flammable, so PADs can be disposed of by incineration easily and safely after use - Compatibility with printing technologies enables micro fabrication PADs cheap and efficient. In this project conducting polymer based organic electrochemical transistors will be printed inside PADs and used as a tool for high sensitive diagnostics in PAD. Nanofibrialted cellulose and nanopaper will be explored for creating new and highly sensitive PAD devices, specially for colorimetric analysis on enzyme markers, and enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) Finally chemically functionalized nanofibrilated cellulose will be explored for covalent attachment of proteins inside nanopaper for high-sensitive and precise paper diagnostics.

Keywords: conducting polymers,paper diagnostic devices,nano cellulose,elisa,p310 electrochemistry - electrodialysis - microflui,l702 diagnostic tools,l101 molecular biology and interactions,p214 molecular e
A local turn in migrant integration policies? Local citizenship and integration policy appraches in the context of multi-level governance in Europe (LOCAL  TURN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166336.2
EU funding (EUR): 166336.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project proposal aims to analyse the existing scope for European cities to develop policies for migrant integration in multi-level governance systems. The role of lower tiers of governance, and that of cities in particular, is receiving growing attention from both researchers and policy-makers as the potential of cities to influence social inclusion and the weakening force of national citizenship models are recognised. Much-needed, systematic comparisons of local approaches to migrant integration remain scarce. Addressing this issue, this project will look at the scope left to the local level to develop integration policies within multi-level governance frameworks, and explore the convergence of local approaches in Europe. It will do so by 1) mapping policy developments regarding the multi-level governance of migrant integration in the EU; 2) conducting an in-depth comparison of integration policy approaches of pairs of cities in three different national contexts; and 3) analysing the degree of convergence of integration policies in cities towards measures for fostering local forms of citizenship in Europe. The project uses a transdisciplinary (or intersectoral) approach by closely involving an existing working group of integration policy makers from big European cities in the research process.

Keywords: s106 globalization - migration - interethnic relations,s109 political systems - legitimacy of governance,local integration policies,multi-level-governance,urban citizenship
A study on Space and Language: Relationships between Ideograms, the Roman Alphabet, and Urban Space in the East and the West (EASTWEST)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194046.6
EU funding (EUR): 194046.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research will investigate relationships between language and space by analyzing connections between written language and the production of urban space and architecture in the West and East. The investigation will explore language’s capacity to produce both symbolic and social dimensions of space. In doing so, the research will clarify how the differing language systems of East and West have influenced architecture design. Viewing language in a general sense—as a system of patterns, and signs for writing space—by direct implication, architecture is a language, and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. The research will be divided into three paths of inquiry. The first will investigate the respective traditional patterns used in the West and East to organize space before the diffusion of writing in alphabets and ideograms, respectively. The second path will examine how the alphabet influenced the constitution and shape of Western cities and how ideograms influenced the composition of Eastern urban space. A common factor characterizes both civilizations: before the introduction of written constitutions, the cities of the West and the East grew without a plan, or a central organization, but when planning began, the organization of the language in use was replicated in the cities it organized. The third path will analyze the recent use of pattern language in contemporary design. The use of the Latin alphabets influenced the formation of an analytic way to look at space in the West, and ideograms influenced the creation of a pluralistic use of space in the East. In the digital age, thanks to the fusion of these two different systems, we foresee a new form of writing coming to life. If language transforms the mental space of writing into physical, real spaces, then new languages should structure the formation of the space of the global metropolis of the 21st century.

Keywords: urban planning,language pattern,alphabet,ideograms,spatial syntax,language syntax,japan.
Combined Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy and Optical Projection Tomography for in vivo quantitative imaging of the developing zebrafish vasculature. (SPIMTOP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 84397.2
EU funding (EUR): 84397.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recently conceived three-dimensional microscopy techniques are revolutionizing developmental biology and embryology studies, being able to visualize entire organisms in-vivo. Despite increasingly proposed imaging solutions, methods suitable to quantify dynamic and mechanical parameters over a large region of a biological specimen are still lacking. This proposal aims to construct an optical system and a computational framework able to quantitatively study the developing embryonic zebrafish vasculature, looking at the interaction between gene expression and hemodynamic parameters, at high spatial resolution, over a large volume of the organism. The instrument will exploit an advanced version of Optical Projection Tomography, in order to provide a detailed three-dimensional map of the zebrafish cardiovascular system annotated with blood flow and shear stress parameters. Co-registered Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy images will enable the users to observe the expression of fluorescent markers at sub-cellular resolution and to correlate it to the hemodynamic/mechanical parameters. Low photo-bleaching and high acquisition speeds make this multimodal technology ideally suited for extended time-lapse experiments in live embryos. The system will be employed to characterize the development of the embryonic cardiovascular system in normal and mutant zebrafish embryos. The researcher, proponent of this project, will be integrated in a highly multidisciplinary team and will be trained on microscopy and biological aspects of the research, being able to acquire new skills relevant for the development of his optical tomography laboratory and his career.

Keywords: zebrafish,optical tomography,microscopy,blood flow,l106 biophysics,p320 medical physics
Germline-mediated regulation of lifespan in worms and fish (GERMLINE LONGEVITY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168794.4
EU funding (EUR): 168794.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Trade-offs between reproduction and lifespan are observed in many organisms, however little is known about their underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms. In C. elegans, when germ cell precursors are removed by laser microsurgery, animals live up to 60% longer than normal. This longevity is not a simple consequence of sterility, as removing the entire gonad does not extend lifespan, suggesting that the germline and somatic gonad produce opposing signals that are pro-aging and anti-aging, respectively. Molecular genetic studies suggested that proliferating germline stem cells produce pro-aging effects. Recent studies revealed that lifespan extension upon reduced germline activities depends on the functions of several transcription factors, which regulate lipolysis, fatty acid desaturation and autophagy in somatic cells. Although a clearer picture of the anti-aging activities in somatic cells is emerging, the origin and characteristics of the pro-aging signals in the proliferating germline stem cells is totally unknown. In addition, the direct involvement of germ cells and/or germline stem cells in vertebrate lifespan has not been addressed. Using germline-specific knockdown system and transcriptome data in germline, I will perform RNAi screening and identify the signal emanating from germline stem cells to regulate lifespan in C. elegans. In parallel, I will use a vertebrate model medaka (Oryzias latipes) for comparative analysis of germline longevity, since germline stem cells and several germline mutants are well characterized. I will examine the lifespan, stress resistance, gene expression and metabolic change using several germline mutants. These studies will not only greatly contribute to the further understanding of germline longevity pathway but also should shed light on whether this pathway is conserved in vertebrates. This work will potentially contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between reproduction and lifespan in humans.

Keywords: l404 ageing,l206 molecular genetics - reverse genetics and rnai,germline longevity,c. elegans,medaka,germline stem cells
Response of Ecosystem Assembly and Function to Climate Change: A multidisciplinary approach to understand community response to climate change in coastal rocky ecosystems (REAFCC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2014-04-28
End date: 2016-08-26
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ocean ecosystems are among those most at risk from global climate change. Coastal water chemistry, and carbon chemistry in particular, is changing at a greater rate than ever before, and will drive coastal pH lower than has been experienced by any modern organism. Concurrently, on-going increases in seawater temperature will affect physiological processes at the organismal scale and cause shifts in species ranges at the macroecological scale. It is therefore important to assess the potential for biological response to such changes, on both the species and community levels. The proposed work will target algal-grazer interactions in rocky coastal marine ecosystems. Algal-grazer interactions are known to be of particular importance in the structuring of these communities and maintenance of local biodiversity. Emphasis will be placed on the role of chemical defence compounds produced by algae as mediators of these interactions, and the role that environmental change will play through chemical and physical changes to seawater as possible drivers to change community assembly and function via algal-grazer processes. Research aims include 1) natural observation and measurements at a variety of natural field sites, 2) field experiments, 3) laboratory experiments, and 4) synthesis of these data through ecosystem-scale models used to predict community function and biodiversity. This proposal integrates techniques from ecology, phycology, physiology, and both inorganic and organic biogeochemistry to address ecological consequences of climate change from the individual to community scales. These results will be important for socio-economic valuation of coastal ecosystems across Europe and globally.

Keywords: v306 environmental and marine biology,v305 ecology,v302 biodiversity - comparative biology,v308 population biology - population dynamics - population genetics,v309 systems evolution - biol. adapt.