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High-dimensional mathematical methods for LargE Agent and Particle systems (HighLEAP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1379858.0
EU funding (EUR): 1379858.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Interacting particle- or agent-based systems are ubiquitous in science. They arise in an extremely wide variety of applications including materials science, biology, economics and social sciences. Several mathematical models exist to account for the evolution of such systems at different scales, among which stand stochastic differential equations, optimal transport problems, Fokker-Planck equations or mean-field games systems. However, all of them suffer from severe limitations when it comes to the simulation of high-dimensional problems, the high-dimensionality character coming either from the large number of particles or agents in the system, the high amount of features of each agent or particle or the huge quantity of parameters entering the model. The objective of this project is to provide a new mathematical framework for the development and analysis of efficient and accurate numerical methods for the simulation of high-dimensional particle or agent systems, stemming from applications in materials science and stochastic game theory. The main challenges which will be addressed in this project are: -sparse optimization problems for multi-marginal optimal transport problems, using moment constraints; -numerical resolution of high-dimensional partial differential equations, with stochastic iterative algorithms; -efficient approximation of parametric stochastic differential equations, by means of reduced-order modeling approaches. The potential impacts of the project are huge: making possible such extreme-scale simulations will enable to gain precious insights on the predictive power of agent- or particle-based models, with applications in various fields, such as quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, crowd motion or urban traffic.

Keywords: optimal transport,quantum chemistry,tensor methods,reduced order modeling,molecular dynamics,agent based models,high dimensional pdes,mean field games,greedy algorithms
Uncovering Lost Knowledge from the Ancient Library of Herculaneum: Overcoming Damage and Reviving the Human Experience using Physical Evidence, AI, and the Structuring of Diverse Data (UnLost)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Italy,United States,Germany,Israel
Call: ERC SYNERGY GRANTS (ERC-2024-SyG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2031-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11584863.75
EU funding (EUR): 11584863.75
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The loss of something precious triggers an immediate instinct to find it. But what if the quest does not end there? We see it and find it, yet the precious object is irreparably damaged, and its true knowledge is locked away behind its damage, frustratingly denying us access to the information it holds. In such cases, the object essentially remains lost. Each day, in fact, treasured relics bearing unique witness to the human experience are lost to decay and damage due to the elements of the environment, the ravages of time, and the hands of war. And while we rejoice at every inspiring, arduous discovery and recovery of a physical object, we often must acknowledge that much of the knowledge it contains remains lost. UnLost will revolutionise the way we study damaged, complex heritage materials by capitalising upon today’s vast scientific capabilities. UnLost will harness these capabilities to capture immense amounts of disparate data and combine them with a novel, much-needed systematic and rigorous process to extract, integrate, study, archive, and protect multi-modal data so that lost knowledge is rendered – and kept – UnLost. The Herculaneum papyrus scrolls, buried and carbonised by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE and then excavated in the 18th century, represent the epitome of such found, yet still lost, heritage. The only complete Classical library from the ancient world to have survived and been found in situ, much of the textual material contained in this renowned collection remains hidden within its profoundly damaged and fragmented form. The goal of the UnLost team is to create and deploy new methods of digitization, AI-inspired inference, and archival-quality complex digital objects so as to revive what has been lost from Herculaneum and develop new benchmark approaches for the restoration of damaged heritage objects as a whole.

Keywords: digital restoration,herculaneum papyri,material analysis,physical conservation,born digital editions,virtual unwrapping,ancient scrolls,hidden papyrus layers,structured data and metadata
The Age of Age. The Rise of Calendar Age and Sociopolitical Age Consciousness in Early Modern Germany and Italy, c. 1650 to 1850 (AGEOFAGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Netherlands,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183174.24
EU funding (EUR): 183174.24
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Modern Western societies have coalesced around one way of thinking about human age: Calendar age (i.e. the number of years since birth), which shapes both how we think about age-related behavioural norms and how we define, for example, access to retirement benefits. Despite its unrivalled importance, calendar age has come under critical scrutiny amid recent debates on ageism. In line with historical notions of gender or class, it becomes increasingly clear that calendar age is not a 'neutral number', but an impactful social category. When did calendar age rise to become such ubiquitous category and which factors contributed to this? How did ‘early modern age consciousness’ function before the rise of calendar age? The project studies these two questions at the example of southern Germany and northern Italy between 1650 and 1850. Based on a sample of burial records, it shows how between the early Enlightenment and the onset of the Industrial era reporting one's age in calendar years became increasingly common, as calendar age grew into a category to identify people. Driven by Enlightenment notions of accuracy, a significant share of early modern populations could report their age in calendar years. This rise of calendar age supplanted an early modern age consciousness, in which alternative ways of age reporting coexisted, and whose degrees of accuracy depended on the specificities of context. The project studies one such context to show how early notions of accuracy were culturally motivated and how information about birthdates and baptisms could actually be retrieved. To enter guilds in early modern Italy and Germany, young men had to prove their legitimate birth, forcing them to research its circumstances and provide written documentation. This production of 'birth certificates' will be analyzed by comparison of an German and Italian city. By historicizing calendar age, the project contributes to the fight against ageism and reflections on age-based norms.

Keywords: early modern history europe age life cycle age consciousness youth old age age reporting
Regular and Exotic behavior in Hamiltonian and low-dimensional dynamical systems (REXHALODYN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Mathematics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

REXHALODYN aims at understanding some of the regular and exotic features of Hamiltonian systems, circle maps, and generalized interval exchange transformations, or GIETs. Hamiltonians provide a powerful description of classical mechanics phenomena. Circle maps and GIETs are archetypal examples that illustrate fundamental concepts and phenomena within dynamical systems. Moreover, the latter two offer simplified models that capture essential features of more complex systems; e.g., they appear naturally as Poincaré maps of (locally) Hamiltonian flows on compact surfaces, and thus are closely related to Hamiltonians in this context. Within this framework, the words regular and exotic do not have a precise mathematical meaning; however, we use them here to stand for features in each system that are either well-behaved (regular), such as the existence of stable quasi-periodic motions in Hamiltonian, and rigidity phenomena in circle maps and GIETs; and for features that are ill-behaved (exotic), such as sensitive dependence to initial conditions in Hamiltonians or existence of singular invariant measures in circle maps and GIETs. Understanding these complementary features deepens our understanding of the systems, their properties, and the underlying mathematical structures that give rise to a rich spectrum of behaviors. The main objectives of this project are: -Prove the existence of lower-dimensional invariant tori, associated with a resonant torus with any number of resonances, for general classes (e.g., convex) of near-integrable Hamiltonians. -Obtain precise estimates for the Hausdorff dimension of the unique invariant probability measure of multicritical circle maps with irrational rotation number of bounded type. -Obtain rigidity results for multicritical circle maps with irrational rotation number. The research is planned for two years and takes as a basis many of the results and methods developed by the applicant in his previous works.

Keywords: dynamical systems,hamiltonian dynamics,circle maps,interval exchange transformations,kam theory,renormalization
FOstering Nitrogen Deposition Assessment over Portugal (FONDA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Netherlands,Germany
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1124272.5
EU funding (EUR): 1124272.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The Portuguese ecThe Portuguese ecosystems belong to the most nitrogen (N) sensitive in the world and are being threatened by N deposition. Current assessments indicate that the scenario’s compliant to the National Emissions Ceiling (NEC) Directive show that this situation is not about to change even with the significant emission reductions planned until 2030 in Europe. Hence, the Portuguese ecosystems remain at risk, but current research and policy support capacity are lacking. FONDA twinning proposal aims to further develop the expertise of University of Aveiro (UAVR, Portugal) in the field of modelling & mapping the emissions, transport, transformation and deposition of reactive nitrogen (Nr) compounds, through a strategic research partnership with TNO (the Netherlands) and the Free University of Berlin (FUB, Germany) - moving towards a highly productive scientific research group. Understanding the budget of N species is of great importance to better understand the interactions/feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry, biodiversity and climate change. The two internationally leading groups are complementary in their orientation towards fundamental science and education (FUB) and applied science and policy support (TNO). Together, they are responsible for the N deposition mapping for Germany and the innovation therein. The key role of UAVR will be to coordinate this consortium of excellence in the air quality modelling field, while developing and increasing its knowledge, expertise and reputation on N science. Besides the strength of UAVR excellence in the field of air quality by building a national capacity and infrastructure to independently quantify nation-wide N deposition; FONDA aims to train a new generation of highly skilled researchers by offering innovative education and advanced training programs for researchers in their early career stages & develop an innovation framework that is sustainable and allows for strategic collaboration after the project.

Keywords: nitrogen,assessment,deposition,modelling,satellite data,portugal
Quantum Information Processing in High-Dimensional Ion Trap Systems (QUDITS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — 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: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499790.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499790.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum processors have taken the binary paradigm of classical computing to the quantum realm and are starting to outperform the best classical devices. Yet, neither the underlying quantum information carriers, nor many of the targeted problems naturally fit into this two-level paradigm. In this project, I aim to break this paradigm. Instead of restricting the rich Hilbert space of trapped ions to only two levels, the proposed research will make full use of the multi-level (qudit) structure as a resource for quantum information processing. This will unlock unused potential within quantum processors and bring near-term intermediate-scale quantum devices into a regime well beyond classical capabilities. Furthermore, the availability of high-performing qudit quantum hardware will stimulate a rethinking of the way we approach quantum information processing. This ambitious goal will be achieved by designing and implementing a trapped-ion quantum processor, tailored for qudits. Building on the full toolbox of atomic physics, this device will benefit from ongoing developments for binary systems, while featuring significantly extended capabilities, including novel ways of interacting qudits for resource-efficient processing. Using this hardware, we aim to achieve two objectives: First, we will develop tools for and demonstrate native qudit quantum information processing from simulation to computation. Second, we will show that the platform outperforms not only qubit systems but also the best classical devices through the demonstration of a quantum advantage. I am convinced that this project will stimulate a number of research directions beyond its immediate goals, from application-tailored quantum computing, to advanced quantum communication and quantum metrology. My strong background in several quantum technology platforms, as well as my track record in (multi-level) quantum information processing puts me in a unique position to realize the ambitious goals of this project.

Keywords: quantum computing,quantum simulation,high dimensional hilbert spaces,quantum advantage,qudits
WorldTrans - TRANSPARENT ASSESSMENTS FOR REAL PEOPLE (WorldTrans)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Climate
Destination: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,United Kingdom,Sweden,Austria,Germany,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Improvement of Integrated Assessment Models in support of climate policies (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02, 2022)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5231340.0
EU funding (EUR): 5231340.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

There are a few important working hypotheses that lie behind our choice of approach to this call. For Europe to deliver on its Green Deal ambition (to make Europe’s economy climate neutral by 2050), we believe that citizen engagement stakeholder engagement may be as important as dry facts and figures. People (not economies) react to climate change, people make decisions to act or not to act. Such is the nature of a democratic process. It is this realization that has made us choose to address transparency, openness, engagement and to work with models of the system, not its parts. WorldTrans will focus on three key limitations of the state-of-the-art of IAMs, namely: 1 Weak representation of social, human and economic heterogeneity; 2 Limited representation of feedbacks between the domains of nature and humans; and 3 Lack of transparency with respect to the inner workings of the models as well as with respect to the uptake of results and involvement of citizens and stakeholders, including limited assessment and traceability of uncertainty. We will address systemic, structural deficiencies in current IAMs rather than making incremental improvements. In doing so, we sacrifice details of any particular sector or process, instead capturing the essences of their functions in order to focus on how those processes affect each other within and across domains. WorldTrans will use system dynamics methods and modelling to deal transparently with multiscale issues and policy response options; and “bridge gaps” between models, experts and user communities by developing attractive learning environments that allows for simulations of decisionmaking processes and joint reflections of meaning and implication. As such, WorldTrans will deliver actionable results in support of the expected impacts and outcomes requested by the call.

Keywords: shared socioeconomic pathways,ssp,iam,transparency,transparency,democracy,carbon cycle,social dimension,feedbacks,surprises,integrated assessments,consistency,ipcc,ipbes
Pioneering physics-based design of two-phase flow in energy materials via wettability control (EnergyLeap)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Norway
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-10
End date: 2027-11-09
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 267418.56
EU funding (EUR): 267418.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We are at a pivotal time in climate action. To fight climate change, we need to accelerate scale-up of clean energy technologies, like fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries, which underpin our energy transition. A major bottleneck in accelerating rational design of next-generation devices is the non-optimal, heterogenous, and often stochastic nature of porous materials within these devices. A vital design parameter of porous materials is pore-scale wettability, which can fundamentally alter transport of species, and thereby dictate device performance. However, we do not yet know the ideal wettability configuration to design our devices around due to fundamental gaps in our understanding of mixed wettability. In this project, I plan to synergistically combine three fields – physics, energy engineering, and automation – to provide a fundamental blueprint to design two-phase flow in next-generation energy materials. First, I will create a microfluidic platform to conduct high-throughput experiments and statistically analyse the effect of a wide range of wettability combinations on flow patterns. State-of-the-art wettability models will be advanced and validated using experiments and create a “mixed-wet phase diagram”. I will then computationally explore the established phase diagram to create designer porous materials with directed transport properties for energy application. Then, superior computational designs will be tested experimentally to cross-validate model capabilities and propose porous media for energy applications (with a focus on water transport in fuel cells). The multi-disciplinary physics-informed design strategy employed in the study is expected to benefit diverse clean energy technologies, with potential applications in microfluidic disease diagnosis and other engineered flow systems.

Keywords: two phase flow in porous media,surface wettability,clean energy
Transport Research Arena 2024: Dublin (TRA2024)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Belgium,Portugal,Hungary,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: Support for dissemination events in the field of Transport Research (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1423125.83
EU funding (EUR): 1423120.5
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal describes a series of activities that will support the successful delivery of the TRA conference in Dublin in 2024. A consortium has been assembled that addresses all the key requirements of the call: • They represent the key transport modes with at least 2 partners active in road, rail, waterborne, aviation and cross-modal. • The partners are all active in European research and have the reach to promote the conference across Europe. • The partners have a long history of delivering high quality researcher competitions where Europe’s research leaders are recognised. The partners will work with key stakeholders to ensure the conference themes support European policies. The proposal also has the full support of the Irish Minister for Transport and this will ensure the full support of relevant Irish agencies. The partners will work together to deliver a conference that builds on the success of previous TRA conferences and provide a forum that will allow the key actors in the transport sector come together to develop solutions for society’s needs.

Keywords: tra conference road rail waterborne aviation cross modal researcher competition