Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Quantum Simulations of Relativistic Systems (QURELSIM)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-02
End date: 2013-05-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159365.6
EU funding (EUR): 159365.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal is framed in the timely and novel field of quantum simulations of relativistic and quantum field theory systems. In the field of quantum information, quantum simulations of physical systems difficult to measure in the lab, with other, controllable, quantum systems, appear as one of the most promising avenues. Due to the difficulty to analyze some physical systems in the lab, or the limitations of classical simulations of quantum systems with standard computers, quantum simulations have raised much interest in the quantum information science. Simulating quantum relativistic systems with quantum optics setups, could shed much light on the fundamental properties of these relevant systems. In addition, it could establish interesting analogies and differences between the relativistic and the quantum optics systems, making a very multidisciplinary study. Prominent examples of already proposed scenarios are Dirac equation simulation in a single trapped ion, or black hole radiation in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Here, further interesting quantum relativistic systems, like Dirac fermions in interaction, quantum fields, exotic topological effects, or rotating and charged black holes, are proposed for their simulation in trapped ions, electrons in Penning traps, or cold atoms. Soon-to-be-made quantum simulations will already be able to overcome classical simulations with even the fastest classical supercomputers. Europe has maintained a leading position both in high energy physics and in quantum information, and this project will contribute to maintain this leadership from a modern and multidisciplinary approach.

Keywords: physical sciences,quantum optics,quantum information,quantum simulations,relativistic systems,quantum field theory
Microtubule Dynamics and Protein Trafficking in Axon Regeneration (MDPTAR)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 176185.6
EU funding (EUR): 176185.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of the proposal is to support the scientific career development of an experienced researcher, by completing an interdisciplinary research project on microtubule dynamics in axon regeneration, and enabling the fellow to acquire new knowledge and academic skills in order to attain a position of maturity and independence. The scientific objectives of the research are to analyse how the mechanisms regulating microtubule network dynamics and protein trafficking underlie the intrinsic ability of axons to regenerate after injury with the aim of improving treatment in neurological diseases such as spinal cord injury. The project will enhance the fellow’s scientific curriculum by providing advanced training in innovative and sophisticated techniques. The research training objectives are to contribute to the fellow's writing and publication skills, public presentation of her scientific results, establishment of collaborations and to learn to manage her own scientific project in a multidisciplinary environment. This will enable the fellow to compete for available funds thus, facilitating the possibility of establishing her own independent research line in Europe. The fellow’s mobility from the UK to a leading laboratory at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, will provide new points of view to perform research, scientific exchange and social interaction. This proposal is highly relevant to the 2010 Work Programme because: a) it entails genuine mobility strengthening scientific exchange between European members, b) it will increase the overall competitiveness and excellence of European science in the key field of axon regeneration and c) its innovative nature will further enhance the European Research Area making Europe more attractive to the most talented scientists from around world.

Keywords: neurobiology,cell biology,nerve injury,neurosciences,axon regeneration,microtubule dynamics,protein trafficking,spinal cord injury,live-imaging microscopy,dorsal root ganglion neuron
The Automatic Generation of Lexical Databases Analogous to WordNet (AUTOWORDNET)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 258475.0
EU funding (EUR): 258475.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

WordNet is a lexical database of English where words are grouped into sets of synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. WordNet has turned out to be an indispensable resource in the processing of natural language, and based on its model similar lexical databases were created for many other languages. However, constructing such databases takes many years of work and is very costly. On the other hand, methods for the automatic identification of semantically related words based on large text corpora have reached a considerable degree of maturity, with the results coming close to native speakers’ performance. The proposed project aims at further refining and extending these approaches, thereby making it possible to fully automatically generate a resource similar to WordNet. The developed system will be largely language independent and is to be applied to four European languages, namely English, French, German, and Spanish. The resulting databases will be made freely available on the internet. This is an outline of the proposed methodology: Starting from a part-of-speech tagged corpus, various methods for computing related words, such as syntax-based or utilizing latent semantic analysis, are applied and the results are systematically compared. The quality is evaluated by comparing the simulation results to a recently published data set comprising the 200,000 human similarity judgments from the Princeton Evocation project, rather than to the well established but inadequate 80 item TOEFL dataset. To identify synsets, an algorithm for unsupervised word sense induction is applied, and each word in the vocabulary is assigned to one or (if ambiguous) several of the synsets. Finally, to determine the relations between words (e.g. synonymy, hyponymy, holonymy, meronymy), an adapted version of Peter Turney’s approach for computing relational similarities is developed and applied.

Keywords: humanities,computational linguistics,corpus linguistics,wordnet,word senses,word sense disambiguation
Greek Women and Death, ancient and modern: A comparative Analysis (GREEK WOMEN - DEATH)

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: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 204910.0
EU funding (EUR): 204910.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

To do the project, a training period in Greece is essential, which will also add scientific competencies to my career. The central theme of the project is women's role in connection with death-cult in ancient and modern Greece. The research is based on studies in ancient history combined with ethnographic fieldwork in modern Greece. Assuming that death-rituals have a focal and lasting importance, and are reflecting the gender relations within a society, the institutions surrounding death may function as a critical vantage point from which to view society. The comparison will be based on religious festivals, which are dedicated to deceased persons and on other death-rituals. Using laments, burials and the ensuing memorial rituals, the study will analyse the relationship between the death-cult dedicated to deceased mediators in ancient and modern society. I assume that the official ideological rituals are influenced by the domestic rituals people perform for their own dead, and vice versa, that the modern domestic rituals reflect the public performances. As this cult has many parallels with the ancient official cult, the question will be: Can an analysis of the modern public and domestic rituals in combination with ancient sources tell us more about the ancient death-cult? What can such an analysis tell us about the relationship between the domestic death-cult and the official? Since the practical performance of the domestic rituals is and probably was in the hands of women, it is crucial to discover what their influence is and was and hence, to illuminate the real power relations between women and men. Thus, this project offers a new contribution to earlier presentations of the Greek "reality", but mainly from the female perspective, which is significant since men produced most of the ancient sources. Therefore, the project has an approach of great importance for the study of Ancient and Modern Greek Culture, Comparative Cultural Studies and Gender Research.

Keywords: humanities,history,religion,culture,modern and ancient greece,gendered spheres/perspectives,women,death-cult,death-rituals,death-festivals,laments,burials,memorial rituals,communication
Video Content Description System (VISION)

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: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 204587.2
EU funding (EUR): 204587.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

To gain value from multimedia repositories and make them easily accessible, the content they contain must be indexed and structured for user searching and browsing. However, most if not all of the video content in these databases is stored without any sort of indexing or analysis, and without any associated metadata. Thus, locating clips and browsing content is difficult, time consuming, and generally inefficient. The research proposed by us aspires to address this research opportunity by providing hardware-centric tools for automatically indexing and structuring video content in real-time. Unlike the previous work, we propose to develop a flexible and configurable architecture for feature extraction and content structuring that could be adapted to implement multiple different systems and approaches that have been proposed in the literature to date for different content genres. This project aims to design and verify a hardware system that can extract video features, and use these as a basis to structure and index live sports broadcasts real time, leveraging known characteristics of the content. The proposed system is conceived as a pure hardware device purposely developed for this kind of task—computations will be done without the use of any kind of computer. Within the framework of this project, and under the guidance of the supervisor and co-supervisor, the applicant would like to develop a hardware module that handles low-level feature extraction, and to propose a top layer for the system in which video content description can be performed, based on the low-level features which have been extracted. Whilst fictional content is specifically targeted, the system will be designed in such a way as to be easily extended to other genres.

Keywords: technological sciences,design engineering,electronic engineering,video content description
Representation Theory of Blocks of Group Algebras with Non-abelian Defect Groups (B10NONABBLCKSETH)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170901.6
EU funding (EUR): 170901.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project is set in pure mathematics in the areas of representation theory of associative algebras and Lie theory. Its goal is to contribute to the structure theory of the blocks of group algebras of symmetric groups with non-abelian defect groups. The main emphasis of this project will be on the subclass of the RoCK blocks. The main objective of the project is to make a significant contribution towards proving Turner's conjecture about the structure of the RoCK blocks. Recent developments from Lie theory and higher representation theory opened up completely new perspectives. The inspiration for the current proposal comes from the connections of the representation theory of symmetric groups to the representation theory of Kac-Moody algebras. Our approach to the above families of algebras will involve representation theoretical, combinatorial, homological and computational methods. These methods will represent a combination of classical methods, whose origin is in the work of James, and new methods originating in Kac-Moody algebras and quantum groups. Justification of such a choice of methods lies in the fact that this is one of the ground-breaking approaches that has the potential to produce very important results in a short time span. The proposed project will build on a very recent breakthroughs, it is extremely timely and will be a contribution to central open problems in the field. Even partial results will have a significant impact in the field and may lead to interesting developments. The subject is one of European excellence and the project will contribute greatly to the preservation of European dominance in the field. This research will be the starting point for a long-term research project and a scientific collaboration between the scientist in charge and Bogdanic, which will extend far beyond the duration of this fellowship, and it will be crucial for Bogdanic's career and his development as an independent researcher.

Keywords: group theory,representation theory,homological algebra,symmetric algebras,blocks of group algebras,symmetric groups
Disordered Ultra-Cold Atoms (DUCA)

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: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173384.0
EU funding (EUR): 173384.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the main unsolved problems in condensed matter physics is quantum transport in the presence of disorder and strong interactions. Theoretical and experimental progress has been slow due to the intrinsic difficulties to control all relevant variables. Recent progress in the field of ultra-cold atomic gases, with Europe playing a leading role, paves the way towards highly controlled investigations of this many-body physics. Our proposal is to bring a young researcher experienced in cold atom physics to Rome to work within a condensed matter theory group which has played a leading role in the development of the theory of interacting and disordered electron systems. The objective is the transfer of knowledge between condensed matter and cold atom physics which could significantly advance both fields. A key aspect of the proposal is a close collaboration with leading experimental groups working on ultra-cold atoms. The researcher, who has contributed to the subject but in the non-interacting regime, will address the interacting ultra-cold atom problem by reformulating the theories for disordered electrons the host has developed. This will include a reformulation of the scaling theory of disordered electron systems, the study of the interplay between quantum chaos and interactions and the investigation of dirty superconductors. This theoretical work will aim at making realistic predictions for ultra-cold atom experiments. It will be complemented by state-of-the-art numerical simulations. The project will dramatically increase the researcher's competences in the challenging field of strongly correlated systems and it will add an international dimension to his career, thus allowing him to reach a position of professional maturity. The project will also contribute to assure Europe a leading role in the field and to help to capitalize the large investment effort made on experimental studies on cold quantum matter.

Keywords: disorder,atomic physics,ultra-cold atoms,strongly-correlated systems,electronic,magnetic and superconductive properties,metal-insulator transition,anderson localization
Phenomenological implications and signatures of Grand Unified Theories in String Theory (STRING GUTS)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 186364.0
EU funding (EUR): 186364.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will study realizations and phenomenological signatures of Grand Unified Theories within String Theory. The idea that the Standard Model of particle physics originates from a Grand Unified Theory (GUT) where all the gauge interactions are unified is one of the most attractive propositions in modern theoretical physics. GUT theories are not generic in string theory which means that their realizations and resulting phenomenology are strongly constrained thereby making the existence of a GUT an ideal assumption from which to draw concrete predictions and postdictions from string theory. The objectives of the project are to address the phenomenological implications of the recently discovered F-theory GUTs with regards to flavour physics, neutrino physics, dark matter and supersymmetry breaking. In particular, within this constrained F-theory GUT framework, we will study key questions such as why the quark and lepton masses are hierarchical? Why there is little family mixing in the quark sector but large mixing in the neutrino sector? How is supersymmetry breaking communicated to the Standard Model and what are the resulting soft masses? These objectives have a clear direct link to current and future experiments. The realization of the proposed ambitious line of research relies on recent significant theoretical advances in the study of GUT theories within string theory: the so called F-theory GUTs. One of the many benefits of these constructions is that much of the relevant physics is localized in a small region within the extra dimensions which means that it can be studied without requiring knowledge of the full compactification manifold thereby bypassing significant technical difficulties and making a direct link to phenomenology realistically attainable. Indeed this breakthrough has already formed strong ties to phenomenology in the recent literature and is expected to form one of the most active areas of research within string theory.

Keywords: quantum field theory,string theory,particle physics,phenomenology
French and British Contemporary Ethical Debates on Human Enhancement: Building Dialogue and Shared Vocabulary (FABRICED)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 201392.8
EU funding (EUR): 201392.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project consists in a philosophical and empirical comparative inquiry on the French and British contemporary debates about human enhancement and an attempt to create a solid dialogue between the two communities involved. ‘Human enhancement’ refers to the improvement of human capacities by the use of new biotechnologies and other emergent technologies, in order for example to help people think better or feel happier. It has its roots in the therapeutic application of these technologies (healing of illness and relief of suffering) and in the fact that their effectiveness in this area has recently come to a second use in the efforts to elevate human feeling, improve cognition, and raise physical performance to higher levels. Some authors see the new possibilities opened as essentially ‘good’ and even a reason to anticipate a new utopia. Serious ethical concerns are also expressed, particularly about the autonomy of the individual, the nature of humanity, and justice in society and health care, most of these hopes and worries having been explored through various speculations in philosophy or fiction. Now, it appears that the French debate is using a partly different approach to the topic. Some major issues, like the distinction between ‘health’ and ‘disease’, or the question of the integration of enhancement treatments within the health care system, appear to be sometimes dealt with quite differently by French philosophers and professionals as compared to their British counterparts. However, it is of prime importance that we share a common understanding and vocabulary in the context of Europe policy-making on these sensitive questions. By learning about the Anglo-Saxon approaches to human enhancement and by learning and applying sociological research, the fellow wants to generate such a renewed understanding and shared vocabulary and thus contribute to the progress on these key questions for the future of humanity.

Keywords: human enhancement,nbic sciences,eugenics,philosophy of science & technology,biomedical ethics,comparative society studies (france & uk),future studies,speculative fiction,europe policy-making