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"Invariant visual object representations in the early postnatal and adult cortex: bridging theory, model and neurobiology" (LEARN2SEE)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

"Our visual system can effortlessly recognize hundreds of thousands of objects in spite of tremendous variation in their appearance, resulting, for instance, from changes in object position and pose. Achieving such an invariant representation of the visual world is an extremely challenging computational problem that even the most advanced artificial vision systems are not fully able to solve. This ...
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Multiscale modeling and simulation of biological and artificial locomotion at the micron scale: from metastatic tumor cells and unicellular swimmers to bioinspired microrobots (MicroMotility)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The project addresses the mechanical bases of cell motility by swimming and crawling, and the possibility of replicating the principles behind them in artificial systems.The goals are to elucidate some key mechanisms governing bio-locomotion. In particular, actin- based motility of crawling cells and motility by swimming of unicellular organisms will be studied both in general and with reference t ...
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Modeling the Physics of Nano-Friction (MODPHYSFRICT)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

"In the next five years, novel nanoscale friction experiments will provide decisive data on the physics of a century-old, central, yet incompletely understood area of physics. Nano and mesoscopic phenomena without historical precedent in classic friction are emerging in tip based and other sliding and dissipation measurements. Opportunities for the control of friction, based on harnessing and modi ...
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Stability and wall-crossing in algebraic and differential geometry (STABAGDG)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"This proposal centers on the special interaction of algebraic and differential geometry which arises from the notion of stability, going back to the celebrated correspondence between polystable vector bundles and Hermite-Einstein connections.A conjecture of Yau, Tian and Donaldson seeks to extend this correspondence to projective manifolds, formulating an algebro-geometric notion of stability (K- ...
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Small ribonucleic acids in silico (S-RNA-S)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is acquiring a larger importance in cell biology, as more functions that it accomplishes are discovered. In particular, as it has emerged in the last decade, it has a crucial role in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. The comprehension of these mechanisms and, in general, of RNA properties at a molecular level is a key issue in the study of many disease ...
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Challenging General Relativity (CGR2011TPS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

"General relativity, Einstein's celebrated theory, has been very successful as a theory of the gravitational interaction. However, within the course of the last decades several issues have been pointed out as indicating its limitations: the inevitable existence of spacetime singularities and the fact that it is not a renormalizable theory manifest as shortcomings at very small scales. The inabili ...
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Construction of Perception from Touch Signals (CONCEPT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

Our sensory systems gather stimuli as elemental physical features yet we perceive a world made up of familiar objects, not wavelengths or vibrations. Perception occurs when the neuronal representation of physical parameters is transformed into the neuronal representation of meaningful objects. How does this recoding occur? An ideal platform for the inquiry is the rat whisker sensory system: it pro ...
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Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Flavor and Dark Matter: One Solution for Three Mysteries (DaMESyFla)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

In the next five years, experiments will give us a unique opportunity to unravel the mysteries of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Flavor and Dark Matter. The LHC at CERN will push the Energy frontier well into the TeV region and shed light on electroweak symmetry breaking. The LHCb experiment, super-B factories and other dedicated experiments, also in the lepton sector, will push forward the Inten ...
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Quasistatic and Dynamic Evolution Problems in Plasticity and Fracture (QuaDynEvoPro)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

This research project deals with nonlinear evolution problems that arise in the study of the inelastic behaviour of solids, in particular in plasticity and fracture. The project will focus on selected problems, grouped into three main topics, namely:1. Plasticity with hardening and softening, 2. Quasistatic crack growth, 3. Dynamic fracture mechanics.The analysis of the models of these mec ...
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Mechanisms and Treatment of Migraine and its Chronification (EUROHEADPAIN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Migraine is a common brain disorder, typically characterised by recurring, incapacitating attacks of 1-3 days of severe headache, autonomic dysfunction, and sometimes aura symptoms. The disease affects 15% of all European citizens including children, ranks among the WHO top 12 of most disabling and undertreated disorders, and is responsible for the highest socio-economic burden of any brain ailmen ...
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ENTANGLING AND DISENTANGLING EXTENDED QUANTUM SYSTEMS IN AND OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM (EDEQS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"It is nowadays well established that many-body quantum systems in one and two spatial dimensions exhibit unconventional collective behavior that gives rise to intriguing novel states of matter. Examples are topological states exhibiting nonabelian statistics in 2D and spin-charge separated metals and Mott insulators in 1D. An important focus of current research is to characterize both equilibrium ...
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Processing Activates Specific Constraints for Language Acquisition (PASCAL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

"PASCAL is a project to investigate the human ability to acquire language, and the underlying biological endowment that provides specific language learning mechanisms. Clearly, language acquisition (LA) starts at birth, rendering neonates the first population to investigate, to get the full picture of how LA unfolds. PASCAL’s first objective is thus to investigate core cognitive dispositions, whic ...
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Rapid prototyping scaffolds for the nervous system (NEUROSCAFFOLDS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

"Advanced tissue engineering requires scaffolds fabricated at different scales to facilitate cellular repair. Neurons respond to micro and nanopatterns over which are grown and it is possible to control - to some extent - neurite protrusion and the formation of neuronal network by using only nanopatterns. The present proposal is based on four main steps: i - Development and fabrication of Scaff ...
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Neuro-Enhancement: Responsible Research and Innovation (NERRI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

This project aims to contribute to the introduction of Responsible Research and Innovation in neuro-enhancement (NE) in the European Research Area and to the shaping of a normative framework underpinning the governance of NE technologies. These will be achieved through mobilization and mutual learning (MML) activities engaging scientists, policy-makers, industry, civil society groups and the wider ...
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Stomatin proteins and olfactory transduction (OLF-STOM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

In vertebrate the initial steps of olfaction occur in olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs), located in the olfactory epithelium in the nasal cavity. OSNs are responsible for the detection of odorant molecules present in the environment and the generation of the neural signal that is transmitted to the brain. OSNs are bipolar neurons with a single dendrite that terminates with a knob, from which protru ...
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Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Quantum Computation (QICFT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

This proposal aims at setting up an international network of theoretical physicists, developing the methods of quantum integrability and conformal field theory and applying them to the emerging fields of low-dimensional quantum physics. These theoretical studies present, at once, fascinating convergences between exactly solvable statistical models and field theories, such as the topological theori ...
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Understanding high-temperature superconductivity from the foundations: Superconductivity as a cure of bad metallic behaviour (SUPERBAD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"The origin of ""high-temperature"" superconductivity is definitely one of the most elusive topics in modern solid-state physics. The twenty years that followed the discovery of unprecentedly high critical temperatures in copper oxides have been dominated by a dychotomy between the ""standard""; superconductors, normal metals in which electron-phonon interaction drives the superconducting pairing, ...
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Choreographing neural networks: coupling attractor dynamics and state-dependent computations across biomimetic brain interfaces with neuromorphic VLSI (CORONET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

This project lays theoretical and technological foundations for future biohybrid and brain-machine-interface devices, taking advantage of recent progress in our theoretical understanding of brain, in-vivo and in-vitro electrophysiology, and biomimetic hardware components (neuromorphic VLSI). If successful, the project will interface biomimetic hardware devices seamlessly with neural tissues and, ...
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Neuronal substrates of invariant visual object recognition in rats (IVOR)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"One of the key issues in the field of system neuroscience is to understand how the mammalian visual system is able to recognize visual objects in spite of tremendous variation in their appearance (e.g., lighting and viewpoint). So far, this issue has been mainly investigated in non-human primates, while simpler model systems (such as rodents) have been largely overlooked. However, recent work of ...
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Governing ultrafast the conductivity of correlated materials (GO FAST)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The aim of this research project is to develop novel schemes to study electronic, optical and structural properties of correlated materials driven out of equilibrium , in view of achieving an ultrafast optical control of their electronic properties. In particular, we will extend the most advanced techniques for correlated systems, i.e. Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) and the Gutzwiller variatio ...
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Random and Integrable Models in Mathematical Phyiscs (RIMMP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The main goal of the present project is to put the theory of random matrices, random permutations and random walks in the context of the theory of integrable systems. This goal will be achieved by a significant progress in the theory of integrable systems and their perturbations, including its analytic, geometric and numerical aspects. Perturbative classification of integrable partial differential ...
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Random Matrices: a model for the Anderson Transition from String Theory (Weakly Confined RMT)

Start date: Sep 5, 2011, End date: Sep 4, 2014,

One of the new developments in theoretical physics of the past few years has been the application of concepts of string theory to condensed matter systems, the AdS/CFT duality being a prime example of it.Matrix models provide a similar opportunity. In fact, they are ubiquitous in virtually every branch of theoretical physics: from nuclear to condense matter physics, from 2-D quantum gravity to num ...
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Single Molecule Activation and Computing (FOCUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The present project, FOCUS, will build a novel generation of biologically inspired molecular devices (MDs) based on the developments of new photonic tools. These photonic tools will use Plasmon Polariton and two-photon technology, enabling focused light spots with a diameter around 10 nm. FOCUS will also develop new light sensitive molecules that will be selectively activated by our new photonic ...
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Frobenius Manifolds and Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations (FROM-PDE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The basic idea of the project is to apply methods and results of the theory of integrable systems to non-integrable PDEs. We do not promise to solve any PDE; however, in certain strongly nonlinear regimes, solutions to a conservative non-integrable PDE exhibit integrable behaviour. The realization of this idea, supported by some preliminary analytical and numerical results, will consist of three ...
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Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws: singular limits, properties of solutions and control problems (ConLaws)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The research program concerns various theoretic aspects of hyperbolic conservation laws. In first place we plan to study the existence and uniqueness of solutions to systems of equations of mathematical physics with physic viscosity. This is one of the main open problems within the theory of conservation laws in one space dimension, which cannot be tackled relying on the techniques developed in th ...
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