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NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Exchange visit at Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada and University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, for PhD student Arild Sundfjord

The NORKLIMA funded project CABANERA is a muliti-disciplinary project investigating the uptake and cycling of Carbon in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) of the Barents Sea. Similar investigations are being made on the opposite side of the Arctic Ocean, throug h the projects SBE, CASES and JWACS. PhD ...

Awarded: NOK 43,999

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Vestland

IKT2010-Grunnleggende IKT-forskning

Overseas fellowship for Eirik Rosnes

We apply for an overseas fellowship for Eirik Rosnes. The main goal is to do research at a high international level, produce journal publications, and strengthen contacts with world-leading experts in the fields of communication theory and error-control c oding. The candidate is currently a post...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Brave New Rings

The notion of a ring, or number system, is fundamental to mathematics. Modern algebraic topology has generalized the classical notion of a ring as it occurs in number theory or algebraic geometry, to encompass a larger class of "brave new rings" technical ly known as S-algebras. The generalizati...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Adaptive food web models

For almost a century, mathematical studies of ecosystem dynamics have been based on the Lotka-Volterra differential equation approach. This approach has been able to integrate different actors, such as resources, producers, predators, decomposers and dise ase vectors. The great success has, howev...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Emergent behavior of soft matter and complex systems

The project aims at increasing the fundamental understanding of the structure, interaction and collective processes on micro- to nano scales. The insights gained from advances in the physics of these complex processes have ramifications for problems in fi elds as diverse as biology, material engi...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Numerical simulation of dust lifting

This project focuses on numerical simulation of dense dust clouds by the Eulerian-Lagrangian method. Applications include a wide range of processes dependent on the behaviour of dense particle clouds or strands, e.g. gas cleaning with cyclones, pneumatic conveying, fluidized and rising beds, and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Polynuclear spin crossover compounds of Fe(II), Fe(III) and Co(II) with aromatic N-donor ligands

The design of molecule-based storage systems and switches is an important area in modern materials chemistry. Transition metal complexes exhibiting spin crossover behaviour is one group of molecules which has potential in the development of molecular elec tronic switches and displays. Spin crosso...

Awarded: NOK 0.51 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

THEORETICAL MODELING OF NANOMATERIALS FOR HYDROGEN STORAGE APPLICATIONS

Hydrogen as an energy carrier and other visions of the “hydrogen society” are especially attractive from an environmental point of view, the storage of large quantities required for most applications is a challenging. Over the fast few decades, a major ch allenge which still remains is to identif...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

BIOMOL-Molekylær biovitenskap og bioteknologi

Genetic dissection of maternal effects in early embryo and endosperm development

Seed development is an interplay of different tissues that execute different transcriptional programmes. By double fertilization two haploid sperm cells fuse with the haploid egg cell and the diploid central cell of the female gametophyte to produce the d iploid embryo and the triploid endosperm,...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

TU-Tungt utstyr

600 MHz NMR instrument

NMR instrumentet skal være dedikert til strukturanalyse av biologiske makromolekyler og benyttes av forskningsmiljøene i Oslo regionen, inklusiv NLH-Ås. Hovedsamarbeidspartnere er UiO, NVH og NLH. Instrumentet vil bli satt opp med muligheter for 1-4 dimen sjonale studier av biologiske makromoleky...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

TU-Tungt utstyr

High Resolution Hyphenated Mass Spectrometry System

The current application is for a high resolution hyphenated LC-MS and GC-MS system. Instrumentation, utilizing gas and liquid chromatographs, provide powerful analytical methods for separation and analysis of mixtures within the same system. Mass spectral data is now absolute requirement for sol...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Radiative forcing of climate change

Scientifically this proposal focuses on one selected topic within the research field of climate change, namely on the processes causing climate change. Gaps in the knowledge of this topic are significant and quantitative estimates of climate forcing are u ncertain in many cases. This proposal is ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Cluster Multi-Spacecraft Analysis of Boundary Layers

We aim to focus on Cluster's multi-spacecraft capabilities to get a better understanding of the physics of boundary layers. Partly based on existing informal cooperation between the Norwegian Cluster groups and the applicants current involvement ion the development of new multi-spacecraft meth...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Geomagnetic storms, and the identification of source and loss processes of ring current particles

This is a study of the geomagnetic storm with focus on the ring current. The aim is to identify the source and loss processes for the ring current particles. In order to perform this investigation a multi-observational approach will be used where the Clus ter satellites together with the NOAA sat...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Vestland

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

Tilskudd til Mittag-Leffler instituttet

The grant will fund the research programmes at the Mittag-Leffler institute. The Mitttag-Leffler institute has become a centre for research networks between Nordic and foreign research groups within mathematics. Here, young Nordic researchers are given a n opportunity to work closely with leadin...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Oslo

FRITEK-Teknologi

Hyperspectral image analysis

The new generation of earth observation sensors include hyperspectral sensors with a high number of spectral bands. Each pixel in a hyperspectral image with D spectral bands will result in a D-dimensional vector corresponding to the measured energy in dif ferent parts of the electromagnetic spect...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

F-INF-Naturvitenskap, informatikk

High Resolution Ultrasonic Array Imaging

This project is aimed to develop methods to improve image quality in ultrasonic array imaging using recent model based reconstruction methods for realistic array layouts. The drawback of the traditional delay-and-sum (DAS) based array focusing method---w hich requires the array pitch to be less ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

The influence of mantle processes on passive margin formation - a case study from the island of Zabargad, Red Sea, Egypt

Since the discovery of plate tectonics the study of the Red Sea rift system has played an important role in understanding how a continent splits. Despite the attention this area has attracted for years, many problems remain still open or are controversial . I. e.: (i) Did fluid infiltration and m...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Oslo

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

Operatoralgebraer (Operator algebras)

Operator algebras is a central area of mathematics with applications to several other mathematical disciplines and mathematical physics. The project aims at doing further research and education within operator algebras and closely related fields by a grou p consisting of Erik Alfsen, Erik Bedos, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

KONT-Kontingenter

ESF - Advanced Mathematical Methods for Finance (AMaMeF)

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Awarded: NOK 0.42 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

IKT2010-Grunnleggende IKT-forskning

Scalability and fault tolerance in content distribution networks

A stay at Waseda University is planned as part of a doctoral thesis. The stay at Waseda is planned for the period from September 2004 to August 2005. Funding from January 2005 to August 2005 is being applied for.

Awarded: NOK 83,999

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Karakterisering av virus assosiert med Hjertesprekk (CMS) og Hjerte- skjelettmuskel betennelse (HSMB)

Norsk lakseoppdrett er i betydelig grad påvirket av sykdommer med uklare årsaksforhold, noe som presser næringens små fortjenestemarginer i negativ retning. I denne gruppen sykdokmmer finner en blant annet hjertesprekk (Cardiac Myopathy syndrome, CMS), he morrhagisk diatese (Haemorrhagic smolt sy...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Vestland

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Coping with the NP-hardness: Parameterized and exact algorithms

The seminal observations from the late 1960s that many computational problems did not seem to have any efficient algorithm and could therefore not be solved in practice, has continued to guide the field of algorithms and computational complexity. Several methods for dealing with NP-hard problem...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Vestland

IKT2010-Grunnleggende IKT-forskning

Reliable And Secure Communication (RASC), Abroad Stay.

We refer to the general description of the project in the application 146874/420 (RASC), where we have a general description of the whole project. John Erik Mathiassen already work within the topic: "Analysis and design of secure, fast and practical encry ption algorithms". These algorithms is es...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Environmental impact and molecular regulation of the osmoregulatory gill during parr-smolt transformation in Atlantic salmon

High quality salmon smolts are critical for aquaculture, enhancement programmes and wild populations. Intensification of aquaculture smolt production and changes in natural habitats can cause degradation of environmental conditions, which may severely red uce smolt quality. The gill is critical i...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Theoretical, experimental and numerical studies of waves and turbulence in space plasmas

The project is directed towards studies of nonlinear wave phenomena and turbulence in space plasmas. One of the goals for the activity is the study of turbulent transport, with emphasis on turbulence in magnetized plasmas. The activity will contain an eff ort concentrated on studies of the turbul...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Investigation of the stormtime ring current using cluster and low-altitude NOAA data in conjunction with ENA images from the IMAGE satellite

This will be a joint project between the Space Physics Groupe at University of Bergen (UiB), Norway, and the Space Physics Group of the Space Department of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), USA. Dr. Pontus Brandt at JHU/AP L and professor Finn Søraas at UiB. JHU/A...

Awarded: NOK 64,999

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Auroral imaging from space to study solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling

Based on simultaneous conjugate global imaging from space by IMAGE FUV and Polar VIS Earth camera this project will resolve the following scientific questions: - Quantitatively determine how the IMF and Earths dipole tilt lead to twisting of the magnetota il, resulting in highly asymmetric conjug...

Awarded: NOK 85,000

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Oslo-Berkeley collaboration on CLUSTER-Svalbard data

The U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) is currently heavily involved in analysis of data from the Cluster ion composition instrument, the electric field instrument and the magnetic field instrument. The University of Oslo Group also cooperated with SSL in hardware and software developm...

Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Oslo

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av CO2-håndtering

CO2 storage for geological timescales – Thermodynamic and kinetic stability of dawsonite

This study is motivated by the need to better understand the potential role of dawsonite in CO2 sequestration scenarios. Towards this goal, the first kinetic studies of dawsonite were conducted by the authors during March-April 2004 in corporation with Er ic H. Oelkers at Université Paul Sabatier...

Awarded: NOK 0.93 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland