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FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Geometric Numeric Integration in Applications

I GeNuIn-prosjektet ser vi på simulering og modellering av flerlegemedynamikk og på problemer som oppstår innenfor biomedisinsk bildebehandling. Vårt hovedmål er å komme fram til mer nøyaktige og pålitelige datamaskinsimuleringer av de fysiske fenomenene vi studerer ved å utnytte kvalitative egen...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

The Ritland impact crater - Appearance and mechanisms of formation

The objectives of the project will be met by detailed studies in the field, laboratory analyses and numerical modelling. The field studies will cover the impact rocks, the fractured basement rocks and the post-impact crater infill sequence, including sear ch for ejected material. We will utilise ...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND SOFT MATERIALS

Nano-scale complexity in materials is a vast field and includes a wide range of systems across many scientific disciplines. We concentrate here on project areas where integrated efforts can bring the activity beyond the state-of-the-art and reach a world- leading level. We have selected a set of ...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Akershus

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Properties of carbon cone particles and nanocarbon materials

Nanokarbon partikler, slik som karbon kjegler, skiver og rør, har interessante anvendelser for å lage ny materialer med skreddersydde mekaniske og elektriske egenskaper. Karbon kjegler, som er den minst utforskede form av slike karbonpartikler, har blitt undersøkt ved bruk av bl.a. transmisjonse...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Akershus

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Strength and rheological evolution of the lower continental crust

The project will study the processes of deformation and the mechanical strength in the lower continental crust. To date, it is unclear whether this part of the crust behaves as a rigid part of the lithosphere or whether it is mechanically much weaker than the upper mantle so that deformation may...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

SPEAR - a high power ionospheric modification facility for Svalbard

SPEAR (Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar) is a new 25 MNOK multi-purpose facility that exploits high power radio technology in a completely new way. It is a ground-based HF radar with the capability of artificially modifying the upper atmosphere, a t different altitudes, in a controlled ma...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Svalbard

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Analytic calculations of higher-order molecular properties

I prosjektet har det blitt utviklet en meget generell formalisme og et fleksibelt dataprogram for analytisk beregning av høyere-ordens molekylære egenskaper ved bruk av tetthetsfunksjonalteori. Dette arbeidet har gjort det mulig å presentere de første beregninger av sannsynligheten for samtidig a...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

The kinetics of surface exchange reactions in oxide based mixed conductors at reducing conditions and high temperatures.

The development of cost-effective solid oxide fuel cells and dense ceramic membrane-based reactor and separation technologies is of considerable interest for application in advanced natural gas-based power production and hydrogen production. Common for al l these technologies is the need for oxid...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Responsive (bio)polymer matrices as Fabry-Perot cavities: A versatile platform for development of nanostructured (bio)polymer materials

The project focuses on determination of high resolution swelling data of responsive, soft (bio)polymer materials by the application of an optical interferometric technique with nanometer precision in changes of the optical length of the soft materials. Ba sically, the responsive hydrogel material...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Chemical determinants of binding to ATP dependent enzymes and chemical library design

Mange krefttyper og andre sykdommer kan behandles ved inhibering av enzymer som har blitt overaktiv. Menneskelige celler er stortsett sammensatt av proteiner. Disse kjedene med hundre til tusenvis av aminosyre-"byggeklosser" bretter seg i spesifike former når de settes sammen, som åpner for deres...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

25th Nordic and 1st British-Nordic congress of Mathematicians

Since the congress in Odense in 2000, the Nordic congress has been arranged with joint participation of a mathematical society belonging to some non-Nordic country. The congress in 2000 was arranged together with the American Mathematical Society and th e congress in Reykjavik in 2005 was a joi...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Mantle forcing of Earth surface evolution in Europe and the Mediterranean: From Past to Present

Surface deformation, in particular topography evolution, results from a complex coupled dynamic system in which mantle processes (e.g. global mantle currents, plate subduction and collision) interact with surface processes (e.g. erosion, sedimentation, se a-level change, or (de)glaciation). The i...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Nanopatterned Superconductors for Energy and ICT Applications

This project addresses key questions and challenges in modern research on superconductors as important materials for energy transport/storage and electronic devices. In any such application the central issue is how to avoid motion of the Abrikosov vortice s, which represent both energy loss and e...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Planetary Boundary Layer Feedback in the Earths Climate System

The lower atmosphere and the upper ocean are turbulent or chaotic. The turbulence transports heat, moisture/aerosols from the surface, where solar radiation is absorbed and moisture/pollution fluxes are originated, to the atmosphere. For 50 years, turbule nt mixing has been recognized as one of t...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

The Emergence of an Aerobic World - Drilling Early Earth Project.

The development of new analytical techniques, and improved models for planetary evolution have intensified research into the evolution of the Earth and targeted several critical time intervals, particularly when the biosphere and geosphere were experienci ng global-scale changes. The current prop...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Third European Permafrost Conference 2010 in Svalbard

We aim to be able to host the Third European Conference on Permafrost, EUCOP III in 2010 in Svalbard at UNIS. EUCOP have been held twice before in Europe outside the Arctic, but we want to focus on the European permafrost in the Arctic, by arranging this conference in Svalbard, where during the I...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Svalbard

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Dynamics and entanglement in quantum optical systems

Quantum optics deals with the quantum nature of light and its interaction with matter. Substantial experimental progress has been made in this field during the last thirty years, including demonstrations of quantum entanglement, squeezed states and single photon emitters. Quantum optical systems...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Electronic and electrical properties of carbon cone materials

The use of carbon structures, as carbon nanotubes, in coatings, electrodes, light-harvesting devices and sensors is a growing research field. Carbon cone materials are recognized as a novel type of carbon, consisting of nano- to micrometer sized particles with the shape of disks and cones. The ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods

The numerics group at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology has been invited to be the local organizer of the 8th International Conference On Spectral And High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM) in Trondheim, Norway, during the period June 22-26, 2009...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Nitrogen in Oxides, NITROX

The NITROX research project addresses a novel field in high temperature solid-state ionics; effects of nitrogen defects in oxides. This initiative is timely in view of the need for development of technologies for cleaner energy conversion and the emerging field of nano ionics. The principal obje...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Dynamical and statistical aspects of Self-organized criticality

In 1987 physicists P. Bak, C. Tang and K. Wiesenfeld (BTW) discovered that there exists a broad class of non-linear dynamical systems, with many degrees of freedom, that exhibit self-affine statistical characteristics similar to what is observed in eq uilibrium systems at critical points. Co...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Operator algebras

The operator algebra group is a national network with members from the University of Oslo (UiO), Oslo University College (HiO) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The present project aims at conducting research in leading are as of operator algebras, strengthening a...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Spatial and temporal coupling between tectonics and surface processes during lithosphere inversion of the Pyrenean-Cantabrian mountain belt

While there is significant progress in understanding first order controls on styles of rifting and passive margin formation, still relatively little is known about factors that control the structural style of inversion of these structures. Especially the importance of structural weaknesses forme...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Timescales of sediment dynamics, climate and topographic change in mountain landscapes (SedyMONT) - Erdalen and Bødalen site project

The focus of this Norwegian Individual Project (IP 5) within SedyMONT is on the Erdalen and Bødalen catchments (tributary streams) in Nordfjord, western Norway. Both valleys provide, based on the ongoing research in both catchments, excellent opportunitie s to integrate existing and detailed quan...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

TopoScandiaDeep; The Scandinavian Mountains: deep processes

Mountains form mostly at convergent or strike-slip margins and are not expected to form in intraplate settings. Uplift occurred however in various places around the North Atlantic after continental breakup, leading in particular to the Northern and Southe rn Scandinavian mountains. The aim of the...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

A model for the natural vortex length in centrifugal separators

The aim of this project is to formulate a knowledge-based model for the "natural vortex length" in reverse-flow centrifugal separators, to replace the well-known and much used, but seriously inadequate, empirical model of Alexander from 1949. The "natural vortex length" is the length between the...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Topology

Topology is the study of shapes and spaces. The methods developed in topology have wide consequences also for other fields in that many problems can be encoded by means of spaces (examples range from space itself and phase spaces in physics to classifyin g spaces in algebra). A fascinating new ...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Nonlinear Problems in Mathematical Analysis

The project aims to strengthen and further develop basic research within the group of researchers in classical analysis and differential equations at NTNU. Situated at Norway's premier engineering school, the research team of this project has as its visio n to - operate in the two-way street be...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Study of Rare B Decays

In the ATLAS experiment we want to perform the first study of the very rare B decay Bs -> mu+mu- using a multivariate analysis technique. The resullts provide another important test of the Standard Model. We will validate our analysis procedure on the exc lusive decays Bs->J/psi psi and B ->J/psi...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

CRYOLINK Permafrost and seasonal frost in Southern Norway; understanding and modelling the atmosphere-ground temperature coupling

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in Arctic and high-mountain regions. Above the natural tree line Norway is characterised by a modern Arctic environment, and the modern southern boundary for Scandinavian permafrost is located in the mountain s of Southern Norway. Permafrost and seas...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

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