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Regional Potential project: CreteHEPCosmo

 

The Center is supported by an FP7-REGPOT-2008-1 grant CreteHEPCosmo with number 228644, from mid-2009 till mid-2012. Its purpose is to provide a boost to the competitiveness of the Center and establish links and research contacts with several prominent European institutions. 

The main thrust of this program is to

 Improve the research team by hiring young researchers, and improve the infrastructure of the Center

So far the following researchers have been hired on this grant

Rene Meyer (PhD University of Munich)

Matthew Lippert (PhD University of California, Santa Barbara)

Hong Bao Znang (PhD University of Beijing)

Vassilis Niarchos (PhD University of Chicago)

Matti Jarvinen (PhD University of Helsinki)

Takeshi Morita (PhD University of Kyoto)

Anastasios Taliotis (PhD University of Ohio)

Pavel Spirin (PhD Moscow University)



and at a shorter term the following Andrew O'Bannon (PhD University of Washington, Seattle)

Ioannis Papadimitriou, (PhD Princeton-Amsterdam)

Umut Gursoy, (PhD MIT)

Blaise Gouteraux, (PhD Orsay, Paris)

Daniel Arean. (PhD Santiago de Compostela)

Liuba Mazzanti, (PhD Milano-Ecole Polytechnique)



A computational cluster was also set up to perform the numerical calculations of the Center Researchers.

  Fund incoming and outgoing visits that will improve the Center's research potential

 Fund the organization of workshops and conferences. A cosmology workshop took place in spring 2010, a conference took place in September 2010, and a workshop took place in July 2012.

 Provide guidance and evaluation from an  Advisory Committee of senior scientists in the field.

The committee visited the Center in November 2009, and after interacting with the Center members established an initial report.

The list of European Institutions participating is

  Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC), Universite Paris 7, France.

  CERN, Theory Group, France/Switzerland.

  DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.

  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.

  Imperial College, London, UK.

  Israel Excellence Center for High Energy involving the groups of Ben Gurion University , Hebrew university, Tel Aviv University, Technion and Weizmann Institute of Sciences.

  Arnold Sommerfeld Institute, Munchen, Germany.

  Universita di Roma II, Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.

The list of publications of Center members from April 1 2009 till September 30 2010 can be found here.

The official coordinator of this program is Elias Kiritsis. His CV can be found here.