Grants-Networking
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
Fund incoming and outgoing visits that will improve the Center's research potential
Fund the organization of workshops and conferences.
A workshop is planned for spring 2010,
a conference for September 2010, and a further workshop in 2012.
Provide guidance and evaluation from an
Advisory Committee of senior scientists in the field.
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.
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 official coordinator of this program is Elias Kiritsis.
More information can be found in the webpage of the project .
Research Networks
The Center is coordinating the participation of Greek Scientists in the ESF network "HoloGrav"
that coordinates efforts in the research area of the AdS/CFT correspondence
(also known as gauge/gravity duality) worldwide. All major teams around the world are included.
The webpage of the Greek teams can be found here.
The Center is a participating institution of the String Vacuum Project.
The purpose of this international effort is to bring together tools
from string theory, mathematics and computer science on order to
explore the vacua of string theory and their comparison with the
observable universe. So far this project has been funded as a collaborative project only in
the USA.
Collaborating and Twined Institutes
The Center has fostering closes ties and has or is developing collaboration agreements with the following research institutes and organizations.
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.
Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC), Universite Paris 7, France.
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.
Israel Excellence Center for High Energy involving the groups of
Ben Gurion University , Hebrew university,
Tel Aviv University, Technion and
Weizmann Institute of Sciences.
Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium.
Arnold Sommerfeld Institute, Munchen, Germany.
INFN, Italy.
Institute of The Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU),
Kashiwa Campus, Tokyo, Japan.
Perimeter Institute,
Waterloo, Canada.