EU H2020 CSA-2015 proj n. 692194

RBI-T-WINNING

Twinning at Ruđer Bošković Institute

for a step forward of the

Theoretical Physics Division

Vinko Zlatić

Informativni dan Obzor2020,

Zagreb, 16-5-2017

H2020 - the Twinning call

• Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation

Type of action: Coordination and Support Actions

• H2020-TWINN-2015 for “widening countries”. Aims:

… significantly strengthen a defined field of research

in a particular knowledge institution … by

creating a link between this institution and at least

two internationally-leading research institutions

• Enhance the S&T capacity of the linked institutions; • Raise research profile of staff and whole institution

Savršeno za ZTF…

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RBI and DTP

RBI – Institut Ruđer Bošković

Glavni institute za prirodne i biomedicinske znanosti u

Hrvatskoj. 550 znanstvenika, 14 zavoda, 80 laboratorija

DTP - Division of Theoretical Physics (Zavod za Teorijsku Fiziku)

• 16 znanstvenika + 12 postdoktoranata/studenata.

dva nedavna FP7 FETOPEN projekta, jedan aktivan FETOPEN H2020, nekoliko HRZZ projekata, 3 ZCI.

1 • 5 istraživačkih smjerova na DTP:

1. Čestična fenomenologija 2. Astročestična - kozmologija 3. Matematička Fizika 4. Fizika Čvrstog Stanja 5. Statistička Fizika

DTP izazovi

• Promjena generacija, moramo biti privlačniji! • Svijet ide dalje, ne možemo ostati na mjestu!!! • Otvaranje novih područja? (Quantum

computing, biophysivcs) • Dosta suradnji – stare suradnje (PhD ili

postdoc veze) • Politika zapošljavanja (The only important scientific

strategy is employment strategy) • Evoulcija zavoda nakon smjene generacija.

DTP – Neki indikatori

Publikacije u vremenu! Želimo biti bolji!

Godina 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

N. of publications 21 24 34 17 23

Average IF 3.289 3.791 3.374 6.678 2.908

per publication

Publications in

5 (0)

collaborations within DTP 8 (0) 11 (2) 10 (2) 5 (0)

(and multidisciplinary) Visits to foreign institutions 23 31 22 21 18

Conference attendances 24 24 11 24 27

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DTP – Performance indicators

1. Number of papers and working papers produced in TPD during the project. Increase in this number will indicate strengthened research activity and improved scientific capacity.

2. Average impact of publications in this period. Increase of this indicator would indicate improvement in the quality of research in TPD.

3. Number of joint collaborations within TPD during the project. Increase of this indicator will show stepping up of research critical masses in TPD.

4. Number of joint collaborations between TPD and Twinning partners. Increase of this indicator will show strengthening of TPD collaborative potential in the most important research questions of modern theoretical physics.

5. Number of visits and seminars in TPD. Increase of this indicator will demonstrate exposure to new ideas and should correlate with indicators 1 and 2.

6. Number of international conferences attended. Increase of this indicator will show increased visibility of the research done in TPD.

7. Number of events offered to the local community, as a measure of the role of TPD and RBI in the Croatian science and general public, which should correlate with an increase attractivity of RBI as the elective choice for the best students.

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DTP - Neki indikatori

Publikacije u vremenu! Želimo biti bolji!

Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

N. of publications 21 24 34 17 23

Average IF 3.289 3.791 3.374 6.678 2.908

per publication

Publications in

5 (0)

collaborations within DTP 8 (0) 11 (2) 10 (2) 5 (0)

(and multidisciplinary) Visits to foreign institutions 23 31 22 21 18

Conference attendances 24 24 11 24 27

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DTP - Neki indikatori

Publikacije u vremenu! Želimo biti bolji!

Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

N. of publications 21 24 34 17 23

Average IF 3.289 3.791 3.374 6.678 2.908

per publication

Publications in

5 (0)

collaborations within DTP 8 (0) 11 (2) 10 (2) 5 (0)

(and multidisciplinary) Visits to foreign institutions 23 31 22 21 18

Conference attendances 24 24 11 24 27

Publikacije – nismo baš tako loši :) (partial list)

5-YEAR IF Subject Category

N. of articles DTP

Journal published (2010.-

(JCR 2012) (JCR 2012)

2014.)

Nature 38.597 physics, multidisciplinary 1

Nano Letetrs 13.03 physics, multidisciplinary 1

Nano Communications 10.02 physics, multidisciplinary 1

Physical Review Letters 7.728 physics, multidisciplinary 3

Physical Review D 4.846 physics, particles & fields 16

Physics Letters B 6.019 physics, multidisciplinary 9

Journal of High Energy Physics 6.220 physics, particles & fields 12

New Journal of Physics

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DTP - Neki indikatori

Publikacije u vremenu! Želimo biti bolji!

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2016 (pod Twinningom) 41 gostovanje stranih znanstvenika na Ruđeru 41 putovanje naših znanstvenika 31 konferencija 2 internacionalne konferencije organizirane

2016 (bez Twinninga) 12 konferencija 44 putovanja 1 knjiga Springer (Autor) 2 knjige Springer (Editor)

2016 obnova 4 natječaja za znanstvenog suradnika 24 međunarodna kandidata

Projekt

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RBI-T-WINNING

• Buđet: 1M€, 3 godine (~200k€ overhead)

• Prihvačen (rank 14/15). • Akcije: predavanja, konferencije i posjete.

• 5 partnera

Konzorcij

International School of Advanced Studies - Trieste

• Scuola Internazionale di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) (from 1978)

• One of the two Italian "excellence schools" (~250 PhD students)

• Highly qualified teaching, interdisciplinarity, internationalization.

• Astroparticle physics, Astrophysics, Condensed Matter,

Mathematical physics, Statistical Physics.

Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d’Orsay

• LPT - Joint center of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

and Université Paris-Sud

• Internationally recognised research, coordinated several EU projects

• Particle physics, cosmology and gravitation, mathematical physics

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Konzorcij

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet - Munich

• LMU, XV century - one of Europe's and world most

prestigious universities (34 Nobel).

• Munich Universe Cluster, LMU, TUM and several Max-Planck institutes

• We twin with Arnold Sommerfeld Center, hosting

prof. D. Lust, Chair of Mathematical Physics, and prof. G. Dvali, Chair of Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics

Niels Bohr Institute - Copenhagen

• A world famous institute in theoretical physics.

• we connect with Center for Models of Life, world recognized

to be on the forefront of theoretical and mathematical biology.

• For instance, models for genetic regulation, evolution and

ecosystem dynamics based on methods of theoretical physics.

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Radni Plan

1. WP1 Učenje

T1.1 Organising educative events in Croatia T1.2 Attending educative events

2. WP2 Unaprijeđivanje znanstvenog profila

T2.1 Organising research events T2.2 Supporting and promoting collaborations T2.3 Attending conferences T2.4 Developing mutual research ideas

and discuss future DTP research strategy 3. WP3 Regionalni utjecaj

T3.1 Outreach to students. T3.2 Feedback on local community

4. WP4 Diseminacija

T4.1 Publications T4.2 Presentations T4.3 Outreach

5. WP5 Management

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WP1: Učenje

Organizacija znanstvenih škola:

• Multi-topic school Y2 @ RBI :

Standard model + Beyond the SM,

Hot problems in Cosmology and Astroparticle physics,

Advanced methods of mathematical physics,

Hands-on School on Electronic Structure methods

• Statistical physics school Y2 @ RBI

Sudjelovanje u školama:

• Staff will attend lectures abroad Y1-Y2.

and two schools: QCD @ Orsay Statistical

physics @ Les Houches

• Grand series of lectures @RBI … Y1-Y3

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WP1:Predavanja @RBI

SISSA experts (32h)

- Selected topics of SM and BSM (A. Romanino 4h) - Salucci 4h (Dark Matter in galaxies theory and observations) - Lapi 4h (Structure formation) - Danese 2h (Cosmology and high redshift probes, supermassive black hole phenomenology). - Dirac operator (Dabrowski) (4h) - Vector bundles and applications to topological quantum field theory (U. Bruzzo) (4h) - Noncommutative Geometry and the Standard model (K. van Dungen) (4h) - Solid state - Topics in Numerical Modelling of Materials (S. De Gironcoli) (6h, 3 lectures)

LPT experts (38h)

- Strong and weak interactions in the SM (A. Abada, S. Descotes-Genon or D. Becirevic) - Extensions of the Standard Model (A. Abada and/or D. Becirevic) - Flavour physics in the quark sector (S. Descotes-Genon and/or D. Becirevic) - Flavour physics in the lepton sector, neutrino in particle physics and cosmology (A. Abada) - QCD in the nonperturbative regime (D. Becirevic and/or S. Descotes-Genon) - Selected topics in perturbative QCD (S. Wallon) - Selected topics of Noncommutative geometry, algebraic methods and differential calculus

(JC Wallet, M. Dubois-Violet)

LMU experts (22h)

- RBI Institute colloquium (G. Dvali);

- EFT methods at the LHC (G. Buchalla)

- Lectures on Conformal Field Theory (R. Blumenhagen) (6h)

- Lectures on Scattering amplitudes in SYM using the Grassmannian formulation and the

amplituhedron (L. Ferro) (6h)

- RBI Institute colloquium, D. Lüst

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- Black-brane solutions in gauged supergravity (M. Haack), (2h)

WP2: unaprijeđivanje znanosti

• Joint organization (at least six events)

Two workshops: - hep phenomenology Y1@LPT

- QCD Y3 @RBI

Four conferences:- astroparticle physics Y3

- solidstate physics Y3 @RBI - mathematical physics Y1 @SISSA + Y3

• Supporting collaborations (visits and invitations)

• Attending conferences/giving seminars

• Developing mutual research ideas

and defining future DTP research strategy

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Utjecaj

WP3 Regionalni utjecaj

Outreach to students (e.g. inviting to lecture/schools)

Feedback on local research community

(open events/colloquia)

WP4 Diseminacija

Publications + Seminars

Outreach to general public (e.g. public talks)

WP5 Management - the hearth of the project.

(WP leaders - Management Board - Adm. Assistant)

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DTP - RBI - SSS - Others

our twins

PMF

UniZagreb

Wide regional environment

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Feedback on Twinning

• Impact on regional environment -

we would like to support/invite external students.

• Excellence follows also from competitive (salary) offers.

But CSA do not contribute to it (e.g. no postdocs).

• Limited involvement of external institutions

(hard to invite other conference speakers)

• Most of the actions targeted to main node…

Most budget and man-months in RBI…

For a theory project - this puts a lot of effort on staff…

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Staff effort / max involvement

Total Person/

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 Months per

Participant

RBI/1 1.20 1.24 0.6 1 39 43.04

SISSA/2 0.30 0.22 0 0.02 0.12 0.66

LPT/3 0.43 0.29 0 0 0.12 0.84

LMU/4 0.24 0 0 0 0.12 0.36

NBI/5 0.15 0 0 0 0.12 0.27

Total 2.32 1.75 0.60 1.02 39.48 45.17 Organization

Person/Months

Total Person/

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 Months per

Participant

4m/y/person (RBI)

RBI/1 38 92 3.5 84.5 38 257.0

SISSA/2 5 32.5 0.2 9.75 0.5 47.7

LPT/3 4.5 16.75 0.2 6.35 0.5 28.3

1m/y/pers (nodes)

LMU/4 2.5 10.25 0.2 2.6 0.5 16.1

NBI/5 2.5 4 0.1 2.6 0.5 9.7

Total 53.5 155.3 4.2 105.8 40.0 358.8 Attendance

Person/Months

…quite ambitious program ! 16

Što istražujemo?

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Fizika Čvrstog Stanja

Topics:

Ab initio calculations in materials science.

Search for novel materials, in particular van

der Waals heterostructures

(layered structures of different vdW materials – such as

Graphene, Molybdenum disulfide)

Expertise (SISSA): Development of ab

initio (density functional theory)

codes and functionals, in particular

the functionals for the vdW interaction.

see lecture by Stefano De Gironcoli (SISSA) 18

Complex systems and Statistical Physics

Example activity:

Applications of stochastic networks to cyber security,

Evolutionary game theory,

Metal-insulator transition, Quantum computing

Goal: To learn about bio-networks and formulate 2-3 good

research questions to help transition to this direction of

research. (NBI)

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Čestična fizika

Standard Model:

• Precision calculations! • Quantum chromodynamics

• Flavour Physics

• Higgs physics (LPT, LMU)

Beyond the Standard Model

• More fundamental theory? • New signals from LHC?

• Neutrinos need a theory

• Dark matter needs a theory

(SISSA, LPT)

see lecture by Sébastien Descotes Genon(LPT) 20

Astročestice: misterije kozmosa

• Dark Matter: Galaxies and theory of Gravitation tell us that there exist a mysterious kind of invisible matter…

…with puzzles challenging theorists

• Or maybe we must modify the theory of gravitation?

• Also the observation of the deep

cosmos challenges us.

…structure formation Andromeda

(SISSA) (LPT)

see lecture by Paolo Salucci (SISSA) 21

Astročestice: misterije kozmosa

• Dark Matter: Galaxies and theory of Gravitation tell us that there exist a mysterious kind of invisible matter…

…with puzzles challenging theorists

• Or maybe we must modify the theory of gravitation?

• Also the observation of the deep

cosmos challenges us.

…structure formation Andromeda

(SISSA) (LPT)

see lecture by Paolo Salucci (SISSA) 21

Matematička Fizika

• Example: an open problem is How to unify Einstein's

theory of General Relativity with Quantum Physics? • Hypothesis: Is classical space-time insufficient?

…study generalized or non-commutative geometry.

…no more point particles but extended objects like strings and branes.

• Approach – Generalize the

concept of symmetries in

new geometrical picture:

dualities, non-commutative

gauge theories, holography,

higher algebra structure. Mathematical physics (M.C. Escher)

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Last – kako smo to izveli

Brza suradnja s drugim institucijama!

DTP staff - in particular:

Fabrizio Nesti, Kornelija Passek-Kumerički , Vinko Zlatić

and Željko Crljen, Larisa Jonke, Blaženka Melić,

Tajron Juric, Predrag Lazić

IRB director i.e. Tome Antičić i Neven Soić and project offices

i.e. Vanja Komljenović Lončar

U stvari,

Projekt je osmišljen, diskutiran i napisan za 1 mjesec

…kolektivni uspjeh DTP-a.

http://rbi-t-winning.irb.hr/ 24

Gantt timeline

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Overall program

1. WP1 Updating knowledge

T1.1.1 SCHOOL multi-topic Y2 @RBI

T1.1.2 SCHOOL statist phys Y1 @ RBI

T1.2.1 Grand series of lectures @RBI Y1-Y2

T1.2.2 Attending lectures abroad Y1-Y2

T1.2.3 SCHOOL statist phys @ NBI

T1.2.4 SCHOOL QCD @ orsay

2. WP2 Improving research profile

T2.1.1 WORKSHOP phenomen. Y1 @ORS

T2.1.2 WORKSHOP QCD Y3 @RBI

T2.1.3 CONFERENCE astroparticle Y3

T2.1.4 CONFERENCE solidstate Y3 @RBI

T2.1.5 CONFERENCE mathphys Y1 @SISSA

T2.1.6 CONFERENCE mathphys Y3

T2.2 Supporting collaborations (visits)

T2.3 Attending conferences

T2.4 Mutual research ideas

3. WP3 Regional Impact

T3.1 Outreach to students.

T3.2 Feedback on local community

4. WP4 Dissemination

T4.1 Publications

T4.2 Presentations

T4.3 Outreach 5. WP5 Management

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