Steel spheres move on a plate. The “thermostat ” is a vibrating wall, following a sine law with frequency 20 Hz . Weak gravity (the plate has a small angle of inclination) draws the spheres toward the vibrating wall. In 5 minutes, slowly increasing the amplitude, the many “phases” of a granular material are explored, from an almost perfect crystal, through several liquid/turbulent/convective regimes, up to a gas-solid coexistence.… Read the rest
| Founding Body: | Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) |
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| Total grant: | € k |
| Principal Investigator: | José Lorenzana |
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| Project duration: | 2010-2013 |
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| Founding Body: | European Union (FET Open) |
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| Total grant: | € k |
| Principal Investigator: | Guido Caldarelli |
| Other participants: | University of Ancona, ETH Zurich, University of Oxford, City University, Barcelona Media Lab, ECB |
| Project duration: | 2010-2013 |
| Website: | www.focproject.eu |
| Founding Body: | MIUR FIRB |
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| Total grant: | € 19k |
| Principal Investigator: | Sergio Brutti & Annalisa Paolone |
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| Project duration: | 2010-2017 |
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| Founding Body: | Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE) |
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| Total grant: | € k |
| Principal Investigator: | Alessandro Torcini |
| Other participants: | CNR ISC Thomas Kreuz |
| Project duration: | 2010-2020 |
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Synchronization is a long known phenomenon dating back to Huygens experiments who observed that suspending two pendula “…in the same wooden beam, the motions of each pendulum in opposite swings were so much in agreement that they never receded the least bit from each other and the sound of each was always heard simultaneously“. In spite of the early discovery, the phenomenon was fully understood much later with the experiments and theoretical analysis of E.… Read the rest
| Founding Body: | AirForce Office for Scientific Research – USA |
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| Total grant: | $ 400k |
| Principal Investigator: | Andrea Cavagna |
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| Project duration: | 2010-2014 |
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| Founding Body: | Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Seed Project 2009 |
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| Total grant: | € 650k |
| Principal Investigator: | Irene Giardina |
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| Project duration: | 2010-2013 |
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| Founding Body: | European Research Council – ERC Starting Grant 2010 |
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| Total grant: | € 1100k |
| Principal Investigator: | Irene Giardina |
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| Project duration: | 2010-2015 |
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