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Progress Report 2008–2009 We owe special thanks to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for its financial support for numerous projects of the research facilities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Copyright © 2009 by Austrian Academy of Sciences Layout: Art Quarterly Publishing House Werbe- und PR-Agentur GmbH. Printed and bound: Wograndl 3 Table of contents Preface . 5 RESEARCH FACILITIES OF THE SECTION FOR MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCES Biology and Medicine CeMM – Research Center for Molecular Medicine GmbH . 11 Breath Research Institute . 14 GMI – Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology . 18 IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology GmbH . 22 Institute for Biomedical Aging Research . 26 Institute for Biophysics and Nanosystems Research . 30 Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology . 34 Earth Sciences Institute for Geographic Information Science . 37 Center for Geosciences . 40 Commission for the Palaeontological and Stratigraphical Research of Austria . 42 Commission for Geophysical Research . 45 Commission for Quaternary Research . 48 Commission for Basic Research on Mineral Raw Materials . 51 Mathematics, Simulation and Metrology Institute for Integrated Sensor Systems . 55 Acoustics Research Institute . 58 Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics . 61 Commission for Scientific Visualization . 65 Physics and Materials Sciences Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science . 68 Institute of High Energy Physics . 71 Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information . 74 Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physic. 77 Environmental Research Institute for Limnology . 80 Institute of Technology Assessment . 83 Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies . 86 Space Research Space Research Institute . 89 Commission for Astronomy . 92 Interdepartmental Research Tasks Commission for Scientific Co-operation with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports . 94 Commission for the History of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Medicine . 96 RESEARCH FACILITIES OF THE SECTION FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Centre for Ancient World Studies (CAWS) Commission for Egypt and the Levant . 101 Commission for Ancient Literature and Latin Tradition . 104 Commission for the History of Ancient Law . 107 Commission for Editing the Corpus of the Latin Church Fathers . 110 Asia Minor Commission . 113 Institute for the Studies of Ancient Culture . 116 Commission for Mycenaean Studies . 119 Numismatic Commission . 122 Prehistoric Commission . 125 Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology (CSACSA) Institute for Iranian Studies . 129 4 Table of contents Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia . 132 Institute for Social Anthropology . 135 Centre for Cultural Research (CCR) AAC – Austrian Academy Corpus . 138 Commission for the Edition of a Text Dictionary of „Die Fackel“ (Fackellex) . 141 Institute of Culture Studies and History of the Theatre . 143 Commission for the History of Art . 145 Commission for Music Research . 148 Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) Institute for Byzantine Studies . 151 Institute for Medieval Research . 154 Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture . 157 Commission of Paleography and Codicology of Medieval Manuscripts in Austria . 161 Centre for Research on Modern and Contemporary History (CMC) Commission for the History of the Habsburg Monarchy . 164 Historical Commission . 168 Austrian Biographical Encyclopaedia and Biographical Documentation . 171 Commission for Austrian Legal History . 174 Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC) Vienna Institute of Demography . 177 Institute for European Integration Research . 180 Institute for European Tort Law . 183 Institute for Mountain Research: Man and Environment . 185 Commission for Migration and Integration Research . 188 Institute for Urban and Regional Research . 190 Commission for Comparative Media and Communication Studies . 192 Centre for Linguistics and Audiovisual Documentation (LAVD) Commission for Balkan-Studies . 195 Commission of Linguistics and Communication Research . 198 Institute of Lexicography of Austrian Dialects and Names . ..