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Cross-Disciplianry Physics Department, IMEDEA IIMMEEDDEEAA CROSS DISCIPLINARY PHYSICS DEPARTMENT Strategic Plan 2005-2009 for the Area of Physical Sciences and Technologies: 0. Executive Summary 1. General Information on January 2005 Annex: Description of the lines of research 2. Resources 2000-2004 3. Activity during 2000-2004 4. Strategic Plan Annex 1: Personnel 2005 Annex 2: Publications 2000-2004 Annex 3: Research Projects since 2003 5. Actions to reach the objectives November 2005 http://www.imedea.uib.es/PhysDept Strategic Plan of the Area of Physical Sciences and Technologies of IMEDEA EXECUT IVE SUMMARY 1. Background. General information on the Cross-Disciplinary Physics Department of IMEDEA (DFI-IMEDEA), including reports of activities and on-line access to publications appears in the web page http://www.imedea.uib.es/physdept/ 1.1 Scientific Mission and Strategy: IMEDEA is a joint Institute between the CSIC and the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). DFI-IMEDEA was created in 1995 building up on a 1990 proposal of a “Complex Systems As sociated Unit” made to the CSIC by a group of researchers from the UIB. As its programmatic goal it aims to develop interdisciplinary and strategic research from the established practices of physicists, acknowledging that important avenues of scientific development occur at the borders of established fields. By interdisciplinary research we mean the general attitude of willing to transfer knowledge, concepts and methods across the borders between well established disciplines (not just the juxtaposition of experts from different fields). By strategic research we mean focusing in advanced studies in fields with strong future potential, avoiding incremental research as well as the “basic-applied” polarization. We therefore search for scientific windows of opportunity in emerging areas beyond the traditional subjects that defined Physics in the twentieth century. The research at DFI has a clear mark of identity devoted to the study of generic phenomena in Nonlinear Physics and Complex Systems, with methodologies taken from Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems Theory, Computational Methods and Quantum Mechanics. Descriptive keywords include, among others, synchronization, chaos, stochastic processes, Monte Carlo methods, excitability, pattern formation, critical and cooperative phenomena, information theory, or complex networks. From this common perspective, coherent strategies of research are articulated and relevant contributions are made also to specific aspects of Nonlinear Optical systems, Nanoscience, Fluid Dynamics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences 1.2 Scientific Personnel: 11 tenured researchers are presently assigned to DFI-IMEDEA (3 from CSIC and 8 from UIB). The essentially constant average number of postdocs and PhD students during the last years is 8 and 14 respectively. These include 3 senior 5-year postdoc contracts (Ramón y Cajal) plus an additional one to join DFI-IMEDEA in 2006. As indicators of mobility and international environment we mention that among the postdoctoral fellows since 1995 there have been 17 foreigners coming from 6 Western European and 3 Latin America countries. The proportion of predoctoral fellows coming from outside Spain for each year in the period 2000-2004 has been 5/10, 6/13, 7/14, 9/14, and 7/13, respectively, while the proportion of those who have not graduated at the local University is 8/10, 8/13, 9/14, 11/14, and 9/13, respectively. 1.3 Scientific output: The total number of publications in international SCI journals in the period 2000-2004 is 213, being the majority of them accessible directly from our web page http://www.imedea.uib.es/physdept/. A sample of representative publications by journal for this period is: Physical Review Letters: 24, Physical Review E: 46, Physical Review A: 17, IEEE journals: 16 Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA: 2. Nature: 1 In the period 2000-2004 a total of 70 invited talks in international conferences appear in the Annual Reports of activities available in http://www.imedea.uib.es/physdept/. 1.4 Funding: In the period 2000-2005 the researchers of DFI-IMEDEA have participated as partners (coordinating one) in 7 EC-Framework Program projects (RT Networks, IST Future and Emerging Technologies, and others). Presently they participate in 3 EC Networks of Excellence (ONCE-CS, EUR-OCEANS, BIOSIM). They have received national funding through main projects from the general basic science National Program for Physics, as well as from National Programs for Information Technologies and Natural Resources-Marine Sciences. They have also participated in a number of international bilateral projects as well as in networks and programs of the European Science Foundation. The grand total budget of live Projects (2004) obtained by researchers from DFI amounts to 1,623,000 €. This number should be put into context taking into account the theoretical nature of most of the activities. 1.5 DFI-IMEDEA in CSIC: Taking the different sections in Physical Review as a first approximation to the classification of subfields within Physics, an exploration for the period 2000-2004 identifies Phys. Rev. A and Phys. Rev. E as the two fields of Physics in which CSIC production is weakest (0.6% and 0.9% of the total), and thus those needing the greatest support within CSIC. In these two fields the contribution of DFI is a key one: 30% and 40%, respectively of CSIC total output. Taking Physical Review Letters as a reference journal for quality or impact, one finds that in the same period the DFI generates around 10% of the total CSIC output in this journal. To appreciate better the contribution of DFI-IMEDEA it is noteworthy to mention that DFI is one of the smallest units in the CSIC Physical Sciences and Technologies Area regarding the number of scientific personnel. Generally speaking, research in thematic areas associated with the modelling of complex phenomena is under-represented in the CSIC. The DFI represents a nucleation centre for the development of these thematic areas. The current interdisciplinary collaborations, in particular with scientists from other CSIC scientific areas, positions DFI-IMEDEA in a favourable situation regarding strategic inter-areas initiatives within the CSIC. 2. Lines of Research and Scientific Objectives In the evolving scheme assoc iated with the programmatic orientation of the DFI there is a unifying transverse line of research of a fundamental nature, which is the identity sign of the DFI. In addition the typical senior researcher participates in other focused lines with a subject defined by the systems under study. This collaborative organization is an alternative to static schemes with disjoint groups of researchers devoted exclusively to a line of research. Participation in the actual lines of research of the tenured and senior scientists is as follows: García - Research Lines Salvador Bal·le Montserrat Casas Pere Colet Emilio Hernández Cristóbal López Víctor M. Eguíluz Manuel Matías Claudio Mirasso Oreste Piro Maxi San Miguel LLorenç Serra Alessandro Scire Tomàs Sintes Raúl Toral 1) Complex Systems: Statistical and Non Linear Physics. X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 2) Non Linear Optics and Dynamics of Optoelectronic Devices. X X X X X 2) Quantum Information and Nanoscience . X X 4) Fluid Dynamics, Biofluids and Geophysical Fluids. X X X X 5) Biophysics and Nonlinear phenomena in Ecology and Physiology X X X X X X X X 6) Dynamics and Collective Phenomena of Social Systems. X X X Line 1: Complex systems: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: Backbone line of the activities of the DFI-IMEDEA. It is a well established transversal line at the basis of many other more focused research activities and projects. The general research topic is the development of methods, concepts and description of generic behaviour in nonlinear and complex systems. Associated with this line is the Beowulf computer cluster Nuredduna designed, built and maintained by the DFI. Associated with it is also de Nonlinear Physics-Electronic Laboratory. Funding for this general line is secured by the Spanish project CONOCE2 (Cooperation and nonlinear phenomena in extended complex systems 2, 2005-2008, PI: M. San Miguel, 302,500 €) with the participation of 11 out of the 14 researchers listed above. European collaborations are coordinated by the participation as a partner in ONCE-CS: “Open Network for Connecting Excellence in Complex Systems”, (reference FP6-IST-3-015539, 2005-2008) and the participation in the activities of the STOCHDYN program of the ESF. Proposal for the future: Maintain in its present levels emphasizing the studies on networks as a new central paradigm to understand the phenomenology of complex systems. Line 2: Nonlinear Optics and Dynamics of Optoelectronic Devices: This line is well established with large international visibility. Since 1998 it includes experimental activity in the study of the dynamics of semiconductor optical devices. The general research topic is the study of the light- matter non-linear interaction and its consequences towards applications in emerging photonics technologies: i) Dynamics of semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers, ii) Formation of spatial structures and its dynamics in optical cavities filled with nonlinear media. Funding for this line was obtained in the past from several EC projects (one IST-FET project as coordinators) and projects of the Spanish program on Information Technologies. Two applications to this program are presently under consideration (Vertical cavity devices for optical communications and
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