Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems
German Research Foundation Extends Funding for Collaborative Research Center at Freie Universität Berlin. The collaborative research center CRC 1114: Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems based at Freie Universität Berlin has received a funding extension of four years. The news was recently announced by the German Research Foundation in Bonn. This funding will allow the participating scientists from meteorology, geology, biochemistry, mathematics, and physics to continue their work on modeling and simulation technologies for predicting earthquakes and high precipitation, for example. The joint speakers for the collaborative research center are Dr. Marita Thomas from the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics and Dr. Frank Noé, professor of Artificial Intelligence for the Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. Participating institutions include the University of Potsdam, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, German Research Center for Geosciences, Zuse Institute Berlin, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Two collaborative research centers in which Freie Universität Berlin is involved were also granted funding extensions: "Mechanisms and Disturbances in Memory Consolidation: From Synapses to Systems" based at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and "Matrix in Vision" at Charité - Universitätsmedizin, the joint medical faculty of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität.
