SEE CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE IN MATHEMATICS – INFORMATICS -

ENGINEERING (MAIN-EN)

Ivan DimovBulgarian Academy of

SciencesSofia

ESOF Open Forum 2004Stockholm, 26 August 2004

OutlineWho we are?Centre of Excellence program of EUSEE CoE in MAIN-EN groupGrids as a main infrastructure for scientific

applicationsStrategic Objectives and Functional

Priorities of BAS for the period until 2007

BAS HEADQUARTERS

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTUREORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The Academy is a national autonomous organization for basic and applied research performed by its 68 research institutes. It also has a membership of 129 Bulgarian and 85 foreign members.

Eligible to membership are senior research scientists and scholars, citizens of Bulgaria with outstanding contributions in their field of science.

GOALS AND TASKSGOALS AND TASKS

The Academy is dedicated to the furtherance of knowledge and its use for the general welfare.

The Academy acts as an expert body of the State in matters of scientific research and science in general.

Participates actively in major programs of national significance, the results of which are submitted to the Government, to state and industrial institutions.

Takes part in elaborating the country's scientific policy, its long term research programs and provides forecasts concerning the development of the country.

Engages in postgraduate and postdoctoral training, to an extent exceeding that of the Bulgarian Universities.

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Joint research centre

Human potential

Innovation, S&M enterprises

INCO

Nuclear energy

Energy & environment

Sustainable growth

Information society

Quality of life

number of projects

Projects with BG participation in FP5:Projects with BG participation in FP5:

Total number of financed projects: 154BAS 123

BG participation in NATO Scientific Programs

Year # of grants

1993 101994 111995 171996 181997 201998 481999 302000 28Total 182124 out of these 182 have been granted to BAS

Aims of the activity CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

To increase the capacity of participation of the high quality research centers in the Framework Program

To bring these centers closer to other excellent European research establishments by incorporating them into the network

34 Centres of excellence where selected in 2000

These 34 centres were distributed in 9 of 10 new Member States and in Bulgaria and Romania

23 of CoE belong to the Academy of Sciences

9 of them are established in Universities2 others in public research institutes

Achievements

Numerous links have been established between CoEs and other EU research institutions

Numerous scientific meetings have associated the researchers from these centres and their colleagues from EU

Scientists from EU have made numerous visits to teach and/or do research in the selected centres

Principle outcomes of the Community intervention

Good interaction of the countries in the framework program

Increasing the research capacity of centresActive participation in the 6-th FP (in 2003

the selected centres participated in more then 440 proposals, which averages at more than 13 proposals per center)

A brief information about SEE centers of Excellence

EURROMAT Institute of Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy

Coordinator: Dr. Radu PuriceCoordinator: Dr. Radu PuriceRomaniaRomaniahttp://www.imar.ro

European Integration of the Romanian Mathematical Research ActivityEuropean Integration of the Romanian Mathematical Research Activity

MISSOIN:

The organization at IMAR of a Centre for Advanced Studies in Mathematics (IMAR-CAS)

The organization of a number of Joint Research Groups gathering researchers from IMAR and from some leading European research centres

“HERMESHERMES” http://www.hermes.ucy.ac.cy

Center of Excellence on Computational Finance & EconomicsCenter of Excellence on Computational Finance & EconomicsUniversity of Cyprus

Prof. Stavros A. Zenios, Rector(& Hercules Vladimirou)School of Economics and ManagementUniversity of Cyprus

Mission:

Maintain international recognition as reputable research institute,

Further strengthen close collaborations with other European institutions,

Pursue research excellence of practical impact at scientific forefront in finance and economics.

Award of honorary doctorate to Prof. Harrry Markowitz(Nobel leaureate, Economics, 1990)

Computer and Automation Institute (CAI)

Hungarian Academy of SciencesCentre of Excellence for Automation and

Computer Sciences (HUN-TING)

Dr. Peter Inzelt - director, http://www.sztaki.hu/

Mission: Promote the high-tech I CT areas, to help implementing the Information Society:

Multimedia, picture processing, Multi-agent Systems, Grammar Systems Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Virtual-,Extended

Enterprise, CNN-, GRID-, High-performance Symbolic computing Diagnostics, Quality Control of Complex Systems Machine Computer Vision Biocybernetics, “ BIONICS”

MATHIASMathematics in Information Society

Mission: Fundamental research in mathematics, and transfer the accumulated knowledge to applied science and technology mainly in high (postgraduate or postdoctoral) level.

Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

BULGARIAN INFORMATION SOCIETYCENTER OF EXCELLENCE - BIS 21

Prof. Ivan DimovInstitute for Parallel ProcessingBulgarian Academy of Scienceshttp://www.bas.bg/clpp/index.html; http://saturn.

acad.bg/

Mission:Develop the Centre towards anleading research in:

• Parallel algorithms• Monte Carlo numerical analysis• Information technologies for

environmental protection• Human language technologies• Networks and GRIDs

BIS-21 Scientific developments Information Technologies for Emergency

Situations Forecast

Basic tool for:

• solving real-life problems in computer science, as well as problems of the modern society (ecological - see the picture on the right-hand side, where an information for the decision makers about the ozone pollution obtained using our computer cluster, is presented, mechanical and civil engineering, etc.);

• developing new tools for nuclear safety using recent results in mathematics (portraits of matrices).

What is GRID?

Computational Grids are based on applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single task at the same time - usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of high-speed computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data.

A computational grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent pervasive, and inexpensive access to high-end computational capabilities (I. Foster, C. Kesselman, 1998).

Grid computing requires the use of software that can divide and farm out pieces of a program to as many as several thousandhigh-speed computers.

GÉANT

DEISAEGEE

SEE-REN

SEE-GRID

Scientific applicationsScientific applications

SEESEE EUEU

BIS-21 Change of Quality

IPP BAS is one of the initiators and a co-founder of the recently established Bulgarian GRID Consortium, facing the priorities of FP6.

New Grid activities:

• EGEE project

• 31 867 K€ for 2 years

• The Largest infrastructure project in Europe (includes more than 20 000 CPUs)

• SEE-GRID project• 972 K€ – 1.5 years

• Includes SEE countries (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Turkey) + CERN.

• Main packages: Migration of existing applications; Developing new Grid applications

Problems and appeals

Excellence as major criterion for selection of new projects

New research capabilities for the FP7/new of EU and programmes of UNECSO, NATO, ESF, … Further support to research infrastructure and human resources at

EU level as well as at regional level GEANT + GRIDs + (New applications) Coordination of national and regional polices and programmes

Support to European Basic Research European expertise in mathematics and computer science Stimulating competition

Strategic Objectives and Functional Priorities of theBulgarian Academy of Sciences for the Period until

2007 • The mission of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is to

contribute to the development of world science in accordance with the human values, national traditions and interests and to assist the accumulation of the spiritual and material values of the nation.

This mission’s roots can be found in the first statutes of the Bulgarian Learned Society and are embedded in the today’s law and statutes of BAS.

In conformity with this mission the main strategic objective of BAS is as follows:

• To ensure and maintain the highest possible level of science, interdisciplinarity, international competitiveness and high national self-confidence in agreement with the needs of the socio-economic and spiritual development of the Bulgarian society and with the European and world trends in the organization of scientific research.

Improve the funding of science in Bulgaria both in terms of GDP and national budget share and the efficiency of funding;

To support the development of the Bulgarian society; To strengthen the national identity, historical and cultural

values originated by Bulgarian people on its land; To integrate intensively with the European programmes

and structures; To develop opportunities for scientific communication; To update and modernize the obsolete material basis and

equipment; To maintain the high level of qualification of Bulgarian

scientists; To decrease the brain-drain without affecting the

mobility of scientists.

Thank you for your attention