[CAnet - news] eScience for nano technlogy, neurology and automobile pollution

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[Excerpts from www.GridToday.com -- BSA]


  Research into three major scientific and technological challenges is 
  to receive a major boost from the application of e-Science and Grid 
  computing. The challenges are: understanding the brain; mapping the 
  detailed environmental impact of traffic; and designing 
  future-generation nano-scale electronic circuits. 
  
  The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and 
  other funding partners have awarded more than  13 million to three, 
  three-to-four-year projects covering each of these topics in the third 
  round of the EPSRC's e-Science program.
  
   
  
  * Understanding the brain
  The  4.5 million CARMEN project, led by Colin Ingram at the University 
  of Newcastle upon Tyne, will harness e-Science techniques to enable 
  neuroscientists, working on different aspects of brain function at 
  different labs, to share and integrate their data and models.          
             
  Neuroscientists use many different techniques to unravel the processes 
  within individual neurons (brain or nerve cells) or the interactions 
  between networks of neurons that lead to thoughts and behavior. The 
  techniques are time-consuming, difficult and expensive, but 
  researchers rarely record their data or models so that they can be 
  used by other labs or research groups. CARMEN will help maximize the 
  output from investment in brain science by enabling neuroscientists to 
  archive their data so that they can be retrieved and analysed in new 
  ways by others.
  
  
  * Environmental impact of traffic
  Traffic makes a significant contribution to air pollution in inner 
  cities. Governments devise policies and traffic management schemes to 
  minimize the impact of air pollution. More detailed knowledge of how 
  traffic-generated pollution behaves in the urban environment could 
  greatly enhance these policies and schemes. Factors such as street and 
  building design, vehicle braking and accelerating patterns, individual 
  traveler decisions and local weather conditions affect the 
  concentration of pollutants that individuals are exposed to as they 
  move around. The  3.5 million PMESG (Pervasive Mobile Environmental 
  Sensor Grids) project, led by John Polak at Imperial College London, 
  is jointly funded by the EPSRC and the Department for Transport. It 
  will develop e-Science and Grid technologies to enable data from a 
  network of mobile sensors to be gathered and interpreted. The 
  e-Science technologies developed will be generic enough for use in 
  other applications of mobile sensor networks, such as climate or 
  weather mapping.
  
  
  * Designing nano-circuits
  The  5.2 million NanoCMOS project, led by Asen Asenov at Glasgow 
  University, will develop e-Science methodology and tools to allow 
  designers of tiny electronic circuits to meet the very demanding 
  challenges created by future nano-scale electronic components. 
  These components will be so small that their behavior will be highly 
  variable, governed by individual atoms rather than the average 
  behavior of large collections of atoms. The NanoCMOS project will 
  build a Grid infrastructure and e-Science tools to enable circuit 
  designers to share models that simulate nano-component behavior and 
  explore the implications for circuit design. It will help UK circuit 
  designers to remain internationally competitive and overcome the 
  disadvantages caused by the lack of an indigenous UK semiconductor 
  industry. 

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