Euro trio’s multimillion funding aims to crack tech algorithms challenge
25 Nov 2024
Three leading European research institutions, including two British universities will share grant money in excess of £7 million, intended to help efforts to address an algorithmic challenge that hinders the development of several key technologies.
Simulating high frequency electromagnetic wave behaviour to the most accurate, speedy and efficient manner is key to innovation in communication and imaging.
Funds from the European Research Council’s Synergy Grant will enable a six year, multi-team project to attempt to create new algorithms that can be implemented in open-source software.
Partner institutions with their respective project heads include the University of Bath mathematician professor Euan ction as corresponding principal investigator; professor Jeffrey Galkowski at University College London; and from the Sorbonne University’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dr Pierre-Henri Tournier.
Commented Spence: “Mathematicians have been studying high-frequency waves for many years. However, the deep insights about high-frequency waves obtained by pure mathematicians – who study these waves without thought of their applications – have very seldom been used in the design of numerical algorithms to simulate these waves.
“This project seeks to exploit this untapped potential and transform how the scientific community simulate high-frequency waves.”
Pic: Shahadat Rahman
