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Online Security Management and Reliability Toolkit for Water Distribution Networks – SMaRT-OnlineWDN
Water distribution Networks (WDNs) are critical infrastructures that are exposed to deliberate or accidental contamination. Until now, no monitoring system is capable of protecting a WDN in real time. In the immediate future water service utilities that are installing water quantity and quality sens
Online Deep anomaly Detection – ODD
Anomaly detection is a challenge per se. It is unsupervised by nature, as abnormal events are rare, varied, and cumbersome to collect. By exploring deep neural networks for representation learning, the main categories of anomaly detection methods are deep one-class classifiers, autoencoders, generat
One dimensional spin-quantum transport in molecular wires – MQwires
Current industrially exploited technologies for the fabrication of nanoscale devices and further improvements of new kind of consumer electronics are based on the down-scaling of conventional semi-conductor technology. The inclusion of organic materials is so far limited to the optimization of mater
On the glassy nature of quantum disordered systems – GLADYS
Disorder is often present in condensed matter, in the form of impurities in solids, or in the random arrangement of glasses. It can have dramatic consequences, such as preventing transport or inducing extremely slow relaxation to equilibrium. In the quantum regime, the interplay between interference
Obsolescence and Optimized Resilience Engineering – i-OREO
Obsolescence is the process by which systems, components or techniques become obsolete, overtaken by more advanced versions. Affecting fields as diverse as electronics, mechanics and chemistry, it poses a major challenge in terms of operational unavailability, requiring proactive management to mitig
Observation and modelling of giant planet's atmospheres – OMAGE
Our goal is to build a General Circulation Model able to simulate the atmospheric circulation of gas giant planets (in particular Jupiter and Saturn). This work is motivated by the recent wealth of ground-based and space observations of various atmospheric phenomena (in particular using data from th
Nutrient sensing in plants – NUTSE
The mineral nutrition of most terrestrial organisms (bacteria, fungi, plants) relies on the uptake of inorganic ions from the soil. However, the availability of these ions dramatically fluctuates in both time and space. To face this constraint, all organisms are able to develop a wide range of adapt
Numerical modeling of field ejection assisted by ultra-short laser pulses: Pushing the atom probe tomography to its highest capacities – Ultra-Sonde
The project is focused at the improvement of the laser assisted APT and in the widening of its capacities in terms of the resolution, size of the analyzed region, materials to be analyzed, and precision. The main scientific objective is to establish the relationship between (i) illumination charact
Numerical Schemes using Lattice Basis Reduction – NS-LBR
We will focus on the setting where at least one of the operators involved in the PDE is anisotropic, in the sense that it involves position dependent, non axis- aligned, privileged directions. Grid discretizations are natural in medical image or volume processing, and numerous fundamental isotropic
Novel two-dimensional electron gases at the surface of transition-metal oxides – LACUNES
Fifty years of dramatic advances in microelectronics have reshaped the way we communicate and work, but progress on silicon-based technologies could well be reaching their limits. This calls for fresh research on new materials for the electronic industry. In this context, fabrication of high quality
