Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2018-12-31

With an ever-increasing world population, the challenge remains to increase crop production in a sustainable way, so as not to exhaust the land of its potency for future uses. In this context, plant disease ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The proposed research is a multifaceted investigation centering on problems in homogeneous dynamics and fundamental questions about lattices. We will focus in particular on problems which hold the promise ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

When substitution of the hydroxyl group of an alcohol is performed in traditional synthesis, the alcohol is first converted into a more reactive ester or halide in an extra synthetic step. Besides lowering ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The research program studies contact and symplectic topology and its relations to other geometric fields, in particular to physics inspired low-dimensional topology and knot theory. The main tool is theories ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-07-01 till 2016-12-31

Syfte och mål: Sverige har flera stora grupperingar med världsledande forskning kring nya tekniker för omvandling av solenergi till el eller direkt till bränslen. Det finns också svenska företag och institut ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

New photocatalysts developed for CO2 reduction, H2 evolution, and H2O oxidation will be based on pyridine, cobaloxime, and tetra-coordinate Co2+ molecular catalysts incorporated into protein scaffolds ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-07-01 till 2018-01-01

Understanding the mechanisms of how novel species associations form is of major interest. The association of insects and their plant hosts serves as model for studies of ecological specialization and diversification ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2019-12-31

We aim to study molecule-surface interactions and shallow trap states on single crystal semiconducting metal oxides and thin solid film metal oxides by two main methods: infrared reflection-absorption ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2019-12-31

This study will make use of East African indigenous knowledge for the application of natural resources to control the major health and societal challenges malaria, tuberculosis and bacterial infections.Following ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Venoms and toxins play an important role in nature’s chemical ecology, and are intriguing sources for discovery of pharmacological tools, insecticides, and drugs. The overall aim of the current project ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The framework of string compactifications is of undisputed importance to connect string theory to the physics of our world, and has promoted progress in fields ranging from quantum gravity and cosmology ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

The invention of new methodology for the synthesis of biologically active compounds is one the most fundamental and important goals in modern organic chemistry. As the demands for new medicines, diagnostic ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The Fukaya category is a powerful invariant of exact symplectic manifolds in the form of an A-infinity category, the objects of which consist of (a suitable class of) its Lagrangian submanifolds, while ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The possibility of functionalizing and laterally structuring 2D materialscreates a unique opportunity to modify materials with hitherto unknown precision and keeping excellent materials properties. The ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

This project studies the mathematical models arising from a variety of imaging techniques. These problems are formulated mathematically as "inverse problems" where one deduces information about the differential ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Conserved quantities are important in various areas of physics, as in many cases they provide an essential characterization of a physical system. However, to define the mass, center of mass, angular and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and the quantum ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

During the past decade there has been an important development of the mathematical tools available for high-energy physics. I have participated in and contributed to this development of Generalized Complex ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Pancreatic and esophageal cancer are one of the most lethal cancers worldwide with very low survival rates due to the absence of sensitive and reliable diagnostic tools for an early detection. The proposed ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

This research project aims to study several related topics in higher dimensional Auslander-Reiten theory. Classical Auslander-Reiten theory is an important tool in representation theory of associative ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-03-01 till 2020-12-31

In the production of 20th Century buildings and artworks, several modern materials have been employed, including acryl and vinyl paints, plastics, synthetic textiles, and reinforced concrete. Among them ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2013-12-31

More than thirty years ago a result derived in the context of superspace supergravity indicated that even the most promising supergravity candidate had problems when viewed as a model for quantum gravity ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2021-12-31

The main purpose of this project is to further the understanding of exact Lagrangian manifolds in symplectic manifolds, and understand the relations to quantum physics. We propose the following specific ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Mathematical morphology (MM) is a widely-used framework for efficient processing and analysis of images. Linear filters, according to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory, are not affected by the sampling ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-03-01 till 2020-12-31

Syfte och mål: Det europeiska projektet SUNRISE, “Solenergi för en cirkulär ekonomi”, har valts ut som ett av sex Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) inom Horisont 2020 i utlysningen FET FLAGSHIP-CSA ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-10-01 till 2014-06-30

Syfte och mål: Kortsiktigt vill vi samla svensk styrka med VINNOVA:s stöd för att påverka EU:s program Horisont 2020. Långsiktigt söker vi samverkansvinster i forskning och utveckling av företagande, ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Symplectic and contact geometry has its roots in the mathematical description of mechanics. Its modern development was initiated in the early 1980´s with conjectures by Arnold and then shaped by Gromov ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-12-01 till 2024-11-30

Over the last 35 years, the study of the role of geometric and topological aspects of fundamental physics in gauge theory and strings has been a central theme in both theoretical physics and in geometry ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

New diagnostic tools are required for the early detection of pancreatic cancer to counter low survival rates alongside the design and synthesis of new specific drugs. The discovery of new biomarkers for ...