STSMs, Conference Grants, and Virtual Mobility Grants

Over the course of the Action, many research and dissemination activities were supported using the following COST mechanisms:

1. Research visits between members of up to a few months' duration were via 62 Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grants.

2. Action members could present their results at high-level conferences, either in person or online, with the award of 8 Dissemination Conference Grants and 6 ITC Conference Grants (the latter for Young Researchers based in one of a selected list of countries).

3. Online collaboration between Action members was supported by 28 Virtual Mobility Grants.

SHORT TERM SCIENTIFIC MISSION (STSM) GRANTS

Please direct any enquiries to the STSM Coordinator for the Action, András Bátkai, or the Grant Awarding Coordinator, James Kennedy.

Past STSM grantees:


Grantee name: Catherine Drysdale
STSM title: Quasi-basis on a metric graph?
STSM start and end date: 04/03/2024 to 07/03/2024
Host institution: University of Hagen, Germany

Grantee name: Jasmina Djordjevic
STSM title: Optimal control of a stochastic SVIR model with logistic growth and saturated incidence function
STSM start and end date: 10/03/2024 to 22/03/2024
Host institution: University of Osijek, Croatia 

Grantee name: Patrizio Bifulco
STSM title: Evolutionary equations with white-noise boundary conditions on networks
STSM start and end date: 15/03/2024 to 23/03/2024
Host institution: University of Salerno, Italy

Grantee name: Sallah Eddine Boutiah
STSM title: Topics in partial differential equations with unbounded coefficients
STSM start and end date: 18/03/2024 to 27/03/2024
Host institution: Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia
 
Grantee name: Sahiba Arora
STSM title: Monotonicity methods for input-to-state stable systems
STSM start and end date: 11/03/2024 to 22/03/2024
Host institution: University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Grantee name: Ivica Nakić
STSM title: Topics in spectral theory of quantum graphs
STSM start and end date: 18/03/2024 to 22/03/2024
Host institution: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Grantee name: Katarina Bogdanovic
STSM title: Positive kernel operators and strongly continuous semigroups
STSM start and end date: 01/10/2023 to 31/10/2023
Host institution: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
Grantee name: Thomas Borsoni
STSM title: Long time behaviour of solutions to the the Nordheim equation for fermions
STSM start and end date: 08/10/2023 to 13/10/2023
Host institution: Politecnico di Torino, Italy
 
Grantee name: Marianna Porfido
STSM title: Kernel estimates for some fractional Kolmogorov operators
STSM start and end date: 14/04/2023 to 28/04/2023
Host institution: Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
 
Grantee name: Julian Hölz
STSM title: Modelling of networks of nonlinear control systems via the Koopman and Perron-Frobenius operator
STSM start and end date: 12/06/2023 to 23/06/2023
Host institution: University of Namur, Belgium

Grantee name: Catherine Drysdale
STSM title: Quasi-Basis in Fluid Mechanics
STSM start and end date: 12/06/2023 to 30/06/2023
Host institution: University of Salerno, Italy
 
Grantee name: Ioan Liviu Ignat
STSM title: Discrete operators on metric graphs
STSM start and end date: 11/06/2023 to 19/06/2023
Host institution: Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia

Grantee name: Aleksandra Puchalska
STSM title: Generalised impulsive transport equation
STSM start and end date: 20/09/2023 to 01/10/2023
Host institution: Université de Valenciennes, France

Grantee name: Gilad Sofer
STSM title: Spectral theory of aperiodic quantum graphs
STSM start and end date: 01/03/2023 to 01/09/2023
Host institution: University of Potsdam, Germany

Grantee name: Matko Ljulj
STSM title: Homogenization of periodic networks of elastic rods
STSM start and end date: 17/09/2023 to 22/09/2023
Host institution: University of Darmstadt, Germany

Grantee name: Annamaria Massimini
STSM title: Mathematical study of diffusive phenomena in gas particles mixture
STSM start and end date: 03/05/2023 to 30/06/2023
Host institution: Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Grantee name: Sedef Özcan
STSM title: Interplay of geometry and observability of magnetic Schrödinger semigroups
STSM start and end date: 16/10/2023 to 22/10/2023
Host institution: University of Hagen, Germany

Grantee name: Johannes Stojanow
STSM title: Time-Optimal Control of Parabolic Differential Equations in Non-Reflexive Banach Spaces
STSM start and end date: 17/08/2023 to 31/08/2023
Host institution: University of Zagreb, Croatia

Grantee name: Ram Band
STSM title: Spectral statistics of quantum graphs with vertices of a preferred orientation
STSM start and end date: 14/10/2023 to 23/10/2023
Host institution: Doppler Institute for Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, Prague, Czechia

Grantee name: Catherine Drysdale
STSM title: Computation of Spectra and Data Driven Modes for the HPA Axis
STSM start and end date: 15/10/2023 to 21/10/2023
Host institution: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Grantee name: Mohamed Fkirine
STSM title: Large time behavior of parabolic Cauchy problems for quantum graphs with vertex noise
STSM start and end date: 11/09/2023 to 11/10/2023
Host institution: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Grantee name: Abdelaziz Rhandi
STSM title: Abstract boundary delay systems and application to flow in networks with memory
STSM start and end date: 23/09/2023 to 27/09/2023
Host institution: Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco

Grantee name: Mihály András Vághy
STSM title: Domain decomposition methods for quantum graphs
STSM start and end date: 10/10/2023 to 22/10/2023
Host institution: University of Wuppertal, Germany

Grantee name: Patrizio Bifulco
STSM title: Heat Kernels and Spectral Geometry on Quantum Graphs
STSM start and end date: 16/10/2023 to 31/10/2023
Host institution: Stockholm University, Sweden

Grantee name: Mohamed Fkirine
STSM title: An LQ problem for the heat equation on networks with vertex-noise and vertex-control
STSM start and end date: 01/06/2023 to 30/06/2023
Host institution: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Grantee name: Francesco Salvarani
STSM title: Study of coagulation-fragmentation-diffusion equations on networks
STSM start and end date: 24/10/2023 to 31/10/2023
Host institution: Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Madrid, Spain

Grantee name: Sahiba Arora
STSM title: Admissibility of positive infinite dimensional systems
STSM start and end date: 12/10/2023 to 25/10/2023
Host institution: University of Tampere, Finland

Grantee name: Dragos Manea
STSM title: Control, numerics and asymptotics for parabolic equations on metric graphs
STSM start and end date: 01/05/2023 to 29/06/2023
Host institution: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Grantee name: Matthias Täufer
STSM title: Controllability and Non-Controllability on metric graphs
STSM start and end date: 18/02/2023 to 25/02/2023
Host institution: University of Zagreb, Croatia

Grantee name: Gokhan Mutlu
STSM title: Ubergraphs and ecological dynamics
STSM start and end date: 27/08/2023 to 17/09/2023
Host institution: University of Warsaw, Poland

Grantee name: Catherine Drysdale
STSM title: Numerical investigation of the explosive behaviour of a time-evolution convection-diffusion problem
STSM start and end date: 25/10/2022 to 30/10/2022
Host institution: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Grantee name: Alper Ozcan
STSM title: Link Prediction based Recommendation System using Ensemble Framework of Graph Attention Networks
STSM start and end date: 03/08/2022 to 11/08/2022
Host institution: HTW Berlin, Germany

Grantee name: Iveta Semoradova
STSM title: Modeling dynamic behavior in large evolving graphs
STSM start and end date: 14/03/2022 to 15/07/2022
Host institution: Graz University of Technology, Austria

Grantee name: Jasmina Djordjevic
STSM title: Volterra type integrodierential models for epidemics
STSM start and end date: 10/07/2022 to 22/07/2022
Host institution: University of Osijek, Croatia

Grantee name: Patrizio Bifulco
STSM title: Uniqueness and Stability of Economic Equilibria within Networks under Monotonicity Assumptions
STSM start and end date: 26/10/2022 to 28/10/2022
Host institution: ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Grantee name: Sergii Favorov
STSM title: Almost Periodic Functions and Spectra of Metric Graphs
STSM start and end date: 22/04/2022 to 22/05/2022
Host institution: Stockholm University, Sweden

Grantee name: Sahiba Arora
STSM title: Study of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroups on compact infinite graphs - Part I
STSM start and end date: 24/04/2022 to 30/04/2022
Host institution: University of Salerno, Italy

Grantee name: Gilad Sofer
STSM title: Functional analysis, operator theory and dynamical systems
STSM start and end date: 18/09/2022 to 23/09/2022
Host institution: University of Potsdam, Germany

Grantee name: Mohamed Fkirine
STSM title: Staffans-Weiss perturbations for linear stochastic Cauchy problems
STSM start and end date: 01/10/2022 to 30/10/2022
Host institution: University of Salerno, Italy

Grantee name: Lorenzo Lamberti
STSM title: Frustrated Ferromagnetic Spin Chains on the 3D-Sphere: A Variational Approach to Chirality Transitions
STSM start and end date: 09/01/2022 to 31/01/2022
Host institution: TU Munich, Germany

Grantee name: Sahiba Arora
STSM title: Study of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroups on compact infinite graphs - Part II
STSM start and end date: 01/05/2022 to 17/05/2022
Host institution: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Grantee name: Haci Mehmet Guzey
STSM title: Robust Control of Networked Infinite-Dimensional Linear Systems
STSM start and end date: 30/05/2022 to 13/06/2022
Host institution: University of Tampere, Finland

Grantee name: Vladimir Jacimovic
STSM title: Continuous-time Dynamical Systems for Deep Learning
STSM start and end date: 20/10/2022 to 22/10/2022
Host institution: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Grantee name: Michael McGettrick
STSM title: Interacting dynamics of quantum agents on graphs
STSM start and end date: 27/02/2022 to 12/03/2022
Host institution: University of Tarragona, Estonia

Grantee name: Sahiba Arora
STSM title: Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroups on Rooted Trees
STSM start and end date: 20/10/2022 to 31/10/2022
Host institution: University of Salerno, Italy

Grantee name: Aladin Crnkić
STSM title: Statistical examination of networks through identification of collective behaviour in complex systems
STSM start and end date: 04/07/2022 to 11/07/2022
Host institution: University of Podgorica, Montenegro

Grantee name: Katarina Bogdanovic
STSM title: Positive kernel operators, operator monotone functions, Laplace transformers and operator semigroups
STSM start and end date: 18/05/2022 to 08/06/2022
Host institution: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Grantee name: Netanel Levi
STSM title: Spectral properties of operators on graphs
STSM start and end date: 18/09/2022 to 23/09/2022
Host institution: University of Potsdam, Germany

Grantee name: Eyal Yardeni Seelig
STSM title: Spectral properties of operators on graphs
STSM start and end date: 19/09/2022 to 23/09/2022
Host institution: University of Potsdam, Germany

Grantee name: Vyacheslav Pivovarchik
STSM title: Spectra of noncompact quantum graphs with leads
STSM start and end date: 14/08/2022 to 28/08/2022
Host institution: University of Hagen, Germany

Grantee name: Marianna Porfido
STSM title: Elliptic operators with unbounded coefficients: kernel estimates and maximal regularity
STSM start and end date: 09/01/2022 to 31/01/2022
Host institution: University of Konstanz, Germany

Grantee name: Michael Kaplin
STSM title: Investigation of relatively uniformly continuous semigroups
Home institution: Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Host institution: University of Passau, Germany

Grantee name: Davor Kumozec
STSM Title: Method of characteristics ­– improvements
Home Institution: University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Serbia
Host Institution: Laboratoire MAP5, Université de Paris

Grantee name: Vladimir Đorđić
STSM Title: STSM at RWTH Aachen University
Home Institution: University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Serbia
Host Institution: RWTH Aachen, Germany

Grantee name: Catherine Drysdale
STSM Title: Pseudospectra for non-self-adjoint relativistic operators 
STSM start and end date: 17/04/2021 to 01/05/2021
Home Institution: ONERA, France
Host Institution: Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic (Prof David Krejcirik)

Grantee name: Katarina Bogdanović
STSM Title: STSM at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana
STSM start and end date: 21/4/2021 to 15/7/2021
Home Institution: Faculty of Mathematics (Belgrade), Serbia
Host Institution: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia (Dr Aljoša Peperko)

Grantee name: Benjamin Anwasia
STSM Title: STSM at University of Novi Sad
STSM start and end date: 30/5/2021 to 28/6/2021
Home Institution: University of Minho (Braga), Portugal
Host Institution: University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Grantee name: Ivica Nakić
STSM Title: Multiagent systems with delays
STSM start and end date: 04/07/2021 to 10/7/2021
Home Institution: University of Zagreb (Zagreb), Croatia
Host Institution:  University of Zagreb, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Slovenia

Grantee name: David Seifert
STSM Title: Asymptotics for coupled wave-heat systems on networks
STSM start and end date: 03/10/2021 to 09/10/2021
Home Institution: Newcastle University (Newcastle upon Tyne), United Kingdom
Host Institution: Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France (Prof Serge Nicaise)

Grantee name: Marianna Porfido
STSM Title: Elliptic operators with unbounded coefficients: kernel estimates and maximal regularity
STSM start and end date: 01/10/2021 to 24/10/2021
Home Institution: University of Salerno (Fisciano), Italy
Host Institution: University of Constance, Germany (Dr Markus Kunze)

Grantee name: Lorenzo Lamberti
STSM Title: Variational coarse graining analysis of Ising-type lattice models on non-flat manifolds
STSM start and end date: 01/10/2021 to 24/10/2021
Home Institution: University of Salerno (Fisciano), Italy
Host Institution: Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany (Prof Marco Cicalese)

DISSEMINATION CONFERENCE GRANTS

Please direct any enquiries to the Conference Grant Manager, Eszter Sikolya, or the Grant Awarding Coordinator for the Action, James Kennedy.

Past DCG grantees:

Grantee name: Michał B. Paradowski
Presentation title: Peer interactions and longitudinal L2 development during study abroad: Insights from dynamic computational social network analysis
Conference: Tunghai International Conference on Second Language Teaching and Research, Taiwan
Dates: 18/10/2023 to 22/10/2023

Grantee name: Michał B. Paradowski
Presentation title: Peer interactions and longitudinal L2 development during study abroad: Insights from dynamic computational social network analysis
Conference: UniKon International PhD Conference on Multilingual Acquisition, University of Konstanz, Germany
Dates: 11/10/2023 to 14/10/2023

Grantee name: Enrique Zuazua
Presentation title: Control and Machine Learning
Conference: TYAN-Humboldt Workshop in Mathematics, Brasilia, Brazil
Dates: 02/10/2023 to 06/10/2023

Grantee name: Andrea Bondesan
Presentation title: Peer interactions and longitudinal L2 development during study abroad: Insights from dynamic computational social network analysis
Conference: ÖMG Tagung 2023 – Biennial meeting of the Austrian Mathematical Society, University of Graz, Austria
Dates: 18/09/2023 to 22/09/2023

Grantee name: Enrique Zuazua
Presentation title: Peer interactions and longitudinal L2 development during study abroad: Insights from dynamic computational social network analysis
Conference: Tunghai International Conference on Second Language Teaching and Research, Taiwan
Dates: 18/10/2023 to 22/10/2023

Grantee name: Sandra Ferreira
Presentation title: A Generalization of the Gamma Distribution: Exploring Cumulants and Moments
Conference: ICNAAM 2023, Heraklion, Greece
Dates: 11/09/2023 to 17/09/2023

Grantee name: Genny Fragnelli
Presentation title: Stability for degenerate evolution equations
Conference: SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applicationsons (CT23), Philadelphia, United States
Dates: 21/07/2023 to 04/08/2023

Grantee name: Lyonell Boulton
Presentation title: Weak revivals on time-evolution models
Conference: Workshop in Operator Theory, Complex Analysis and Applications, University of Evora, Portugal
Dates: 24/07/2023 to 28/07/2023

Grantee name: Lyonell Boulton
Presentation title: Computation of the pseudospectral boundary of unbounded operators
Conference: 29th Biennal Numerical Analysis Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Dates: 27/06/2023 to 30/06/2023

INCLUSIVENESS TARGET COUNTRY (ITC) CONFERENCE GRANTS

Please direct any enquiries to the Conference Grant Manager, Eszter Sikolya, or the Grant Awarding Coordinator, James Kennedy.

Past ITCG grantees:


Grantee name: Hamdullah Yücel
Presentation title: A Stochastic Gradient Algorithm with Momentum Terms for Optimal Control Problems Containing Random Input Data
Conference: European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCO) 2023, Heidelberg, Germany
Dates: 25/09/2023 to 27/09/2023

Grantee name: Miroslav Mirchev
Presentation title: Comparative study of random walks with one-step memory on complex networks
Conference: CompleNet 2023, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Dates: 25/04/2023 to 28/04/2023

Grantee name: Hamdullah Yücel
Presentation title: Solving Optimal Control Problems Containing Uncertainty
Conference: 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (CMAM 2022), TU Vienna, Austria
Dates: 29/08/2022 to 02/09/2022

Grantee name: Haci Mehmet Guzey
Presentation title: Nonlinear Interconnected Stormwater Ponds Control Through Neuro Sliding Mode Consensus
Conference: International Conference on Basic Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Türkiye
Dates: 23/08/2022 to 27/08/2022

Grantee name: Gábor János Tornai
Presentation title: Tensor contraction engine for the automatic generation of quantum chemistry methods on GPUs
Conference: 12th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, Vancouver, Canada
Dates: 03/07/2022 to 08/07/2022

Grantee name: Milana Colic
Presentation title: Computation of the pseudospectral boundary of unbounded operators
Conference: SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS21), Portland, United States
Dates: 23/05/2021 to 27/05/2021

VIRTUAL MOBILITY (VM) GRANTS

This is a new program, implemented by the COST Association in 2021, to build capacity and spread the uptake of virtual collaboration across different research communities.

These grants aim at strengthening the existing networks by allowing scientists to foster collaboration in a virtual setting, to exchange knowledge, learn new techniques, and disseminate the Action results. As with all grants, applications must be submitted using the e-COST platform, and instructions can be found in the User's Guide of the COST Association.

Please direct any enquiries to the Grant Awarding Coordinator, James Kennedy.

The following grants were awarded in GP2 (up to November 2021):

WG1 Virtual Mobility grant 
title: Hybrid Training School Dirichlet Forms on Graphs VM 
start and end date: 26/07/2021 to 28/07/2021 
Grantee name: Dr Federica Gregorio
WG2 Virtual Mobility grant 
title: Support for hybrid WG2 meeting
grant start and end date: 20/09/2021 to 22/09/2021
Grantee name: Dušanka Perišić
WG3 Virtual Mobility grant 
title: Mathematical tools for interacting dynamics on networks
grant start and end date: 14/09/2021 to 16/09/2021 
Grantee name: Giulia Rotundo
WG4 Virtual Mobility grant
title: Support for online WG4 seminars VM 
start and end date: 13/10/2021 to 25/10/2021 
Grantee name: Marvin Plümer
WG5 Virtual Mobility grant
title: Gathering of WG5 members and evaluation of future perspectives 
grant start and end date: 22/10/2021 to 22/10/2021
Grantee name: Petra Csomós
Grant Holder Virtual Mobility grant 
title: Action-wide survey on virtual collaboration 
grant start and end date: 23/10/2021 to 29/10/2021 
Grantee name: Mojca Vilfan



Templates title