18th — 21st April, 2016 @ Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia
The British Council has launched a new five-year programme to encourage international research collaboration between ambitious researchers from the UK and eighteen countries around the world.
The programme, ‘British Council Researcher Links’ provides opportunities for early career researchers from the UK and internationally to interact, learn from each other and explore opportunities for building long-lasting research collaborations.
As part of this programme, a ‘call to action’ was issued in April 2014 for leading researchers to propose themes for bilateral workshops to be held in one of these countries which will bring together early career researchers to discuss their research and start to build international relationships.
Successful applicant organisations from the UK and Russia are now recruiting early career researchers and welcome applications to attend the above workshop.
The workshops will provide a unique opportunity for sharing research expertise and networking. During the workshops early career researchers will have the opportunity to present their research in the form of a short (15 min) oral presentation and discuss this with established researchers from the UK and partner countries. There will be a focus on building up links for future collaborations and participants selected on the basis of their research potential and ability to build longer term links.
The British Council will cover the costs related to the UK participation to the workshop, including: travel (both international and local), accommodation and meals. Costs for the visa will be covered; however participants will be responsible for making all the necessary arrangements. Although this cost will not be covered by the British Council, participants are encouraged to purchase an adequate travel and medical insurance. The British Council accepts no responsibility for any problems which may occur when the participants are in-country.
The focus of Workshop is in the two areas of Applied Superconductivity:
- Quantum superconducting circuits. Challenges of «petaflop» (a thousand-trillion floating point operations per second) computers
- Quantum superconducting sensors for astrophysics, photonics, quantum communication systems, nuclear safeguard and homeland security»
Coordinators:
Dates of the workshop:
18th — 21st April, 2016 @ Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia
Application and Deadline:
Application form:
Links for download: MS Word .docx or zipped .rtf
Please, complete the application form and send it as an attachment by the 5th of February 2016 to:
- a.kozorezov@lancaster.ac.uk (English participants)
- gregory.goltsman@rplab.ru or goltsman10@mail.ru (Russian participants)
Eligibility Criteria:
- Applications must be submitted using the Researcher Links application form
- Application must be submitted before the above deadline
- Participants must be early career researchers: Early Career Researchers are defined as holding a PhD (or having equivalent research experience – workshop organisers define the prerequisites according to field of research/discipline ) and having up to 10 years post-PhD research experience. They are equivalent to the ‘Recognised Researcher’ and sometimes Experienced Researcher’ categories in the EU framework for researchers’ careers. Leading Researchers as defined by the EU Framework for researchers careers are research group leaders who are internationally recognised in their field
- Participants must have a research or academic position (either a permanent post, research contract, or fellowship etc) at a recognised research institution either in the UK or in Russia.
Quality Assessment
- Experience and relevance of the applicant’s research area to the workshop
- Motivation and contribution to the aims of the workshop
- Description of the long term impact expected through the participation in the workshop
- Ability to disseminate workshop’s outcomes
Selection Procedure:
- Eligibility check
- Quality assessment
Notification of results:
Applicants will be notified by email 2 months prior to the workshop.
Equal Opportunities:
The British Council is committed to equal opportunities and diversity in all its activities and this includes the avoidance of any bias in the assessment of applications due to gender, disability, racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or religious belief. Participants’ selection undertaken by workshop organisers must not contravene this policy. Extra support to enable participation of early career researchers with special needs will be given.
Please see the link below for detail on British Council policies that relate to your work- adherence to these policies are British Council Requirements . Please refer to brand guidelines as directed by the British Council office in the country where you will be delivering your workshop.
Preliminary list of speaks:
- G. Goltsman (MSPTU, Moscow, Russia) «Study of non-equilibrium effects in superconducting nanostructures»
- A. Kozorezov (Lancaster University, UK) «Carrier dynamics and thermal transport in superconducting nanodevices»
- R. Hadfield (Glasgow University, UK) «Superconducting single-photon detectors: physics and applications»
- S. Withington (Cambridge University, UK) «An ultra-low noise superconducting detector technology for astrophysics and the applied sciences»
- O.Astafiev (Royal Holloway University, UK) «Quantum optics on superconducting quantum systems» or «Coherent quantum phase slips in superconducting nano-wires»
- M. Kupriyanov (Moscow University, Moscow, Russia) «Superconducting quantum circuits»
- V. Koshelets (IRE RAS, Moscow, Russia) «Superconducting integrated circuits for THz applications»
Workshop Participant Application Form
