The European Commission Research Executive Agency has approved an International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) Marie Curie action on Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics (NRHEP) within the FP7 People Programme. This action will promote research in gravitational physics, with a focus on applications of numerical relativity to high-energy physics.
The partnership involves research institutions in five countries. It is coordinated by Emanuele Berti (Mississippi, USA), Vitor Cardoso (Lisbon, Portugal), Luis Carlos Crispino (Pará, Brazil), Leonardo Gualtieri (Rome, Italy), Carlos Herdeiro (Aveiro, Portugal; action coordinator) and Ulrich Sperhake (Barcelona, Spain).
About thirty researchers will be exchanged between the six nodes over the four-year duration of the exchange program, that will start in 2012. The action will also support workshops and other events at each of the participating nodes.