Activities of the Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences (PESC)

Science Strategy

Science Strategy activities aim to provide high level and high quality foresight and advice on science, research infrastructure and science policy issues. These are activities such as:

Science Synergy

The instruments grouped here aim to bring together excellent scientists at all stages of their careers to advance the frontiers of research. These activities are:

5 NEW PESC Research Networking Programmes launched in 2011!

  • Advanced Concepts in ab-initio Simulations of Materials (Psi-k 2)
  • Applied and Computational Algebraic Topology (ACAT)
  • Evaluating Information Access Systems (ELIAS)
  • Holographic methods for strongly coupled systems (HoloGrav)
  • Precision Polymer Materials (P2M)