{"id":18973,"date":"2015-07-16T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infnimport.sitebysite.it\/2015\/07\/16\/fqxi-awards-a-prize-to-the-project-of-catalina-curceanu\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T18:01:22","slug":"fqxi-awards-a-prize-to-the-project-of-catalina-curceanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infn.sitebysite.it\/en\/fqxi-awards-a-prize-to-the-project-of-catalina-curceanu\/","title":{"rendered":"FQXi AWARDS A PRIZE TO THE PROJECT OF CATALINA CURCEANU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1825\" src=\"https:\/\/infnimport.sitebysite.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/catalina5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" \/>Catalina Curceanu, a researcher of the National Laboratories of Frascati, has been awarded one of the twenty grants provided by the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi), with the project &ldquo;Events, as we see them: experimental test of the collapse models as a solution of the measurement-problem&rdquo;. The research programme proposed by Curceanu was selected as part of an international call with the theme The Physics of &lsquo;What Happens&rsquo;. FQXi, in fact, has the objective of catalysing, supporting and disseminating research on the issues of fundamental physics and cosmology, in particular on the new frontiers and innovative ideas which, although part of a deep understanding of reality, would find it hard to be supported by traditional sources of funding. &ldquo;The news of the victory of my project, selected among 240 from all over the world, makes me proud and happy, &#8211; said Curceanu &#8211; and I am also aware that we need to do a great job to live up to the expectations&rdquo;. &ldquo;This result was possible also thanks to the INFN and the context in which I work, i.e. the field of basic research, as well as to the Enrico Fermi Centre (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi) with which I have worked to develop feasibility studies of the proposal which then won the grant: now we just have to work to obtain major progress toward a deeper understanding of the marvellous universe to which we belong!&rdquo;, concluded Curceanu with enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fqxi.org\/grants\/large\/awardees\/view\/__details\/2015\/curceanu\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"> site FQXi<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fqxi.org\/community\/forum\/topic\/2576\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Blog FQXi<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalina Curceanu, a researcher of the National Laboratories of Frascati, has been awarded one of the twenty grants provided by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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