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4. Requested Funding 4.1 Personnel Costs To successfully reach the goals of proposed project it will be necessary to build up a small research group. This group should consist of two PhD candidates and the applicant supervising the research team. Based on the proposed research group the personnel costs will be: • One position according to BAT Ia: Dr. Robi Banerjee The applicant will head and coordinate the proposed research group and supervise the two prospective PhD candidates. It is expected that the coordination and supervision of the ongoing research within the group will consume about 1/3 of the applicant’s time. The remaining 2/3 of the time will be used to pursue the research program outlined in Section 3.2. This will include the interpretation and post-processing of the simulation data, modelling of jets and outflows, studying large scale flows and MHD effects, and the improvement of the numerical techniques. • Two positions according to BAT IIa/2: Two prospective PhD candidates The proposed research group should also consist of two prospective PhD candidates who are necessary to successfully reach the goals of the overall project. As described in Section 3.2 the candidates should model the protostellar- and accretion phase and radiation feedback from massive stars, respectively. Ideally, the prospective PhD candidates already have basic knowledge of astrophysical processes, in particular the ones which are relevant for present-day star formation, and have some experience and interest in computational work. Both PhD candidates should complete their PhD within the usual three years time starting at the beginning of the proposed project. Depending on the progress of the research projects we will pursue the follow-up projects with postdocs (ideally the former PhD candidates) or further PhD candidates. In the case of working with postdocs for the fourth and fifth year into the full project we will ask for conversion of the BAT IIa/2 positions into full BAT IIa positions. 4.2 Scientific Instrumentation 26 • Desktop PCs for each group member A typical choice would be Dell Precision T 690 for 3,803.24 C– each (inclusive sales tax and shipping, price from April 2007) The total expected costs for the three desktop computers are: 12,000.00 C– This should include slight modifications to the standard configurations like additional hard-drives, different keyboards and monitors. • PC cluster with 16 nodes for code developing and test purposes We would like to add 16 computing nodes to Ralf Klessen’s PC cluster which will be installed at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI) in Heidelberg. The proposed add-on nodes will limit the costs for a computing cluster to a minimum. We requested
offers from three different computer companies who could install such a cluster at ARI. The offers range from 44,151.40 C– to 78,561.06 C– including sales tax. Assuming that lowest priced offer will fit our purpose, we expect the total costs for the add-on cluster to be: 44,151.40 C– This should include additional hard drives, cabling, and other accessories to install the cluster. • Laptop for travel purposes and presentations Mac Book Pro 15” 2.33 GHz 2,499.00 C– 4.3 Consumables Recurrent costs and consumables are supported from the host institute budget. 4.4 Travel Expenses Relevant conferences are not yet announced for the year 2008 and later. We expect that the group members will attend several conference meetings, visits and invite their collaborators during the proposed five year project. We give an estimate of the costs below. • PhD candidates We expect that each PhD candidate will attend one conference meeting per year and an additional one in the last year into their PhD. We estimate the average costs for an one week stay in Europe and overseas to 800.00 C– which includes the hotel costs and a per diem of 24.00 C– . Travels within Europe should average to 300.00 C– , whereas we estimate an average overseas-flight to cost 1200.00 C– . We assume two European and two overseas trips for each PhD candidate. This adds to a total amount of: 2 × 2 × (800.00 C– + 300.00 C– ) + 2 × 2 × (800.00 C– + 1200.00 C– ) : 12,400.00 C– • Principal Investigator We expect that the applicant will attend three to four conference meetings each year. We assume an averaged conference fee of 300.00 C– for each conference which adds to the above cost per meeting. In the five year period we estimate 10 European and 7 overseas conferences which totals to: 10 × (1100.00 C– + 300.00 C– ) + 7 × (1100.00 C– + 1200.00 C– ) : 30,100.00 C– • Visits to and from collaborators We expect to have at least one work-session with one of our external collaborators each year. Each work-session will last for about 2 – 3 weeks. The cost are often shared by the two institutes involved. For one work-session we expect daily cost of 100.00 C– which includes the per diem. For an average work-session of 2 1/2 weeks 27
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