欧洲对交叉学科的支持远远大于美国，这或者是因为美国大的项目都是秉承基金委的指南，而这个指南都是传统科学家定制的。例如在欧洲，每年有多项百万欧元以上量级的多校多学科交叉合作项目，属于欧盟的科技战略项目（我们今年拿了一项，是计算机科学+统计物理学+社会学），并不需要承诺具体的科研成果，这一点在美国是很难想象的。
相比欧盟的战略项目，风险物理（Physics of Risk）项目资金较小，但是非常灵活（可以专门用来邀请短期访问的学者，我想中科大就至少有5、6个老师和学生享受了这个项目），最好玩的是，你只要说服管钱的人，就可以分饼，并不需要有一个严格规范的申请书和结题报告。每年大约可以拿到30-60万人民币，所有要做的事情就是总结的时候讲一个30分钟的报告。因为我们项目几乎所有的钱都用来请中国的老师和同学了，我都怀疑这个项目是专门为中国学生去欧洲玩玩量身订做的。
晒晒今年的总结会（有些是邀请过来见面闲扯的，但是大部分是项目受益人）：
International Workshop
The Physics Approach To Risk:
Agent-Based Models and Networks
October 27-29, 2008, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Christophe Deissenberg (Aix-Marseille) Learning benevolent leadership in a heterogenous agents economy |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Matteo Marsili (Trieste) Proliferation of financial instruments and systemic instability |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Matus Medo (Fribourg) Diversification and limited information in the Kelly game |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Bosiljka Tadic (Ljubljana) Why network's mesoscopic inhomogeneity matters? |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Short break |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Tao Zhou (Fribourg) Extracting hidden information via heat conduction and mass diffusion |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Michel Droz (Geneve) Motion of influential players can support cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Anxo Sanchez (Madrid) Promotion of cooperation on networks? The best response case |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Dirk Helbing (Zurich) Spontaneous outbreak and breakdown of cooperation |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Sorin Solomon (Jerusalem) In very risky environments, altruists are favored by natural selection |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Rosario Nunzio Mantegna (Palermo) Specialization, strategic and herding behavior of market members in a financial market |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Discussion |
| 17:44 - | Departure for the Social Event (Tram No. 10 from stop ETH/Universitätspital) |
| 18:06 - 18:26 | Social Event: Train course from Zürich HB to Uetliberg (from Track No. 2) |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Social Dinner |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Kimmo Kaski (Espoo) Complex social networks: analysis and modeling |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Albert Diaz-Guilera (Barcelona) Synchronization in complex networks |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Claudio Castellano (Roma) Contact process dynamics on annealed scale-free networks |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Claudio J. Tessone (Zurich) Agents competing for high centrality in a volatile environment |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Short break |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | T.B.A. Herrmann |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Marco Laumanns (Zurich) Computational complexity of impact size estimation for spreading processes on networks |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Departure |
