Travel Support to Attend Workshop on Gravitational Wave Bursts at Tobermory, Scotland

该奖项将资助科学家参加研讨会引力波爆发：天体物理学，数据分析和数值相对论。引力波爆发是一种短信号，有可能揭示最广泛的引力辐射源：例如恒星核心坍缩、伽马射线爆发引擎、宇宙弦、致密天体合并、孤立的中子星。利用引力天线（如LIGO）观测短时间灾难性事件的完美风暴正在到来。现在是时候挑战瞬态引力波天空的理论理解及其与更传统的电磁苍穹的联系了。举办一次研讨会的时机也已经成熟，该研讨会将对将使引力波观测成为现实的数据分析和数值建模工具进行严格审查。研讨会将鼓励在促进天体物理学、数据分析和数值相对论界研究人员协同合作的环境中，对工作和方法进行交流和严格评估。这次会议将作为引力波物理学跨学科讲习班的一个模式，提供一个合作框架的例子，以评价多学科领域的工作状况，评估方法和挑战，并确定变革机会。

This award will fund the participation of scientists to the workshop Gravitational Wave Bursts: Astrophysics, Data Analysis and Numerical Relativity. Gravitational wave bursts are short signals with the potential of unveiling the broadest range of sources of gravitational radiation: e.g. stellar core collapse, gamma-ray bursts engines, cosmic strings, compact object mergers, isolated neutron stars. The perfect storm of observations of short duration cataclysmic events is arriving with gravitational antennas such as LIGO. Now is the time to challenge the theoretical understanding of the transient gravitational wave sky and its connection to the more traditional electromagnetic firmament. The time is also ripe for a workshop that enables critical review of the data analysis and numerical modeling tools that will make gravitational-wave observations a reality.The workshop will encourage communication and critical evaluation of efforts and methodologies, in an environment that promotes synergistic collaborations among researchers from the astrophysics, data analysis and numerical relativity communities. The meeting will serve as a model for inter-disciplinary workshops in gravitational-wave physics, providing an example of a collaborative framework to evaluate the status of the effort in a multi-disciplinary area, assess methodologies and challenges, and identify transformative opportunities.