SAVI: CLOUD Virtual Institute and Chemical Physics of Atmospheric New-Particle Formation

该项目涉及NSF的跨虚拟研究所（SAVI）计划。SAVI是一个创新的概念，旨在促进全球科学家和教育工作者之间的互动，其原则是世界许多地方都有科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科的卓越研究和教育，无论科学家、工程师和教育工作者在哪里合作，都可以加速科学进步。SAVI专注于跨国界的研究人员团队之间的互动，并通过利用互补的智力优势和共享独特的研究基础设施，利用现有的美国和外国在前沿研究方面的投资。一个为期三年的云虚拟研究所（CVI）已经被开发出来，包括卡内基梅隆大学、加州理工学院（Caltech）和Aerodyne公司的一个团队，他们与欧洲培训网络（Cloud - train）和位于瑞士欧洲核子研究中心的云研究联盟一起工作。CVI将使美国的研究人员能够参与CLOUD，重点研究大气中新粒子的形成。CLOUD围绕着一个极其复杂的实验云室，配备了一套最先进的仪器来测量纳米颗粒的大小分布和组成。该项目支持该研究所的行政管理方面。研究经费，包括对学生和博士后参与研究的支持，正在通过其他研究专项提案向NSF和其他机构申请。该项目支持CLOUD联盟的团队成员，美国研究人员前往CLOUD活动，项目会议和数据分析研讨会，以及美国学生参加欧洲暑期学校，并在CMU和/或加州理工学院举办暑期学校。网络工具将实现计划期间的远程协作、战役期间的每日简报、数据分析、论文计划和出版准备。CLOUD是一个由十几个不同的国家研究机构提供稳定资金的研究联盟。CLOUD-TRAIN是一个基于德国法兰克福歌德大学的玛丽·居里初始训练网络（ITN）。CVI团队包括CLOUD的所有美国成员，以及与欧洲CLOUD成员机构（斯德哥尔摩大学、赫尔辛基大学、Paul Scherrer研究所和法兰克福大学）的几个加强合作。CVI还将与芬兰大气成分和气候变化的物理、化学、生物和气象学卓越中心密切合作。

This project addresses the Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) Program at NSF. SAVI is an innovative concept to foster interactions among scientists and educators around the globe based on the principle that excellence in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and education exists in many parts of the world, and that scientific advances can be accelerated by scientists, engineers, and educators working together wherever they are. SAVI focuses on interactions between cohesive teams of researchers across national borders and takes advantage of existing U.S. and foreign investments in frontier research by leveraging complementary intellectual strengths and sharing unique research infrastructures.A 3-year Cloud Virtual Institute (CVI) has been developed to include a team at Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Aerodyne, Inc. working in conjunction with the European Training Network (CLOUD-TRAIN) and the CLOUD research consortium based at CERN in Switzerland. The CVI will enable US based researchers to participate in CLOUD, focusing on new-particle formation in the atmosphere. CLOUD revolves around an extremely sophisticated experimental cloud chamber equipped with a large suite of state of the art instrumentation to measure nanoparticle size distributions and composition. This project supports the administrative aspects of the institute. Research funds, including support for students and postdoc participation in the research, are being requested through other research-specific proposals to NSF and other agencies.The project supports team membership in the CLOUD consortium, and travel by US researchers to CLOUD campaigns, project meetings, and data analysis workshops, as well as the participation of US students in European summer schools and the hosting of a summer school at CMU and/or at Caltech. Network tools will enable remote collaboration during planning, daily briefings during campaigns, data analysis, paper planning, and publication preparation. CLOUD is a research consortium with stable funding contributed by a dozen different national research agencies. CLOUD-TRAIN is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) based at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The CVI team includes all of the US members of CLOUD as well as several enhanced collaborations with European CLOUD member institutions (University of Stockholm, University of Helsinki, Paul Scherrer Institute, and the University of Frankfurt). The CVI also will closely collaborate with the Finish Centre of Excellence in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Meteorology of Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change.