2nd COFI Workshop on Gravitational Waves

第二届 COFI 引力波研讨会

• 批准号: 1834816
• 负责人: Mayda Velasco
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834816&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2nd; COFI; Workshop; Gravitational; Waves

The collision of celestial objects can be so powerful that they create distortions in spacetime, known as gravitational waves. Albert Einstein predicted their existence more than 100 years ago, but the effects are so tiny that even Einstein thought they could never be detected. After decades of hard work, the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) finally observed these waves for the first time in September 2015 and this triumph was recognized with a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017. This award will support the attendance of US scientists to the COFI International Workshop on Gravitational Waves, to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The workshop will convene scientists from across the globe to discuss current and future research in gravitational wave detection, giving priority to the attendance of graduate students and young researchers as part of their formation in the field.The workshop will gather the world experts to discuss the motivation and the experimental challenges of future measurements of gravitational waves. The discussion will include: Overview of recent detections and prospect for upcoming LIGO/Virgo observing runs, the landscape of electromagnetic follow up programs, science implications to cosmology, tests of general relativity and understanding of low mass binary stars and mergers, and the future of LISA. The agenda for the three days workshop includes about twenty-five presentations summarizing the state of the field in that many aspects of research and data analysis.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

天体的碰撞可以如此强大，以至于它们在时空中产生扭曲，即所谓的引力波。阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦在100多年前就预测了它们的存在，但它们的影响如此之小，以至于连爱因斯坦都认为它们永远不会被检测到。经过几十年的努力，激光干涉引力波天文台(LIGO)终于在2015年9月首次观测到了这些波，这一成就得到了2017年诺贝尔物理学奖的认可。该奖项将支持美国科学家参加将在波多黎各圣胡安举行的COFI引力波国际研讨会。研讨会将召集来自全球各地的科学家讨论引力波探测的当前和未来研究，优先考虑研究生和年轻研究人员的出席，作为他们在该领域形成的一部分。研讨会将聚集世界专家，讨论未来测量引力波的动机和实验挑战。讨论将包括：最近的探测和对即将到来的LIGO/处女座观测运行的展望，电磁后续计划的前景，对宇宙学的科学影响，广义相对论的测试和对低质量双星和合并的理解，以及LISA的未来。为期三天的研讨会的议程包括大约25个报告，总结了该领域在研究和数据分析方面的许多方面的状况。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。